Topic: CNSNews.com
Pandagon dismantles Matt Barber's Feb. 4 CNSNews.com column about, er, Big Homo (no, really).
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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Topic: CNSNews.com Pandagon dismantles Matt Barber's Feb. 4 CNSNews.com column about, er, Big Homo (no, really).
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:28 AM EST
Friday, February 6, 2009
Newsmax Headline Watch
Topic: Newsmax The headline the Associated Press put on a Feb. 5 article: "Obama orders energy-efficient standards." Newsmax's headline on the same article: "Obama Orders Costly Energy Standards on Appliances." The article, however, mentions nothing about the alleged cost of the standards, making Newsmax's assertion that the standards are "costly" completely baseless. Further, the article points out that Obama is not ordering new standards, just that previously established standards be followed:
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:30 PM EST
Updated: Friday, February 6, 2009 12:32 PM EST
Newsmax Baselessly Attacks Obama's Ice Storm Response
Topic: Newsmax Apparently cribbing from the same Republican talking points, two Newsmax columnists have attacked President Obama's response to deadly ice storms in Kentucky. From a Feb. 5 column by Brad Blakeman:
From a Feb. 5 column by Michael Reagan:
The problem with Reagan's and Blakeman's anti-Obama rants? They doesn't reflect reality. From a Feb. 2 Associated Press article:
If the governor of Kentucky and state emergency officials don't have a problem with the Obama administration's response, why should Blakeman and Reagan?
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:33 AM EST
Angry Right-Wingers At WND
Topic: WorldNetDaily Reb Bradley writes in a Feb. 5 WorldNetDaily column:
Bradley is clearly not reading WND's commentary page. From a Feb. 5 WND column by Erik Rush:
Does a man who likens the president of the United States to a "skanky creep" sound like a happy conservative to you?
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:32 AM EST
Examiner Misleads on Obama Defense Budget
Topic: Washington Examiner A Feb. 5 Washington Examiner editorial forwards a version of the false meme that President Obama wants to cut the defense budget, asserting that "Obama has demanded that the Pentagon trim its budget request by an astonishing 10 percent." While what the Examiner wrote is technically true, at no point does the Examiner bother to put it into context -- as we've noted, Obama's budget target for the Pentagon is still $14 billion higher than the current budget, so there's no cut at all.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:24 AM EST
ABC 1, MRC 0
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center has been screeching for a while now about a Politico report that ABC host George Stephanopoulos engages in daily round-robin calls with former colleagues James Carville, Paul Begala and Rahm Emanuel, as they have since the Clinton administration. The MRC has decided that this means Stephanopoulos is a shill for the Obama administration, and has been on the attack ever since. A Jan. 29 press release featuring MRC honcho Brent Bozell demanding that Stephanopoulos "must from this point forward recuse himself from any reporting involving the Obama Administration" was followed by a Feb. 4 open letter to ABC News president David Westin demanding that "ABC News must address this publicly and comprehensively" (bold underline in original), adding the not-so-subtle threat:
ABC has now responded in a letter by Kerry Smith, senior vice president of editorial quality at ABC News, posted by Politico's Michael Calderone, and he attacks right back, accusing Bozell and the MRC of deception:
Oh, but it gets better:
As County Fair's Jamison Foser points out, the question now is whether the CNS story was killed so that Bozell could claim that ABC refused to talk about it. Refusing to tell the other side of the story is certainly of a piece with CNS' new aggressive anti-Obama agenda. How will Bozell -- not to mention CNS' Terry Jeffrey -- respond to being called on their BS? We can't wait to find out. UPDATE: Corrected author of ABC letter.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:07 AM EST
Updated: Sunday, February 8, 2009 1:11 AM EST
Thursday, February 5, 2009
CNS Touts Misleading Inhofe Report
Topic: CNSNews.com A Feb. 4 CNSNews.com article by Ryan Byrnes uncritically stated that Republican Sen. James Inhofe, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, "issued a minority report last month that quoted 650 top scientists who challenge the claim that global warming is man-made." Byrnes failed to note legitimate concerns raised about the report -- as we've noted, it's been pointed out that the vast majority of the people in the report were recycled from a similar previous report, which included people with no demonstrated expertise in climate science (or science, period). That would seem to contradict the assertion that the report includes only "top scientists."
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:12 PM EST
Huston Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot
Topic: NewsBusters A Feb. 5 NewsBusters post by Warner Todd Huston sneered that a reporter jumped a rope line seeking Barack Obama's autograph, "like a star struck 15-year old at a Hannah Montana concert" who "apparently couldn't resist the siren call of The One." Huston's sneering dragged on:
But who was that reporter? As Politico reports, it's Robert Feuereisen of Jewish World Review -- a conservative website that Huston's colleagues think so highly of, it's on the NewsBusters blogroll. (Then again, NewsBusters also has Ace of Spades on its blogroll, so maybe that's not as prestigious as it seems.) We'd complain about Huston engaging his brain before opening his mouth, but that would rob us of a lot of prime material.
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:35 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2009 4:37 PM EST
CNS' Attack Mode
Topic: CNSNews.com CNSNews.com has descended into full Obama attack mode. Today's slate of articles demonstrate CNS' heavy bias by touting Republican criticism and providing no opportunity for anyone to respond to it:
By contrast, the one story that begins with a Democratic claim -- "Pelosi: ‘I Can’t Think in Terms of Stimulus Failing in Senate’" by Ryan -- permits a Republican congressman and a spokesman for the conservative Heritage Foundation to respond to the claim. So much for CNS' declared mission of "fairly present[ing] all legitimate sides of a story."
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:27 PM EST
Moore Takes Obama's Words Out of Context
Topic: WorldNetDaily While CNSNews.com has been obsessed with singling out Barack Obama's mention of "nonbelievers" in an inclusive description of Americans, WorldNetDaily has been nearly as bothered by by his mention of Muslims. We've previously noted Aaron Klein taking "Muslim" out of its context as describing America as "no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation and a nation of nonbelievers." Now lawbreaking judge Roy Moore purports to take offense in his Feb. 4 WND column. The headline of his column asks, "Is America really a 'Muslim nation'?" But Obama never claimed it was. Moore goes on to insist that, Obama's recognition of all Americans aside, the only religion that should matter is Christianity:
Moore ignores the fact that Christians have a long history of persecuting Jews and Muslims, among others, which has happened to some extent in America, and that it's the secularism of the past half-century which Moore disdains that created the current situation in which "Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and non-believers can practice what they choose in America" (though maybe not Muslims) without a fear of persecution. If Moore had his way, that would not be occuring.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:50 AM EST
New Article: Failing the Audition
Topic: CNSNews.com CNSNews tries -- and fails -- to create an Obama controversy where there isn't one. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:32 AM EST
Kinsolving Throws Another Temper Tantrum
Topic: WorldNetDaily In 2007, when WorldNetDaily's Les Kinsolving declared that he wasn't getting the respect he thought he deserved from then-White House press secretary Tony Snow, he threw a temper tantrum and declared he wouldn't attend White House press briefings, staging a passive-aggressive protest in which WND published "the questions that WND would have asked." That lasted for about a week, after Snow and Kinsolving held a mysterious "one-on-one conference." Kinsolving's at it again, throwing another tantrum. Kinsolving hinted at it in his Feb. 3 WND column, complaining that the press conferences held by President Obama "are 'fixed' in advance with some reporters selected for questions and others left out, that it raises the serious question as to whether such reportorial selectees by Obama may not have supplied him with their questions in advance." In other words: Kinsolving was being ignored. That apparently resulted in WND announcing later on Feb. 3 that " WND is announcing a plan starting immediately to submit questions to President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, via the technology of the Internet and e-mail, since his news briefings at the White House so far have been dominated by a select few reporters to the exclusion of the majority." Again, it's a complain that Kinsolving is being ignored: "Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House and one of the more senior journalists in the White House press corps, was not allowed to voice his questions on issues on which millions of WND readers have expressed an interest." Kinsolving then tries to spin it:
Ah, but Kinsolving being ignored is exactly the point. Why go through this charade of a stunt if he wasn't out to get attention? Further, the preonderance of evidence demonstrates why Kinsolving has earned the right to be ignored by presidential press secretaries: As we've documented, he asks loaded, right-wing-leaning questions that swing from Jeff Gannon-esque sycophancy to stunning irrelevence. Plus, let's not forget the utter hostility Kinsolving's employer has demonstrated toward Obama. Why would the Obama administration want to deal with a "news" organization that spreads lies about the president? And if Kinsolving's first response to perceived slights is to throw a temper tantrum, why should anyone take him seriously as a journalist at all?
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:05 AM EST
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
NewsBusters Heathering Watch
Topic: NewsBusters Tim Graham gets all Heather-y again on Kathleen Parker in a Feb. 4 NewsBusters post. Graham dismisses parker -- a frequent victim of Heathering by Graham and his NewsBusters buddies whenever she dares to deviate from right-wing dogma -- as a "[p]seudo-conservative columnist" writing a "a provocative 'Look at Me!' column trashing social conservatism," going on to suggest that the only possible reason Parker "has been published in The Washington Post" is said pseudo-conservatism (ignoring the fact that the Washington Post Writers Group has syndicated Parker's column since 2006).
Posted by Terry K.
at 6:27 PM EST
Obama Hate Central: WND Can't Stop Lying About Obama, Constitution
Topic: WorldNetDaily We've repeatedly documented how WorldNetDaily has deliberately misquoted Barack Obama to portray him saying things about the Constitution that he clearly did not say. The sleazy tradition continues in a Feb. 3 article by Bob Unruh:
Obama said no such thing. As the transcript Unruh includes in his article makes abundantly clear, Obama never said that "the Supreme Court should have intervened" to "mandate redistribution of wealth," or that the Warren Court was a "failure" for not doing so. Rather, Obama was saying that the civil rights movement relied too much on the court system to advance its agenda instead of promoting change from the bottom up, i.e., legislatively, and that the Warren Court did not address it was a sign that it was not as radical as right-wingers have claimed it to be. Remember how Cliff Kincaid and Jerome Corsi were ranting about "Obamatons"? It seems Unruh is the polar opposite -- let's call him a Farahbot -- programmed to destroy Obama or whatever else Joseph Farah tells him to do, no matter how implausible the lies he must peddle and how egregious the dishonesty he must perpetuate in doing so. It's a sad comedown for someone whose WND calling card was that he worked for the Associated Press.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:17 PM EST
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