Topic: CNSNews.com
CNSNews.com makes its pro-Catholic bias so blatant, the word might as well be part of the name. Read more >>
Thursday, February 6, 2014
NEW ARTICLE: The Catholic -- Er, Cybercast News Service
Topic: CNSNews.com CNSNews.com makes its pro-Catholic bias so blatant, the word might as well be part of the name. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:22 AM EST
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
WND's Rush: "Somebody Please Drag Harry Reid Behind A Truck'
Topic: WorldNetDaily The last time we caught WorldNetDaily columnist Erik Rush tweeting hate, he was saying of Muslims, "Yes, they're evil. Let's kill them all." In a Feb. 4 tweet, Rush requests: "Somebody please drag Harry Reid behind a truck." Rush retroactively declared his kill-Muslims tweet to be "sarcasm." Will he do the same for his death threat to Reid? More importantly, how will WND take this? How far is too for for a WND columnist to threaten someone?
Posted by Terry K.
at 5:10 PM EST
CNS Columnist Misleads on CBO Obamacare Report
Topic: CNSNews.com The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Hans Bader writes in a Feb. 4 CNSNews.com column:
That's a misleading, if not outright false, description of that the CBO report says. In fact, the CBO stated that the decrease comes on the supply side, not the demand side, because Obamacare subsidies mean that some workers will choose not to work a job they normally would have just to keep health insurance:
Further, while the CBO did increase projected deficits by $1 trillion over the next decade, it did not specifically single out Obamacare as a reason. To the contrary: the CBO is still projecting the Affordable Care Act will reduce the deficit.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:47 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:48 AM EST
WND's Massie Rails Against Black History Month
Topic: WorldNetDaily One again invoking his privilege as a black conservative to say things that would get him branded as a racist otherwise, Mychal Massie devotes his Feb. 3 WorldNetDaily column to attacking black History Month:
You also won't hear Massie bragging about how he can get away with saying certain things because he is a black conservative -- i.e., denouncing Black History Month. He continues:
And Massie won't be talking about the fact that non-blacks take part (and if you ask Colin Flaherty, dogs and Australian aborigines can be part of "black mobs" too). And no Massie rant would be complete without a fit of Obama derangement:
Massie goes on to rant, "I’m tired of the lies" -- but somehow he never tires of telling them.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:02 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:03 AM EST
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
We Write Letters
Topic: Media Research Center We sent the following to the Media Research Center earlier today:
We'll let you know if the MRC responds.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:23 PM EST
WND Is Happy Iran Agrees With Them On Something
Topic: WorldNetDaily We've detailed how WorldNetDaily cares only about Miriam Carey, the woman who was shot and killed outside the Capitol after fleeing from police last October, because it's one more thing an increasingly desperate Joseph Farah can try to use as a cudgel against President Obama. WND is taking this skirmish to a bizarre extent by touting how an enemy of the United States agrees with them on the alleged violation of Carey's rights. Garth Kant writes in a Feb. 2 WND article:
This is followed by an absurdly long rehashing of events and citing of fringe figures that agree with WND that Carey's rights were violated. But WND -- and by extension, those that agree with them, like John Whitehead and Nat Hentoff -- have discredited themselves by touting how Iran agrees with this latest attempt to create a new Vince Foster. Logic dictates that we should oppose whatever an enemy of the United States says, but it seems WND hates Obama more than it loves America.
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:31 PM EST
MRC's Philbin Hurls Sleaze And Misogyny At Sandra Fluke Again
Topic: Media Research Center Back in 2012, Media Research Center managing editor Matt Philbin endorsed Rush Limbaugh's tirade of misogyny against Sandra Fluke by joining in the insults, calling her a "'horizontal laborer," a "'Lincoln Tunnel Hitcher" and a "of dubious reputation" who wants to " sleep around w/impunity." Now that Fluke has announced a run for Congress, it's time for Philbin's misogyny to resurface. Philbin has used his Twitter account to create and repeat sleazy insults of Fluke under the hashtag #FlukeCampaignSlogan, including "A Diaphram [sic] in every ...," "When that call comes at 3:am, She really will be awake," "Pillow Talk Express!" and "It's Moaning in America." Another Philbin tweet adds: "You should see her on the stump! And on the chair, and in the hay loft, and back behind the dumpsters and ..."The MRC demands that MSNBC apologize for offending the sensibilities of conservatives, yet it employs as a high-level employee someone like Philbin with such open hatred of women? Talk about a double standard.Until the MRC deals with Philbin's misogyny, it has no moral standing to criticize anyone else's offensive remarks.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:55 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 12:29 PM EST
WND Columnist Perpetuates Homeschooling Myths
Topic: WorldNetDaily Jerry Newcombe writes in his Jan. 28 WorldNetDaily column:
In fact, as we've pointed out, the Romeikes also rejected private and religious schools in Germany, claming that they were "just as bad or even worse" than public schools. The Romeikes could have also chosen to work toward creating a school in Germany that more closely aligns with their claimed "Christian faith," but they apparently chose not to. Newcombe adds:
In fact, compulory schooling has been a tradition in Germany for a good 200 years. Newcombe then tries a laughable CYA addendum:
Newcombe is being disingenuous. If he wasn't trying to at least implicitly liken any critic of homeschooling to Nazis, there would be no need to bring up that erroneous claim. Why else would he and his WND colleagues do it so much?
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:08 AM EST
Monday, February 3, 2014
MRC, Home Of Man Who Called Obama A 'Skinny Ghetto Crackhead,' Thinks MSNBC Should Apologize For Offending Conservatives
Topic: Media Research Center So the Media Research Center's Rich Noyes devoted an entire "Media Reality Check" to things MSNBC should be apologizing for, in addition to last week's tweet about a Super Bowl ad. Noyes declared that "The Media Research Center has compiled a long list of instances in which the network’s anchors have committed character assassination disguised as journalism, unjustly smearing conservatives, Republicans and the Tea Party as racists." Meanwhile, no apologies have been forthcoming from the MRC regarding:
Noyes should take his employer's own never-apologized-for offenses into consideration before attacking others.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:07 PM EST
Meanwhile ...
Topic: WorldNetDaily Richard Bartholomew details how WorldNetDaily is putting a bargain-basement price of Carl Gallups' WND-published book promoting the dubious idea that a rabbi once predicted that the death of Ariel Sharon would be somehow mystically linked to the return of Jesus.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:15 PM EST
CNS Repeats Global Warming Denier's Distortions
Topic: CNSNews.com Barbara Hollingsworth proclaims in a Jan. 28 CNSNews.com article:
There's lots that Hollingsworth has gotten wrong here, starting with her declaration that Easterbrook is right about global cooling. Skeptical Science serves up this chart showing Easterbrook's predictions of cooling (the green and blue lines) vs. actual temperatures (the jagged black line): The red line is an IPCC prediction, which brings us to another thing Hollingsworth got wrong: uncritically repeating Easterbrook's claim that the IPCC predicted "one-degree warming." As Skeptical Science points out, the IPCC served up numerous analyses of temperature predictions, and Easterbrook cherry-picked one:
As per usual, Hollingsworth couldn't be bothered to seek out any alternative views. Indeed, Hollingsworth even shared one fawning question she asked Easterbrook: “How does it feel to have been right?” It's not a feeling Hollingsworth is apparently familiar with. But fortunately for her, her higher-ups at CNS don't appear to be judging her journalism on its accuracy, only on how faithfully she advances her employer's right-wing agenda.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:46 PM EST
WND Ignores Evidence That Stockman Is Lying About Being Libeled
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily's Garth Kant is clearly Steve Stockman's favorite reporter. He knows Kant won't write anything negative about him, so he plies Kant with scoops, like his run for Senate. So, Kant uses a Jan. 31 WND article to promote Stockman's filing of a libel lawsuit against a PAC supporting his Republican opponent, incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, that was "provided exclusively to WND." It reads like a Stockman press release, and Kant doesn't bother to obtain any response from the Cornyn camp. He writes:
Since Kant is in stenographer mode, he won't tell you that the basic facts of those allegations are actually true. A 1996 Texas Monthly profile of Stockman points out that "Stockman spent more than one weekend in jail for traffic violations, and once, after a girlfriend hid Valium in his underwear before he was incarcerated, he was charged with possession of a controlled substance, a felony that was later dropped." The Cornyn PAC's depiction may be devoid of context, but Stockman did, in fact, spend time in jail and was charged with a felony. The claim that Stockman "violated federal ethics laws" is a logical conclusion, but it's not inaccurate. The Houston Chronicle reported that Stockman "has failed repeatedly to disclose business affiliations that stretch from Texas to the British Virgin Islands on his Congressional financial disclosure forms" and "Stockman, since his bankruptcy in 2002, created a number of businesses, some of which remain active but were not reported on Stockman’s financial disclosure form as required by federal law." Kant doesn't supply a copy of Stockman's libel suit, nor does he detail Stockman's evidence that the claims are false -- he merely regurgitates Stockman's assertions that they are. But that's the kind of thing that happens when you're the PR flack for a politician: He won't tell you that the politician is lying.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:05 AM EST
Sunday, February 2, 2014
D'Souza's Crime Not A 'Big Deal' To MRC's Bozell
Topic: Media Research Center Brent Bozell used to care about the rule of law. For instance, in 1999 he praised "the House managers' principled advocacy of the rule of law" in the impeachment vote on President Clinton. In 2009, he asserted that "The Obama Administration acted in complete disregard of the rule of law" in the auto bailout. But when it comes to crimes committed by conservatives, well, the rule of law doesn't matter so much. He is quoted opining on the arrest of Dinesh D'Souza for campaign finance violations in a Jan. 31 WorldNetDaily article:
That's right -- because a conservative broke the law, it's no big deal to Bozell. Bozell goes on to equivocate D'Souza's offense with much worse ones allegedly committed by Presidents Clinton and Obama:
The fact that Bozell must equivocate away D'Souza's crime is a sign that he will not criticize another conservative for committing offense. Rush Limbaugh already knows about that right-wing benefit.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:20 PM EST
WND Tries to Frame Police Shooting As 'The Next Trayvon'
Topic: WorldNetDaily An unbylined Jan. 25 WorldNetDaily article does its best to portray the shooting death of a black man by a white policeman in North Carolina as "the next Trayvon." But that would be the WND-Jack Cashill version of the Trayvon Martin case, in which the black male was a total thug and deserved to be shot. The article cheers that a grand jury did not indict the officer, Randall Kerrick, on a charge of voluntary manslaughter, calling the case "politically pressured" and the manslaughter charge "overcharged." But a few days later, Kerrick was charged, prompting WND to sneerin a Jan. 27 article "If at first you fail to indict, try, try again,' claiming the indictment came after "civil-rights activists loudly marched outside the Charlotte courthouse." In both articles, WND frames the incident to make the victim, Jonathan Ferrell, as deserving to be shot because he "refused to obey orders to stop and show his hands after police responded to a robbery call." WND also asserts that "witnesses" claimed that Ferrell was "drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana in the hours before he crashed his car" in the incident that led to his shooting. WND offers no source for the information, but it's Undermined -- and simultaneously gets a warrantless racial spin -- when WND adds that "The police chief, who is African-American, still has not released the results of the toxicology report." WND also quotes "black radio" -- again, no source is provided for this information, or what exactly "black radio" means -- calling a woman who called police on Ferrell after she allegedly though he was trying to break into her house, a "racist b—-" guilty of a "hate crime." But WND curiously ignores the fact that an investigation of the shooting by the police department Kerrick works for found the shooting to be "excessive":
That would seem to be an important finding of fact that WND somehow found not to be newsworthy. But that's just another reason nobody believes WND.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:19 PM EST
Saturday, February 1, 2014
CNS' Jeffrey Blames John Holdren For Decline In Electricity Use
Topic: CNSNews.com CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey spends his Jan. 29 column having a sad that electricity consumption in America is declining:
Strangely, Jeffrey doesn't mention the main reason for the decline: increased efficiency. The Associated Press reports:
Instead of telling his readers the facts, Jeffrey indulges in a favorite CNS obsession: John Holdren. Somehow this is all his fault:
Yeah, efficient use of electricity has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:16 PM EST
|
Find more neat stuff at the ConWebWatch store! Buy through this Amazon link and support ConWebWatch!
Entries by Topic
All topics « Accuracy in Media Capital Research Center CNSNews.com Free Congress Foundation Free Republic Horowitz Media Research Center NewsBusters Newsmax The ConWeb The Daily Les Washington Examiner Western Journalism Center WorldNetDaily
Watchers
Media Matters for America County Fair The Daily Howler LGF Watch SullyWatch Fact-esque Malkin(s)Watch Reading A1 (NYT) John Gorenfeld (Moonies) NewsHounds (Fox News) Media Watch CJR Daily The Counterpoint (Sinclair) BlatherWatch (Seattle Radio) Watching OlbermannWatch
Blogs
Talking Points Memo Eschaton Suburban Guerrilla World O'Crap Sadly, No! Oliver Willis Angry Single Mom Orcinus Bartholomew's Notes on Religion PFAW's Right Wing Watch Altercation Max Blumenthal
Support Bloggers' Rights! |