Topic: WorldNetDaily
The WorldNetDaily columnist takes a break from Obama conspiracy-mongering to portray Trayvon Martin as a criminal and George Zimmerman as a civil-rights martyr. Read more >>
Thursday, October 31, 2013
NEW ARTICLE: If Jack Cashill Had A Book To Promote
Topic: WorldNetDaily The WorldNetDaily columnist takes a break from Obama conspiracy-mongering to portray Trayvon Martin as a criminal and George Zimmerman as a civil-rights martyr. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:40 AM EDT
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
TruthRevolt's 'Exclusive' May Not Be So Exclusive
Topic: Horowitz Ben Shapiro declared in an Oct. 28 TruthRevolt item: "Exclusive: PolitiFact Defends 'Half-True' Rating on Obama's Insurance Lie." Shapiro doesn't explain what is so "exclusive" about his post. That would bed important to know, especially since NewsBusters also issued an Oct. 28 post by Matt Hadro with a similar headline: "What?! PolitiFact Says Obama's 'You Will Keep Your Health Insurance' Promise Is Still 'Half True'." Unlike NewsBusters, TruthRevolt does not list the time of day its items are posted, so we don't know which post came first. But if the TruthRevolt post appeared after NewsBuysters, it would be really embarrassing -- not to mention dishonest -- to portray it as an "exclusive," especially since it contains nothing that wasn't in the NewsBusters post. Again, it appears that TruthRevolt is simply aping NewsBusters. So if it's merely duplicating the content of others, what is its purpose, other than to further the David Horowitz cult of personality?
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:58 PM EDT
WND's Maloof Tries to Create Conspiracy Over Dismissed Military Commanders
Topic: WorldNetDaily Michael Maloof writes in an Oct. 28 WorldNetDaily article:
Notice that Maloof cites only one on-the-record source for his speculation, someone who is not only "an outspoken critic of the Obama administration" but a crazy birther as well. His anonymous "duty personnel" are worthless if they can't step forward and back up their allegations. Maloof is simply stringing together unrelated incidents to cobble together an anti-Obama conspiracy -- and he gets some of his facts wrong in the process. He writes:
Again, Maloof quotes no on-the-record sources. Contrary to Maloof's assertions, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has testified that due to a lack of "real-time informaton" about what was on the ground in Benghazi, "the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation." And Gen. Martin Dempsey has said that it is "absolutely false" that Ham was relieved of his command over Benghazi; his departure was "part of routine succession planning." Maloof thinks you should trust his black-box anonymous sources and his crazy ex-generals over people who were actually directly involved in the incidents -- but he won't tell us why. That's a big reason right there not to trust anything Maloof has to say.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:44 PM EDT
Shocker! MRC Finally Discloses Bozell's Link To Catholic Group (One Of Them, Anyway)
Topic: Media Research Center Tim Graham devotes an Oct. 25 NewsBusters post to expressing his unhappiness that, according to something called Catholic Education Daily, a class at Georgetown Law School "will have students working with a pro-abortion rights advocacy organization." (Apparently, Graham believes that some law students should be kept in the dark about certain aspects of the law for ideological reasons.) Graham concludes his post by noting:
As near as we can tell, this is the first time anyone at the MRC has disclosed Bozell's right-wing Catholic activism to its readers. As we documented in 2009, CNSNews.com, the MRC's "news" division, had never disclosed Bozell's link to the Newman Society in four years of stories citing the group and promoting its dogmatic agenda. On the other hand, the MRC has yet to disclose in its items on the Catholic League that Bozell is also on that organization's board of advisers. So, hey, Tim Graham, you've made a good first step in doing the ethically correct thing in disclosing a conflict of interest. Now, try spreading the word to your colleagues so they can behave ethically too.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:24 PM EDT
Colin Flaherty Confuses Race-Baiting With Being A 'Student of Racial Violence'
Topic: WorldNetDaily Colin Flaherty begins his Oct. 27 WorldNetDaily article by calling himself a "student of racial violence." Is that what they're calling race-baiters obsessed with purported "black mob violence" these days? Flaherty makes his race-baiting agenda all too clear in the article by mocking the idea of white people rioting, calling it "the Holy Grail: often talked about, but so rare, some doubt it even exists." He then cites an incident in Delaware that he dismisses as not being up to snuff:
Remember that Flaherty has different standards for white riots and black riots -- white riots come only in crowds of thousands, while Flaherty's "black mobs" include white people, Australian aborigines, and dogs. Pro tip for Flaherty: If you're obsessing over "black mobs" and inflating their numbers to push a racial agenda, you're not a "student of racial violence" -- you're just a race-baiter.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:37 AM EDT
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
MRC's Bozell Is Still Offended That There Are Gays On His TV
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center has always had issues with gays on TV -- i.e., its complaint that "Modern Family" commits the atrocity of letting you sympathize with gay characters. (The horror!) MRC chief Brent Bozell, who we last saw in this particular arena dancing on the grave of "The New Normal," uses his Oct. 25 column to express outrage that gay characters are even allowed to be on TV while gay-bashers aren't:
More ridiculous than Bozell's gay-bashing, however, is the MRC's response to criticism of it. TimGraham writes in an Oct. 27 NewsBusters post:
Given that the MRC wants one-sided anti-gay propaganda of its own, Graham playing the "propaganda" card is hypocritical. And Graham offers no evidence to contradict GLAAD's claim that "the American cultural fabric ... no longer accepts this kind of bigotry." Of course, to do that, he would have to find a polling example outside the MRC offices, where the Bozell-enforced anti-gay agenda reigns supreme.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:46 PM EDT
Too Extreme for WND?
Topic: WorldNetDaily Right Wing Watch catches white nationalist and VDARE proprietor Peter Brimelow claiming that a recent column submission to WorldNetDaily was rejected as "too extreme":
Don't forget Colin Flaherty, who fearmongers about "black mob violence" and pads his numbers with non-blacks and animals. Indeed, Flaherty's book "White Girl Bleed A Lot" has been promoted on VDARE, so it's perplexing that WND would reject Brimelow. Perhaps WND simply prefers its racism to be better disguised than Brimelow's offerings.
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:25 PM EDT
Noel Sheppard Wants False Balance on Fact-Checking
Topic: NewsBusters Noel Sheppard whines in an Oct. 27 NewsBusters post:
Yes, Sheppard is complaining that conservatives are found to be wrong more often than liberals, without offering any evidence that this is not the case. But lack of evidence to back up his claims won't stop him from complaining further:
Notice that Sheppard is not complaining that conservatives are falsely accused of making less-than-true statements -- only that they're getting caught doing it. Again, Sheppard offers no evidence that liberals have made as many false statements as conservatives. He's just repeating the right-wing "liberal bias" mantra, demanding a false equivalence whether or not it's justified. Sheppard also comically missed the point about what Avlon's report:
Sheppard missed the part where Avlon was specifically citing examples regarding "the current debate over the seriously screwed up implementation of healthcare.gov." The Palin statement Sheppard cites dates from June 2012; the Gingrich statement is from last month, but it's not about the website which, again, Avlon stated he was focusing on. This is what passes for "media research" at NewsBusters. It's the kind of work that keeps Sheppard employed as a NewsBusters associate editor.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:19 AM EDT
Joseph Farah Lies Again
Topic: WorldNetDaily One statement stood out to us in Joseph Farah's Oct. 27 WorldNetDaily column:
I'll pause for a bit while you laugh hysterically. OK. Farah's statement, of course, is a bald-faced lie. We've compiled a whole column of falsehoods Farah has told that he has yet to admit, much less correct. And even when Farah and WND admit errors, it's usually a protracted battle to get to that admission. The most egregious example of this is WND spending seven years fighting a libel and defamation lawsuit from a Tennessee car dealer whom WND claimed was a "suspected drug dealer," before abruptly settling the lawsuit out of court just before it was to go to trial, admitting that the claim was completely false and reaching a secret settlement that WND has refused to disclose to its readers. Farah and WND admit no wrong until they're forced to, by threat of lawsuit or getting caught in such a massive boner they have no other choice. We'd ask Farah to correct his claim to reflect reality, but we already know his record on such things.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:22 AM EDT
Monday, October 28, 2013
CNS' Jeffrey Botches Welfare-Work Comparison
Topic: CNSNews.com Terry Jeffrey writes in an Oct. 24 CNSNews.com article:
Actually, no, it doesn't. As Media Matters documents, the "means-tested government benefit" number is for "anyone residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits," thus including individuals who did not themselves receive government benefits. The full-time worker number, meanwhile, is a count of individuals. Jeffrey's numbers also fail to account for the fact that some full-time workers also receive means-tested government benefits. In other words, it's an apples-to-oranges comparison with some overlap. It's a very dishonest way for Jeffrey to report.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:53 PM EDT
WND's Gina Loudon Don't Need No Stinkin' Facts to Fearmonger About Obamacare
Topic: WorldNetDaily It's not often that one can pull off the feat of being both dishonest and crazy over the course of two articles, but this is WorldNetDaily we're talking about here, and Gina Loudon is clearly up to the challenge. The dishonest part came in an Oct. 26 article in which Loudon fearmongered about the purported privacy concerns about Obamacare in general and the healthcare.gov site in particular:
Loudon did mention DeGette's response, which appeared in the International Business Times article she cites on the Barton-DeGette exchange: DeGette said that as she understood it, the Obamacare website doesn’t need any medical information from users who enroll other than whether they smoke or not. She said that question would not violate HIPAA. That would seem to be relevant to the issue. Loudon was too busy fearmongering to believe otherwise. The crazy part came in Loudon's Oct. 27 column in which she ratchets up the fearmongering to ridiculous levels, claiming without evidence that Obamacare has caused people to commit suicide:
Who needs facts when fearmongering works so much better on the typical WND reader?
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:53 PM EDT
NewsBusters' Double Standard on Vomiting Rainbows
Topic: NewsBusters Tim Graham complains in an Oct. 27 NewsBusters post:
If such blatant puffery is so offensive to Graham, where was he when his fellow NewsBuster Noel Sheppard unleashed this bit of vomitous fawning over Ann Coulter?
If Graham and the MRC purport to know so much about Avoiding Puff Pieces, why don't they practice it on their own website?
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:07 PM EDT
WND's Ellis Washington Drops The Pretense About Likening Obama to Nazis
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily's Ellis Washington loves to liken President Obama to Nazis while denying he's doing any such thing. Surprisingly, he didn't even bother with the disclaimer before stone cold going Godwin in his Oct. 25 column:
It seems that Washington has taken our advice about dropping his pretense and not lying about his Godwinism. Now, if we could just do something about his pretending to be Socrates ...
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:08 AM EDT
Sunday, October 27, 2013
AIM's Caruba Pretends Anti-Immigration Group Is 'Non-Partisan'
Topic: Accuracy in Media In an Oct. 24 column for Accuracy in Media bashing immigration reform, Alan Caruba does his best to whitewash the true nature of the Center for Immigration Studies, proclaiming it "an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization." In reality, CIS is an anti-immigration group. As the Southern Poverty Law Center details, CIS was founded by John Tanton, "a man known for his racist statements about Latinos, his decades-long flirtation with white nationalists and Holocaust deniers, and his publication of ugly racist materials." It's also not "independent" -- it was founded as the research arm of the anti-immigration Federation for American Immigration Reform and still has ties with the group. So it appears that Caruba has found yet another subject to bamboozle his readers about.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:39 PM EDT
Corsi's Pope-Bashing Source Isn't A Real Bishop
Topic: WorldNetDaily Pope Francis continues to freak out conservative Catholics -- one of whom, apparently, is WorldNetDaily's Jerome Corsi. He writes in an Oct. 19 article:
Corsi downplays the fact that Fellay isn't a real Catholic bishop -- he's an apostate whose ministry is not officially recognized by the Catholic Church due to its extremism. He eventually gets around to the gist of the story:
Corsi, however, doesn't mention a recent controversial statement by Fellay, in which he listed Jews among "enemies of the Church." SSPX released a statement claiming that Fellay was referring to leaders of Jewish organizations, not the Jewish people, though such a statement seems to have the same ring of truth as Larry Klayman insisting his repeated smears of President Obama are metaphorical.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:15 PM EDT
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