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The Equal Pay Act was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by President Kennedy to prohibit wage discrimination based on sex. Fifty years later, as the issue of gender income inequality continues to affect America, conservative media figures have consistently tried to downplay and minimize these concerns.

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Fox News spent nearly four hours on June 4 covering that day’s House committee hearing on the IRS’ inappropriate focus on conservative groups, largely ignoring the simultaneous Senate committee hearing into the epidemic of sexual assaults in the military. Congress Holds June 4 Hearings On Sexual Assaults In The Military And IRS Targeting Senate Armed Services Committee Held June 4 Hearing On Sexual Assault Crisis In Military.  In an effort to curb the epidemic of sexual assaults committed in the military, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing featuring testimony from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and top officers from each military branch: Determined to stop sexual assault in the military, Congress is spelling out for the services how far lawmakers are willing to go in changing the decades-old military justice system. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.

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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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The Washington Times attempted to recycle misinformation about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s warning that GOP obstructionism of President Obama’s nominees is unsustainable, but published an inaccurate argument that doesn’t support its own rhetoric.

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Fox News Sunday selected Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, attorneys who represented witnesses at a Republican-led hearing on the attacks at a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, for its “power players of the week,” an unfortunate choice given that both individuals misled Fox News and its viewers about allegations of threats and intimidation against their clients and about efforts by the administration to prevent their clients from testifying. Though Fox News Sunday aired certain aspects of Toensing and diGenova’s biographies, the segment neglected to mention that the two have a history of poor professional conduct, including criticism from a Democratic congressman for inappropriate behavior and actions while they worked as congressional investigators due to their constant media appearances attacking President Clinton

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The Washington Post ‘s Bob Woodward, based on a series of dubious factual errors, is now offering a flawed comparison between the Watergate scandal and the Obama administration’s response to the September terror attack in Benghazi, Libya. There’s no small irony to Woodward injecting himself into what has become a scandal driven by deceptively edited emails passed off to reporters, given the recent attention he received after using a similar method to support his ridiculous accusation that a White House aide threatened him. In his latest attempt to jump into the debate on the side of the right wing, Woodward demonstrates a striking lack of familiarity with the basic facts of what happened.  Here’s what Woodward said during his May 17 appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe , and what’s wrong with those statements.

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Economic media coverage has been heavily focused on advocating for deficit reduction, even as deficits decline and the federal government posts a surplus.

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For months, the Obama administration has been subject to media criticism for its initial statements linking the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya, to an anti-Islam video that had triggered protests across the Middle East at that time.

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Since Kermit Gosnell’s conviction of the murder of three infants, right-wing media have dismissed existing laws and the context of Gosnell’s case as part of their ongoing campaign to connect his horrific crimes to legal abortion procedures. Gosnell Was Convicted Of Three Counts Of First-Degree Murder CNN: Gosnell Was Found Guilty Of Three Counts Of First-Degree Murder. CNN reported: A Philadelphia abortion provider who killed babies by cutting their spinal cords with scissors was found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday.

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier complained that President Obama’s description of his administration’s response to attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya attempted to rewrite history

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