Topic: WorldNetDaily
WND spewed a steady stream of anti-Obama smears and lies for more than four years -- and Obama still won re-election. Instead, WND's war against Obama obliterated any journalistic credibility it had. Read more >>
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
NEW ARTICLE: How Obama-Hate Destroyed WorldNetDaily
Topic: WorldNetDaily WND spewed a steady stream of anti-Obama smears and lies for more than four years -- and Obama still won re-election. Instead, WND's war against Obama obliterated any journalistic credibility it had. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:06 PM EST
MRC Peddles Bogus Obama 'Apology Tour' Meme
Topic: Media Research Center We didn't get around to writing about this when it first came around -- it got lost in the shuffle of pre-election Obama-hate -- but it's still worth highlighting. The Media Research Center's Brent Baker took to the Fox News website on Oct. 23 to defend right-wing accusations that -- in the face of all honest fact-checking -- President Obama went on an "apology tour." Baker rather absurdly claimed that it's "flimsy reasoning" to point out that Obama never actually used the word "apologize." Baker even more absurdly bashed CNN's John Berman for failing to "understand the concept of a metaphor" by declaring that Obama's criticism of past foreign policy did not constitute an apology. The only evidence Baker presents of an "apology tour" is that the conservative Heritage Foundation declared it such:
While Baker cited an openly partisan group to back up his views, he made no mention of the fact-checkers that President Obama correctly noted backed up his claim that there was no apology tour.
Indeed, the Heritage Foundation assessment Baker puts his faith in appears to take Obama's quotes out of context in order to paint them as part of an "apology tour." But that sort of slipshod and dishonest "research" is how the MRC operates as well -- to the point that it attacked fact-checkers for doing the fact-checking it wouldn't -- so it's no surprise that Baker would take refuge in it as well.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:05 PM EST
Noel Sheppard's Double Standard on Petraeus Attack
Topic: NewsBusters Noel Sheppard writes in a Nov. 12 NewsBusters post: Remember back in September 2007 when the far-left MoveOn.org created a firestorm with an ad placed at the New York Times headlined "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" Meanwhile, the Daily Caller actually did what Sheppard accused Lauer of almost doing: Sheppard hasn't said a word about this, however. Apparently, it's OK for conservatives to say that about Petraeus, but not liberals. Sheppard might want to explain that double standard sometime.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:53 AM EST
Joseph Farah's Post-Election Solution: Send Him More Money
Topic: WorldNetDaily One of WorldNetDaily's longtime money-making schemes is charging its readers to send letters on their behalf, so it's no surprise that WND editor Joseph Farah would peddle the idea that the way to react to President Obama's re-election is to send him more money. In his Nov. 9 column, Farah declared he had an "answer" to Obama's re-election -- the revival of his "No More Red Ink" campaign, in which you pay WND $29.99 (Farah benignly describes that "investing less than $30") for the privilege of "sending individually addressed letters in red ink to all 241 Republicans in the House by guaranteed Fed Ex delivery" telling them not to raise the federal debt limit. Farah does his best to sell it: "Let’s just say it’s a bargain at that price. Try to imagine what it would cost you to send 240 individual letters to Republican House members if you did it yourself. We do all the work and guarantee the delivery." Farah provides no evidence that spamming members of Congress with letters accomplishes anything. In his Nov. 11 column, Farah makes dubious accusations that the election was stolen, citing as one piece of evidence Aaron Klein's identity fraud stunt. But this eventually turns into a fund-raising pitch:
The column includes numerous links to a page at the WND store for WND's "2012 Voter Fraud Challenge," in which it is noted that "WND filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission charging the Obama campaign with knowingly accepting foreign contributions without even a modicum of scrutiny," based on Klein's little identity fraud stunt. The page helpfully suggests that it will accept donations of up to $5,000. One has to wonder if Farah is simply ginning up anti-Obama hatred just so he can try to make a buck on it.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:01 AM EST
Monday, November 12, 2012
AIM's Kincaid Ignores His Own Role In Bad Conservative Media
Topic: Accuracy in Media The re-election of President Obama prompted some soul-searching on the part of Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid -- though, sadly, not enough. In a Nov. 7 column, Kincaid noted how "prominent conservative news personalities made major miscalculations about where the election was heading and the nature of the two candidates and their campaigns,' and took Fox News to task since "the personalities on Fox News were wildly off the mark in their predictions for the election." Kincaid followed up with a Nov. 9 column in which he noted: "Conservative use of flawed polling data has played into the hands of the liberal media. In order to recapture credibility in covering politics, the conservative media will have to acknowledge not only the bias on the other side, but the bias on their own." But Kincaid has yet to acknowledge his own role in advancing conservative misinformation. As we pointed out, Kincaid laughably claimed on Nov. 1 that anti-Obama filmmaker Joel Gilbert "has nothing to hide" -- even as he refused to divulge who was funding the mass mailing of his film "Dreams From My Real Father" to households in swing states.Kincaid also ignored the fact that Gilbert's film has been discredited by Loren Collins, who has detailed Gilbert's falsehoods and deceptions. If Kincaid can't admit his own failings and deceptions, it's not really that much of a mea culpa.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:38 PM EST
WND Issues Another Dishonest Fact-Check
Topic: WorldNetDaily You know how a couple months back, WorldNetDaily did an ostensible debunking of a chain email about the number of executive orders President Obama has issued that nevertheless treated the claim as if it true? Well, they've done it again. A Nov. 10 WND article by Drew Zahn is headlined "Is THIS what Obama meant by 'revenge'?" Zahn then writes: When Barack Obama said on the campaign trail, “Voting is the best revenge,” was this what he meant? It's not until the third paragraph that Zahn gets around to telling the truth:
So, it's not true, and there's no proof that it is. Yet the headline and first two paragraphs of Zahn's article treats the invented quote as if it's real. That's not how you do a fact-check, Drew.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:24 PM EST
MRC's Graham Leads A Freakout Over A Boy Wearing A Dress For Halloween
Topic: NewsBusters From the folks who brought you the freakout over a mom painting the toenails of her 5-year-old son, it's ... a freakout over a boy wearing a dress on Halloween. The Media Research Center's Tim Graham uses a Nov. 10 NewsBusters post to go into freakout mode over a Huffington Post item by a woman (who works for CNN) who said her son wanted to dress up as the Disney fairy Silvermist for Halloween, and she helped put together the outfit. Graham sneered, "You might know you’re on The Huffington Post when you find an article headlined 'My Son Wore a Dress for Halloween.'" He continued, "Like a good liberal, she fears that her son will be pressured to change" and added that "the mother was ready to claw into anyone who suggested disapproval of this transvestite routine in any way." Remember, the MRC has quite the anti-gay agenda, and this extends to transgenderism, real or perceived. Though it's difficult to fathom how Graham ranting about a boy in a dress falls under NewsBusters' claimed mission of "exposing and combating liberal media bias."
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:31 AM EST
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Supersize WorldNetDaily Post-Election Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Erik Rush, Nov. 7 WorldNetDaily column
-- Phil Elmore, Nov. 7 WND column
-- Jane Chastain, Nov. 7 WND column
-- Robert Ringer, Nov. 7 WND column
-- Joseph Farah, Nov. 8 WND column
-- Matt Barber, Nov. 9 WND column
-- Pat Boone, Nov. 9 WND column
-- Larry Klayman, Nov. 9 WND column
-- Vox Day, Nov. 11 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:52 AM EST
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Who Owns Responsibility For Brent Bozell?
Topic: Media Research Center From a Nov. 9 NewsBusters post on Brent Bozell's weekly appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News show:
So Brent Bozell is going to complain about others spewing "mean-spirited, hateful, partisan rhetoric"? The same guy who called President Obama a "skinny ghetto crackhead"? The same guy who spews partisan hate at every opportunity? The same guy who oversees a group of employees who saw nothing wrong with Rush Limbaugh's three days of misogyny against Sandra Fluke? This is the guy who wants to become the arbiter of civility in politics? Who owns responsibility for Bozell? Doesn't the Media Research Center have a board of directors that will hold him accountable for his increasingly unhinged public behavior (which, one might presume, is reflective of his private behavior)? Doesn't Hannity care that it was on his air that Bozell called Obama a "skinny ghetto crackhead?" What a raging hypocrite. Emphasis on raging.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:28 PM EST
WND's Ellis Washington Goes Godwin -- Again
Topic: WorldNetDaily Ellis Washington goes Godwin on President Obama for the second time in as many weeks, using his Nov. 9 WorldNetDaily column to obsess over the meaning of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" phrase and then inserting Obama into it:
So re-electing Obama is like putting people in concentration camps? Really? But Washington wasn't done pouting over Obama's re-election:
And Washington still wonders why, after spewing such hate, no reputable university will hire him for a tenure-track job.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:48 PM EST
Saturday, November 10, 2012
CNS Thinks Telling The Truth Is A Capitulation
Topic: CNSNews.com How biased is CNSNews.com? Terry Jeffrey's news service believes that telling the truth is a capituation. In an ABC interview, House Republican Speaker John Boehner said, " It’s pretty clear that the president was re-elected. Obamacare is the law of the land." The Nov. 9 CNS article by Matt Coveron the interview carries thet headline "Boehner Capitulates: ‘Obamacare is the Law of the Land’." But Boehner is stating an indisputable fact. That's simply the truth, not a capituation. That CNS apparently can't tell the difference between the two tells you a lot about Jeffrey and Co.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:45 PM EST
Ilana Mercer Doesn't Want The Right to Vote
Topic: WorldNetDaily In the midst of her Nov. 8 WorldNetDaily column complaining about President Obama's re-election, Ilana Mercer writes:
Usually, it's men like Vox Day who don't think women should vote. This is the first time we've encountered a female requesting that the right to vote be taken away from her. Mercer goes on to complain that "For years, those of us who’ve warned about demographics have been dubbed racists." Perhaps that's because people like her write things like this:
And this:
That's pretty much on par with her longtime pining for apartheid.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:27 PM EST
Friday, November 9, 2012
Now That Election's Over, Newsmax's Ruddy Can Criticize Romney Again
Topic: Newsmax Newsmax's main article on President Obama's re-election seemed to sum up the overall mood at the website: "Obama Hands Romney Bitter Defeat." It seems that author David Patten is projecting a bit. Newsmax took a couple stabs at trying to downplay the significance of Obama's win -- one article declared, "Networks Victory-for-Obama Reports Echo the 2000 Bush-Gore Debacle." Actually, not so much. Another article tried to link declines in the stock market to Obama's re-election. In the end, though, even Newsmax couldn't deny reality, and CEO Christopher Ruddy -- who had jumped on Ronald Kessler's Romney-fluffing train a few weeks prior to the election -- penned a Nov. 7 column seeking to lay blame for Mitt Romney's defeat. After noting that "Perhaps the easy explanation is that two hurricanes and two betrayals by Chris Christie killed Mitt Romney's chances" -- and labeling Christie as "Iago" -- Ruddy lays out a point-by-point explanation of "why our pilot Mitt Romney and his plan were so flawed." That gets Ruddy back to where he was several weeks before the election, prior to his endorsement of Romney, when he was praising Obama's foreign policy and criticizing the way Romney's campaign was being run.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:07 PM EST
Joel Richardson's 'Christian Response' To Obama's Re-Election: Hate
Topic: WorldNetDaily Joel Richardson's Nov. 8 WorldNetDaily column is headlined "A Christian response to Obama victory," but it quickly degenerates into to some very un-Christian hate-spewing and name-calling:
Is such hate a "Christian response" as Richardson would have us believe? Unlikely, except in the eyes of the other obsessively anti-Obama self-proclaimed Christians at WND. Richardson goes on to encourage his readers to take the long view and "shift our eyes to the heavenly city, to the country that God is preparing for us," where "the judgment of the many unrighteous, self-serving and corrupt politicians throughout the whole earth" awaits:
If Obama didn't control Richardson's emotions, why did he spend an entire column spewing Obama-hate?
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:26 PM EST
Updated: Friday, November 9, 2012 2:48 PM EST
Tim Graham's Faulty Analogy On Political Newspaper Ads
Topic: NewsBusters Tim Graham writes in a Nov. 4 NewsBusters post:
This is a faulty comparison -- the two situations are nothing alike. The Washington Post reported that there was no "special discount" to MoveOn for the 2007 ad; the Times mistakenly charged MoveOn a lower "standby" rate, $65,000, instead of the standard rate of $142,000. MoveOn said it had no reason to believe it was paying "anything other than the normal and usual charge" and would pay the difference. Still, that's $65,000 (or $142,000) more than was paid to the Seattle Times for the full-page ads by the Republican gubernatorial candidate and a second ad opposing a same-sex marriage referendum. Graham provides no evidence that either the candidate or anti-marriage-equality forces have offered to reimburse the paper for these ads. Only an right-wing anti-media obsessive like Graham could fail to see the difference between the two.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:05 AM EST
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