Topic: WorldNetDaily
The editor of WorldNetDaily has demonstrated a clear inability to handle criticism, to which he responds by insulting his critics and trying to change the subject. Read more >>
Thursday, February 26, 2009
New Article: Joseph Farah's Thin Skin
Topic: WorldNetDaily The editor of WorldNetDaily has demonstrated a clear inability to handle criticism, to which he responds by insulting his critics and trying to change the subject. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:23 AM EST
It's All About Him
Topic: Horowitz In an interview with the Emory University student newspaper, published Feb. 25 at FrontPageMag, David Horowitz lets a little truth slip out:
There you have it -- the only reason the Horowitz organization (including FrontPageMag) exists is to promote Horowitz.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:12 AM EST
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
WND's Washington: Obama Is A
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily columnist Ellis Washington has already smeared President Obama as a Nazi and a fascist. What can he do for an encore? Liken Obama to the devil, of course -- with a side smear of mobster. From Washington's Feb. 25 column:
It's only a month into Obama's presidency, and Washington is running out of insults to hurl. We have to wonder: Does Washington insult the college students he teaches the way he insults the president?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:46 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:26 AM EST
Blumer Doesn't Understand the AP (Or, Really, The Entire Media )
Topic: NewsBusters A Feb. 25 NewsBusters post by Tom Blumer bashes the Associated Press for issuing a story on President Obama's address to Congress, written in past tense, several hours before the speech was given. But Blumer clearly doesn't understand the purpose of such a story. The AP issues such a advance story for many such addresses, based on an advance copy of the speech. Why? To allow morning newspapers that publish early editions with a publication deadline before the speech is delivered to have a story on the speech. Newspapers with later deadlines would not run this story because it would be updated with reaction to the speech and other details. Since many news websites that publish AP copy are set up to do so automatically, advance stories such as this appear online as well. Because Blumer doesn't understand what he's criticizing, he chooses to make fun of it, touting its "comic relief." Blumer has frequently displayed his ignorance of the media he's supposedly criticizing. He has gotten facts wrong, he cluelessly thinks that supposed "liberal bias" is the only possible reason the newspaper industry is in trouble, and he has falsely suggested that President Bush didn't pre-select reporters to take questions from during press conferences while Bashing Obama for doing so. How does someone who clearly knows so little about the media get to present himself as a media critic? Or is such ignorance a prerequisite for writing at NewsBusters?
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:33 PM EST
Aaron Klein Anti-Obama Agenda Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily A Feb. 24 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein attacks Chas Freeman, nominated by President Obama to head the National Intelligence Council, as once having "business ties to Osama bin Laden's family." But in baselessly suggesting that Freeman is tied to Osama bin Laden, Klein fails to report relevant details showing the lack of connection between Osama's terrorism and the bin Laden family's business interests. At no point, for example, does Klein mention the fact that Osama's brother, Bakr bin Laden, publicly renounced Osama bin Laden in a statement released to the media in February 1994. Instead, he claims that "some bin Laden factions have not disowned Osama" -- but never bothers to prove the implication that Freeman is in any way associated with those "factions. In other words, this is more guilt-by-assocation garbage from Klein.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:22 AM EST
Limbaugh Repeats ACORN Lie
Topic: WorldNetDaily In his Feb. 24 syndicated column, published at WorldNetDaily and Newsmax, David Limbaugh repeats the discredited claim that the stimulus bill is "allocating billions of taxpayer dollars to community organizing groups, such as ACORN." As we've repeatedly noted, ACORN isn't even named in the stimulus bill, let alone has money allocated to it, and ACORN officialshave pointed out that they aren't eligible to receive the money people like Limbaugh think they're supposedly "allocated."
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:34 AM EST
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Meanwhile ...
Topic: WorldNetDaily Ed Brayton and Richard Bartholomew point out that invoking the anti-Semetic Martin Luther to criticize Pope Benedict's lifting of the excommunication of Holocaust denier Richard Williamson, as Les Kinsolving did in his Feb. 17 WorldNetDaily column, is perhaps not the most appropriate analogy.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:05 PM EST
Sheppard Applauds Destruction of Satellite
Topic: NewsBusters It's not often you see a right-winger root for the destruction of government property, but that's what Noel Sheppard does in a Feb. 24 NewsBusters post as he takes near-sadistic glee in the crash of a NASA rocket containing a satellite to be launched. Why is Sheppard taking such perverse happiness? Because the satellite was to track worldwide levels of carbon dioxide in order to help track the rate of global warming. Sheppard chortles:
Not to promote a conspiracy theory here but such anarchic glee makes one wonder if he or his denier cohorts sabotaged the rocket to ensure its destruction. Or perhaps Sheppard is afraid of the possibility of more scientific evidence that would further contradict his politically motivated anti-global-warming activism. Oh, and contrary to Sheppard's claim, Antarctic ice is, in fact, melting.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:31 PM EST
Another Bogus Poll from Brad O'Leary
Topic: WorldNetDaily A Feb. 23 WorldNetDaily column by Brad O'Leary purported to offer up another ATI News poll he commissioned from Zogby as evidence that President Obama "has alienated independents, small business leaders, young voters, Catholics and Republicans on a number of legislative victories." But O'Leary doesn't link to the poll or provide any of the questions asked in it, so it's a safe bet that the poll is chock full of the kind of misleading or outright false questions he has previously had Zogby ask. Remember, O'Leary has an agenda to undermine Obama, so any poll he peddles should be treated with extreme skepticism.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:23 AM EST
Huston Baselessly Smears 'Hollywood,' Stars
Topic: NewsBusters Warner Todd Huston's Feb. 22 NewsBusters post is a screed against a nebulous "Hollywood," asserting that while "self-aggrandizing denizens of Hollywood constantly scold Americans over a lack of national healthcare ... Hollywood is closing its nearly 90-year-old Motion Picture Fund hospital and accompanying long-term living facilities for aging actors." But "Hollywood" is not closing the facilities -- not that Huston bothers to define what he means by "Hollywood." The facilities are operated by the Motion Picture & Television Fund, "a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to employees of the entertainment industry." Huston's screed continues, attacking actors who purportedly are not helping the fund:
Huston offer no evidence whatsoever that these particular celebrities have not donated to the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The fund operates numerous fund-raising events, including a golf tournament hosted by Michael Douglas and a pre-Academy Awards event with numerous celebrities as hosts. Further, the MPTF hospital is not a full-service facility but, rather, an acute-care facility that loses money. As the MPTF points out, "Outpatient healthcare, social services, financial assistance, childcare and retirement living continues to be available to over 300,000 members of the California entertainment industry." It's merely outsourcing services; we thought Huston was a big fan of outsourcing. Further, in calling out Marlo Thomas, Huston ignores the fact that she has a long history of philanthropy for the St. Jude Children's Hospital, founded by her father, Danny Thomas. Given Huston's harsh tone, it sounds like somebody's jealous they didn't get an Oscar.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:19 AM EST
WND's Idea of A 'Homosex-Fest'
Topic: WorldNetDaily The headline of a Feb. 22 WorldNetDaily article states: "Oscars turn into blatant homosex-fest." How so? Because two winners said nice things about gays. Kovacs offers no evidence of "homosex" actually taking place, let alone that there was an entire "fest" dedicated to it. As part of its anti-gay agenda, WND loves to work in the term "homosex-fest" wherever it can -- a search for the word in WND's archives pulls up 39 hits.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:12 AM EST
Monday, February 23, 2009
Waters Repeats Clinton Travel Office Myth
Topic: NewsBusters A Feb. 23 NewsBusters post (and TimesWatch item) by Clay Waters references the Clinton administration's "persecution of the White House Travel Office." In fact, as we've detailed, this alleged "persecution" is a right-wing myth. As the final report by independent counsel Robert Ray pointed out, Clinton was within his legal rights to hire whomever he wanted to run the travel office, and there was evidence of financial mismanagement in the office.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:12 PM EST
WND Hypes Obama 'Chaos'
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily wants you to think that Barack Obama plans to plunge America into chaos. Apparently, that's what Glenn Beck told it to do. Its lead story for most of the past day is a Feb. 21 article by Drew Zahn uncritically repeating crazy man Alan Keyes' attacks on Obama:
Needless to say, Keyes' extreme rhetoric struck a chord at WND. Joseph Farah was quick to jump on the bandwagon with his Feb. 22 column:
Farah also repeats the false claim that "Groups like ACORN, the shock troops and brown shirts of their movement, are being paid off with billions of dollars." Rodger Hedgecock echoed the theme in his Feb. 22 WND column:
The lesson: Don't take your cues on political discourse from Glenn Beck. Or Alan Keyes.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:06 PM EST
Examiner Repeats False Claim on EFCA
Topic: Washington Examiner The Feb. 22 Washington Examiner list of the "10 brightest ideas of the week" repeats a false talking point about the Employee Free Choice Act, claiming that it "would eliminate the secret ballot in union elections." As we pointed out the last time the Examiner did this, the measure does not ban secret ballots but, rather, adds the option of a card-check provision for employees to form a union.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:44 PM EST
CNS Takes Obama Out of Context
Topic: CNSNews.com A Feb. 23 CNSNews.com article by Matt Cover takes out of context a statement by President Obama regarding the Bush tax cuts to make it appear as if he plans to institute "massive tax increases" on Americans. Cover writes:
But Cover fails to detail the full context of Obama statement, in which he makes it clear he plans to restore tax cuts elsewhere. From the May 11, 2008, edition of CNN's" Late Edition":
Indeed, nowhere in his article does Cover mention the fact that Obama has proposed cutting taxes for 95 percent of working families. It's irresponsible of Cover and CNS to pluck Obama's statements out of context without telling the full story.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:22 AM EST
Updated: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:46 AM EST
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