Topic: WorldNetDaily
Christopher Monckton is a birther and a climate change denier, two things that seem to explain how he became a WorldNetDaily columnist. Read more >>
Thursday, June 5, 2014
NEW ARTICLE: Monckton's Mendacious Musings
Topic: WorldNetDaily Christopher Monckton is a birther and a climate change denier, two things that seem to explain how he became a WorldNetDaily columnist. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
CNS Afghanistan Body Count Obsession Watch
Topic: CNSNews.com cns'CNSNews.com's Afghanistan body-count obsession resurfaced last month, and now Ali Meyer keeps feeding the body-count beast with a June 2 article:
Unusual for CNS, Meyer does acknowledge the existence of war casualties before Obama became president, noting that 'From 2003 until the first quarter of 2009, the majority of the major limb amputations due to battle injuries occurred in [Operation Iraqi Freedom]." But she doesn't mention who was president from 2003 to early 2009 (hint: it wasn't Obama).
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:28 PM EDT
Gay Derangement Syndrome, WorldNetDaily Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Alan Keyes, May 30 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:04 AM EDT
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
There's A Reason Live Action Is Ignored By Non-Right-Wing Media
Topic: Media Research Center Katie Yoder writes in a May 28 Media Research Center Culture & Media Institute item:
The fact that Yoder is uncritically copying from a Live Action press release shows us the low level of scrutiny she is providing the group. And why should she question anything Lila Rose's group does? They adhere to Yoder's anti-abortion agenda, and that's all she needs to know. Yoder laments that Live Action "most likely can’t rely on the media to spread its message" -- but she can certainly count on the MRC to do so, which presumably is why Yoder is so willing to be the group's hype woman. But she ignores a key reason what that is: Lila Rose is as dishonest as the activist who trained her, James O'Keefe. Media Matters has documented how Rose's group has released numerous false attacks on and dishonest smears of Planned Parenthood, which Rose has apparently declared her mortal enemy. Yoder will never tell you about any of that, of course -- that runs counter to her little PR operation. Neither will the MRC's "news" division CNSNews.com, which published a May 30 article by Zoey DiMauro that promotes Rose's campaign of dishonesty and made no apparent effort to let any of her critics respond.
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:53 PM EDT
WND's 'Shack' Attack Returns
Topic: WorldNetDaily Over the past few years, WorldNetDaily has steadily attacked a Christian book called "The Shack" for deviating too far from WND's preferred right-wing fundamentalism. Now that "The Shack" is being made into a film, WND's long knives are coming out again. Bob Unruh does the duty this time in a June 1 WND article:
Unmentioned by Unruh: DeYoung's attack book was published by WND. And being an Unruh article, the original author of "The Shack" is not given an opportunity to respond to his critics. Which makes Unruh's article less of an attack piece and more of an undisclosed in-house ad.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:02 AM EDT
Monday, June 2, 2014
MRC Still Peddling Lies About Rachel Carson
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center's Brent Bozell and Tim Graham devoted their May 30 column to lamenting the existence of a "horrible myth" that Ronald Reagan's silence on the growing AIDS epidemic caused people to die, citing a rant by gay activist Larry Kramer: "Our murderer is dead. The man who murdered more gay people than anyone in the entire history of the world, is dead. More people than Hitler even." Meanwhile, those who work for Bozell and Graham are busy pushing their own horrible death myths. In a May 27 NewsBusters post, Scott Whitlock rants:
Except little of that is actually true. As we pointed out the last time the MRC did this, Carson never advocated for banning DDT, just that they not be overused. And for good reason -- overuse was creating DDT-resistant mosquitoes. Also, the U.S. ban on DDT didn't apply to the rest of the world and, thus, could not possibly have caused "millions of lives." Further, DDT is undenably destructive to the environment. We will see Google do "a tribute to the millions who died because of DDT bans" before conservatives like Whitlock acknowledges the millions of deaths caused DDT-resistant mosquitoes.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:57 PM EDT
WND Freaks Out Over Preserving Gay Landmarks
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily, as befits a website with an anti-gay agenda, is not taking well the news that the federal government wants to preserve gay-related landmarks. WND promoted a May 29 article on the subject on the front page with the headline "Obama's feds to honor America's moral decline": The headline of the actual article is only slightly less awful: "'Gay' national monuments to rewrite America's history." The article itself, by Bob Unruh (which, despite WND's promotion, does not mention Obama), makes no mention of any purported "rewriting" of American history; rather, Unruh spends much of it seizing on the idea that Harvey Milk’s former camera shop in San Francisco might be considered a landmark to rehash right-wing attacks on Milk and to quote a right-wing activist ludicrously complaining that popularity should determine what history gets preserved.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:26 AM EDT
Sunday, June 1, 2014
NewsBusters Fooled By Fake Seth Rogen Twitter Account
Topic: NewsBusters Jeffrey Lord dedicated a May 31 NewsBusters post to attacking actor Seth Rogen for allegedly issuing a tweet in 2012 bashing Mitt Romney. Why do that? To claim hypocrisy over Rogen's outrage over Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday for suggesting Rogen's films may have inspired mass killer Elliot Rodger: "So in other words, Rogen, who now finds Hornaday’s article 'horribly insulting and misinformed' was himself out there in 2012 making a 'horribly insulting and misinformed' charge against Mitt Romney." Just one problem: Rogen didn't actually make the Twitter post Lord criticized. As Mediaite details, it came from a Rogen parody Twitter account. The real Rogen, meanwhile, is mocking NewsBusters for the stupid mistake. Lord has now appended a correction to his post, which is still alive even though the entire premise wasfraudulent:
Lord, normally a writer for the right-wing American Spectator, is best known for insisting that a black man beaten to death in segregation-era Georgia wasn't technically "lynched" because his assailants didn't hang him and there weren't enough of them to form a proper mob. Lord stood by his article even as his AmSpec compatriots wouldn't defend him.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:56 PM EDT
Meanwhile ...
Topic: WorldNetDaily The Southern Poverty Law Center details the latest crusade of WorldNetDaily's Jerome Corsi: In league with the racist-tinged group TeaParty.org, he's calling for the impeachment of President Obama over "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, despite the fact that Corsi is misusing the term and the anti-immigration group's report he's relying on is highly flawed.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:43 PM EDT
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Accuracy in Media Edition
Topic: Accuracy in Media
-- Lawrence Sellin, May 29 Accuracy in Media column
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:34 PM EDT
Lying Preacher Bradlee Dean Spews More Obama Derangement
Topic: WorldNetDaily Lying preacher Bradlee Dean is at it again in his May 29 WorldNetDaily column:
Strangely, Dean offered no evidence whatsoever that Obama spent his Memorial Day speech "destroying and desecrating their memories by trampling the Constitution they sacrificed themselves to magnify." In fact, Dean quotes Obama saying things that even Dean could agree with:
Nevertheless, Dean huffs, "Again, Obama is hoping that you will put the crimes he has committed, and is committing against the American people on a daily basis, out of your mind." Just like Dean his hoping you do with his lengthy record of lies.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:48 PM EDT
Friday, May 30, 2014
Newsmax TV Targets 'Disenfranchised Baby Boomers'?
Topic: Newsmax Newsmax made the big announcement in a May 29 article by Robert O'Leary:
Wait -- "disenfranchised baby boomers"? Actually, Newsmax's audience is quite enfranchised -- according to Newsmax itself. Here's how the media kit for Newsmax magazine describes its demographics:
And here's the demographics for Newsmax.com, according to its media kit:
Both media kits tout how "Newsmax Media reaches afflfluent and inflfluential readers," particularly "conservative voters, families with high household incomes, vacation travelers, or car buyers." If that's being "disenfranchised," where can we sign up?
Posted by Terry K.
at 5:14 PM EDT
WND's Unruh Links To, But Does Not Quote From, Court Ruling He Disagrees With
Topic: WorldNetDaily Bob Unruh uses a May 23 WorldNetDaily article to crank out one of his one-sided specials, this time regarding the case of a police captain ordered to attend an "Islamic mosque where Muslims 'discussed Islamic beliefs, Muhammad, Mecca, and why and how Muslims pray' in addition to encouraging officers 'to buy' Islamic books and pamphlets that were for sale." Unruh links to the judge's ruling in the case but, curiously, does not directly quote from it anywhere in his artice. Instead, much of the article is dedicated to bashing the ruling andtelling the case from the side of the plaintiff and his attorneys at the right-wing American Freedom Law Center. As such, Unruh's readers don't get to read the reason that Capt. Paul Fields' lawsuit was dismissed in the full words of the judge who dismissed it:
The judge also shot down AFLC's (and, thus, Unruh's) suggestion that the event was solely about prostelyzation. In fact, the mosque was hosting a law-enforcement appreciation event:
But since Unruh is such a lazy and biased reporter -- and WND is paying him for that laziness and bias -- his readers won't know the full truth about this case.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:47 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:48 AM EDT
Thursday, May 29, 2014
CNS Blogger Cheers Putin's Disrespect of Obama
Topic: CNSNews.com Barbara Boland devotes a May 23 CNSNews.com blog post to expressing her pleasure that Russia's Vladimir Putin dissed President Obama and got cheered for doing so:
Boland certainly does not disapprove of Putin's insult. Perhaps she should move to Russia if she prefers him as a leader.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:07 PM EDT
WND's Farber Finds New Heroes In Fringe Fox Newsers
Topic: WorldNetDaily Barry Farber excitedly writes in his May 27 WorldNetDaily column:
We've previously noted that Pat Caddell hasn't done anything for Democrats for years, if not decades. Similarly, Doug Schoen is a "Fox News Democrat" who has raised funds for Republicans. LeBoutillier, of course, is the former Newsmax columnist who got too ridiculous for them even as they were still a rabidly anti-Clinton operation, refusing to publish a column of his making sleazy allegations about Gary Condit's sex life. LeBoutillier also co-wrote a bizarre novel based on Obama birther conspiracy theories. These are the people Farber considers to be his new heroes.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:10 PM EDT
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