Topic: WorldNetDaily
WND columnist Jim Fletcher has never read a WND-published book he didn't absolutely love. But he won't tell his readers those books are from the same folks that publish his column. Read more >>
Friday, June 27, 2014
NEW ARTICLE: WorldNetDaily's Literary Hype Man
Topic: WorldNetDaily WND columnist Jim Fletcher has never read a WND-published book he didn't absolutely love. But he won't tell his readers those books are from the same folks that publish his column. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:02 PM EDT
Thursday, June 26, 2014
AIM's Kincaid Just Can't Stop Lying About Panetta
Topic: Accuracy in Media Cliff Kincaid devotes a June 26 Accuracy in Media column to decrying the fact that former secretary of defense Leon Panetta is receiving an award named after Ronald Reagan.
Kincaid's attack is completely false. As we previously noted, Media Matters has documented how the correspondence between Panetta and DeLay occurred when Panetta was a congressman, and the "relationship" was nothing more than that of a congressman and a constituent. That shoots a major hole in Kincaid's attempt to smear Panetta as a secret commie -- but Kincaid doesn't want to admit the truth.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:19 PM EDT
WND Pushes Bogus Bergdahl Ransom Claim
Topic: WorldNetDaily Garth Kant writes in a June 22 WorldNetDaily article:
In fact, the Obama administration has consistently denied that it paid a ransom for Bergdahl, something Kantfails to acknowledge. Of course, Kant is merely carrying water for his BFF Stockman, for whom Kant serves as his de facto communications director despite being a so-called reporter. By contrast, Kant has refused to report on Stockman's latest extralegal antics, in which the Office of Congressional Ethics announced that it had urged the House Ethics Committee to look into the circumstances surrounding Stockman's acceptance of campaign contributions from two of his congressional staffers. PR people don't do news, you see.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:50 AM EDT
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
WND's Farah Admits Gun-At-Airport Mistake, Tries To Blame It On Liberals Anyway
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily rather belatedly notes editor Joseph Farah's getting caught at at an airport with a loaded revolver -- not as a news article, even though it certainly is news, but as a column by Farah himself. While Farah apologizes for his "dumb mistake," he plays the blame game anyway, because it's apparently the fault of liberals that he has to carry a gun in the first place:
No mention, of course, of the unhinged right-wingers who shoot at law enforcement, an attitude Farah's WND encourages by fearmongering about the "militarization of police." Farah also begrudgingly gives a little credit to the TSA agents who stopped him: "The TSA agents were very nice. They expressed concern about my making the flight. They called the Virginia police as is protocol. They took photos of the firearm and me. They gave me a summons. Then they sent me on my way." That's a change from WND's standard hatred of the TSA. In announcing "e-mail hotline address for the reporting of first-hand abuse complaints at the hands of airport security personnel," Farah declared, “I personally canceled family travel plans this week as a result of widespread reports of groping, voyeurism and humiliation techniques. The American people will not be treated like cattle." This being Farah, he can't stop himself from peddling at least one lie:
Actually, as the SPLC itself points out, the Washington Post first reported the airport incident (with a picture of Farah's piece); the SPLC simply connected the dots to confirm Farah's identity as the culprit. And the SPLC does not call WND a "hate group" -- its 2012 profile of WND contains no such description, though it notes that WND promotes hate groups. (UPDATE: WND has also accused the TSA of "gate rape" by using now discontinued "nude-image scanners.") Farah claimed he wrote this column because "I thought you deserved to know the rest of the story, as my inspiration Paul Harvey would say." But Farah identifies no factual error in the reporting of the SPLC or anyone else about the incident (even though the Post did, in fact, get Farah's age wrong). Farah's justification for carrying a gun is irrelevant to the incident, and it's hypocritical given his silence about right-wing extremists who target the police and his own expressed hatred of the TSA.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:07 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 4:44 PM EDT
MRC Upset Anti-Gay Protesters Identified As Anti-Gay
Topic: Media Research Center The headline on Katie Yoder's June 20 NewsBusters post reads "Surprise! Liberal Media Bash ‘March for Marriage’." Apparently, Yoder considers accurately identifying the marchers as opposing gay marriage to be "bashing":
But Yoder doesn't explain why supporting "traditional marriage" does not equal opposing gay marriage. The MRC has a bit of a complex about the media accurately labeling things.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:18 PM EDT
WND's Farah Caught With Loaded Gun At Airport
Topic: WorldNetDaily As if running a "news" website that has forfeited all credibility wasn't enough, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah is in legal trouble. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that Farah was caught by TSA agents with a loaded .38-caliber revolver in his carry-on bag as he passed through security at Dulles International Airport. Farah faces a class 1 misdemeanor charge for carrying a gun in an airport terminal. The SPLC confirmed reporting by the Washington Post, which has a picture of Farah's revolver. As of this writing, WND is silent about Farah's arrest, but it has published video of Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett being arrested. Will WND grace us with the video of Farah's arrest?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:03 AM EDT
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
WND Thinks Homosexuality Is Just A 'Trendy Notion'
Topic: WorldNetDaily Bob Unruh writes in a June 21 WorldNetDaily article:
That's right -- Unruh and WND think homosexuality is nothing but a "trendy notion."
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:24 PM EDT
WND's Klayman Lies About Obama and the Redskins
Topic: WorldNetDaily Larry Klayman rants in his June 20 WorldNetDaily column:
But Obama -- whom Klayman libels yet again with the "Mullah in Chief" smear -- did not say those words "last Saturday," which would have been June 14. There was no compelling reason to, since the decision on the Redskins trademark wasn't issued until June 18. Obama actually said those words last October, when he was asked about it in an interview and Iraq had not yet returned to the headlines. We'd express amazement that Klayman could have botched such a simple fact, but we know what a crappy lawyer he is. (P.S. We made a screenshot of Klayman's error, and we will post it if Klayman and WND alter the column without acknowledging the error.)
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:06 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:11 AM EDT
Monday, June 23, 2014
Bozell & Graham: Redskins Losing Trademark Is Obama's Fault, Somehow
Topic: Media Research Center Brent Bozell and Tim Graham use their June 20 column to rant about the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office withdrawing trademark protection for the Washington Redskins, naturally blaming "the left, which has removed every moral objection to traditional understandings of profanity, continues its own crusade to ban words that violate their sensitivities on race, gender and sexual preference." Yet it's President Obama's fault somehow, too. Bozell andGraham write that "A quick review of the PTO's record shows this was an overtly political decision — surely aimed at or requested by the White House." But they offer no evidence that the Obama White House was ever involved in the process. Still they conclude:
By reflexively blaming Obama, Bozell and Graham ignore the fact that the dispute over the Redskins trademark has been going on for years. As Sports Illustrated points out, the PTO first cancelled the trademark in 1999, but the decision was overturned by a federal court on appeal in 2003. Both of these events occurred before Obama was elected U.S. senator, let alone president. Perhaps if Bozell and Graham didn't engage in such absurdly reflexive Obama-bashing, the Media Research Center might be taken more seriously.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:15 PM EDT
WND's Corsi Is Still Keeing the Birther Faith
Topic: WorldNetDaily Birther dead-ender Jerome Corsi writes in a June 21 WorldNetDaily article:
We look forward to Arpaio's indictment of a Xerox WorkCenter 7655 office machine. Funny that Corsi doesn't mention that. You also won't hear from Corsi how the whole right-wing birther conspiracy he helped foment has been utterly discredited in many other ways, or that Arpaio's cold case posse may be dissolved because it has been operating without valid state corporate filings, or that a man who shot a California Highway Patrol officer and a Bureau of Land Management ranger is a birther.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:40 PM EDT
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Conservative Media Criticism, Tim Graham Edition
Topic: NewsBusters Tim Graham huffs in a June 19 NewsBusters post:
Gotta love all the unsupported assertions in that paragraph. How does Graham know the Post-Dispatch is liberal? Does the fact that it published Will and will publish Gerson suggest otherwise? Graham's assertion that Will's column targeted "liberal universities" (how does Graham know those universities are liberal?) over "an alleged tide of campus sexual assault" glosses over the offending claim Will made: that being a sexual assault victim is somehow a "coveted status." Finally, Graham whines that Gerson is a "big-government conservative" with, yes, no supporting evidence nor an explanation of how Gerson's purported view is any different from Will's. Conservative media criticism, ladies and gentlemen.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:09 PM EDT
WND's Chastain Gets Global Warming Wrong
Topic: WorldNetDaily Jane Chastain writes in her June 18 WorldNetDaily column:
Obama does have his facts straight, and Chastain does not. The World Meterological Organzation points out that 13 of the 14 warmest years occurred in the 21st century, and as far back as 2010, 18 of the warmest years on record occurred since 1992, when the college graduates Obama addressed were likely born. Chastain is even more wrong to claim that "a brief 16-year warming period ended in 1997." In fact, the overall trend of warmer temperatures has been going on since the 1950s, and the fact that 13 of the 14 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century seems to contradict her claim that global warming "ended in 1997."
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:45 PM EDT
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Supersize WorldNetDaily Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- David Limbaugh, June 12 WorldNetDaily column
-- Jeff Knox, June 12 WND column
-- Bradlee Dean, June 12 WND column
-- Joseph Farah, June 13 WND column
-- Jesse Lee Peterson, June 15 WND column
-- Burt Prelutsky, June 17 WND column
-- Jane Chastain, June 18 WND column
-- Erik Rush, June 18 WND column
-- Alan Keyes, June 19 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:07 PM EDT
Friday, June 20, 2014
MRC Writer Defends Bashing Film She Didn't Watch
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center's Katie Yoder wrote two articles bashing the film "Obvious Child" for its abortion-related subject matter despite, as we noted, never having seen the film. Yoder defends her deliberate ignorance in a June 18 MRC article and attacks the critics who called her out for bashing a film she hadn't seen as raising a "bogus" argument:
Yoder's defensiveness is itself bogus. Simple journalistic honesty dictates that you first fully encounter something before you attack it. Apparently, the MRC doesn't teach its writers to do that. Yoder's column is actually her account of finally bothering to go see the film -- not to behave responsibly, mind you, but to "play along" with her critics. But since Yoder has an agenda, she made sure to keep her mind closed, determined to find nothing whatsoever rewarding about the film:
Of course, anything that doesn't slavishly follow the pro-life agenda is "pro-abortion agitprop" to Yoder, who appears to be mostly upset that the film won't demonize a character who has an abortion, as Yoder and her MRC colleagues strive to do in real life. Since Yoder treated viewing the film as a chore to mollify critics instead of the open-minded fact-finding mission a real writer would have done, it's no surprise that she wasn't moved by it. She never had any intention of allowing that to happen.
Posted by Terry K.
at 5:18 PM EDT
Aaron Klein Anonymous Source Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily Aaron Klein writes in a June 17 WorldNetDaily article:
This being Aaron Klein, no actual evidence is offered to back up this claim, only the word of mysterious, anonymous "informed Jordanian officials" in whom Klein has provided no reason whatsoever for readers to place their trust. Klein continues:
But those articles do not back up Klein's claim -- they disprove it. The Der Spiegel article claims that Americans were training the Free Syrian Army, the secular opposition group mainly comprised of defected Syrian Armed Forces personnel. It is not a terrorist group and is definitely not affiliated with ISIS. Similarly, the Guardian article states that the training is being done "in an effort to strengthen secular elements in the opposition as a bulwark against Islamic extremism." In other words, they were doing the exact opposite of what Klein claims. Klein himself turns contradictory, writing that "The Jordanian officials said all ISIS members who received U.S. training to fight in Syria were first vetted for any links to extremist groups like al-Qaida." But a link to ISIS presumably would have disqualified them as well. It seems that Klein's "informed Jordanian officials" aren't really terribly informed at all -- which tells us that there's no reason to believe Klein's article. But that doesn't keep WND's Erik Rush from doing just that in his June 18 column, linking to Klein's article:
Of course, Rush is such a rabid Obama-hater that Klein's highly dubious article is catnip for him. (h/t Right Wing Watch)
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:55 AM EDT
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