FACT CHECKING KARL….Just for the record, is Al Jazeera broadcasting Dick Durbin’s words about Guantanamo, as Karl Rove said? Abu Aardvark, who reads Arabic and listens to Al Jazeera, says it sure doesn’t seem like it.

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