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Immigration reform is inching closer to reality, and conservatives standing in (thus far) fruitless opposition are careening ever further from it.

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Right-wing media are falsely claiming that excerpts of interviews with IRS employees prove that improper targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status originated from IRS supervisors in Washington, D.C. But House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa admitted on CNN that no such proof is contained in the excerpts

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Fox News contributors pushed flawed claims that Attorney General Eric Holder committed perjury while testifying before Congress because Holder’s comments on Justice Department examinations of reporter communications records as part of leak investigations supposedly conflict with Holder signing off on a warrant seeking the communications of a Fox reporter in one such case. House Republicans are now following Fox’s lead by reportedly investigating Holder’s statements, which has one Fox reporter saying Holder is “gonna have to go.” Fox Figures Suggest Holder Approving Warrant For Fox Reporter James Rosen’s Communications May Prove Holder Committed Perjury Karl Rove: Holder May Have Lied To Congress. Fox News contributor Karl Rove reacted to Holder’s May 15 testimony to the House Judiciary Committee by stating: “I don’t think the president was, you know, shooting straight with us, and neither was the attorney general.” Rove contrasted Holder’s testimony with the news that Holder had signed off on the warrant for Rosen’s emails, commenting, “I find that highly unusual and potentially involving a lie to Congress.” [Fox News, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren , 5/23/13 via Nexis] Hosts Of The Five : Holder “On The Hook,” Will Go To Prison “I Hope.” After airing a clip of Holder’s testimony, Eric Bolling said, “So how do you explain your signature on the subpoena of FOX’s phone records?

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The recent brutal slaying of a gay man in New York City had all the trappings of a national news story, so why was it ignored by major cable news outlets? On May 17, Mark Carson was shot in the face and killed while walking home in New York’s Greenwich Village by a man who pelted him with anti-gay slurs and asked, ” You want to die tonight ?” Carson’s alleged killer, Elliot Morales, reportedly laughed as he was arrested by police, bragging about what he had done. The incident highlights a recent spike in anti-gay hate crimes both in New York City and across the country

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In the face of repeated infrastructure related disasters, Fox News host Neil Cavuto has continued to dismiss calls for an increase in infrastructure spending, claiming that spending on infrastructure is high enough. In reality, infrastructure spending has plummeted in recent years

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The  American Spectator ‘s Jeffrey Lord misrepresented White House visitor logs to suggest that President Obama knew about the IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits because he met with the president of a union that represents IRS employees shortly before the agency began its controversial actions.

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From Progressive News Source- http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/Jy1CWSAp5hc/194153 Progressive News Post- Sergio Munoz: WSJ Supports Dismantling Federal Court In Order To Block Obama Nominees

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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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Fox News chose to ignore the historic passage of marriage equality in Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota, opting instead to promote a handful of asinine horror stories about same-sex marriage.   Fox News viewers are likely unaware that three states – Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota -voted to legalize same-sex marriage over the past three weeks. That’s because Fox News spent a total of one minute covering the stories, according to an Equality Matters analysis : While CNN and MSNBC both covered the developments, Fox News made only three mentions of the passage of marriage equality in Rhode Island, entirely ignoring the new law in Delaware.

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Right-wing media are increasingly and uniformly pushing the ” personhood ” position in their anti-choice attacks, an absolutist argument that equates fetuses with persons and goes beyond repealing Roe v. Wade to banning all abortions

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