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Fox News ignored President Obama’s explicit demand for accountability in the wake of news that the Internal Revenue Service applied extra scrutiny to conservative groups. The network’s omission gave it cover to accuse Obama of not taking the IRS’s actions seriously and to call for a special prosecutor. Obama first addressed the IRS controversy during a May 13 joint  press conference  with British Prime Minister David Cameron, where he condemned the IRS’s behavior with the caveat, “If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported,” then “that’s outrageous and there’s no place for it.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Fox News have come to the same conclusion — describing the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya as an “act of terror” is different, and somehow less accurate, than describing them as a terrorist attack

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The Wall Street Journal debunked the false equivalency of its editorial page that insists the current GOP blockade on President Obama’s judicial nominees is unremarkable “turnabout” and merely follows “filibuster precedent” set by Democrats. In a May 13 article , the WSJ ‘s Washington Bureau Chief Gerald F. Seib detailed the unprecedented Republican obstructionism of the president’s agenda, which not only attempts to nullify his policy initiatives by hamstringing executive agencies, but more seriously by filibustering his picks for the federal courts.

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Fox News reporter Todd Starnes claims to offer “culture war news,” but several of his recent stories have turned out to be false or misleading. Starnes’ Story: Military Undergoing “Christian Cleansing” Under Obama Starnes’ Story: Lesbian Role Play At Middle School Starnes’ Story: Pentagon Blocks Access To Southern Baptist Website Starnes’ Story: Track Team Disqualified For Praising God Starnes’ Story: “Saudi National” Involved In Boston Bombing Starnes’ Story: Military Undergoing “Christian Cleansing” Under Obama Starnes: Christians “Under Significant Attack” By Obama Administration

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A Wall Street Journal editorial asked questions that have already been answered regarding military deployments in response to the Benghazi attack when it rehashed false claims that U.S. military forces were not deployed to the region around Benghazi, Libya, and suggested that political considerations hampered a quicker response

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ABC News is buying into right-wing scandal mongering over the tragic September 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, with an “exclusive” report that doesn’t stand up to minimal scrutiny, with flaws that are being used by the right to call for a major investigation

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Washington Times columnist Jeffery Kuhner accused President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of abusing their power which to the death of four Americans in Benghazi. In his May 10 column , Kuhner claimed that Obama was “engaged in the systematic abuse of power” in his handling of the September 11, 2012, terror attack in Benghazi

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Since the April release of a House Republican report on Benghazi, Tom Pickering — co-chairman of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board on the Benghazi attacks last year — has been interviewed only twice on major news programs. Pickering Hosted Only Twice To Discuss Right-Wing Scandal Mongering Since April Report Pickering Has Made Only Two Appearances Since The Release Of The House GOP Report. According to a search of the Nexis database, Tom Pickering made only two media appearances since the April 23 release of the House Republican report: on the May 8 edition of CNN International , and on the May 8 edition of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports

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During a key moment in her congressional testimony on the September 2012 attacks on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton effectively exposed the witch hunt that conservative media helped Republican lawmakers lead: [T]he fact is, we had four dead Americans.

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Fox News is launching a new round of smears against the Obama administration over the September 11 attack on the U.S.

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