Topic: WorldNetDaily
Theodore Beale's nom de plume may have stopped writing his WorldNetDaily column, but he'll be remembered for his wild conspiracy theories and racially charged, misogynistic rhetoric. Read more >>
Thursday, January 31, 2013
NEW ARTICLE: Vox Day Has Issues
Topic: WorldNetDaily Theodore Beale's nom de plume may have stopped writing his WorldNetDaily column, but he'll be remembered for his wild conspiracy theories and racially charged, misogynistic rhetoric. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:41 PM EST
Newsmax Falsely Spins Reagan Home Story To Attack Obama
Topic: Newsmax Marti Lotman writes in a Jan. 30 Newsmax article: "The University of Chicago Medical Center has announced plans to turn Ronald Reagan’s childhood home in Chicago into a parking lot for President Barack Obama’s library." That's a complete, utter lie. As Media Matters explains, while it is true that the University of Chicago Medical Center is planning to tear down a house where Reagan lived for a year when he was 4 years old, there is no evidence whatsoever that it would be torn down for an Obama presidential library -- in fact, a location for the library has not even been chosen -- and the university certainly did not "announce" it would do what Lotman said it did. Even the Washington Times Communities article from which Lotman lifted her item never claimed that the university made such an announcement. Rather, it engages in a lot of baseless speculation and cites only unnamed "opponents of the demolition " as claiming it would be torn down for an Obama library -- which, again, has not even been awarded to the university as of yet. Apparently, the idea of Obama trashing Reagan's legacy was too good for Newsmax to fact-check. Or even to double-check basic reading comprehension. UPDATE: WorldNetDaily latched onto the bogus story as well, reproducing part of the Washington Times article, presumably without permission.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:18 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:19 PM EST
WND's Kinsolving Can't Stop Spewing Homophobia
Topic: WorldNetDaily Raging homophobe Les Kinsolving is back at it again in his Jan. 28 WorldNetDaily column, in which he complains that the pastor at President Obama's inauguration "included in his benediction an endorsement of same-sex marriage (as did Mr. Obama) with no such inaugural devotional endorsement of many other alternative sexual orientations." After reproducing a statement by the presidential inauguration committee about how the Obama administration has a "vision of inclusion and acceptance for all Americans," Kinsolving sneers: "This inevitably raises the consideration that 'all Americans' include pedophiles, polygamists, polyandrists, urophiliacs and zoophiliacs – among other alternate sexual orientations." Kinsolving just loves to equate homosexuality with pedophilia and bestiality, despite the complete lack of factual basis for doing so.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:44 AM EST
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
NewsBusters' Finkelstein Doesn't Know What Amnesty Means
Topic: NewsBusters Mark Finkelstein writes in his Jan. 29 NewsBusters post of "the current proposals on 'the pathway to citizenship'—AKA amnesty—being floated." Hate to break it to you, Mark, but creating a path to citizenship is NOT amnesty. The Gang of 8 immigration reform proposal, for instance, does not call for any sort of amnesty -- which most non-demagogic activists would describe as citizenship without preconditions. ABC reports:
Does that sound like amnesty to anyone? Only to people like Finkelstein, apparently. but calling it "amnesty" does not make it so.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:32 PM EST
Erik Rush Still Not Bringing His Prime Crazy To WND
Topic: WorldNetDaily Erik Rush still isn't bringing his most insane conpsiracy theories to WorldNetDaily. Rush uses a Jan. 25 column at Canada Free Press to rant that President Obama wants to take our guns away, just like Mao and Stalin did:
If I was WND, I'd be demanding that Rush publish his most crazy stuff at the home of his column. (h/t Right Wing Watch)
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:46 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:47 PM EST
CNS' Starr Hides Ted Nugent's Provocative Attacks
Topic: CNSNews.com Penny Starr's Jan. 23 CNSNews.com article on Ted Nugent's statements at a gun show stated that he "criticized New York City’s Democratic Mayor Michael Bloomberg for focusing the gun control debate in the United States on deer hunting." But Nugent said a lot more. As Media Matters documents, Nugent also ranted about President Obama, claiming he is "actually is attempting to re-implement the tyranny of King George that we escaped from in 1776. And if you want another Concord Bridge, I got some buddies." Curiously, Starr did not find this highly provocative statement newsworthy. Meanwhile, a Jan. 23 CNS blog post by Gregory Gwyn-Williams Jr. alludes to Nugent's inflammatory statement, but he waters it down by claiming that Nugent said only that "anyone who seeks to undermine the 2nd Amendment must be treated like King George." In fact, Nugent was specifically referring to Obama with his King George reference.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:15 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:16 PM EST
WND Uses 1984-Style Image To Illustrate Obama Immigration Reform
Topic: WorldNetDaily For reasons known only to them, WorldNetDaily has decided to illustrate a story about President Obama's plans for immigration reform with an image doctored to include Obama in a "1984"-style setting. Here's the front-page promotion for it: The article by Taylor Rose contains the same image:Rose repeatedly uses the word "amnesty" to describe Obama's plan for comprehensive reform, even though the word implies a pardon without preconditions, something Rose knows is not happening since he nonsensically writes that Obama will have "requirements for amnesty."
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:21 PM EST
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Noel Sheppard's Headline Cliche Trifecta
Topic: NewsBusters NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard loves his headline cliches, but he has managed to outdo himself: He wrote three posts in three hours with the word "schools" in it. At 9:37 on Jan. 27, Sheppard wrote a post with the headline "Pat Buchanan Schools Eleanor Clift: 'You Don't Read What the Founding Fathers Believed or Say'." At 11:15, a new Sheppard post carried the headline "22-Year-Old Woman Schools Piers Morgan: I Need an AR-15 to ‘Have Enough Ammo to Get the Job Done’." Then, at 12:29, came a Sheppard post with this headline: "George Will Schools Donna Brazile: America's 'Going To Be an Assisted Living Home With an Army'." Laziness or hackery? We report, you decide.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:48 PM EST
Aaron Klein Anonymous Source Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily Aaron Klein asserts in a Jan. 27 WorldNetDaily article that "President Barack Obama has already secretly pledged to the Palestinians he will press Israel into a new round of so-called land-for-peace negotiations." His source? An unnamed, untraceable, anonymous "top Palestinian Authority negotiator." No other backup for his claim is provided, and no named souces whatsoever appear in Klein's article. It's Klein's longstanding, journalistically questionable practice to hide behind anonymous sources to hurl attacks at the Obama administration.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:07 PM EST
Bozell Ignorantly Gloats Over Imminent Demise Of 'Liberal Media'
Topic: Media Research Center For someone who heads an organization purportedly dedicated to "media research," Brent Bozell knows stunningly little about the media. An interview with Bozell is quoted thusly in a Jan. 25 CNSNews.com blog post:
You know who else got sold for a dollar? The Washington Times. As we've detailed, neither of the conservative newspapers in Washingtion, the Times and the Examiner, are subject to a free market like the New York Times and the Washington Post -- they're owned by rich benefactors who can afford to lose millions of dollars (billions in the case of the Wasghington Times) in the service of generating biased journalism to promote an ideology. Bozell manages to display an amazing degree of self-unawareness as the interview continues:
Wait -- Bozell just likened the media to cornered rats, and he's complaining about media viciousness? Yes -- the terminally angry activist who likened President Obama to a "skinny ghetto crackhead" is complaining about how the media is so mean. Is Bozell that stupid, or is he just a mendacious liar? We report, you decide.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:38 PM EST
Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome, WorldNetDaily Division
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Joseph Farah, Jan. 24 WorldNetDaily column
-- Larry Klayman, Jan. 25 WND column
-- Pamela Geller, Jan. 27 WND column
-- Barbara Simpson, Jan. 27 WND column
-- Mychal Massie, Jan. 28 WND column
-- Joseph Farah, Jan. 28 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:50 PM EST
Monday, January 28, 2013
MRC Transgender Freakout Watch
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center's ongoing transgender freakout continues with a Jan. 24 Culture & Media Institute item by Kristine Marsh complaining about a Huffington Post piece about how a young transgendered girl wrote an essay about President Obama not mentioning transgenders in his inaugural speech. Marsh takes umbrage at the mere existence o fthe 11-year-old Sadie, sneering that she is "a boy pretending to be a girl," then bashing her mother for purportedly having "inflicted the condition on her child." Marsh then rants: "Unfortunately there is a disturbing trend of parents encouraging gender confusion in children as young as three or four, liberal educators and activists working to normalize it, and plenty in the media happy to enable them." One of those links goes to one of the MRC's most bizarre transgender freakouts, in which a J. Crew designer was accused of "blatant propaganda celebrating transgendered children" for painting her young son's toenails pink.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:53 PM EST
Is Farah Really Willing To 'Close The Chapter' On Birtherism?
Topic: WorldNetDaily Joseph Farah made an interesting statement in his Jan. 20 WorldNetDaily column. After ranting yet again about the records President Obama has not released, including "his legitimate birth records, which, according to the only law enforcement investigation ever conducted on the matter determined those he has produced are fraudulent," he adds:
Let's take apart the false statements and false hubris in this statement. First, since Obama was born in the United States -- and WND has forwarded no credible evidence that he wasn't -- he didn't need his mother to transfer citizenship to him. The clause Farahis referring to applies only if the birth takes place outside of the U.S. Second, Arpaio's investigation has been discredited, but Farah doesn't want to tell you that. Third, if Farah really does want to "close the chapter on the birth certificate matter" -- an offer that suggests he knows how discredited his birther conspiracies are -- he should do so by telling his readers that it is discredited, that he was wrong to pursue this obsession for so long after it was discredited, and issuing an abject apology for spending nearly five years reporting things he knew or should have known to be false, thus completely destroying whatever credibility his "news" organization may have had. It's obvious that Farah will do no such thing -- he seems to think that he has enough gullible readers who will believe anything he says. That's why there's a Jan. 24 WND article featuring Arpaio investigation leader Mike Zullo challenging Colin Powell, who has dismissed birthers, to come "at my expense to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, and I will sit down with him and show him the evidence that we have accumulated that brings us to the only logical conclusion – that this document (Obama’s birth certificate) is manufactured." It seems that WND still believes birtherism is a winner. There's no way Farah will ever "close the chapter."
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:43 PM EST
Updated: Monday, January 28, 2013 5:05 PM EST
Noel Sheppard Is Mad Al Gore Is Promoting His New Book
Topic: NewsBusters Noel Sheppard, in a Jan. 24 NewsBusters post, smells a conspiracy:
An author appearing on a talk show to promote his new book? Why, that's never happened before! Really, this is all Sheppard's post is about. Nothing else. How, exactly, is an author promoting his book on a TV talk show "liberal media bias"? Sheppard, meanwhile, is reduced to spouting conspiracy theories to Jesse Ventura, so he's probably a tad bitter.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:45 PM EST
WND's Klein Just Can't Stop Smearing Vartan Gregorian
Topic: WorldNetDaily In 2011, WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein wrote a number of smear pieces on Vartan Gregorian, attempting to portray a respected scholar who has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom as a radical Muslim who's working to undermine America. Klein can't leave well enough alone -- he uses a Jan. 24 WND article to repeat those smears and add new ones. Klein's dubious hook this time is that Gregorian is on the board of Qatar Foundation International, which is working with the federal government "to facilitate an online program aiming to connect all U.S. schools with classrooms abroad by 2016." Klein claims that the foundation "is close to the Muslim Brotherhood." His evidence? "In January 2012, it launched the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics under the guidance of Tariq Ramadan, who serves as the center’s director. Ramadan is the grandson of the notorious founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna." In fact, Ramadan is no terrorist, and he has condemned terrorism as being against the teachings of Islam. Klein offers no evidence that Ramadan plays any role whatsoever in the Muslim Brotherhood today. Klein goes back in time to repeat the false and baseless guilt-by-assocation smears that marred his earlier reporting:
We wrote about Klein's falsehoods and smears a year and a half ago, yet he couldn't be bothered to correct the record. Copying-and-pasting is for bad and lazy reporters -- which Klein apparently is. A special shout-out to Danette Clark and Brenda J. Elliott, who contributed "additional research" to Klein's article. Apparently, they're just as slovenly about facts as Klein.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:20 AM EST
Updated: Monday, January 28, 2013 1:25 PM EST
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