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A recent Fox News poll of registered voters, which purports to illustrate that a majority of voters agree with the network’s dark narrative on the Obama administration’s response to the 2012 Benghazi attacks, relies on questions from a foundation of tired distortions and lies. Fox News conducted a poll of 1,013 registered voters between May 18-20, attempting to discern respondents’ opinions on a variety of questions related to the government’s handling of the Benghazi attacks

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CNN’s Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger used right-wing scandal mongering to push the discredited allegation that talking points about the attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, were edited for political purposes. Borger’s analysis ignored that the intelligence community signed off on these talking points and that General David Petreaus testified in November that references to Al Qaeda were removed to protect the integrity of the investigation and to avoid tipping off terrorists.

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Right-wing media have seized on a study of Medicaid recipients to attack the program by focusing on certain parts of the findings while health care experts point out that the program successfully expanded access to care and eased health-related financial problems, the primary focus of Medicaid. In 2008, the state of Oregon held a lottery to expand Medicaid coverage to 10,000 people. Because the selection was random, researchers began a controlled study on how the coverage affected the participants.

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Victoria Toensing and her husband and legal partner Joseph diGenova are pushing claims that anonymous State Department and CIA “whistleblowers” have been blocked and threatened by the Obama administration to prevent their testifying on the September 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Toensing and diGenova are longtime Republican activists, and Toensing has a history of pushing dubious claims and falsehoods into the media

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Fox News is leading the right-wing media chorus baselessly claiming Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the apparent bomber in the Boston Marathon attacks, should be indefinitely detained as an “enemy combatant,” even though legal experts maintain it is unlikely he qualifies for this designation. Militarily detaining U.S. citizens apprehended in this country as “enemy combatants” for acts of terror is extremely rare and constitutionally questionable

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In retribution against a Missouri agency’s record-keeping of concealed carry gun permits, the state Senate voted Monday to eliminate all funding for the Department of Revenue’s drivers’ license bureau and slashed funding for several other agencies.

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Even legendary journalists can fail to recognize the overwhelming popularity of expanding the background check system for firearms purchases. While it is now a well-known fact that the policy enjoys  overwhelming support  from the American public at large, some pundits remain unaware that it is also very popular in states that typically support conservative politicians. NBC’s Tom Brokaw is apparently one of those pundits. On the April 21 edition of NBC’s  Meet The Press , responding to the statement that the structure of the Senate explains why expanding background checks did not pass (an amendment had the support of 55 senators but needed 60 votes), Brokaw said that the proposal likely had very little support in the home states of Democrats who voted against the measure: BROKAW: But in those states in which the senators voted against the background check, it’s not even close to 90 percent in terms of wanting it, it’s probably down in single digits in Montana and Arkansas and Alaska and North Dakota, the states that block it as Democrats.

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Fox News hosted a series of discredited anti-Islam activists to smear Muslims during Fox’s coverage of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Frank Gaffney  Frank Gaffney On Fox News: FBI Cooperation With Muslim Communities Weakens National Security. In an April 20 appearance on Fox & Friends Saturday , the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney claimed that the FBI was not being “allowed to look for jihad” and criticized its cooperation with the American Muslim community when looking for terrorism threats: GAFFNEY: The FBI, we’re hearing a lot about how they investigated, or at least talked to one of these brothers.

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Nearly three years ago, as reporters shifted their focus away from the Gulf oil spill, they managed to overlook a pipeline spill that happened just 10 days after the BP well was capped. Their oversight was a boon to a non-profit with only seven full-time employees, which recently beat leading national newspapers in the race for the national reporting Pulitzer Prize for its investigative reporting on that spill. The non-profit InsideClimate’s award-winning report on the oil spill in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, titled “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside The Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” noted that the national press was uninterested in the spill: Despite the scope of the damage, the Enbridge spill hasn’t attracted much national attention, perhaps because it occurred just 10 days after oil stopped spewing from BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, which had ruptured three months earlier

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Fox News and National Review Online gave credence to claims about immigrant’s use of social benefits by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) without noting that immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to rely on such programs. In a Fox News segment about the cost of comprehensive immigration reform to taxpayers, host Neil Cavuto allowed CIS research director Steven Camarota to repeat the myth that immigrants use social benefits at higher rates than native-born Americans because they are less educated, and that, if given legal status, they would stay on welfare

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