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For months, the Obama administration has been subject to media criticism for its initial statements linking the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya, to an anti-Islam video that had triggered protests across the Middle East at that time.

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The Wall Street Journal continued its questionable disclosure practices with Karl Rove by publishing a column in which Rove advocates that the Republican Party adopt a strategy that a group backed by him — the Conservative Victory Project – has been pursuing, without noting his role in the group. In a May 1 Journal column , Karl Rove highlighted what he felt the Republican Party should do in order to win enough seats to gain the majority of the U.S

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Since the 2012 election, Republicans have consistently blamed President Obama for ignoring the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission he created shortly after taking office in 2009. Republican leaders have said they’d be “ willing to say yes to ” a Simpson-Bowles-style plan, which balanced revenue with spending cuts and changes to entitlements.

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Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member Kimberley Strassel misrepresented the win-loss record of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in court in order to suggest the Obama administration’s environmental rulemaking is frequently illegal. In an April 9 column, Strassel attempted to smear President Obama’s nominee for EPA Administrator, the highly qualified and widely regarded Gina McCarthy, with the accusation that she was responsible for an alleged “embarrassing string of [legal] defeats” suffered by the Obama administration while serving as the senior EPA official in charge of regulating air pollution. From the WSJ : [C]ritics have also started to take note of the embarrassing string of defeats the courts have recently dealt the agency regarding rules it issued in Mr.

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Fox News host Bill O’Reilly argued against another accurate statement about President Obama, calling the claim that spending growth has decreased under Obama’s administration “crazy.” After screaming ” bullshit ” at  Fox News contributor Alan Colmes for accurately pointing out that Obama has proposed specific spending cuts, O’Reilly again dismissed Colmes when he pointed out that President Obama has slowed the growth of federal spending more than any president sinceto Eisenhower.

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Fox’s Sean Hannity hosted former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick to hype their new book on immigration reform — but Hannity never acknowledged that the book marked a major reversal of Bush’s stance on a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

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Fox News personalities are hyping fears that a supervised release of undocumented immigrants will lead to more crime. But the immigrants affected by this policy are still subject to deportation and face restrictions such as checking in with authorities and wearing ankle monitoring bracelets. ICE Releases Immigrants From Detention Centers To “Supervised Release” In Response To Looming Spending Cuts ICE: Immigrants Sent On Supervised Release “To Make Best Use Of O ur Limited Detention Resources In The Current Fiscal Climate.” In response to pressure from the looming sequestration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is working to contain detention costs through a plan to release low-risk undocumented immigrants from detention facilities.

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Conservative media are parroting a Republican claim that a federal report says health care reform increases the long-term deficit. In fact, the report says that the deficit would only increase if cost containment measures in the bill were phased out over time, and found that the deficit would decrease if those measures were maintained. GOP  Sen

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The  Wall Street Journal reports the President will continue his push on climate action in his State Of The Union address next week. The GOP-dominated House in particular is against passing any policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions

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