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Fox News has announced  it’s hired former Rep. Allen West as a contributor. The far-right Republican and the conservative news network are a match made in heaven: West’s incendiary rhetoric against progressives and Democrats closely mirrors Fox News’ own smears and attacks

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Broadcast and cable Sunday political talk shows featured previously debunked myths about the September 11, 2012 attacks on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Were Benghazi Talking Points Edited For Political Purposes? Was President Obama Engaged During The Attacks

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A New York Times article directly refutes the claims of House Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner, that State Department officials knew immediately that the attacks on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 were connected to “Islamic terrorists.” Fox News willingly repeated the attack on its evening programming May 9 — but now that the Republican distortion has been exposed, will the network clarify its reports for viewers? Boehner called for the release of a State Department e-mail sent in the wake of the Benghazi attacks that he claimed suggested the assault was perpetrated by “Islamic terrorists.” At the House hearing on Benghazi on May 8, Rep.

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Fox News host Jon Scott identified all retirees as those “who could be working” in order to disparage the labor force participation rate from April’s positive jobs report.

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Right-wing media are trying to downplay a  confrontation  over gun sale background checks between a woman who lost her mother in the Newtown, CT, shooting and Sen.

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Right-wing media are falsely claiming that a State Department Inspector General review is linked to dubious allegations that State ignored “whistleblowers” during an independent review of attacks on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. In fact, the routine investigation was planned before the State Department’s Accountability Review Board released its findings, has nothing to do with “whistleblower” allegations, and will investigate decades of State actions

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The National Rifle Association’s annual meeting on May 3-5 will feature a number of conservative media figures — including Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Ted Nugent — who often use violent rhetoric and promote gun-related conspiracy theories.

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Fox News and other conservatives are busy attacking  Attorney General Eric Holder for assuring the public that law enforcement will not tolerate any acts of violence or discrimination in the wake of the Boston Marathon terror attack. But their latest feigned outrage ignores that hate crimes against Muslims are a very real concern.  Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly covered the story on the April 30 edition of America Live ,  hosti ng Fox contributor Michelle Malkin, who mocked the “phantom threats of hate crime epidemics that have never happened.” (This was the second straight day Kelly had devoted a segment to expressing outrage about Holder’s common sense comments.)  Other conservatives  lashed out  at Holder for his vow to defend religious minorities in America.

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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 covered Democratic criticism of harmful and unnecessary spending cuts as a purely political maneuver, without acknowledging that those criticisms are reflected in actual economic data, and echoed by economists and even by House GOP leadership. On the April 29 edition of America’s Newsroom , host Bill Hemmer set up an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore by suggesting that only Democrats argue that America is not in a “debt crisis,” and hinted that the raw total of U.S

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