Topic: WorldNetDaily
Joseph Farah will be guest-hosting G. Gordon Liddy's radio show next week.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Palling-Around-With-Terrorists Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily Joseph Farah will be guest-hosting G. Gordon Liddy's radio show next week.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:09 AM EDT
Saturday, August 14, 2010
NewsBusters Shocked That Local News More Important Than National News
Topic: NewsBusters An Aug. 13 NewsBusters post by Kyle Drennen makes a big deal of how "instead of showing the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, the network's Washington DC affiliate, WUSA-TV, decided to continue with live storm coverage." Drennen presents this as being suspect because "The Evening News has consistently ranked third among the network evening newscasts during Couric's tenure." Why Drennen thinks it's surprising that a local TV station would want to devote more coverage to a devastating storm that cut power to 110,000 people at a time when people are already predisposed to watch news is strange. It's almost as if he's being paid to push an agenda to bash Couric and CBS, no matter how logic-defying the attack.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:57 AM EDT
WND's Mercer Issues Racial Attack on Michelle Obama
Topic: WorldNetDaily Ilana Mercer has decided that smearing Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette was offensive, or racially appropriate, enough for her. From Mercer's Aug. 13 WorldNetDaily column:
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:54 AM EDT
Friday, August 13, 2010
Gay Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Joseph Farah, Aug. 13 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:08 PM EDT
CNS Attacks Official For Being Gay
Topic: CNSNews.com CNSNews.com ventures into the gay-baiting arena with an Aug. 12 article by Jane McGrath asserting that "Conservative groups are expressing concern that David Hansell, an openly homosexual man and former AIDS activist, is currently serving as the acting head – the assistant secretary – of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)." The crux of McGrath's article are unsubstantiated allegations by the right-wing Fanily Research Council that Hansell "conducted a series of meetings aimed at forcing Florida to lift its ban on same-sex adoption" and "is lobbying to cut HHS financial assistance for all Florida adoptions if the state doesn't change its policy." McGrath quoted theFRC's Peter Sprigg as saying that "We have heard from private sources" about theallegations and "Sprigg told CNSNews.com that he is not at liberty to divulge the identities of the private sources who informed him of the alleged meetings." McGrath made no apparent effort to verify Sprigg's claims; she wrote that Hansell "would not grant an interview to CNSNews.com" but answered an unrelated question via email. McGrath also allows anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera to smear Hansell by comparing him to "Kevin Jennings, a former homosexual activist whom President Obama appointed as assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education," adding:
In fact, the student in question was 16, and there wasn't a sexual relationship. (McGrath's article is currently not showing up at CNS; here it is in Google cache.)
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:34 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, August 13, 2010 1:37 PM EDT
WND Rewards Liar With Puff Piece
Topic: WorldNetDaily How does WorldNetDaily reward a writer who forwarded an attack on President Obama and Elena Kagan that was so blatantly and egregiously false that WND was forced to scrub the hell out of it? Why, give him a forum to promote his book. An Aug. 12 WND article touts how "Hundreds of people hungering for Bible truth turned out" for an event in Oklahoma in which WND executive news editor Joe Kovacs read from his book "Shocked by the Bible": "Wow, look at all these people. I'm shocked!" declared Joe Kovacs, the executive news editor of WND and author of the No. 1 best-selling book "Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You've Never Been Told." "I didn't know so many people had an interest in Bible truth these days." Ifyou're interested in actual truth, however, Kovacs is not your guy. As we detailed, Kovacs wrote that Kagan, in her position as Obama's solicitor general, came up "at least nine times on dockets involving Obama eligibility issues." In fact, none of the cases Kovacs cited involved "eligibility." But Kovacs did his job in smearing Obama and Kagan, truth be damned. So Kovacs spreads lies, and WND not only doesn't punish him, it rewards him with a puff piece. That's the moral bankruptcy of WND in a nutshell.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:22 PM EDT
WND Flails At International Baccalaureate Curriculum
Topic: WorldNetDaily An Aug. 10 WorldNetDaily article by Michael Carl is dedicated to attacking the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Why is this univerally respected program being attacked? Because a right-wing evangelist doesn't like it. And an anonymous blogger doesn't like it either. Carl makes no attempt to talk to anyone actually directly involved in IB programs to obtain any response to the criticism. Carl manages to work both George Soros and Bill Ayers into his conspiracy that IB programs are anti-American and anti-Christian. Carl is a former full-time WND employee who now apparently moonlights for it while serving as a pastor. That would seem to explain why Carl has no interest in telling a balanced, fully truthful story.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:25 AM EDT
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Erik Rush's Criticism Fail
Topic: WorldNetDaily Erik Rush's Aug. 12 WorldNetDaily column is dedicated to attacking blogger Matthew Yglesias for writing a Washington Post piece that is, in his words, "a quintessential example of Orwellian Ministry of Propaganda fare, so surreal in its assumptions that it its absurdity is scarcely to be believed, especially to those who do their level best to avoid the Post altogether. It is also a prime example of the composition of progressive racial orthodoxy, which is illustrated very effectively and at several junctures in this piece." But Rush is so busy trying to smear Yglesias that he doesn't bother to quote from the column to rebut anything he writes, beyond noting that Yglesias "casually" used the words "vitriol" and "xenophobia." This, by the way, who casually likened President Obama to a prison rapist, so perhaps Rush is not a person who should complain about the word usage of others.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:37 PM EDT
Shocker: MRC Admits That Conservative Bias Exists
Topic: NewsBusters As we've detailed, the Media Research Center has a long history of pretending there's no such thing as conservative media bias, which makes MRC official Tim Graham's concession to its existence noteworthy. In an Aug. 10 NewsBusters post, Graham tries to make the case that a reporter for a Washington, D.C., TV station was suspended because he exhibited "conservative bias" in claiming that, in Graham's words, "President Obama's a major recipient of BP cash." Of course, Graham (and, apparently, the reporter) botched the fact -- Obama received only $1,000 from BP's PAC in 2004, much less than other candidates that year, and other noted donations came from BP employees, not the company itself. But kudos to Graham for acknowledging that conservative bias exists, which runs counter to the MRC's longstanding policy.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:14 PM EDT
Aaron Klein Anonymous Source Watch
Topic: WorldNetDaily An Aug. 10 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein contains not a single named source in claiming that "The U.S. is pushing Israel into conceding strategic territory." Klein frequently hides behind anonymous sources to attack the Obama administration and shill for the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu. Klein's record of spreading misleading claims and outright falsehoods -- as well as his association with right-wing extremists -- demonstrates that he has not earned the trust needed to use anonymous sources.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:21 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:20 PM EDT
Meanwhile ...
Topic: NewsBusters Media Matters highlights how NewsBusters' Tim Graham attacked Comedy Central's Jon Stewart for being "shameless" in criticizing conservatives' freak-out over the Islamic community center planned near the former site of the World Trade Center when he works for a network that "mocks Jesus and Christians relentlessly, but censors whenever the radical Muslims threaten them." Graham seems to have forgotten that NewsBusters praised Stewart for criticizing Comedy Central's refusal to air a "South Park" episode centered on Muhammad. UPDATE: Graham responds in a cowardly fashion by refusing to let the name "Media Matters" cross his lips, bashing Keith Olbermann for repeating the story by "playing rip-and-read from certain Hillary Clinton-founded Fox-and-Rush watchdogs." Graham also insists that Stewart, on the "South Park" issue, "lightly made fun of the bosses, and then lightly mocked the Muslim death-threateners with Jewish-deli-and-Frisbee jokes." And the singing of the "F-You" song actually "mock[ed] Gospel choirs," not censorious Muslims.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:42 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:31 PM EDT
Newsmax Picks a Side in Florida GOP Gov Primary
Topic: Newsmax When Newsmax announced in an Aug. 9 editorial that it was picking Bill McCollum over Rick Scott in the upcoming Republican primary for Florida governor, it wasn't really a surprise -- Newsmax had already been trashing Scott and puffing McCollum for weeks.
After the editorial ran, Newsmax continued to live it out, attacking Scott and promoting McCollum. A Newsmax editorial is fairly rare, but when it issues one, it usually bends news coverage around it. That's exactly what's happening here.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:03 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:52 AM EDT
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
New Article: Robert Ringer's Voice of Insanity
Topic: WorldNetDaily The WorldNetDaily columnist and author tries to intimidate through hysterical and paranoid attacks on President Obama, whom he refuses to acknowledge as president. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:21 PM EDT
Molotov Baselessly Accuses Obama of Treason
Topic: WorldNetDaily Molotov Mitchell's latest anti-Obama video rant at WorldNetDaily accuses President Obama for purportedly not enforcing border security, claiming that he has "sid[ed] with the cartels" by suing Arizona over its anti-immigration law:
That ol' Molotov claims to be the kind of guy who doesn't throw "treason" around is a minor point at best, since he is the kind of guy who smears La Raza as "the tan Klan" and spread lies about Obama. He's also the kind of guy who wants to see gays killed in Uganda. Speaking of lying about Obama: As defined by many metrics, including the number of Border Patrol agents on the job and the number of illegal immigrants that have been deported, border enforcement is actually up under the Obama administration. Oops! It seems that ol' Molotov should be a tad more circumspect about throwing that "treason" word around by, you know, checking the facts first. UPDATE: Also, Molotov's new friend Sheriff Babeu has a bad habit of hanging out with white nationalists and wacky conspiracy theorists.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:44 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:23 PM EDT
Kincaid: Limbaugh Doesn't Hate Gays Enough
Topic: Accuracy in Media Cliff Kincaid hates gays so much, he's willing to take on Rush Limbaugh over it. From his Aug. 20 Accuracy in Media column:
Even NewsBusters takes a hit for not hating gays as much as Kincaid does:
The rest of Kincaid's rant takes a predictable gay-bashing descent into using the Manning case as an excuse to keep don't ask, don't tell. Kincaid sums up:
So what frees Kincaid from the inner torment that manifests itself in his rabid homophobia?
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:58 PM EDT
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