WND's Gun Columnist Tries To Bring Back Waco to Attack Hillary Topic: WorldNetDaily
Jeff Knox -- who we last saw promoting "pork-infused" bullets as a final insult to dead Muslims -- goes back to the '90s to try and dig up some dirt to attack Hillary Clinton in his June 20 WorldNetDaily column:
Could they end the reign of Obama?
Could the tragic events of Waco in 1993 bring down the president and the Democratic machine after 20 years? Mike McNulty, producer of the Emmy Award winning, Academy Award nominated documentary “Waco: Rules of Engagement” and its follow-up films, “Waco, A New Revelation” and “The FLIR Project,” believes it could. McNulty says that the close ties between the Waco atrocity and members of the Obama administration – including Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder and powerful congressional Democrats – could unravel the administration and the entire Washington Democratic power structure.
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Hillary Clinton’s role in the assault on the Davidian campus and its subsequent cover-up has never been fully disclosed. McNulty says that his information indicates that Mrs. Clinton was not only involved, but in command, directing the FBI’s actions from the White House and leading the subsequent cover-up. The Texas Rangers have said that their objections to the destruction of the Waco evidence were squelched directly by the White House.
Knox doesn't explain why Clinton is responsible for the deaths of people so brainwashed by cult leader David Koresh that they didn't have the sense to flee a burning building.
NewsBusters Doesn't Think Fox News Is Biased Topic: NewsBusters
In a June 22 NewsBusters post, Tom Blumer takes offense at the idea, forwarded by Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald in the wake of the channel hiring Howard Kurtz as a media critic, that Fox News has become "a stable for journalists who have fallen on hard times." Blumer then confirms what we've suspected all along, that nobody at the Media Research Center thinks Fox News is biased:
Overall, what Seitz-Wald doesn't get is that what looks "conservative" to him is more often than not "fair and balanced."
If that's true, the the opposite must be as well: What looks "liberal" to Blumer is more often than not "fair and balanced."
Blumer then goes on to prove just that, as he defended Sean Hannity's attacks on Rep. Keith Ellison:
Congressman Keith Ellison is an Islamic radical, and sharia law treatment of non-Muslims is in many ways comparable to the KKK's enforced treatment of Negroes in the South as second-class citizens and even non-citizens. Ellison's "rabid support for the anti-semitic views of Nation of Islam leader Pastor Louis Farrakhan and the late Black Militant leader Khalid Muhammad" definitely qualify him as an Islamic radical.
Blumer offers no evidence to back up any of this, of course. To the contrary: While Ellison did some work for Farrakhan's Nation of Islam in support of its Million Man March, he pointed out that he has "long since distanced myself from and rejected the Nation of Islam due to its propagation of bigoted and anti-Semitic ideas and statements, as well as other issues." Further, numerous Jewish organizations have defended Ellison against Hannity's Islamophobic attacks.
Apparently, in Blumer's eyes, every Muslim is a radical.
WND Discovers Bono Is A Christian Topic: WorldNetDaily
Most casual music fans were aware of this a long time ago, but it's apparently news to WorldNetDaily: U2 singer Bono is a Christian.
A June 24 WND article by Drew Zahn sure treats this as a massive revelation:
Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, is declaring that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is indeed the Son of God.
In a brand-new interview with Focus on the Family set to air Tuesday, the rock star and activist sounded like “Mere Christianity” author C.S. Lewis who argued Jesus was a lunatic, liar or Lord.
“When people say ‘Good teacher,’ ‘Prophet,’ ‘Really nice guy,’ … this is not how Jesus thought of himself,” Bono said. “So, you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who He said He was or a complete and utter nut case.”
“And I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God,” Bono said, according to a transcript provided to Religion News Service. “I understand that for some people and we need to … if I could be so bold, need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous.”
This is all news to Zahn? Apparently, for he also includes referenes to some of the band's "many songs that include lyrics about God and His coming kingdom," like "Gloria" and "40."
As for Bono sounding like C.S. Lewis, that's nothing new either. In the video for U2's 1995 song "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (which includes Bono's devil-inspired alter ego, MacPhisto), a cartoon Bono is shown reading Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" (about a demon's advice to his apprentice nephew) as he gets hit by a car.
Bono and U2 have injected spiritual and Christian elements into their music all along. We're surprised it took WND this long to notice.
Alan Caruba's Passel of Discredited Claims Topic: Accuracy in Media
Alan Caruba is a longtime anti-global warming bamboozler, and the bamboozlement continues in his June 24 Accuracy in Media column, in which he rants (boldface his):
There is nothing that humans can or should do regarding the Earth’s climate. It is a force that is so vast and powerful that calls for renewable energy, energy conservation, and a “carbon tax” on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are utterly false, a danger to human life, a threat to global economic development, and the work of scoundrels and charlatans.
At present, there has been no warming for almost seventeen years. The Earth is in a natural cooling cycle as the result of another natural cycle, the reduction of the Sun’s radiation that warms the Earth.
In fact, as we've previously documented, the claim that "there has been no warming for almost seventeen years" relies on cherry-picked data and an arbitrary starting point for examining the data; the long-term trend demonstrates continued global warming, no matter what Caruba says.
Caruba also declares of efforts to reduce carbon dioxide levels: "Carbon dioxide is not 'pollution'; it is, along with oxygen, the other gas most vital to all life on Earth." As Caruba certainly knows, nobody's attacking the mere existence of carbon dioxide as a pollutant -- the question is whether elevated levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is contributing to global warming (which appears to be true) and other effects on life on earth. It's simply dishonest and ignorant of Caruba to say such a thing.
Caruba also rants:
Obama continues to conjure up global warming despite overwhelming evidence that it does not exist. Dubbed “climategate”, revelations in 2009 made clear that a small group within the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were deliberately falsifying their climate models.
In fact, the stolen emails that were the basis for "climategate" uncovered no evidence that climate models were falsified or manipulated.
But Caruba is not content to lie and mislead just about global warming. He asserts that the stimulus bill "wasted billions of dollars that accomplished nothing to reduce unemployment and avoid economic stagnation." In fact, the Congressional Budget Office found that as many as 3.3 million jobs were created by the stimulus.
Caruba rants about "the revelation that the IRS engaged in a deliberate program against Tea Party, patriot groups, and even Jewish organizations." But it turns out the IRS also targeted groups with "progressive," "occupy" and "medical marijuana" in their names. So much for that scandal.
Caruba also ranted that thet Obama administration "has reduced and degraded the U.S. military with programs to permit homosexuals to serve and women to be in combat units. An outbreak of sexual assaults—26,000 and most men-on-men—in the military has resulted." In fact, there is no link whatsoever between increased sexual assaults and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Even the Washington Times admits that experts say few of the perpetrators in male-on-male sexual attacks are gay.
The funny part of all this? Caruba's lies were spewed in a column denouncing Obama as "the World’s Greatest Liar."
It was just a little over six months ago that Rick Santorum started writing a column for WorldNetDaily, whose editor, Joseph Farah, had endorsed Santorum's run for president (which, curiously, WND was loath about promoting, a rare case of WND turning down an occasion to engage in self-promotion). Now, he's going away.
Santorum used his June 23 WND column to engage in a round of self-congratulation before stating that it would be his last:
Last year, following the presidential campaign, we formed a group called Patriot Voices that is committed to fighting for all of these issues – faith, family, freedom and opportunity. And now I’ve joined EchoLight Studios as its CEO, a fast-growing faith and family film production company that is using film to promote many of these same ideas. Through Patriot Voices and now EchoLight, I will continue to promote a positive culture and stay engaged in the political process as America looks to find the right leaders in 2016.
Many thousands of you have supported us, and we will continue to fight. But rather than using our pen for this weekly column, we’re going to be using our feet and our voices more going forward. We’ll use our feet to cover as much of the country as we can to meet you and listen to you. And we’ll use our voices to take your message back to Washington and out into the media so that you too can be heard. With the resources we have, we need to make every minute count – and this is the best way for us to do our work going forward.
Santorum could have kept a column going under his name whether he actually wrote it or not (and his use of the third person in discussing "using our pen for this weekly column" indicates he wasn't), but instead he's pulling the plug completely. That's a curious decision.
Did Santorum realize he was being tainted by his association with WND, which so discredited itself in its Javert-esque pursuit of Obama that nobody believes it? Perhaps.
MRC's Gainor Dishonestly Takes Obama's School Remarks Out of Context Topic: Media Research Center
The Media Research Center's Dan Gainor is a loyal right-wing apparatchik, and he's not about to let facts get in the way when he's bashing President Obama.
Gainor wrote a June 20 NewsBusters post complaining that Obama "used a town hall meeting for youth in Belfast to show his contempt for religious education" and "criticized separate religious schools for promoting 'division.'" Gainor went on to complain that "ABC, CBS and NBC all skipped the story, even though it made the rounds in conservative media especially on Wednesday."
Of course, the reason it "made the rounds in conservative media" and not the media in general is because conservative media took Obama's quote out of context. As we'vedocumented, Obama was speaking specifically to the situation in Northern Ireland, which has a lengthy history of animus and violence between Catholics and Protestants.
The faux outrage from Gainor and other right-wingers also ignores one of the core reasons there is an extensive Catholic education system in the U.S. in the first place -- the public schools were dominated by Protestants.
But such facts don't matter to Gainor. He simply went on to rant how "The Obama administration has angered people of faith" by citing the manufactured controversy of "hiding a cross when Obama was speaking at Georgetown."
But then, Gainor is not being paid to pay careful consideration to facts that interfere with his agenda, is he?
WND Won't Report Exodus International Shutdown (But Will Let Anti-Gay Activist Lament It) Topic: WorldNetDaily
You won't find any news articles at WorldNetDaily announcing the decision of Exodus International, which once championed the idea of intense therapy to "change" a homosexual into a heterosexual, to shut down. You will, however, find a column from an anti-gay activist attacking the decision.
Since WND published no news articles about the shutdown of Exodus -- not even stealing an article from another website, as it did last year when Exodus renounced reparative therapy -- the first mention of it comes from a June 21 column by Scott Lively, whose anti-gay operation is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In Lively's mind, the problem with Exodus was not its mission but that its leader, Alan Chambers, made an "unfortunate capitulation to the world" by renouncing reparative therapy and stopped being as anti-gay as Lively is:
It’s one thing, however, to acknowledge that some heaven-bound Christians may struggle with homosexual desires and even conduct, but an entirely different matter to condone and affirm a homosexual “orientation” as if God intended it to be one’s basis for self-identification. The former is solidly biblical; the latter is dangerous heresy. God did not create people to have no choice in a behavior He condemns as an abomination, and He wants us never to identify with our sin nature but to strive always to overcome it. These are fundamental tenets of Scripture.
The world today mocks the notion that homosexuals can change, but what is truly ridiculous, even by secular standards of logic, is the insistence that a person cannot reorient their sexual nature to comport with their heterosexual physiology. Normalcy is, after all, that with conforms to its design, and all of us, even “homosexuals,” have a heterosexual design. That fact is simply self-evident to anyone with a rational mind. Yet Christians, among whom Alan Chambers still counts himself, are required to hold to an even higher standard of truth: God’s Word. Under that standard, the self-evident truth just mentioned is also the perspective of our Omniscient, Omnipotent Creator God: “Such were some of you.” And, of course, there are many ex-”gays” who know the truth of that verse living among us in victory over their former disorientation, just as there were in the early church.
WND hates reporting on things it doesn't like until it can find a way to spin it. That's why you haven't read about anti-immigration activist Chris Simcox's arrest on child sex charges at WND (but you have read about child-sex charges filed against some random Muslim).
Brent Bozell's Suspiciously Deep Video Game Knowledge Topic: Media Research Center
Brent Bozell devoted his June 21 column to attacking the idea that there aren't enough female characters in video games. Then, suddenly, Bozell writes like he's been writing about video games (aside from complaining about how violent they are) for years:
In many "role player" games, characters can be customized by their gamers; and in many games, there is the option for a female character.
Take the popular action game series "Mass Effect," where the Commander Shepard character can be either male or female. The game's manufacturer, BioWare, boasted in 2007 how its female fighter was "very strong, in a way you'd expect from a real-life military officer. She's not a caricature of the idea of role-playing as a female, but instead she's very impressive as a strong female character that's sensitive yet extremely confident and assertive."
BioWare even labored to appease the loony "Think Progress" crowd by offering "same-sex romance options" for Commander Shepard regardless of gender in "Mass Effect 3."
Many role-player game series these days offer female protagonists, including "Dragon Age," "Dragon's Dogma," "Elder Scrolls, "Fable," "Fallout" and "Saints Row," as well as "Halo 4." Most if not all Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games (including the popular "World of Warcraft" and "Star Wars: The Old Republic") also have female-character options.
Fighting female protagonists aren't remotely new:
—Even non-gamers remember "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," which debuted in 1996. Lara Croft was played by Angelina Jolie in a 2001 movie. The game series is still popular.
—The TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" inspired an Xbox video game version in 2002. Before that, there was a "Buffy" game for Nintendo Game Boy Color in 2000.
—Joanna Dark is the protagonist of the "Perfect Dark" series, which debuted in 2000. She's nicknamed "Perfect" in honor of her "flawless performance in training tests."
—Jill Valentine appeared as a playable protagonist in the U.S. police force in the first version of "Resident Evil" in 1996, and many versions (including movies) thereafter.
—Samus Aran was the first popular female action star in the game "Metroid," which was first issued in 1986 and remains a popular character over a quarter-century later. The creators were inspired by Sigourney Weaver's character in the movie "Alien."
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In many "role player" games, characters can be customized by their gamers; and in many games, there is the option for a female character.
Take the popular action game series "Mass Effect," where the Commander Shepard character can be either male or female. The game's manufacturer, BioWare, boasted in 2007 how its female fighter was "very strong, in a way you'd expect from a real-life military officer. She's not a caricature of the idea of role-playing as a female, but instead she's very impressive as a strong female character that's sensitive yet extremely confident and assertive."
BioWare even labored to appease the loony "Think Progress" crowd by offering "same-sex romance options" for Commander Shepard regardless of gender in "Mass Effect 3."
Many role-player game series these days offer female protagonists, including "Dragon Age," "Dragon's Dogma," "Elder Scrolls, "Fable," "Fallout" and "Saints Row," as well as "Halo 4." Most if not all Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games (including the popular "World of Warcraft" and "Star Wars: The Old Republic") also have female-character options.
Fighting female protagonists aren't remotely new:
—Even non-gamers remember "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," which debuted in 1996. Lara Croft was played by Angelina Jolie in a 2001 movie. The game series is still popular.
—The TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" inspired an Xbox video game version in 2002. Before that, there was a "Buffy" game for Nintendo Game Boy Color in 2000.
—Joanna Dark is the protagonist of the "Perfect Dark" series, which debuted in 2000. She's nicknamed "Perfect" in honor of her "flawless performance in training tests."
—Jill Valentine appeared as a playable protagonist in the U.S. police force in the first version of "Resident Evil" in 1996, and many versions (including movies) thereafter.
—Samus Aran was the first popular female action star in the game "Metroid," which was first issued in 1986 and remains a popular character over a quarter-century later. The creators were inspired by Sigourney Weaver's character in the movie "Alien."
Call us overly suspicious, but we seriously doubt that Bozell became this deeply conversant about video games on his own. Just four months ago, he was mindlessly blaming violent video games for the Sandy Hook massacre -- with the sort of right-wing bluster that's more Bozell's style -- and now all of a sudden he's defending in a detailed fashion video games against charges of sexism?
The answer may very well be found elsewhere in the column, where he cites "a Wikipedia page where it reports on 110 entries on female characters." Which is ironic, since Bozell wrote a 2007 column denouncing Wikipedia for allowing an allegedly false claim about him to go uncorrected (so he and his attorney corrected it themselves, thus demonstrating how Wikipedia is supposed to work).
WND's Cashill Ramps Up Anti-Trayvon Bias For Zimmerman Trial Topic: WorldNetDaily
Jack Cashill has made his anti-Trayvon Martin bias abundantly clear in the trial of George Zimmerman, and Cashill's fretting that Zimmerman might be held responsible for Martin's death is growing.
In a June 20 WorldNetDaily article, Cashill frets that the racial makeup of the Zimmerman jury means that his "likely" acquittal will be challenged:
In a case filled with anomalies, chalk up one more: Unless one of the six chosen jurors is booted from the case, George Zimmerman will have an all female jury.
And if the Hispanic Zimmerman is considered white – he would not be on trial if he were not – his jury is all white as well. In any case, there are no blacks among the six jurors or four alternates.
If Zimmerman is acquitted, and he likely will be, the absence of black jurors will likely be someone’s rallying cry. For the record, however, Seminole County is only 12 percent black.
Cashill also frets that "The year has been an existential nightmare for the [Zimmerman] family." Of course, it has been even more of one for the Martin family, but Cashill has already convicted Trayvon in his fevered little brain, so he is incapable of feeling the Martin family's pain.
And in a June 24 WND article, Cashill cheered that experts for the prosecution will not be able to testify that they believe screams on an audio recording of the Martin-Zimmerman encounter came from Martin. He complained that the experts' report, which used "software called Easy Voice Biometrics to determine whether it was Zimmerman who cried out for help on that fateful night in February," was "chock-a-block with arcane pseudo-scientific patois that no jury would ever have been able to understand, to wit, 'Audio CD and 911 data-logging recording both have 16-bit amplitude resolution, which divides the vertical amplitude scae (sic) of the digital signal into 2^16 =65,526 amplitude gradations.'"
Yet Cashill had no problem with arcane software examinations when he was trying to prove that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Barack Obama's first book.
MRC Rants About 'Heavily-Tattooed, Androgynous Lesbian' WNBA Player Topic: Media Research Center
It wouldn't be the Media Research Center if it wasn't denigrating anything that's even remotely non-heterosexual, so of course the MRC is having a fit over WNBA star Brittney Griner.
Lauren Enk whines in a June 18 MRC Culture & Media Institute item: "If you’re looking for a new role model for your daughter, USA Today has a suggestion: heavily-tattooed, androgynous lesbian Brittney Griner." Enk huffed that "USA Today’s Scott Gleeson lauded her as both 'the face of WNBA' and as a 'role model.' He simpered over her sense of humor as she picked out new tattoo ink with her current girlfriend, and hailed the moment of an example of how Griner is 'finally free to be herself' after coming out last April."
Enk's disgust for Griner becomes even more thinly veiled as the piece concludes:
We already know the media will gush over any athlete who comes out of the closet, and even blame discrimination when teams cut underperforming athletes who happen to support the gay agenda. And the sports world certainly has pushed the sexual image of its stars in the past. But, seriously? A tattoo-splattered androgynous lesbian rebel with road rage who dresses like a guy is the new role model for our daughters?
Maybe she should just stick to being a model for men’s clothing instead.
This is the kind of anti-gay agenda we've come to expect from the MRC, and Enk is certain doing what she's being paid to do.
WND Takes the Birther Bait Again Topic: WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily has toned down its birther coverage since President Obama's re-election proved its four-year anti-Obama jihad to have no effect whatsoever beyond discrediting itself, but even WND will still swallow easy birther bait.
Thus, we have a June 22 WND article by Drew Zahn taking very seriously how Yahoo! News briefly and erroneously claimed Obama was born in Kenya. Zahn tries to peddle a conspiracy theory by pondering if Yahoo!'s mistake was "a sign of something more," then rehashes all the old discredited conspiracy theories about the "purported copy of Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate" released by the White House.
Zahn, as is WND policy, can't be bothered to point out how Mike Zullo's Cold Case Posse has been discredited, and he certainly won't say anything about these conspiracies in the way Dr. Conspiracy has summed it up:
Given the independent verifications that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, there has never been any sense to the birther claims that Obama’s long form birth certificate PDF was the creation of a human forger. What they did was to dig deeper and deeper into bits of the file until they went beyond their competence, found something they didn’t understand, and then claimed that it was an anomaly that proved forgery.
The infamous Maricopa County Cold Case Posse published analyses from unqualified amateurs who argued that the Obama form was a fake because the hardware and software they tried didn’t give the same results. They basically said that because the Obots couldn’t match, detail for detail, the White House PDF, that it must be a fake (never mind the proof of the external proofs that it was authentic).
The fact that Zahn -- and everybody else at WND -- deliberately ignores facts that don't comport with its anti-Obama agenda despite being repeatedly caught in the act is just one more reason why (c'mon, say it with me) nobody believes WorldNetDaily.
CNS Takes Putin's Side on Syria Topic: CNSNews.com
WorldNetDaily isn't the only ConWeb component siding with Bashar Assad's murderous regime in Syria.
A June 16 CNSNews.com article by Patrick Goodenough promotes Russian leader Vladimir Putin's attack on a reporter who repeated a statement by British leader David Cameron that "those supporting the Syrian leader had the blood of Syrian children on their hands," and his mention of of a video purportedly showing "a jihadist rebel leader cutting out and making as if to eat the heart of a Syrian soldier."
While Goodenough admits the video has been promoted by a "pro-Assad group," his article is clearly tilted toward those who advocate against the U.S. arming Syrian rebels and makes only a passing mention of the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons.
The fact that CNS is apparently taking sides with Obama is another piece of evidence showing how deep the anti-Obama hate is at the "news" website.
regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own people - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/putin-cites-syrian-rebel-mutilation-video-are-these-people-you-want-support#sthash.hIx588GX.dpuf
a video clip circulating last month apparently showing a jihadist rebel leader cutting out and making as if to eat the heart of a Syrian soldier. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/putin-cites-syrian-rebel-mutilation-video-are-these-people-you-want-support#sthash.hIx588GX.dpuf
those supporting the Syrian leader had the blood of Syrian children on their hands, Putin reacted angrily. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/putin-cites-syrian-rebel-mutilation-video-are-these-people-you-want-support#sthash.hIx588GX.dpuf
those supporting the Syrian leader had the blood of Syrian children on their hands, Putin reacted angrily. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/putin-cites-syrian-rebel-mutilation-video-are-these-people-you-want-support#sthash.hIx588GX.dpuf
those supporting the Syrian leader had the blood of Syrian children on their hands, Putin reacted angrily. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/putin-cites-syrian-rebel-mutilation-video-are-these-people-you-want-support#sthash.hIx588GX.dpuf
those supporting the Syrian leader had the blood of Syrian children on their hands, Putin reacted angrily. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/putin-cites-syrian-rebel-mutilation-video-are-these-people-you-want-support#sthash.hIx588GX.dpuf
those supporting the Syrian leader had the blood of Syrian children on their hands, Putin reacted angrily. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/putin-cites-syrian-rebel-mutilation-video-are-these-people-you-want-support#sthash.hIx588GX.dpuf
WND Columnist Takes Obama's Remarks On School Out of Context Topic: WorldNetDaily
Patrice Lewis rants in a June 21 WorldNetDaily column:
It was a remark meant for no other purpose than to be divisive.
When President Obama stood in front of a crowd in Northern Ireland and said, “If towns remain divided – if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden – that, too, encourages division and discourages cooperation.”
In other words, the president was suggesting that private and/or religious schools encourage division and discourage cooperation. Was this remark meant to be unifying? What other purpose could such a hostile suggestion have except to be divisive?
Well, let's think about where Obama was speaking, Ms. Lewis. He was in Northern Ireland, which -- as we pointed out when CNS' Terry Jeffrey similarly pulled Obama's statement out of context -- has a lengthy history of violence between Catholics and Protestants. Lewis also forgets that one reason there is a large system of Catholic schools in the U.S. is because the public schools were largely controlled by Protestants.
But Lewis doesn't care about context or history, because she's in the middle of a massive anti-education rant:
If there’s one thing totalitarian governments detest, it’s citizens who can think for themselves and who question the ever-expanding role of government. The easiest way to prevent such seditious thoughts is to seize children at a young age and force them into central indoctrination centers, where they are taught that any questioning of government mandates is subversive and wrong. Hitler demonstrated the effectiveness of these techniques.
When our president suggests that private schools – noted for their academic excellence and high moral standards, as well as their willingness to accept students of all races – discourage cooperation, it sounds eerily like he’s referring to cooperation with government authority.
Is Lewis denying that private schools indoctrinate their children like public schools do? Surely not -- she believes education is indoctrination and brainwashing, but that the parents are the ones who should do it.
Newsmax Tries to Cash In on Gandolfini's Death Topic: Newsmax
A June 20 article on Newsmax's health website, by Charlotte Libov, touts how the death of actor James Gandolfini via heart attack is "tragically common," quoting a doctor saying, "When you’re on vacation, you don’t eat the same way that you do when you’re at home. People tend to indulge, and that can lead directly to a heart attack."
Scattered throughout Libov's article are links reading, "These 4 Things Happen Right Before a Heart Attack — Read More." These lead to a 35-minute video video featuring the doctor quoted in Libov's article, Chauncey Crandall, providing "startling presentation" about heart attacks.
This leads into a page where one can subscribe to Crandall's Heart Health Report -- published, of course, by Newsmax, where Crandall serves as "medical editor" -- and receive all sorts of freebies in the process.
It's a bit crass for Newsmax to try to make money on Gandolfini's death, but Newsmax has alwaysbeen about trying to fleece its readers by capitalizing on whatever's in the news.
WND Ignores Child Sex Charges Against Anti-Immigration Activist Topic: WorldNetDaily
A June 21 WorldNetDaily article highlights how "A University of Washington neurobiology student charged with child rape after being accused of picking up a 12-year-old girl from the Seattle streets and taking her to his apartment has been identified as a volunteer with a leading Islamic activist organization." It even quotes anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller declaring that "Muslim men in Islamic cultures have no obligation to control themselves."
Meanwhile, a more serious case of alleged child sex abuse has gone unreported by WND, even though it involves a former ally.
Chris Simcox, co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a self-appointed border patrol group, has been arrested on suspicion of molesting three young girls. The Southern Poverty Law Center has noted that Simcox's first wife made child abuse allegations against him, and that his third wife obtained a restraining order against him.
WND has long been a promoter of Simcox's anti-immigration efforts, touting its claims of having aided the capture of illegal immigrants and endorsing his efforts at "vigilante justice." He even appeared as a guest on Joseph Farah's onetime radio show and played a starring role in a book on illegal immigration by then-WND reporter Jon Dougherty. Jerome Corsi took the side of Simcox and other anti-immigration activist when another activist, Jim Gilchrist, endorsed Mike Huckabee for president in 2008.
Despite Simcox's other troubles, which include him failing to deliver on promises to spend money he raised on a highly secure border fence by instead putting up a barbed-wire cattle fence -- something else WND has failed to tell its readers about -- WND was still featuring his work, most recently in 2010 in an article by Anita Crane.
So, WND will tell you about alleged sexual abuse involving a Muslim but not abuse involving one of their own. That's yet another reason nobody believes WND.
Jeff Knox -- who we last saw promoting "pork-infused" bullets as a final insult to dead Muslims -- goes back to the '90s to try and dig up some dirt to attack Hillary Clinton in his June 20 WorldNetDaily column:
In a June 22 NewsBusters 
Most casual music fans were aware of this a long time ago, but it's apparently news to WorldNetDaily: U2 singer Bono is a Christian.
Alan Caruba is a 
It was just a little over six months ago that Rick Santorum started 
The Media Research Center's Dan Gainor is a loyal right-wing apparatchik, and he's not about to let facts get in the way when he's bashing President Obama.
You won't find any news articles at WorldNetDaily announcing the decision of Exodus International, which once championed the idea of intense therapy to "change" a homosexual into a heterosexual, to shut down. You will, however, find a column from an anti-gay activist attacking the decision.
Brent Bozell devoted his June 21 
Jack Cashill has made his anti-Trayvon Martin bias 
It wouldn't be the Media Research Center if it wasn't denigrating anything that's even remotely non-heterosexual, so of course the MRC is having a fit over WNBA star Brittney Griner.
WorldNetDaily has toned down its birther coverage since President Obama's re-election proved its 
Patrice Lewis rants in a June 21 WorldNetDaily 
A June 20 
A June 21 WorldNetDaily 
