Topic: Newsmax
Have you ever wondered what Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy's daily media diet is? The Atlantic Wire has the answer. Shocker: He reads a lot of conservative newspapers and websites!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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Topic: Newsmax Have you ever wondered what Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy's daily media diet is? The Atlantic Wire has the answer. Shocker: He reads a lot of conservative newspapers and websites!
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:57 AM EDT
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Noel Sheppard Shocked-By-The-Unshocking Watch
Topic: NewsBusters In a May 29 NewsBusters post, Noel Sheppard claimed it was "an absolutely astounding thing" that Chris Matthews would endorse a clip of Rush Limbaugh "lampooning former President Bill Clinton." Sheppard adds: "But what got into the Hardballer not only offering praise to a man that he routinely expresses contempt for, but also doing so when the object of his disaffection is mocking Bill Clinton? Shocking to say the least." As with many things Sheppard has expressed shock over, this is not shocking at all. As we've detailed, Matthews regularly bashed Clinton when he was president -- and Sheppard's MRC bosses loved every minute of it. But when Matthews applied that same sort of scrutiny to President Bush, the MRC no longer wanted anything to do with him (even though Matthews also favorably likened Bush to Atticus Finch and Winston Churchill and also claimed that he sometimes "glimmers" with a "kind of sunny nobility."
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:16 AM EDT
The CMI's Gay-Counters
Topic: Media Research Center Richard Nixon had his Jew-counters. The MRC's Culture & Media Institute has its gay-counters. We've previously noted CMI's obsession with quantifying the Washington Post's coverage of gay-related issues; for instance, it used a very narrow definition to declare that the Post "[q]uoted supporters 10 times more often than opponents" on the subject of gay marriage. That obsession continues in a May 27 article by Alana Goodman:
Goodman also references CMI's previous gay-counting efforts, huffing that "the Post extensively covered the legalization of gay marriage in D.C., with some critics referring to the paper’s coverage as celebratory." Of course, under the same argument or relevance, it would be equally essential for Goodman and CMI to fully and factually states their hatred for gays in every gay-related story they publish -- but then, it is pretty self-evident.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:52 AM EDT
Friday, May 28, 2010
Kincaid Spews More Anti-Gay Hate
Topic: Accuracy in Media Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid expands on his most recent anti-gay tirade focusing on repeal of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy with a May 27 column -- with the inflammatory headline "Saving Soldiers from Gay Death" -- insisting that there is "substantial evidence that admission of open and active homosexuals would put our troops in further danger through exposure to tainted blood."
Kinacid seems to be assuming that all gay men who acknowledge that they're gay are all automatically graced with HIV. Kincaid also engages in personal attacks on anyone he perceives as supporting DADT repeal. Wriing that "The Washington Post has editorialized in favor of a quick congressional vote" on DADT, Kincaid claims that "One of the Post’s leading editorial writers, Jonathan Capehart, is a homosexual activist who used to cover gay sex clubs." As we've detailed, Kincaid's hatred of gays is more than a little pathological, to the point of endorsing a proposed Kenyan law that would provide for the death penalty for merely being gay. Also, here's the picture accompanying the promotion of Kincaid's column on AIM's front page: One has to wonder about the kind of secret homoerotic fantasies Kincaid engages in that would make him choose that photo.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:00 PM EDT
MRC's Baker Offended At Suggestion That Obama Is Human
Topic: Media Research Center The headline of a May 28 MRC item reads, "Nets Embrace 'Did You Plug the Hole Yet, Daddy?' Anecdote to Humanize Obama." Heaven forbid that anyone should be allowed to believe that Obama is -- gasp! -- human.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:42 AM EDT
CNS Falsely Claims Kagan Stopped Harvard From 'Requiring' Constitutional Law
Topic: CNSNews.com A May 28 CNSNews.com article by Pete Winn claims that as head of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan "moved the nation’s premier law school away from requiring the study of U.S. constitutional law towards the study of the laws of foreign nations and international law." Winn uncritically quoted Robert Alt, senior legal fellow and deputy director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, saying, "My understanding is that she instituted three new courses to the required curriculum and, in so doing, got rid of a requirement to take constitutional law." In fact, as Media Matters reports, constitutional law was never a requirement in the first place, and the new curriculum did not come at the expense of constitutional law:
Oops. The original headline of Winn's article got it wrong as well, claiming, "As Dean, Elena Kagan Moved Harvard Away From Requiring Law Students to Study Constitutional Law." The headline now reads, "As Harvard Law Dean, Kagan Did Not Require Study of U.S. Constitutional Law But Did Require Study of International and Foreign Law" -- no longer outright false but still misleading, since there was never such a constitutional law requirement.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:59 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, May 28, 2010 11:03 AM EDT
WorldNetDaily vs. WorldNetDaily
Topic: WorldNetDaily In his book "The Manchurian President," WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein writes that there is "no convincing evidence that [Barack] Obama was born in Kenya." Yet WND has repeatedly suggested that Obama was born in Kenya and even promoted a fraudulent "Kenyan birth certificate" for Obama. But despite that deviation, Klein closely adheres to WND birther doctrine on other "eligibility" issues. Read our full report at Media Matters.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:33 AM EDT
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Erik Rush, May 27 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:43 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, May 28, 2010 11:17 AM EDT
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Simple Answers to Simple Questions
Topic: NewsBusters Media Matters' Simon Maloy asks the important question, "Is Tim Graham really this stupid?" Given that the issue involved is Graham is scowling in a NewsBusters post about Michelle Obama liking a Washington restaurant despite the fact that Bill Ayers appeared there once -- as if a person's presence in the restaurant somehow bespoils the food being served -- the answer is, apparently, yes.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:09 PM EDT
Aaron Kleins Circular Promotion of Glenn Beck
Topic: WorldNetDaily Aaron Klein’s PR agent, Maria Sliwa, issued a press release, also reworked into a WND column, in which Klein -- author of the factually dubious, guilt by association-laden, WorldNetDaily-published book "The Manchurian President" -- affirms Glenn Beck’s own guilt-by-association attacks on Obama administration officials: For the last year, Fox News host Glenn Beck has used his mega-platform to warn that our president is deeply tied to and backed by a fringe, anti-American extremist nexus. Of course Klein would suck up to Beck -- Beck’s commentary has often echoed Klein’s reporting. In his book, Klein and co-author Brenda J. Elliott take much of the credit for exposing the “radical” connections of Van Jones that were later “picked up” by Beck:
Klein’s boss, WND editor Joseph Farah, was a little less shy, declaring that Klein “broke the first major story on Jones who was identified as a self-described radical communist and ‘rowdy black nationalist’ who said his environmental activism was actually a means to fight for racial and class ‘justice.’ " (Cross-posted at Media Matters.)
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:40 PM EDT
CNS' Jeffrey Baselessly Claims Berwick 'Like[s] Rationing"
Topic: CNSNews.com Terry Jeffrey starts his May 26 CNSNews.com column by claiming, "Dr. Donald Berwick of the Harvard Medical School does not like free enterprise, but he does like rationing." But Jeffery offers no evlidence that Berwick "like[s] rationing." Rather, he's merely echoing CNS' previous attacks on Berwick, which take Berwick out of context and ignore the fact that insurance companies are already rationing health care.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:24 PM EDT
Ruddy: 'Gold Has Become An Enemy of The State'
Topic: Newsmax Christopher Ruddy runs to the defense of Glenn Beck and Goldline in his May 26 Newsmax column: Congressman Anthony Weiner’s inane attacks on Glenn Beck and the gold coin dealer Goldline make me think there is some other agenda at work. Though Weiner has named Beck and the company he endorses, Goldline, he has also made clear that Goldline is just one of several gold coin companies overcharging customers. He argues that, if investors were able to smelt their gold coins, the actual value of the pure gold metal itself would be far less than the cost of the coins — sometimes as much as half the cost companies like Goldline charge. First, that's a misleading attack on Weiner's report. The melt value is only one aspect Weiner examined; his report also pointed out that Goldline's retail prices on coins are as much as 102 percent above those of competitors for the exact same coins. Second, Ruddy fails to disclose that Goldline is a Newsmax advertiser, most prominent as the sponsor of the commodities ticker on its MoneyNews front page. Ruddy goes on to mount a larger defense of gold as an investment, despite its status as an "unproductive asset":
And, like any good fearmongering gold hawker, Ruddy makes sure to mention that Franklin Roosevelt "confiscated almost all privately owned gold, including gold coins." Ruddy and Newsmax have a long history of hyping gold to fearmonger people into buying their financial products.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:10 AM EDT
MRC Touts Misleading Attack on Judicial Nominee
Topic: Media Research Center A video highlighted at NewsBusters, hosted by MRC's Eyeblast video site, and promoted by MRC chief Brent Bozell as a "MUST WATCH" is an attack on Obama appeals court nominee Robert Chatigny, whom the video -- created by Naked Emperor News -- falsely portrays as having "empathy" for serial rapist and killer Michael Ross by granting motions delaying the killer's execution. The video selectively cites facts, includes Ross' sexually charged testimony for inflammatory purposes, and downplays the fact that Chatigny believed that Ross' mental competency had not been addressed, particularly by Ross' defense attorney. The video -- and the MRC -- also ignored the fact that a review panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which included future Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey, cleared Chatigny of misconduct charges, calling Chatigny's action, while "unusual," reasonable under the circumstances. Shouldn't the MRC be ashamed to be promoting such a biased and factually deficient attack? We think so.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:52 AM EDT
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
WND Touts Morris' False 'Impeachable Offense' Claim
Topic: WorldNetDaily A May 25 WorldNetDaily article by Drew Zahn uncritically promotes Dick Morris' agreement with Sean Hannity that it was an "impeachable offense" for the Obama administration to allegedly offer a job to Joe Sestak in exchange for dropping out of a Pennsylvania Senate primary race agaisnt Arlen Specter:
At no point does Zahn explain that not only is this not unusual -- not only has Karl Rove bargained with candidates to move them out of races to clear the way for the Bush White House's preferred candidates, the Reagan administration reportedly offered a job to a California senator in exchange for not seeking re-election -- legal experts (of which Morris is not one) have explained that the alleged behavior regarding Sestak is not illegal, let alone an "impeachable offense." But reporting the truth is not WorldNetDaily's purpose -- destroying Obama at any cost is.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:42 PM EDT
Tim Graham's Double Standard of Evidence of Affairs
Topic: NewsBusters Tim Graham whines in a May 25 NewsBusters post:
Graham discounts the one piece of evidence that there is -- the person who is making claims of an affair is the one who says he had an affair with her. Of course, claiming rumors of a candidate's affair shouldn't be reported because the only evidence is the person the candidate had an affair with says so runs completely counter to the MRC's history, which eagerly reported claims by Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers of affairs with Bill Clinton when there was no other evidence. For 9instance, a November 1994 MRC MediaWatch laments that "the national media" won't dig into "the questions surrounding Clinton's personal life": "The stories of Gennifer Flowers or the state troopers on Clinton's personal security detail have been downplayed, as have the sexual harassment claims of Paula Jones." Since Graham's post appeared, the man who claimed to have an affair with Haley has released a series of text messages on the issue. Is that enough evidence for Graham?
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:19 PM EDT
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