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WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted

Warner Todd Huston — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:19:40 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a [...]

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The Conservative Hispanic Society: IRS Targeted Us Too

Warner Todd Huston — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:16:10 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston The Conservative Hispanic Society has joined the growing list of conservative groups that feel that they, too, were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service in its recent campaign of harassment. In a statement, CHS is “expressing outrage” over what it feels is Obama’s “infiltration of every aspect of our government.” In [...]

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VIDEO: White House Spins Obama’s Role in Benghazi: From Competence to Irrelevance

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:03 +0000

-By Helle Dale, The Heritage Foundation With the weekend’s grand slam appearance on the Sunday talk shows by yet another official unqualified to talk about Benghazi, the Obama Administration has again shot itself in the foot. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer attempted to defend U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s mischaracterization of the Benghazi terrorist attack, [...]

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Even New Yorker Sides With Fox on DOJ Attack on James Rosen

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:22 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Earlier today it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News’ James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not as just a reporter getting “classified” information, but an “aider and abettor [...]

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Gov’t Memo Proves CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson Got Benghazi Email Story Right

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:37:55 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston One of the earliest reporters revealing the internal emails about Benghazi exchanged between the U.S. Department of State and the intel community was CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson. Her original report was based on “written notes” and, as she said from the beginning, was not derived directly from the emails themselves. Despite this [...]

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Triage: Obama Summons Media Lapdogs to Secret White House Meeting

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:08:27 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Apparently a cadre of far left-wing “journalists” were seen filing into the White House for a secretive meeting with their lord and master Barack “I Didn’t Know” Obama. Journalist Ari Shapiro noted the meeting on Twitter: Spotted: @joshtpm @capehartj @ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a [...]

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Politico’s Thrush Politicizes Oklahoma Tornado

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:26:07 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston The destructive tornado that destroyed the quiet town of Moore, Oklahoma on the afternoon of May 20 was only a few hours gone, the devastation had yet to be measured, and the dead barely counted much less mourned and laid to rest before Politico’s Glenn Thrush felt it was already time [...]

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Liberal Talk Show Host: AG Eric Holder Should Be Fired

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:18:56 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Bill Press is a liberal radio show host with a syndicated show heard across the country, so, naturally, Press is also an Obama supporter. But even this Obama supporter thinks that it is time for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to be fired. After news broke that Holder’s Department of Justice [...]

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CNN’s Crowley Admits Obama Didn’t Call Benghazi a Terror Attack

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:14:17 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston On the May 19 broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union, host Candy Crowley said that Obama was late in identifying the attacks in Benghazi as terrorism quite contrary to what she said during the Presidential debates late last year. As Crowley questioned White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer, she pressed him [...]

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Politico: AG Holder Now Untouchable

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:08:50 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Politico has declared embattled Attorney General Eric Holder untouchable after the many scandals, lapses, overreaches, and contempt charges have failed to induce the President to fire him. After noting that politicians have been calling for his ouster for years, Politico says that “after years of trying to get Holder, the attorney [...]

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