Topic: NewsBusters
NewsBusters blogger Jack Coleman is such a "recovering former liberal journalist" that he's a right-wing demagogue who cares nothing about facts as he bashes Rachel Maddow and defends right-wing crazies. Read more >>
Friday, July 19, 2013
NEW ARTICLE -- NewsBusted: The Coleman File
Topic: NewsBusters NewsBusters blogger Jack Coleman is such a "recovering former liberal journalist" that he's a right-wing demagogue who cares nothing about facts as he bashes Rachel Maddow and defends right-wing crazies. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:31 AM EDT
WND's Molotov Mitchell Is Just As Thin-Skinned As Joseph Farah
Topic: WorldNetDaily It appears that Molotov Mitchell is as thin-skinned as has WorldNetDaily boss, Joseph Farah. The overall theme of Mitchell's July 16 WND video is getting revenge on Glenn Beck for having "stole our show title" by naming one of the shows on his Blaze TV "For The Record" by pretending his hateful little video is now "The Blaze, Created by Molotov Mitchell." Here's a screenshot: Perhaps if Mr. Mitchell had shown a little foresight and trademarked the name of his show for webcasting purposes, he wouldn't have this problem. Or perhaps he did try but was rejected because it was too common of a title to trademark. For instance, a 2008 documentary on Britney Spears is titled "Britney: For the Record." Did Mitchell ask permission from Spears before cribbing her title? We suspect not. By the way, this is at least Mitchell's second video on the subject. Back in January, he dedicated an entire video to an "open letter" to Beck begging him to change the show's name. Uh, yeah. Farah and ol' Molotov deserve each other, don't they?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:54 AM EDT
Thursday, July 18, 2013
CNS Promotes Bishop's Weird Threat Against Gay Nominee, Hides Cardinal's Slur
Topic: CNSNews.com A July 15 CNSNews.com article by Michael W. Chapman promotes an apparent threat made by a Catholic bishop in the Dominican Republic against an "openly gay" Obama administration nominee as ambassador to the country:
Chapman did not make any attempt to explain what Cedano meant by claiming that Brewster "is going to suffer and will have to leave," but it sure sounds like a threat, doesn't it? One gets the feeling that Chapman seems quite OK with that. Chapman also hid an anti-gay slur voiced by the Dominican Republic's Catholic cardinal. He writes:
But the Daily Mail reports that the cardinal has expressed much more than "disappointment": He also referred to Brewster as a "maricón" -- slang for "faggot" or "sissy" -- during a press conference. Chapman made no mention of this in his article. If Chapman has no problem with a bishop threatening a gay man, why would he get all squemish about an anti-gay slur? Perhaps he's trying to protect the Catholic Church from folks who might look askance at a man of God using such vile language.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:36 PM EDT
Newsmax Touts Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit Backed By Fringe Medical Group
Topic: Newsmax A July 11 Newsmax article by Todd Beamon promotes a lawsuit by a Texas doctor seeking to stop the individual mandate in health care reform. But Beamon buries the doctor's ties to a fringe medical organization that's backing the lawsuit. Beamon waits until the 18th paragraph to reveal that Steven Hotze's lawsuit is being represented by Andrew Schlafly, counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which Beamon describes only as "a conservative nonprofit association founded in 1943 that seeks to 'fight socialized medicine and to fight the government takeover of medicine,' according to its website." In fact, the AAPS is a right-wing group that peddles fringe medical theories and political conspiracies. AAPS has defended corrupt doctors that prescribed thousands of pain pills per day to patients, some of whom died of overdoses or resold the pills. Not only did AAPS fight health care reform under the Clinton administration, it peddled Vince Foster conspiracy theories. Perhaps most notoriously, in 2005 the AAPS' Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published an attack on illegal immigrants, claiming that leprosy "was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy." In fact, there had been just 431 reported cases of Hansen's disease, or leprosy, over the "past three years" in question. Additionally, Hotze himself holds some fringe views. He's a proponent of "bioidentical" hormone replacement that are not supported by science and are potentially harmful. He also once signed onto a "Manifesto for the Christian Church" that proclaimed, among other things, that "Biblical spanking" that results in "temporary or superficial bruises or welts" should not be considered a crime" and "Medical problems are frequently caused by personal sin." He's also anti anti-gay activist who has funded anti-gay candidates and campaigns in his native Houston. This is who Newsmax thinks is a credible opponent of Obamacare.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:26 PM EDT
Trayvon Martin (And Obama) Derangement Syndrome, Supersize WorldNetDaily Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Ted Nugent, July 15 WorldNetDaily column
-- Mychal Massie, July 15 WND column
-- Dennis Prager, July 15 WND column
-- John Rocker, July 15 WND column
-- Les Kinsolving, July 15 WND column
-- Pamela Geller, July 16 WND column
-- Joseph Farah, July 16 WND column
-- Erik Rush, July 17 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:27 AM EDT
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
NewsBusters Pretends 'Stand Your Ground' Had Nothing To Do With Zimmerman Trial
Topic: NewsBusters NewsBusters appears to want to squelch discussion of "stand your ground" laws in numerous states by insisting that such laws had nothing to do with the trial of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin:
In fact, while "stand your ground" was not specifically invoked by Zimmerman's defense lawyers, it's the centerpiece of Florida self-defense laws, and jury instructions in self-defense cases in Florida have changed because of "stand your ground." Further, one of the Zimmerman jurors has stated that the stand-your-ground law was discussed during jury deliberations. In other words, it was a factor. NewsBusters simply wants to pretend it wasn't.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:02 PM EDT
Is WND Mocking Rachel Jeantel's Weight?
Topic: WorldNetDaily In linking to a WorldNetDaily article recounting Rachel Jeantel's statement that Trayvon Martin had subjected George Zimmerman to "whoop-ass" prior to Zimmerman shooting Martin to death, a WND email teaser promotes the story with the headline: "A big can of whoop-a--: U.S. mesmerized by Jeantel": The tone of the email suggests that WND is working in some mocking of Jeantel's plus-size figure along with its story tease. That's pretty low, even for WND. (That ad about FEMA camps embedded in the email, on the other hand, is totally up WND's alley.)
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:46 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:47 PM EDT
Black Conservative At CNS Defends Racial Profiling
Topic: CNSNews.com Bob Parks announces what we're in for in the headline of his July 14 CNSNews.com blog post: "Pundits Lament 'Profiling of Blacks,' But Don't Some of Us Kinda Invite It?" Parks starts by complaining that "MSNBC and CNN are both vying for the position of being the new 'Black Entertainment Television,' giving air time to every black face they can find to give an opinion of the 'not guilty' verdict in the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin murder trial." Somehow Fox News gets a pass on this, even though it gave air time to extremists like Erik Rush, who has called for the death of all Muslims in the aftermath of the Boston bombings and has called for armed revolution against President Obama. Parks goes on to describe how he's a victim of racial profiling, but he's mostly OK with it because it's only young blacks who pose any actual threat, and besides, it can all be blamed on liberals somehow:
Parks somehow leaps from this to spouting conspiracy theories about the George Zimmerman trial:
By the way, Parks is a video producer for the Media Research Center.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:11 PM EDT
WND's Farah: I Make Maddow 'Blush Like A Heterosexual Schoolgirl'
Topic: WorldNetDaily We've previously documented Joseph Farah's latest thin-skinned response to criticism, this time from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Farah has now followed up in his usual thin-skinned way by devoting a column to it. Farah predicably rants that Maddow is engaging in "modern-day blacklisting" of him "because I published a book about Obama’s provably illegitimate and fraudulent birth certificate." Farah then goes to a really weird place:
Yeah, he really said that. And Farah complaining about "Maddow’s abject fear of actual debate with me" is really rich, given that Farah and WND have systematically hidden from their readers any and all evidence that disproves his claim that Obama's birth certificate is "provably illegitimate and fraudulent." But that's the birther way. Dr. Conspiracy notes that Carl Gallups -- the WND-published birther preacher who peddles his Obama-hate under the pseudonym PP Simmons -- challenged any “Obot” to call into his Internet radio show and prove that Obama is even a citizen. One did (around 65:00), and Gallups shouted him down and cut him off after a few seconds. If Farah can't do something so simple and journalistically ethical as report on, say, John Woodman's birther-debunking book, why should Maddow treat Farah with respect he hasn't earned?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:57 AM EDT
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
MSNBC Host's Descriptions Not As Imaginary As MRC Thinks
Topic: Media Research Center Kyle Drennen writes in a July 15 Media Research Center item:
But Roberts didn't imagine those lines of attack -- they come straight from real life. Denigrating gays as disease-ridden pedophiles is the stock in trade of homophobes like WorldNetDaily's Les Kinsolving and other anti-gay activists. The idea that woman talking about birth control makes her a slut is what Rush Limbaugh said about Sandra Fluke last year -- an attack the MRC condoned and even encouraged. And immigrant- and Hispanic-bashing is what the typical Fox News viewer believes in. If Drennen think Roberts merely "imagined" those lines of attack, he's not a very good media monitor.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:28 PM EDT
WND's Simpson: Soccer Fights Demonstrate Latinos Shouldn't Be U.S. Citizens
Topic: WorldNetDaily Barbara Simpson writes in her July 14 WorldNetDaily column:
So, Simpson is basically suggesting that Latinos be barred from entering the U.S. because of soccer brawls. It's not like America doesn't have a tradition of violence at sports events (though, to be fair, without the beheading and quartering). One could actually say that fighting Latino soccer fans are well with the American tradition. So let's not pretend that Simpson is all that worried about "cultural diffrences" -- she just wants to fearmonger about illegal immigrants, and immigrants in general. She goes on to declare that immigration reform means "the end of the USA as we’ve known it."
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:33 PM EDT
PolitiFact Busts CNS on Food Stamp Claim
Topic: CNSNews.com In a July 8 CNSNews.com article, Elizabeth Harrington reported that "The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population," adding, "That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of full-time private sector workers in the U.S." It turns out that isn't quite true. Examining Allen West's repeating a version of Harrington's claim, PolitiFact rated the claim "false," pointing out that there is likely overlap in participation in the food aid programs Harrington counted to achieve her total, meaning that the number of people in the programs is probably less than Harrington claimed. Harrington also very narrowly defined her number of working Americans to "full-time private sector workers," which is misleading at best and dishonest at worst. PolitiFact states:
PolitiFact concludes:
Will Harrington correct the information in her article? Time will tell.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:53 PM EDT
WND Ignores Agreement To Bash Colorado Gun Magazine Law
Topic: WorldNetDaily Jack Minor uses a July 13 WorldNetDaily article to falsely fearmonger about "draconian gun control laws" in Colorado, particularly one involving gun magazines:
But Minor failed to tell his readers about an agreement between Colorado state attorneys and county sheriffs -- made public three days before Minor's article was published -- that avoids exactly what he was fearmongering about. The Associated Press reported:
Minor wouldn't have had much of an article if he had told the full truth about the gun magazine law.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:36 AM EDT
Monday, July 15, 2013
MRC's Hypocritical Attack on Jenny McCarthy
Topic: Media Research Center Scott Whitlock howls in a July 15 Media Research Center item that "ABC has officially announced that one of the vacant spots on The View will be filled by Catholic-bashing, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Jenny McCarthy":
Whitlock's outrage over McCarthy anti-vaccine activism might be taken more seriously if his employer wasn't doing the same thing. Just last week, the MRC was fearmongering about Gardasil and other HPV vaccines, hyping its alleged "dangerous side effects" even though the Centers for Disease Control considers such vaccines safe. In the same vein, a July 15 MRC Business & Media Center item by Kristine Marsh laments "vaccination scares led by the media and celebrities championing outdated science." Like Whitlock, Marsh makes no mention of her employer's own vaccination scares.
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:47 PM EDT
When Did Mike Zullo Become A Lieutenant?
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily still hasn't given up on birtherism yet. From a July 13 WND article by Bob Unruh:
Wait -- when did Mike Zullo become "Lt. Mike Zullo"? We have no idea. Dr. Conspiracy notes that Zullo has also been referred to as "Detective Zullo" and "Commander Zullo," adding: "I have no knowledge (and I have been paying attention) that Zullo bears any law enforcement title in his role heading the Maricopa County Arizona Cold Case Posse, a 501(3)(c) non-profit educational charity. A couple of decades ago, it is reported, Zullo had a job with a municipal police department, but the title he held then is not known." We've sent an email to Unruh requesting information on Zullo's title, but we have not heard back at the time of this post.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:59 PM EDT
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