Topic: Newsmax
Remember when Christopher Ruddy hated Bill Clinton? Not any more. The rapproachement took a further step when Clinton actually paid a visit to Newsmax's offices, and had this picture taken of him and Ruddy:
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Times Have Changed
Topic: Newsmax Remember when Christopher Ruddy hated Bill Clinton? Not any more. The rapproachement took a further step when Clinton actually paid a visit to Newsmax's offices, and had this picture taken of him and Ruddy:
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:20 AM EDT
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Craig R. Smith, Aug. 16 WorldNetDaily column
-- Shuck Norris, Aug. 16 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:55 AM EDT
Monday, August 16, 2010
Aaron Klein's Mighty Wurlitzer Strikes Again
Topic: WorldNetDaily There's actually nothing all that interesting in Aaron Klein using his radio to get a member of Hamas to endorse building an Islamic community center near Ground Zero, as WorldNetDaily has promoted (and promoted and promoted). This fundamentally dishonest strategy is how Klein operates. In 2008, Klein got a member of Hamas to "endorse" Barack Obama for president, and his book "Schmoozing With Terrorists" is filled with such conversations. As we detailed at the time, there's no evidence that the terrorists he gets to talk to him are aware of his ulterior strategy -- to use their words against them to inflame anti-Muslim sentiment in America. That is likely the case with the Hamas endorsement of the mosque. Of course a group proclaiming itself to be Islamic and anti-American would endorse a mosque in New York -- that's not news. The point is that Klein did this interview with the explicit purpose of using the endorsement to inflame public sentiment against the mosque. This has nothing to do with Hamas and everything to do with Aaron Klein. This isn't reporting; it's nothing more than Klein pressing a key on his Mighty Wurlitzer. UPDATE: We expand on this a little over at Media Matters, where we also highlight that Klein's media strategy still relies on the terrorists being too stupid to figure out how he's using them.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:31 PM EDT
Updated: Monday, August 16, 2010 9:45 PM EDT
Graham Pretends Angle Isn't An Extremist
Topic: NewsBusters The Media Research Center hates it when the media tells the truth about conservatives, and Tim Graham demonstrates it again in an Aug. 15 NewsBusters post, complaining that the Washington Post reported the indisputable fact that "It has not been especially difficult work" for Harry Reid to "exploit perceptions" that Sharron Angle, his Republican opponent for his Nevada Senate seat, "is a dangerous reactionary." Graham even goes so far as to suggest than an extremist Christian-based movement isn't all that extremist. After noting that the Post reported that Reid has been promoting the idea that Angle is a Christian reconstructionist and that it is indeed true that "some of Angle's views mirror those of Christian Reconstructionists," Graham tries tochange the subject: "Of course, to any group of secular leftists, it's frightening for any conservative politician to talk about God, regardless of whether the Rushdoony arguments have a scintilla of merit." As we've noted, reconstructionism endorses the idea of the death penalty for "moral crimes," such as homosexuality. While it may not be a movement of significant size -- indeed, the Post reports that it "dried up" after founder R.J. Rushdoony died -- it is significant if a candidate holds such views. Rather than investigating whether Angle does, Graham chose to play dumb instead -- whcih suggests that he knows it's true but won't admit it.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:59 AM EDT
What Happened to Janet Porter?
Topic: WorldNetDaily If it seems that your Tuesdays have been a little more sane lately, there's a reason: Janet Porter has stopped writing her WorldNetDaily column. Porter -- who has used her WND column to spew hate and lies, as well as embrace a neo-Nazi racist -- has not written a column since June 15. Right Wing Watch notes that Porter's Faith2Action website, which Porter harnessed to her personal anti-Obama crusade, has been only sporadically updated in recent weeks. Further, as we've previously noted, Porter spearheaded a "May Day" rally at the Lincoln Memorial that was so sparsely attended that speakers to beg for money from the audience to defray the cost of staging it, and she lost her radio show after the evangelical Christian ministry that had been offering production and transmission services for it pulled the plug due to Porter's embrace of Christian dominionism. Right Wing Watch notes that Porter has descended further into dominionism, speaking at a conference run by dominionists and Christian reconstructionists. It's unlikely that WND canceled Porter's column -- after all, WND editor Joseph Farah holds reconstructionist views, and WND tolerates lies (and perhaps even encourages them) as long as they're about its political enemies, like President Obama. So the evidence points to Porter abandoning it, for whatever reason.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:24 AM EDT
CNS Columnist Likens Obama to Jim Jones
Topic: CNSNews.com It seems Alan Caruba has decided he wants to be the next Ellis Washington. Caruba uses his Aug. 16 CNSNews.com column to one-up Washington in Obama derangement via likening him to various vile historical figures and go where even Washington didn't:
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:48 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, August 16, 2010 9:48 AM EDT
WND Columnist: We Need More White Babies!
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Dave Welch, Aug. 15 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:03 AM EDT
Sunday, August 15, 2010
This Is Media Criticism?
Topic: NewsBusters Melissa Clouthier writes in an Aug. 15 NewsBusters post:
So, how does Clouthier's mindless liberal-bashing fit in with NewsBusters' declared mission of "Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias"? Near as we can tell, it doesn't. Clouthier obviously has the right to be as hateful as she wants -- indeed, her entry was cross-posted on another blog. But shouldn't NewsBusters have editorial standards that keep the blog from straying from his declared (not to mention tax-status-mandated) mission?
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:13 PM EDT
Palling-Around-With-Terrorists Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily Joseph Farah will be guest-hosting G. Gordon Liddy's radio show next week.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:09 AM EDT
Saturday, August 14, 2010
NewsBusters Shocked That Local News More Important Than National News
Topic: NewsBusters An Aug. 13 NewsBusters post by Kyle Drennen makes a big deal of how "instead of showing the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, the network's Washington DC affiliate, WUSA-TV, decided to continue with live storm coverage." Drennen presents this as being suspect because "The Evening News has consistently ranked third among the network evening newscasts during Couric's tenure." Why Drennen thinks it's surprising that a local TV station would want to devote more coverage to a devastating storm that cut power to 110,000 people at a time when people are already predisposed to watch news is strange. It's almost as if he's being paid to push an agenda to bash Couric and CBS, no matter how logic-defying the attack.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:57 AM EDT
WND's Mercer Issues Racial Attack on Michelle Obama
Topic: WorldNetDaily Ilana Mercer has decided that smearing Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette was offensive, or racially appropriate, enough for her. From Mercer's Aug. 13 WorldNetDaily column:
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:54 AM EDT
Friday, August 13, 2010
Gay Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Joseph Farah, Aug. 13 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:08 PM EDT
CNS Attacks Official For Being Gay
Topic: CNSNews.com CNSNews.com ventures into the gay-baiting arena with an Aug. 12 article by Jane McGrath asserting that "Conservative groups are expressing concern that David Hansell, an openly homosexual man and former AIDS activist, is currently serving as the acting head – the assistant secretary – of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)." The crux of McGrath's article are unsubstantiated allegations by the right-wing Fanily Research Council that Hansell "conducted a series of meetings aimed at forcing Florida to lift its ban on same-sex adoption" and "is lobbying to cut HHS financial assistance for all Florida adoptions if the state doesn't change its policy." McGrath quoted theFRC's Peter Sprigg as saying that "We have heard from private sources" about theallegations and "Sprigg told CNSNews.com that he is not at liberty to divulge the identities of the private sources who informed him of the alleged meetings." McGrath made no apparent effort to verify Sprigg's claims; she wrote that Hansell "would not grant an interview to CNSNews.com" but answered an unrelated question via email. McGrath also allows anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera to smear Hansell by comparing him to "Kevin Jennings, a former homosexual activist whom President Obama appointed as assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education," adding:
In fact, the student in question was 16, and there wasn't a sexual relationship. (McGrath's article is currently not showing up at CNS; here it is in Google cache.)
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:34 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, August 13, 2010 1:37 PM EDT
WND Rewards Liar With Puff Piece
Topic: WorldNetDaily How does WorldNetDaily reward a writer who forwarded an attack on President Obama and Elena Kagan that was so blatantly and egregiously false that WND was forced to scrub the hell out of it? Why, give him a forum to promote his book. An Aug. 12 WND article touts how "Hundreds of people hungering for Bible truth turned out" for an event in Oklahoma in which WND executive news editor Joe Kovacs read from his book "Shocked by the Bible": "Wow, look at all these people. I'm shocked!" declared Joe Kovacs, the executive news editor of WND and author of the No. 1 best-selling book "Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You've Never Been Told." "I didn't know so many people had an interest in Bible truth these days." Ifyou're interested in actual truth, however, Kovacs is not your guy. As we detailed, Kovacs wrote that Kagan, in her position as Obama's solicitor general, came up "at least nine times on dockets involving Obama eligibility issues." In fact, none of the cases Kovacs cited involved "eligibility." But Kovacs did his job in smearing Obama and Kagan, truth be damned. So Kovacs spreads lies, and WND not only doesn't punish him, it rewards him with a puff piece. That's the moral bankruptcy of WND in a nutshell.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:22 PM EDT
WND Flails At International Baccalaureate Curriculum
Topic: WorldNetDaily An Aug. 10 WorldNetDaily article by Michael Carl is dedicated to attacking the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Why is this univerally respected program being attacked? Because a right-wing evangelist doesn't like it. And an anonymous blogger doesn't like it either. Carl makes no attempt to talk to anyone actually directly involved in IB programs to obtain any response to the criticism. Carl manages to work both George Soros and Bill Ayers into his conspiracy that IB programs are anti-American and anti-Christian. Carl is a former full-time WND employee who now apparently moonlights for it while serving as a pastor. That would seem to explain why Carl has no interest in telling a balanced, fully truthful story.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:25 AM EDT
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