Topic: Newsmax
John L. Perry's column advocating a military coup against President Obama is just the latest and most extreme example of Newsmax's anti-Obama rhetoric and activism. Read more >>
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
New Article: Our Newsmax Problem
Topic: Newsmax John L. Perry's column advocating a military coup against President Obama is just the latest and most extreme example of Newsmax's anti-Obama rhetoric and activism. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:08 AM EDT
WND Smears, Libels Teacher
Topic: WorldNetDaily Based on the testimony of one parent, WorldNetDaily has smeared and quite possibly libeled a Virginia high school teacher. An Oct. 5 article by Chelsea Schilling uncriticially repeats claims by the parent, who claims that "English teacher Kathleen Renard provided her personal copy of a book called 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky to one of her English students, and it was passed to his son." The bookwas available as part of marking the American Library Association's "Banned Book Week." Schilling provides a long list of bullet points of the book's purportedly offensive content -- "sex acts between teenagers," "suicide," and "attempted sex between a boy and a dog" among them -- butSchilling makes no attempt to place them in context, indicating that she has not read the book she's reporting on. Schilling goes on to smear the teacher by suggesting she intends to molest her students, writing that the parent "mentioned WND's big list of teachers who have sexual relationships with minor students and said he is concerned that a teacher who provides sexually explicit reading material to her students could have ulterior motives." Such an obviously false, malicious statement could very well be considered libel, giving the teacher grounds to sue WND. We've previously documented WND's creepy, possibly prurient obsession with female teachers -- not male ones -- who have sex swith their students. WND has already gone through one major libel suit, which didn't end so well. Is it really that eager for another?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:13 AM EDT
Terry Jeffrey Wants Obama to Fail
Topic: CNSNews.com In case it wasn't clear that CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey is not interested in fair and balanced reporting about President Obama on the website he heads, Jeffrey made his views more articulate in an Oct. 5 appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball." Responding to Chris Matthews' question about whether the right is "will cheer" if Obama fails at everything like Rush Limbaugh said, Jeffrey responded:
An Oct. 5 NewsBusters item by Geoffrey Dickens, which includes much of the transcript of Jeffrey's appearance, curiously omits the above sections. What is the MRC afraid of? That Jeffrey's bias, and how it's reflected at CNS, will become clear to readers?
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:03 AM EDT
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Meanwhile ...
Topic: WorldNetDaily Media Matters highlights how WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah wrote in his Oct. 6 column, as part of WND's anti-gay attack on Obama administration official Chai Feldblum, that Obama appointees are found at "Perverts.gov" and that "the entire federal government is going to have to be fumigated some day when these deviants and degenerates are finally sent packing."
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:51 PM EDT
NewsBusters Heathering Watch
Topic: NewsBusters There's been a heapin' helpin' of Heathering at NewsBusters of late:
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:48 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 12:50 PM EDT
WND Ignores Evidence Ahmadinejad Isn't A Jew
Topic: WorldNetDaily An Oct. 3 WorldNetDaily article by Drew Zahn rehashes a UK Telegraph report that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has "Jewish roots." It was followed by an Oct. 5 WND article repeating the claim, only this time citing the British intelligence service MI6 as a source. Missing was any evidence questioning that view. The Telegraph report makes a big deal out of how, as Zahn wrote, "Ahmadinejad's original family name – prior to their conversion to Islam – was Sabourjian, a Jewish name meaning 'cloth weaver.'" But the UK Guardian offers an alternative explanation:
Will WND report this information? Don't count on it.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:28 AM EDT
AIM Tries to Change the Subject
Topic: Accuracy in Media In an Oct. 5 Accuracy in Media post, Don Irvine response to criticism of Republicans cheering the failure of Chicago to win the 2016 Olympics by trying to change the subject: "Now that someone dares to criticize the president for making an unprecendented pitch for the Olympics while major parts of his legilsative agenda wallow at home or the fact that the unemployment report continues to hit 26 -year old lows that's un-American?" But the question is not whether Obama should be criticized for traveling to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago's bid. It's whether Irvine's fellow conservatives look unseemly in celebrating the bid's demise, or, in the words of his headling, "rooting against America." Irvine has nothing to say about that core accusation -- which makes us wonder if he's celebrating it as well.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:29 AM EDT
WND's Simpson Roots Against America
Topic: WorldNetDaily Barbara Simpson joins the right-wing crowd rooting against America and gloating that Chicago lost its bid for the 2016 Olympics in her Oct. 5 WorldNetDaily column:
Stay classy, Barb.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:15 AM EDT
WND Still Whitewashing Orly Taitz
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily still doesn't want its readers to know the truth about Orly Taitz. An Oct. 2 article by Chelsea Schilling downplays Taitz's involvement in a birther-related lawsuit in favor of elevating fellow birther lawyer Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation. Schilling fails to report that Kreep's clients, Wiley Drake and Markham Robinson, used to be represented by Taitz, but dropped her after determining she was "in over her head." Schilling also didn't report that Taitz for a while refused to sign papers transferring Drake and Markham's representation from her to Kreep, then filed papers stating Drake and Robinson's desire to be removed from the lawsuit. (And, needless to say, Schilling made sure not to report that Drake has prayed for Obama's death, which makes him a less-than-objective plaintiff.) Schilling benignly wrote that "Taitz and Kreep have expressed significant differences of opinion in how the case should be handled"; in fact, Taitz has been feuding with Kreep. An Oct. 5 follow-up article by Bob Unruh largely repeated Schilling's claims without offering the full truth -- which, in this case, according to the OC Weekly, meant more specious and bizarre arguments:
Since WND is still protecting its readers from tales of Taitz's increasing legal incompetence, there's no mention at all at WND of how, in a separate case, Taitz is accusing the judge of secretly meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:07 AM EDT
NewsBusters Defends Beck, Misleads on Reporting About Him
Topic: NewsBusters In an Oct. 5 NewsBusters post, Jeff Poor uncritically repeated Glenn Beck's "impassioned plea to stop looking into his past" and his complaint that the media has "looked into Glenn Beck's past - and not corruption in government." But isn't a demand by someone that the media stop examining them de facto evidence that said person has something to hide and that, in fact, his past should continue to be dug into? Poor went on to state that "the McClatchy-owned The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. and the left-leaning Salon.com ran stories questioning whether or not Glenn Beck's mother, Mary Beck committed suicide. It was later propagated by the left-wing storefronts." But Poor is buying into Beck's framing of things. The issue is not whether Beck's mother committed suicide; it's whether Beck is insisting she did when the official evidence is at best inconclusive. Instead of regurgitating what Beck says, shouldn't Poor be asking why Beck is suddenly getting squeamish about media attention? Poor's link on "left-wing storefronts," by the way, goes to Media Matters. But isn't NewsBusters, not to mention the rest of the Media Research Center, a right-wing storefront?
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:22 AM EDT
Monday, October 5, 2009
Meanwhile ...
Topic: Newsmax Joe Conason at Salon details the resurgence of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," with special emphasis on Newsmax. He even links to ConWebWatch.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:36 PM EDT
NewsBusters Falsely Claims Consumer Reports Endorses "ObamaCare"
Topic: NewsBusters An Oct. 5 NewsBusters post by P.J. Gladnick asserts that in a new TV ad and website statement, Consumer Reports has "now come out in support of ObamaCare." Gladnick insists that Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, is abandoning "any claim of political neutrality" and endorsing "endorsing a highly unpopular Democrat health care bill that will be costly to the taxpayers." In fact, Consumers Union is endorsing no specific plan and doesn't even mention Obama by name -- as the CU statement Gladnick quotes makes clear:
At no point does CU endorse "ObamaCare" -- just reform that fixes "the problems with health care." Is Gladnick incapable of basic reading comprehension?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:33 PM EDT
Obama-Nazi Smear of the Day
Topic: WorldNetDaily While, of course, weaselly denying that he's making any such connection:
-- Joseph Farah, Oct. 5 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:58 AM EDT
WND Attacks Oprah
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily's book division is publishing a new title, "O God," by Josh McDowell and Dave Sterrett, which purports to demonstrate that Oprah Winfrey is not, well, a right-wing evangelical Christian. McDowell and Sterrett -- who set up their evangelical credentials as "Christian apologists who believe that salvation is by God's grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone" -- set up their attack as "a fictional conversation – or series of conversations – between two female graduate students, both seeking spiritual truth." Because nothing says authenticity more than two adult males passing themselves off as female graduate students. WND dismisses Oprah's spirituality as nothing more than "casual New Age proclamations," adding: It is Oprah's compassion that lures millions to her TV show and her magazine and the persona that has become an industry. Yet, McDowell and Sterrett explore the possibility that misguided compassion, based on human emotions rather than divine revelation and God's law, can lead people in dangerous directions. So evangelicals aren't big on compassion? Or is compassion only for people who agree with them? We'd like to read the book, but somehow we suspect that the chances that WND will send us a review copy are negligible at best.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:18 AM EDT
Does Silence Equal Assent?
Topic: NewsBusters An Oct. 3 NewsBusters post by Tim Graham complains that a Time magazine columnist "joked that it’s time for an Obama dictatorship," further complaing that "The problem with all this joking is it becomes a little difficult to discern just to what degree Stein is joking and to what degree he is seriously dreaming." By contrast, Graham -- along with everyone else at the Media Research Center -- has yet to express an opinion about a Newsmax columnist calling for a military coup against Obama. Does silence equal assent?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:28 AM EDT
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