Topic: NewsBusters
Media Matters details how NewsBusters, with an assist from Media Research Center chief Brent Bozell, piled up the smears and misinformation about new Medicare head Donald Berwick.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
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Topic: NewsBusters Media Matters details how NewsBusters, with an assist from Media Research Center chief Brent Bozell, piled up the smears and misinformation about new Medicare head Donald Berwick.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:33 PM EDT
Robert Ringer Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily What sort of goofy thing is Robert Ringer saying this week? Why, it's term limits for the Supreme Court! Oh, and also strip voting rights from government employees:
How, exactly, is Ringer "A Voice of Sanity"?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:28 AM EDT
Friday, July 9, 2010
NewsBusters Ignores Exoneration of Scientist It Repeatedly Attacked
Topic: NewsBusters NewsBusters has an entire category dedicated to climate scientist Michael Mann -- and not because it likes him. Instead, it's filled with attack after attack on Mann; for instance, an April 28 post by Jeff Poor describes him as "a central figure in the Climategate scandal" and "best known for his discredited "hockey stick graph." Noel Sheppard, meanwhile, promoted a parody video built around a misrepresentation of Mann's statement in a stolen "Climategate" email referring to a method to "hide the decline" in certain data. Sheppard also touted how Mann is "being investigated by his University as a result of his involvement in ClimateGate." Well, that investigation has been completed at the beginning of. What did it find? CBS News' Wyatt Andrews explains:
You'd think that NewsBusters would want to report such serious news to its readers, but no -- more than a week after theMann report was released, NewsBusters has yet to acknowledge its existence. Oops! NewsBusters should want to correct the record and admit its attacks were bogus. But so far it won't.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:55 AM EDT
Inaccuracy in Academia: Kline Misleads on New Deal Unemployment
Topic: Accuracy in Media Accuracy in Academia's Malcolm Kline writes in a July 8 Accuracy in Media article:
This is a highly misleading generalization. As we've previously noted, unemployment peaked in 1933 at 24.9 percent and had dropped to 14.3 percent in 1937 -- de facto evidence that the New Deal worked. While unemployment increased in 1938 and 1939, many experts believe that it was because Roosevelt cut spending and raised taxes in an effort to reduce the deficit. Further, government statistics at the time did not count those in government work projects as being "employed," even though they technically were. Kline has a history of making misleading claims. So much for "accuracy in academia."
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:49 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, July 9, 2010 11:06 AM EDT
WND's Farah, Rush Promote Bogus New Black Panther Case
Topic: WorldNetDaily Joseph Farah used his July 8 WorldNetDaily column to promote the dubious and unsubstantiated claims of J. Christian Adams that the Obama administraiton "dropped the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party because Obama's Justice Department refuses to prosecute black defendants accused of victimizing whites." Farah adds: "It's a shocking case – given the overwhelming evidence against the radical, revolutionary racists in the center of it." What Farah won't tell you: the Bush administration -- not the Obama administration -- declined to press criminal charges against the New Black Panthers, and Adams has no firsthand knowledge of the claims he's making. Nevertheless, Farah goes on to whine: "Think about this: The Obama Justice Department refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party. The Obama Justice Department has refused to prosecute ACORN. But the Obama Justice Department is prosecuting the state of Arizona for enforcing U.S. laws against illegal immigration!" Farah was joined in promoting Adams' bogus claims by Erik Rush, who ranted:
Of course, the Obama administration isn't the one playing the racism card since they weren't the ones who declined to prosecute the case. But nobody ever said that Farah and Rush care about telling the truth.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:24 AM EDT
Even More Right-Wing 'Experts' At Newsmax
Topic: Newsmax Newsmax's David Patten has a penchant for writing articles featuring "experts" on various issues that are invariably right-wing -- a political affiliation he usually does not disclose. Patten churned out a pair of these articles on July 6. One article quoted "legal scholars" President Obama appears set on a collision course with the conservative-leaning Supreme Court over the constitutionality of his administration's transformative legislative agenda. Shockingly, Patten identified the conservatives he interviewed -- from Judicial Watch and the Committee for Justice -- as conservative. The other article, featuring "immigration law experts" claiming that the Obama administration "has little chance of prevailing" in its effort to fight the new Arizona immigration law, reverted to form. The conservatives -- Center for Immigration Studies' Stephen Camerota and "Law professor Kris W. Kobach" -- are not identified as such.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:15 AM EDT
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Cindy Simpson, July 8 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:57 PM EDT
NewsReal Blogger Likens Obama to Charles Manson
Topic: Horowitz Here's some five-alarm Obama derangement from NewsReal's Kathy Barkulis:
Barkulis' entire premise, in addition to being hateful, is entirely baseless: The Bush administration, not the Obama administration, declined to charge the New Black Panthers, and the so-called whistleblower she's relying on is a right-wing activist with no firsthand knowledge of the claims he's making.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:28 PM EDT
WND Promotes Unfounded Accusations
Topic: WorldNetDaily A July 6 WorldNetDaily article by Brian Fitzpatrick is a one-sided affair that uncritically repeats accusations by former Department of Justice staffer J. Christian Adams about purported "anti-whte bias" in the department and its decision not to pursue a criminal case against the New Black Panther Party on charges of voter intimidation. How unbalanced is this article? It's not until the 40th paragraph that Fitzpatrick sees fit to include a single paragraph of response from the DOJ. This means you will not learn from WND that Adams has no firsthand knowledge of the accusations he makes -- despite Fitzpatrick's quoting of Adams saying otherwise -- that the Bush administration, not the Obama administration, made the decision not to prosecute the New Black Panthers, or that Adams is a right-wing activist who was brought into the DOJ as part of a politicization process taken undertaken during the Bush administration.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:14 AM EDT
Hirsen Mum About Gibson's Racist Rant
Topic: Newsmax Last year, we detailed the close relationship between Newsmax columnist James Hirsen and actor Mel Gibson -- a relationship Hirsen did not disclose as he was promoting Gibson's films and serving as defender of Gibson by claiming he had apologized sufficiently for his 2006 anti-Semitic tirade. Hirsen hasn't written much about Gibson lately, perhaps because most of the news about him has been bad, i.e., his divorce and affair, which resulted in an out-of-wedlock child. Well, Gibson is in the news again, this time for dropping the N-word in a rant against his now-ex-mistress and mother of his out-of-wedlock child (specifically: You look like a f**king pig in heat and if you get raped by a pack of ni**ers it will be your fault"). And gee, what a surprise, Hirsen won't say a thing about it -- there's no mention of it in his July 6 "Left Coast Report." Hirsen deemed Lindsay Lohan's latest travails to be more newsworthy than Gibson.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:50 AM EDT
WND Columnist Endorses Vandalism, Censorship
Topic: WorldNetDaily Chrissy Satterfield insists in her July 7 WorldNetDaily column that "Never would I encourage vandalism," but of course she does exactly that:
So Satterfield not only endorses vandalism, she also endorses the censorship of a viewpoint that she opposes.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:22 AM EDT
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Kovacs Still Whitewashing Birther Hero's Racist Ties
Topic: WorldNetDaily In a July 6 interview on Denver's KHOW radio, WorldNetDaily's Joe Kovacs continued to whitewash the apparent racist links of birther hero Tim Adams, following the host's lead in promoting the idea that Adams is "anything but a racist." As he has before, Kovacs does not address the core issue -- Kovacs first made his claims on the radio show of a self-described "pro-white" host while at a convention of the white-supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens. Kovacs goes on to say of Adams, "He's not a birther, he's a Hillary Clinton supporter." But that means nothing, since the first birthers, like Philip Berg, were Hillary supporters as well. Kovacs also insists that "everything he has said is so far true, " but that's not necessarily true. As we noted, Glen Takahashi, administrator of the Honolulu City Clerk's office where Adams worked, has contradicted Adams' claims about how much access he had to database records, as well as Adams' claim that Obama's lack of a birth certificate was an "open secret."Kovacs has never reported Takahashi's statement -- presumably because they do conflict with the birther narrative that is WND editorial policy.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:56 PM EDT
Logrolling In Our Time
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Joseph Farah, April 6 WorldNetDaily column
-- David Kupelian, July 6 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:34 PM EDT
Newsmax Perpetuates Biden Falsehood
Topic: Newsmax Newsmax writes in a July 4 "Insider Report" item:
The idea that Biden is likening Republicans to Nazis by using the word "blitzkrieg" is utterly ridiculous. Newsmax apparently got the inspiration for this smear from Matt Drudge, so that explains a little. Newsmax also treats Newsvine as some sort of legitimate news organization. It's not -- it's a personalized news aggregator. What Newsmax is quoting from is a blogger named "Dr. Danny," whose blog is apparently hosted by Newsvine. But if using the word "blitzkrieg" is equal to calling someone a Nazi, let's see Newsmax's record:
Unless Newsmax is willing to admit that all of these people were endeavoring to liken those they were attacking as Nazis, they should back away from smearing Biden in this manner.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:25 AM EDT
Massie Baselessly Defends RNC's Steele
Topic: WorldNetDaily It's not easy declaring that someone told the truth when you don't actually quote anything they said, but Mychal Massie has accomplished that feat in his July 6 WorldNetDaily column. It's headlined "Michael Steele told the truth," but nowhere does Massie directly quote Steele telling said truth. Instead, Massie writes around it:
But Steele came nowhere near to saying that Afghanistan "is Obama's war now." What he actually said was that Afghanistan is a "war of Obama's choosing" and that it is "not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in." Not the same thing. Massie then went on to attack Obama's prosecution of the war:
At no point does Massie offer any evidence that the military's prosecution of the war is being overly restrained in any way.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:45 AM EDT
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