Topic: WorldNetDaily
The headline on Porter Stansberry's March 5 WorldNetDaily "Investor Insights" column reads: "Stocking up on meds and ammo, NOW!" The actual article manages to be even crazier than that.
Read the rest at Media Matters.
Monday, March 8, 2010
WND's Financial Adviser Is Ready to Flee the Country
Topic: WorldNetDaily The headline on Porter Stansberry's March 5 WorldNetDaily "Investor Insights" column reads: "Stocking up on meds and ammo, NOW!" The actual article manages to be even crazier than that. Read the rest at Media Matters.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:01 PM EST
WND Ignores Debunking of Purported Terrorist 'Dry Run'
Topic: WorldNetDaily Back in December, WorldNetDaily made a big deal out of a report of a purported hijacking "dry run" by Muslim terrorist on an AirTran plane, a story that spread by a "widely circulated e-mail." WND got a few more stories out of the claim, even after it became clear that the person who wrote the email, Tedd Petruna, wasn't even aboard the flight. A couple weeks ago, Talking Points Memo obtained FAA documents on its investigation of the incident:
WND has yet to report on this release of documents that debunk its earlier reporting on the incident. Surprised? Don't be -- WND tends to offload or ignore reporting that conflicts with its own, even (or perhaps especially) if it proves WND wrong.
Posted by Terry K.
at 5:18 PM EST
Newsmax Invokes Soviet Imagery to Attack Obama Admin.
Topic: Newsmax Here's how a March 7 Newsmax article begins:
Newsmax has no evidence of any palace coup, of course -- the article's anonymous writer has merely let his imagination run wild (perhaps that's why he has chosen to remain anonymous). Nevertheless, the article concludes: "Kremlinologists can see the handwriting on the wall. Axelrod will soon be ousted or sidelined. Rahm emerges, and so does a more pragmatic and moderate Obama." The funny thing is, Newsmax acts in a rather Soviet fashion as well. Misbehaving columnists such as John L. Perry and Bernard Kerik were disappeared from Newsmax without explanation to readers -- one day they were there, the next they were gone. Similarly, columns deemed offensive post-publication quietly vanish into the ether also without explanation.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:45 AM EST
CMI's Knoploh Tries to Read the Minds of More Reporters
Topic: Media Research Center Is Sarah Knoploh clairvoyant? Apparently so -- she has decided that she can read another reporter's mind. In a March 4 MRC Culture & Media Institute item on the legalization of gay marriage in the District of Columbia, Knoploh delcares that Washington Post reporters "cheered that the 'fight' for gay marriage had won in the district" and were "giddy" about it." How does Knoploh know the reporters were "giddy" and "cheer[ing]"? She doesn't, of course -- as before, she's merely imparting motives she cannot possibly know to people she has in all likelihood never met. In her mind, all reporters are biased, and if they don't work for a right-wing outlet like CMI sister organization CNSNews.com, they are hopelessly liberal, and all liberal reporters inject their stories with liberal bias. That's just axiomatic in MRC-land. Knoploh appears to be so invested in this mindset that she doesn't see her own bias, which causes her to impute motives she cannot possibly know. Such failures of logic may not fly at most places of employment, but they are embraced at the MRC.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:05 AM EST
Sunday, March 7, 2010
No (Whale) Justice, No (Human) Peace
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Ellis Washington, March 6 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:03 PM EST
CNS Joins McCaughey in Taking Emanuel Out of Context
Topic: CNSNews.com In a March 5 CNSNews.com article on comments made by Obama administration adviser Ezekiel Emanuel, Christopher Neefus noted that "Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York State, wrote a commentary for the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 27, 2009, about Ezekiel Emanuel that was headlined, 'Obama’s Health Rationer-in-Chief.'" Neefus later added that "Emanuel came to be known as the 'deadly doctor' and by August was defending himself in TIME Magazine, saying he was taken out of context." What Neefus failed to note, however, is that McCaughey -- who has a long history of making false and misleading claims about health care reform -- repeatedly distorted and took statements by Emanuel out of context. Indeed, McCaughey had to walk back her false assertion that Emanuel wanted to "eliminate" the Hippocratic Oath. Indeed, in portraying Emanuel as the "deadly doctor," Neefus follows in McCaughey's footsteps by taking Emanuel's statements out of context:
In fact, as Media Matters noted, Emanuel was describing a "consensus" view on the issue, not his own personal beliefs, as Neefus suggests.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:45 PM EST
Logrolling In Our Time
Topic: WorldNetDaily Jim Fletcher's March 1 WorldNetDaily column looks at two upcoming books on President Obama, whom he describes as " the fellow I like to call 'The Man From Kenya.'" (Wait, -- wasn't Joseph Farah insisting that birthers weren't questioning Obama's citizenship?) One, by David Remnick, is published by a major publisher, Knopf. Fletcher dismisses it this way:
In fact, Dunham's name has been explained -- her father wanted a boy. By contrast, Fletcher said this about Aaron Klein's upcoming Obama hatchet job:
It's important to remember that Fletcher is writing at (and presumably getting paid by) WorldNetDaily -- whose editor and CEO has turned in a positive blurb for one of Fletcher's books and is selling said book at the WND store -- and praising a book by a WND reporters that is published by WND. In other words, Fletcher's opinion can't be trusted.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:34 AM EST
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: Newsmax
-- Lowell Ponte, March 4 Newsmax column (By the way, reconciliation -- the process by which Democrats will apparently approve health care reform -- is not "a coup d’etat against ... long-established Senate rules"; it is in Senate rules.)
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:23 PM EST
NewsBusters Pushes False Massa-Foley Comparison
Topic: NewsBusters Brent Baker asserts in a March 5 NewsBusters post that "the allegations against [Democratic Rep. Eric] Massa of inappropriate same-sex harassment parallel those against [former Republican Rep. Mark] Foley toward subordinates." No, they don't. Massa is accused of "inappropriate" behavior toward an single employee, while Foley sent numerous inappropriate emails and explicit instant messages to several teenage House pages. Further, the Foley scandal also involved the widespread failure of Republican members of Congress and their staffs to appropriately address Foley's behavior; by contrast, there's no evidence that Democratic congressional leadership tried to cover up Massa's alleged behavior.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:15 AM EST
CNS Embraces Smear of DOJ Lawyers
Topic: CNSNews.com CNSNews.com has chosen to serve as press agents for Liz Cheney's group Keep America Safe, with Fred Lucas spending two articles uncritically repeating the group's attacks on Department of Justice lawyers who once defended terrorism detainees, to the point of lovingly transcribing the group's video smear of the lawyers as thte "Al Qaeda 7." What Lucas won't tell you, however, is that even prominent conservatives and former Justice Department lawyers in the Bush administration are turning against Cheney's tactics. Or is conservatives criticizing the daughter of the vice president for acting McCarthy-esque not worthy of reporting at CNS?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:41 AM EST
Friday, March 5, 2010
Kupelian: Obama Is Date-Raping America
Topic: WorldNetDaily No, really. From David Kupelian's March 5 WorldNetDaily column:
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:14 PM EST
Cliff Kincaid, Conspiracy Arbiter
Topic: Accuracy in Media Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid, in a two-part series, has declared himself arbiter of what are and aren't acceptable conspiracy theories to hold. Generally, anything that can be linked to liberals and commies is unacceptable -- "Communism was and is a conspiracy," he states -- while conservative conspiracies, like birtherism, are perfectly acceptable: By releasing a copy of my own birth certificate, I have tried to demonstrate what other necessary information is lacking about Obama's birth. The only way to address these questions is to identify where exactly he was born, in what hospital, and what doctor was present. All of this information should be on an original birth certificate. There is some unexplained reason why this document has not been released. That is why the "birther" issue is still legitimate and why Beck and others should not cavalierly dismiss those like Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily who are willing to keep asking the hard questions. So-called "conservatives" in the media, such as those mentioned in the Vogel Politico story who refuse to tolerate even the asking of serious questions about Obama's background, have either been intimidated by the liberal/left or are afraid of doing the hard work required to get answers. In any case, they are not part of any "conservative establishment" and have no claim of influence over the conservative media as a whole. Indeed, they give conservative journalism a bad name. Kincaid also does a takedown of the Russia Today operation as a haven for conspiracists like Alex Jones:
It's worth noting that, like fellow Kincaid target al-Jazeera, WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein has appeared on Russia Today: A Nov. 23 WND article touted how Klein planned to "debate a commentator from Iran" on the network. WND didn't mention Russia Today's state ownership, describing it positively as "a globally broadcast English-language news channel from Russia and the first all-digital Russian television network." WND has also touted reports on Russia Today as part of its campaign to scaremonger about the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Kincaid has yet to call out Klein and WND for appearing on al-Jazeera. Will he criticize Klein for appearing on Russia Today? It's probably unlikely, since WND is valuable to him for its birther agitation.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:43 AM EST
Farah's Al Gore Derangement
Topic: WorldNetDaily Is Joseph Farah still bitter that WorldNetDaily was caught making false claims about an associate of Al Gore and had to settle and apologize (and, we can presume, shell out cash to the associate who was lied about) just before it was to go to trial? It appears so. Farah's March 3 column is one long harangue of Al Gore that laughably begins: "Which are you going to believe: Al Gore or your own eyes?" He's more trustworthy that WND has proven to be. Since facts aren't his strong suit, Farah also perpetuates at least one lie about Gore, that he "once claimed credit for inventing the Internet. No, he didn't. Farah goes on to call Gore a "two-bit charlatan," but Farah may as well be talking about himself.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:27 AM EST
CNS Embraces Bishops' False Claims on Abortion Funding
Topic: CNSNews.com A March 1 CNSNews.com article by Edwin Mora uncritically repeats the claim that "The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a 13-page document explaining why the Senate bill allows tax dollars to funded abortion," which states, "Of the two bills, only the House bill conforms to current law on abortion funding." But the bishops' statement misleads on one key claim. The statement asserts that "Federal funds will make overall healthplans afforable for millions of new customers, who will then pay a nominal fee for full access to elective abortions -- estimated at 'not more than $1 per enrollee per month,'" further asserting that "insurers will requuire all enrollee to pay premiums for other people's abortions." But it's not true that all enrollees would pay for abortion coverage they're not getting or subsidizing the abortions of others. As Slate's Timothy Noah explained:
The bishops' statement also falsely asserts that the House bill's abortion provisions -- better known as the amendment introduced by Rep. Bart Stupak -- "conforms to current law on abortion funding," i.e., the Hyde amendment blocking federal funding of abortion. In fact, the Stupak amendment goes beyond Hyde by blocking insurance companies that take part in the health care reform bill's insurance exchange from offering any abortion coverage whatsoever, even if it is paid for by the policyholders' own money.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:08 AM EST
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Kincaid: Gay Males Are 'Notorious Disease Carriers'
Topic: Accuracy in Media
-- March 3 Accuracy in Media "AIM Report" by Cliff Kincaid
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:20 PM EST
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