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Fox News has been hyping the statements of an anonymous source who has contradicted the account of both the Obama administration and independent findings about the attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Now two separate statements by experts in Foreign Policy are casting more doubt about the claims of Fox’s source

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Fox News celebrated the dedication of the George W.

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Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. In 2008, I wrote a piece for Salon about renaming ‘Earth’ Day .

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Immigration experts dispute right-wing radio claims that the comprehensive immigration reform proposal is “amnesty.” Indeed, the legislation introduced in the Senate on April 17 by a bipartisan group of senators includes a number of provisions undocumented immigrants would have to meet before they could apply for citizenship — along with waiting at a minimum 13 years.

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If the UK Telegraph does not retract and apologize for James Delingpole’s latest piece of pure hate speech , then it is declaring its own publication policies a sham.

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Sooner Tea Party co-founder Al Gerhart An Oklahoma Tea Party group is under investigation following a warning to a State Senator that he had to bring a conspiracy-theory laden piece of legislation to the floor — or else. At issue is paranoia-induced anti-U.N.

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Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple has re-confirmed that Fox News’ supposed “objective” news coverage is filled with conservative-leaning programming.

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In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson defended his website’s claim that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) paid women for sex in the Dominican Republic, but he dodged the question of whether the women interviewed by the Daily Caller might have been paid by political operatives to tell their story, as evidence from ABC News and  The Washington Post  now suggest. Responding to O’Reilly’s inquiry about whether the allegations were fabricated, Carlson stopped short of declaring that the women the Daily Caller interviewed were not paid to tell their story

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The GOP civil war continues to intensify, with numerous prominent conservative media figures lashing out at Karl Rove in recent days over vehement disagreements about the direction of the party. This is far from the first incident pitting Rove against fellow right-wing media figures

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Fox News host Sean Hannity applauded Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his attack on Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, claiming that Cruz’ questioning during the Hagel’s hearing demonstrated that he had made anti-American and anti-Semitic comments. But Cruz’ claim that Hagel had accused Israel of a “sickening slaughter” was based on distorted quotes from heavily cropped sound clips.

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