WND's Molotov Mitchell Puts On A Suit, Runs For State Senate In NC
Topic: WorldNetDaily

PoliticsNC reports that WorldNetDaily's very own Molotov Mitchell is running for a state senate seat in North Carolina. He's got an uphill climb toward victory; PoliticsNC states that Mitchell "is running in a strongly Democratic district, and his opponent is none other than Josh Stein, the Democratic Senate Minority Whip. Stein has been in office for almost six years now and appears to have a secure hold on this seat."

Needless to say, ol' Molotov has to do a lot of whitewashing to make himself palatable. He's covered up his "Zealot" tattoos with a suit and tie, and he's endeavoring to cover up the far-right extremism that he could get away with at a fringe website like WND but can't in the real world.

Mitchell's campaign website is already a model of whitewashing. For instance, here's what his "issues" page states about LGBT issues:

As a Christian, Molotov strongly supports the concept of “free will”.

People must be free to live however they see fit, and they have a constitutional right to do so. At the same time, people also have the freedoms of speech and religion, which can create conflict over issues like gay marriage. Censorship and bullying (from either side) will only exacerbate the problem. Molotov firmly believes in a democratic solution. While Washington often weighs in on these sensitive matters, it is ultimately the job of North Carolinians to vote and settle them at the state level.

This ignores the fact that Mitchell advocates "the abolition of homosexuality" to the point that he effectively endorsed a proposed law in Uganda that would execute homosexuals.

Mitchell's website is also silent on the fact that he's a birther.

The website includes pictures of Mitchell's wife, but doesn't mention that she posts videos at WND under the name D.J. Dolce, where she has proven herself to be at least as homophobic and birther-obsessed as her husband.

Mitchell's website also whitewashes the nature of WND, described only has having "been ranked the 2nd most trustworthy news websites by Discerning Times. As we've documented, Discerning Times is part of a so-called news operation run by a cult-like church in a small town in Oregon, and it exists mainly to proclaim the innocence of a church pastor facing child-sex charges. That's how much this "2nd most trustworthy" designation is worth.

While we know all about the Mitchell family's extremism, the big question is whether North Carolina media will point it out to voters, or if they will accept Molotov's whitewashing and make no attempt to investigate his record.

MRC's Graham Ignores Maureen Dowd's Professional Jealousy
Topic: Media Research Center

The Media Research Center loved New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd when she bashed the Clintons during the 1990s, but when she followed that by going after the Bush administration, they dismissed her as just another East Coast liberal -- Brent Bozell dismissed her as a "liberal windbag."

But now that Dowd has returned to Clinton-bashing, she's back in the MRC's good graces.

MRC director of media analysis Tim Graham devotes a July 14 NewsBusters post to praising Dowd for having "the audacity to knock Chelsea Clinton for giving speeches for $75,000 a pop, even if it went to the Clinton Foundation, which is designed for the further aggrandizement of the Clinton reputation."

But Graham ignores the idea that there may be a little professional jealousy behind Dowd's sniping. Media Matters notes that Dowd makes less than half of what Chelsea Clinton makes for her speeches, adding that "Dowd did not respond to a request for comment seeking to determine whether she donates her speaking fees to charity."

But then, Dowd was spouting the MRC party line, which earns her temporary immunity from having her motives questioned.

NEW ARTICLE: Jack Cashill's New Favorite Killer
Topic: WorldNetDaily
The WorldNetDaily columnist's soft spot for murderers continues with his insistence that anybody but George Zimmerman is to responsible for Zimmerman's alleged criminal behavior, as well as his race-baiting of the black teen Zimmerman killed. Read more >>

CNS' Jeffrey Is Obsessively Counting Obama's Words Again
Topic: CNSNews.com

CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey really did devote an entire July 11 article to this piece of worthless trivia:

Not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular--including the pronouns "I" and "me" and the adjective "my"--199 times in a speech he delivered Thursday vowing to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.

Jeffrey is bizarrely upset that Obama's speech does not favorably compare to the Gettysburg address:

The White House presented Obama’s speech, which the president delivered at Austin’s Paramount Theatre, as “Remarks by the President on the Economy.” The remarks, the White House reports, ran 40 minutes, and the full transcript (including annotations for “laughter” and “applause”) is more than 5,500 words.

By contrast, President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettyburg Address was only 272 words--and did not include any form of the first person singular.

In President Obama’s speech, he used a first person singular, on average, every 12 seconds. At that rate, had Obama spoken for just 15 more minutes, he would have used the first person singular more than 272 times in one speech—exceeding all the words in the Gettysburg Address.

In one 68-word passage--in which he vowed to act unilaterally if Congress did not enact legislation he liked--Obama used the first person singular five more times than the zero times Lincoln used it in his 272 words at Gettysburg.

Jeffrey and CNS have a weird fixation on the words Obama uses --  Jeffrey even devoted a column to Obama's supposedly excessive use of the first person back in 2009. This ignores the fact that one analysis found “Obama has distinguished himself as the lowest I-word user of any of the modern presidents.”

Larry Klayman's Cleveland Derangement Syndrome
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Larry Klayman takes a break from libeling President Obama to devote his entire July 11 WorldNetDaily column to hating on Cleveland:

This week it was announced that not only did the Republican Party incredibly choose the city of Cleveland, Ohio, for its 2016 National Convention, but that LeBron James, the basketball star who had wisely decided to abandon the “mistake on the lake” years earlier for the Miami Heat, had decided to return to the Cavaliers basketball team. As someone who had the displeasure to live in Cleveland for some time after my 2004 candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Florida, I was shocked by both events, as this “fair city” has for decades represented the epitome of a loser image – it’s not suitable for the hopes of either Republicans or LeBron.

First, why the Republicans would choose a city whose precincts voted well over 90 percent for Barack Hussein Obama in the last two presidential elections, and which is perhaps the most leftist major city in the United States, is absurd. The chance of Republicans picking up votes in Cleveland is null and void. If indeed winning the key electoral state of Ohio was the objective, then the cities of Cincinnati or Columbus would have been a better alternative.

Second, Cleveland is woefully short of top-notch hotels and restaurants and is dangerous. In this regard, downtown Cleveland, where the convention will be held, has at most three decent eateries and no first-rate hotels in safe areas to speak of. Having lived in the Warehouse District, which is the most “fashionable area” of downtown, the number of street people and beggars approximates the number of white or blue collar workers who frequent and live in the area. The district is not only dangerous, it is depressed beyond imagination, so much so that when I considered buying a condominium there, since it was close to the law firm where I had become a partner, the advantage was only that real estate taxes would be abated for 10 years as an incentive. Accordingly, the facilities and venue of Cleveland are not suitable for a national political convention and portray a poor image for a party already in difficulty if not permanent decline.

[...]

Yes, I do have one good friend in Cleveland and thus not all is bad or pathetic. But in all honesty, the city is the poster boy for losers.

Klayman hints at his real reason for his Cleveland derangement in this rant:

Fifth, as a lawyer, I have to also attest to the now proven fact that Cleveland has one of the most corrupt legal systems in the country, stocked with incestuously compromised lawyers and judges who scratch each other’s backs. For a political party that is attacking Obama and his comrades over so-called phony scandals, this is not the right image. The family law courts, for instance, are routinely trashed by the local newspaper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, for their sleaze.

What Klayman doesn't admit: The Ohio court system he's bashing is also where a magistrate found, and an appeals court upheld, that he engaged in "inappropriate behavior" with his children:

The magistrate further found it notable that Klayman, “for all his breast beating about his innocence * * * [he] scrupulously avoided being questioned by anyone from [children services] or from the Sheriff’s Department about the allegations,” and that he refused to answer any questions, repeatedly invoking his Fifth Amendment rights, about whether he inappropriately touched the children. “Even more disturbing” to the magistrate was the fact that Klayman would not even answer the simple question regarding what he thought inappropriate touching was.

The Ohio courts also shut down his vindictive legalisms against his ex-wife by letting stand an order that he pay $325,000 in her legal fees. Judicial officials found that "Klayman purposefully prolonged litigation, telling [his ex-wife’s] mother that if she did not settle, he would take the case through years of litigation which would cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.    Klayman did not deny that he made the statement."

Ohio seems to be one of the few states that has demonstrated a very low tolerance for Klayman's incompetent legal shenanigans. No wonder he's mad. 

WND Filthy-Immigrant-Fearmongering Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily

WorldNetDaily AAPS-linked Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet is back to fearmonger about filthy, disease-ridden refugees from Central America. This time, it's all about the TB:

Seventy-five percent of current illegal immigrants are coming from countries in Central America, South America, the Middle East, West Africa, China, India, Pakistan and others far beyond Mexico where multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is common and extremely widespread in children and adults. Extensively Drug Resistant TB (XDR-TB) is an even more serious form of TB, accounting for about 10 percent of cases in these countries, particularly Central/South America and India. Many illegal border crossers now flooding the U.S. southern border are carrying an invisible, disease-causing co-traveler: the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium.

MDR-TB does not respond well to treatment, even with complicated and expensive medications that must be taken over a two-year period and can cause severe adverse drug reactions. XDR-TB doesn’t respond well even to second-line drugs and therefore is more likely to cause death.

Tuberculosis, or “consumption” as it was called in the past, is a highly contagious disease that killed millions before being essentially eradicated in the U.S.

[...]

Border Patrol agents have already tested positive for TB. Breitbart reported July 8 that a previously deported illegal from Guatemala with active TB infection was admitted to UMC El Paso Hospital. Cases of TB have been identified in the illegal immigrant camps in San Antonio, Austin and El Paso, Texas, but we do not have information released on the situation for Arizona with the planeloads of illegal immigrants being shipped to Arizona from Texas.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has downplayed the risks, but anonymous nurses and doctors from Lackland AFB have come forward to say that the government is covering up a serious public health threat. One health-care worker was quoted saying: “The amount of tuberculosis is astonishing. The nurses are telling us the kids are really sick.”

Normally, the CDC would be providing warnings and preventive steps for the public to take. This time, however, the CDC has been strangely silent. In fact, medical staff at detention centers have been threatened with criminal prosecution if they report these cases to the public or press.

Or it could be that, unlike Vliet, the CDC doesn't have an agenda to fearmonger about filthy immigrants and can focus on the actual level of the threat. Indeed, a Fox affiliate reports that there is no threat to the general public:

Dr. Dennis Conrad, professor of pediatrics in the division of Immunology and Infectious Disease at The University of Texas Health Science Center, says TB is generally spread through close, prolonged contact with a patient who is contagious.

However, he says most people infected with TB never have symptoms and are not contagious, especially children 6 years old or younger.

The Associated Press reports Texas sees 1300 cases of TB annually.

Conrad believes reports of infected immigrant children should not raise concerns among the general public.

"It is roughly the same risk that has always existed due to the immigrant population," he said. "What's more important since those children are being housed together in close environments, is that their health care providers who care for them- they need to screen them for infectious diseases."

If only Vliet cared more about reality than she does about fearmongering.

Meanwhile ...
Topic: Media Research Center

The American Conservative has a review of a new book about L. Brent Bozell Jr., an early conservative movement leader and the father of Media Research Center chief Brent Bozell III. In it, we learned some of the some of the father's behaviors that have shaped his son -- his "militant Catholicism" which at one point led him to move his entire family to Spain where he became an even more fervent Catholic; his early obsession with "life issues," and his evangelizing zeal"; and "Bozell’s manic depression, the embarrassing early incidents, the alcoholism, the inevitable personal injuries, and the intervention of police and, in one instance, embassy officials."

It's from this environment that Bozell III spring. Explains a lot, doesn't it?

WND Suddenly Has A Problem With Overthrowing The Government
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Art Moore writes in a July 1 WorldNetDaily article:

In an in-depth interview aired this week by the Fox New Channel, Weather Underground co-founder and Barack Obama colleague Bill Ayers has been put on the defensive by a well-prepared Megyn Kelly, who has peppered him with facts and substantial allegations of his group’s violent attacks on the U.S. government in the 1970s.

Ayers, while refusing to talk about his specific involvement in bombings, typically defends his group by characterizing it as one of many protesting an unpopular war that was taking innocent lives abroad.

But often lost in conversations Ayers has engaged in over the years about his radical past is the indisputable fact that the ultimate aim of the Weather Underground was to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with a communist regime.

[...]

Though the war in Southeast Asia may have sparked Ayers’ movement, the many grievances that arose from the war were merely pretexts to justify a greater cause. Ayers obviously recognizes that while some solidarity can be found, even today, for the use of violent tactics in protest of an unpopular war, very few Americans have sympathy for sedition.

So WND suddenly has a problem with overthrowing the government? It sure didn't earlier this year, when it was advocating a military coup led by retired generals. And it certainly had no problem with the heavily armed militia members who came to the defense of scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy and their threats of violence against the government.

Moore doesn't explain why it was a bad idea for Ayers to plot to overthrow the government but perfectly fine for retired generals and armed militia to do so.

MRC's Double Standard on Disclosure
Topic: Media Research Center

Sean Long rants in a July 9 Media Research Center item:

The liberal media love to hate the Koch Brothers but are far less enthusiastic about connecting George Soros’ billions to liberal policies.

On July 6, Coral Davenport of The New York Times revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new regulations on power plant emissions were largely inspired by the work of environmental activists at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The broadcast networks have not mentioned the NRDC connection to the new regulations, and even the Times ignored that  liberal mega-donor Soros has bankrolled the NRDC.

The Times called the EPA regulations “a remarkable victory for the National Resources Defense Council” for developing the “novel” framework that the EPA would adopt, but they also failed to mention the more than $1.7 million in Soros-funding the group received since 2004 ($1,771,893).

This is from the same MRC that defended Richard Mellon Scaife without disclosing that he donated more than $3 million to the MRC. 

Apparently, the MRC's disclosure requirement applies to everyone else but the MRC.

WND's Farah Ignores What Akin Actually Said To Defend What Akin Said
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Joseph Farah is pretty much obligated to defend Todd Akin -- after all, his WND is publishing Akin's memoir in which he stands by his dumb "legitimate rape" remarks. But Farah has to find new ways to defend the indefensible. He gives it another shot in his July 10 WND column:

I’m not even willing to concede Akin made a gaffe at all in his famous interview in August 2012. Initially I believed so – before I watched it. I was judging Akin on the basis of what others said he said. After watching it over and over again, I’m truly shocked that so much was made of it.

I invite you to watch the relevant part of that interview in context – probably for the first time.

It was clear to any objective, thinking person what he was saying. He was not questioning that “rape is rape,” as Barack Obama said in a hastily called press conference the next day. He never suggested that rape victims don’t ever get pregnant, as some headlines charged.

As you see, Farah has taken the approach of not addressing any of the actual words Akin used. No mention of "legitimate rape" -- which seems to presume that a woman is lying about being raped until proven otherwise -- or of Akin's idea that a woman can "shut that whole thing down," which depends on the fallacy that women can actively control her fertility depending on who is having sex with her.

While Akin "never suggested that rape victims don’t ever get pregnant," as Farah wrote, he did say that pregnancy through rape was "really rare," which, again, falsely suggests that woman can active control her fertility. Farah and WND have pretended that long-term stress that can inhibit fertility is the same thing as the sudden, traumatic stress of being raped.

Funny how Farah can declare "It was clear to any objective, thinking person what he was saying" without citing any of the words Akin was saying.

Farah has made this bed by publishing Akin's book, and he is incredibly determined to lie in it. If it means lying about and distorting what Akin actually said, so be it.

MRC Defends Scaife, Doesn't Disclose He Was An MRC Donor
Topic: Media Research Center

A July 4 NewsBusters post, attributed only to "NB Staff," complains that a New York Times obituary for Richard Mellon Scaife, "a longtime supporter of conservative causes," contains "nasty personal swipes."

Not only does "NB Staff" not dispute the accuracy of the information -- choosing instead to reprint a 1998 column by Brent Bozell defending Scaife -- it also fails to include a very important disclosure: Scaife-controlled foundations were major donors to NewsBusters' parent organization, the Media Research Center.

The Sarah Scaife Foundation has donated more than $3 million to the MRC since 1998, and the Scaife-controlled Carthage Foundation donated $10,000 in 1997.

Interestingly, Bozell's 1998 Scaife-defending column also fails to disclose his Scaife funding, which surely he must have been aware of at the time he wrote it.

Morgan Brittany Becomes WND Columnist, Spews Obama Derangement
Topic: WorldNetDaily

It was only a week ago that fading actress Morgan Brittany joined WorldNetDaily as a columnist -- her only apparent qualifications for doing so are being a friend of WND columnist Gina Loudon and claiming that "her greatest passion is speaking on behalf of the greatness of America" -- and she's already spouting Obama conspiracy theories.

Brittany rants in her July 7 column:

Back on March 16, 2012, Barack Obama signed an executive order that went virtually unnoticed by the mainstream media and a majority of the America public. It was titled the National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order, and it completely erased any judicial oversight or due process for any action by the government deemed in the interest of national security.

Actually, even conservatives have pointed out that this executive order merely updates an executive order first issued in 1994 and amended several times since, and it adds no new powers to the executive branch.

But as with many of her fellow WND writers, the facts simply don't matter to Brittany, and she launches into a major fit of Obama derangement: 

Ever since the executive order of March 2012 took effect there have been massive changes in many government departments. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition, 7,000 fully automatic 5.56×45 mm NATO personal defense weapons, plus a huge amount of 30-round high-capacity magazines. Enough to fight a major war, don’t you think? As if that weren’t enough, the DHS recently purchased and retrofitted over 2,799 Mine Resistant Armored Protection vehicles from the U.S. Army. Other departments have been stockpiling as well. The Social Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are just two others.

So when you put the pieces of this puzzle together and you see what is happening on our border, am I crazy to think that this was all a plan that has been put in motion to overwhelm the system and create anger and chaos among the American people?

[...]

It is classic Cloward-Piven. Overwhelm the system, anger the populace, create chaos, and then, martial law takes over. Through his executive orders, the president gave himself the authority to use the military as he sees fit. We saw just a taste of it after the Boston Marathon bombing when there was a huge over-reaction by closing down the city, storming homes and property and keeping people prisoners in their own homes. That was just a test to see how compliant people would become.

If Obama gets his way and the system collapses through illegal immigration or financial means, if he succeeds in confiscating our guns and ammo so that no one but the government has them, then we the people will be at their mercy, and the sad thing is that many people will welcome their control. At that point the American people will be helpless against a totalitarian state, and they will have succeeded in the full transformation of this country.

Perhaps Brittany has proven herself to be a WND columnist after all.

CNS' Jeffrey Touts Pat Buchanan's Whitewashing Of Southern Strategy
Topic: CNSNews.com

CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey spends his July 9 column slobbering over Pat Buchanan's new book on his work for the Nixon presidential campaign:

Wherever Nixon's merits and demerits place him among American presidents, Buchanan's first-person chronicle of how Nixon climbed back from a humiliating defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election to win the presidency in 1968 is not just a unique and enduring look at one of this nation's most interesting political campaigns but at a decade that changed America forever.

[...]

Buchanan's book is a great story told by a great storyteller. Along the way are first-person anecdotes that not only reveal how Buchanan's boss plotted and executed what may indeed have been the greatest comeback in American political history, but also how he prepared himself to use the presidency he won to deal with great international problems, including the Vietnam War and U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China.

Jeffrey goes on to highlight one piece of Buchanan's work:

Buchanan anchored the right flank of Nixon's immediate staff, and part of his job was to help keep the conservative movement — which had backed Goldwater in 1964 — in Nixon's camp for 1968.

Beyond that was a longer-term political vision. "The crucial elements of the new majority I had in mind," writes Buchanan, "were the solid centrist GOP base that had stood by Nixon in 1960, the rising conservative movement, to which I belonged, the 'northern Catholic ethnics' of German, Irish, Italian, Polish and other East European descent, and the Southern Protestants, who saw themselves as abandoned by a Democratic Party moving leftward."

Jeffrey won't tell you, but Buchanan's plan is better known as the Southern Strategy -- which in large part sought to recruit racist whites unnerved by blacks' voting rights being protected.That was one of several racially divisive strategies Buchanan sought to implement on Nixon's behalf.

But Jeffrey doesn't want you to know that. After all, CNS also published Buchanan's column touting his whitewash.

WND's Unruh Pretends Ed Klein Is Credible
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Bob Unruh uncritically promotes Ed Klein in a July 7 WorldNetDaily article:

Ed Klein, the longtime journalist, author and commentator, once described Barack Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett as the “de facto” president.

[...]

Now there’s a report from Klein that Jarrett has been meeting with a woman that Obama may want to promote as the Democrats’ presidential nominee for 2016 who could continue his legacy.

And it’s not Hillary Clinton.

Klein, interviewed on “Fox and Friends” about his new book, “Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas,” said Jarrett has been holding meetings “inside the White House and outside” with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Klein said Jarrett is the consigliere of the Obama White House and has “huge power.”

Warren, who drew attention for her dubious claim to be a minority, is being “urged” to run, because the White House believes she would “carry out his legacy a lot better than Hillary,” he said.

Klein said his source is someone “close to Valerie Jarrett I’ve been talking to for the past couple of years.”

He said it’s part of the “blood feud” in the Democratic Party, which has pitted Obama’s far-left positions against the more “centrist” Clinton.

What Unruh won't tell you: Nobody believes Ed Klein.

Salon's Jim Newell points out that Klein's sourcing -- almost entirely anonymous and untraceable -- "doesn’t appear to stand a second’s worth of scrutiny." Newell adds regarding Klein's so-called source on the Jarrett-Warren claim:

That’s interesting; don’t you wonder how a high-ranking Obama administration official could get so close to the president yet still somehow believe that he’s a “committed progressive” who “wants to transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state”? Did Dick Morris or Mark Levin slip on an Obama White House staff badge and go undetected in the West Wing for some length of time? Shocking, if true.

Indeed, Klein's new book is chock full of outlandish, dubiously sourced claims. Yet Unruh doesn't see fit to inform his readers of this important caveat.

Why? Mostly because Unruh is a stenographer, not a reporter, who's only interested in pushing propaganda, not reporting facts.

How fitting that an outlet nobody believes lets a writer who doesn't know how to report promote an author nobody believes.

CNS Still Considers Spending On LGBT Issues To Be A Waste of Money
Topic: CNSNews.com

Last year, we documented how CNSNews.com's "Waste Watch" list disproportionately portrayed LGBT-related issues as evidence of wasteful federal spending. It's still doing it.

The latest "Waste Watch" item appears as a  July 1 article by Melanie Hunter:

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $357,783 to the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, Mass., to reduce health disparities in LGBTQ youth of color.

The purpose of the grant is described as “to establish a sustainable community-based participatory research process to reduce health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth of color.”

According to the grant, LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) youth of color abuse alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, engage in risky sexual behaviors, and attempt suicide “in high rates that are disproportionate to those of both white LGBTQ youth and heterosexual youth of color.”

Hunter didn't explain why she considers improving the health of gay youth to be a waste of money.