Topic: WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily's managing editor portrays himself as a journalist who hates it when others lie, but he's clearly too consumed by his far-right agenda to honestly write about anything. Read more >>
Thursday, August 1, 2013
NEW ARTICLE: The Kupelian Conundrum
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily's managing editor portrays himself as a journalist who hates it when others lie, but he's clearly too consumed by his far-right agenda to honestly write about anything. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:55 AM EDT
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
MRC's Gainor, Bozell Miss The Point on Reza Aslan
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center's Dan Gainor makes an attempt to defend FoxNews.com's atrocious interview with author Reza Aslan at, of course, FoxNews.com:
Gainor is missing the point. The issue is not that Green asked the question; it's that she spent most of the 9-minute interview re-asking the question, and much of the rest of the time insisting that Aslan respond to criticisms of his book that Green had yet to do any discussion of its contents. Indeed, as the Washington Post's Erik Wemple points out, Green's line of questioning was a clear sign that she hadn't read the book whose author she was interviewing. Gainor makes no mention of that; instead, he attacks Wemple for daring to criticize Green, adding, "In the liberal media, one dare not ever question the motives of Muslims." Meanwhile, Gainor's boss, Brent Bozell, managed to get it even less in a Fox News appearance. Like Gainor, Bozell defended Green for asking the question, ignoring that she spent most of the interview obsessing over the issue. Bozell, however, spent most of the appearance bashing Aslan, bizarrely claiming that Alsan is "not a very good Muslim" if he put scholarship before his religion. We have to wonder: Does Bozell think Robert Spencer is a "good Christian" because he writes books trashing Islam? Bozell also complained that Aslan said "he had a history degree in religion. In fact, he doesn't." This appears to be a line of attack taken from the conservative Catholic publication First Things, which splits hairs over the fact that Aslan's Ph.D. is actually in the sociology of religion. As TPM' Josh Marshall writes:
It seems that, like Green, Gainor and Bozell are looking to bash an author of a book they can't be bothered to read. As Aslan himself pointed out about his Fox interview, it's all about selling a product, and fear sells a product.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:32 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:37 PM EDT
WND's Mitchell Smears Huma Abedin As A 'Muslim Brotherhood Asset-Slash-Mole'
Topic: WorldNetDaily Molotov Mitchell channels his WorldNetDaily co-worker Aaron Klein in his latest WND video, playing guilt-by-association to smear Huma Abedin as a "Muslim Brotherhood asset-slash-mole": A few moments later in his video, without any trace of irony, ol' Molotov mocked conspiracy theorists who thought that George Zimmerman's rescue of a family from a wrecked SUV was staged. Go figure.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:15 PM EDT
No, Michael Reagan, Obama Did Not Support A 'Stand Your Ground' Law
Topic: Newsmax Michael Reagan writes in his July 29 Newsmax column:
As we've previously noted, Obama supported a change in Illinois' "castle doctrine," which is not analogous to Florida's "stand your ground" law.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:02 PM EDT
WND Now Compiling 'Big List' of 'SWAT Raids On the Innocent'
Topic: WorldNetDaily Having apparently grown at least temporarily bored with its "big lists" of female teachers who have sex with students and "black mob violence," WorldNetDaily is starting up another one: "SWAT raids on the innocent." Jack Minor explains in a July 28 WND article:
So, actually, it's not so big -- Minor doesn't list that many, and he has to go back to 1998 to compile as many as he does. And at least one of the cases he cites is not as "innocent" as he portrays. He writes:
Minor doesn't think that Shiflett's clear threat was sufficient cause to justify an armed response to him, "innocent" or not? Minor avoided a related controversy to this case, in which WND's Bob Unruh was accused by a county sheriff of misquoting him in a WND article. Unruh denied it of course, then attacked the sheriff for not telling him the whole story.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:39 AM EDT
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
AIM's 'Citizens Commission on Benghazi' Is A Kangaroo Court
Topic: Accuracy in Media A July 29 Accuracy in Media post by Roger Aronoff announced AIM's formation of a "Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi." This group, Aronoff claimed, "will focus on resolving some of the many questions surrounding the September 11th attacks last year on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and the nearby CIA Annex, that remain unanswered to this day." Actually, this "citizens' commission" looks more like a kangaroo court. Here are the people on AIM's little commission:
It says a lot about AIM's panel that at least four of them -- Bailey, Vallely, McInerney and Jones -- are birthers. Additionally, West has called Obama a "usurper and charlatan," which is birther-friendly language. Of the rest, Lopez is a supporter of the MEK, which until recently was considered a terrorist group by the US government, and has written for the rabidly anti-Muslim Clarion Project; Simmons says the U.S. should profile students from Muslim countries and claims waterboarding is not torture; and Lyons claims that the scandal involving an extramarital affair by David Petraeus was a cover for Benghazi, suggesting that slain ambassador Christopher Stevens was supposed to be kidnapped and held hostage in exchange for release of "blind sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman. Only Morris appears to have made no public statements attacking Obama, and even that is suspect given that he's on a "citizens' commission" with other conspiracy theorists and Obama-haters. Media Matters reports that during AIM's press conference announcing the "citizens' commission," several speakers lauded Fox News for its role in pushing forward attacks on the Obama administration over Benghazi. Speakers also repeated discredited claims, such as that a stand-down order had been issued preventing a military response to the Benghazi attack. So far, it looks like AIM's "citizens' commission" has as much credibility -- and as much interest in fairness and facts -- as Joe Arpaio's "cold case posse" on Obama's birth certificate.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:44 PM EDT
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Supersize WorldNetDaily Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Christopher Monckton, July 16 WorldNetDaily column
-- Devvy Kidd, July 17 WND column
-- Robert Ringer, July 17 WND column
-- Larry Klayman, July 19 WND column
-- Gina Loudon, July 21 WND column
-- Erik Rush, July 24 WND column
-- Joseph Farah, July 25 WND column
-- Larry Klayman, July 26 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 5:59 PM EDT
CNS Flip-Flops, Restores 'Waste Watch' Name
Topic: CNSNews.com Remember the big name change for CNSNews.com's Waste Watch feature to the Golden Hookah Award a couple weeks back? Well, never mind. CNS has changed the name back to Waste Watch, with no explanation provided for the flip-flop. As the screenshot indicates, it still considers promotion of a cancer-preventing HPV vaccine to be a waste of money.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:15 PM EDT
Yes, David Kupelian Knows A Lot About Lying
Topic: WorldNetDaily David Kupelian begins his July 28 WorldNetDaily column by declaring, "I thought I knew a lot about lying." Why, yes, he does. As we've documented, Kupelian has used his position as WND managing editor to peddle myths, bias, and outright lies about President Obama and related subjects. But, sadly, Kupelian wasn't making the kind of confession he needed to in order to properly repent for his sins (just like his boss, Joseph Farah). Rather, he's shilling for WND's new book by former Soviet Bloc intelligence official Ion Mihai Pacepa (another WND-linked writer who, like Reza Kahlili, does not make public appearances unaltered).In desperately trying to link Pacepa to Obama, Kupelian trots out his usual hateful smears:
Of course, Kupelian is something of a sociopath as well. What other kind of person who seek to so desperately try and personally destroy a president and pretend it's "journalism"?
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:10 AM EDT
Monday, July 29, 2013
MRC Howled About Journolist, Is Silent About Groundswell
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center howled when the existence of Journolist -- an email list that included journalists and liberal think-tankers discussing political issues -- was revealed. NewsBusters alone has six pages of posts referencing it, and the MRC has two pages of links. MRC chief Brent Bozell declared that Journolist proved that journalists are "political strategists" who serve as "a shameless channel for leftist message coordination." Bozell added, "What's most shocking is the silence. How many in the "mainstream" press are publicly denouncing those members of JournoList for their blatant disregard of journalistic ethics? Listen to the crickets..." Last week, Mother Jones revealed the existence of Groundswell, an email list for conservative journalists and think-tankers that demonstrated that right-wing journalists are little more than a shameless channel for message coordination. What has the MRC had to say about Groundswell? Listen to the crickets. No MRC site, including NewsBusters, has made a peep to date about Groundswell despite all the noise it made denouncing Journolist. Hypocrisy? Double standard? You bet. But the MRC is hardly a stranger to that.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:09 PM EDT
WND's Geller Smears Muslim Author for Writing A Book on Jesus
Topic: WorldNetDaily Pamela Geller uses her July 23 WorldNetDaily column to take potshots at author Reza Aslan for daring to write a book on Jesus:
Needless to say, GHeller doesn't back up any of smears of Aslan. As Aslan pointed out in a FoxNews.com interview by the hostile and misguided Lauren Green, he holds numerous degrees and wrote the book as a historian, not a Muslim. Yet Geller wants us to believe that Aslan is inferior to her Muslim-hating comrade, Robert Spencer:
But unlike Aslan, Spencer has no documented scholarship in studying Islam. And if Aslan is disqualifed from writing about Jesus because he is a Muslim, Spencer -- a Melkitte Catholic -- is similarly disqualifed from writing about Islam. Further, as one critic has pointed out, Spencer does not speak or understand Arabic, which one would think would be a prerequisite to be the scholar of Islam that Spencer proclaims himself to be. Another critic says that Spencer's book "goes to an extreme in its disregard for proper source criticism, and its arguments have more in common with those skeptical and atheist critics of early Christianity than with the best of modern historical scholarship." Geller wants us to believe that an anti-Muslim activist should be more trusted to write about Muslims than a highly credentialed religious historian's work on Jesus.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:47 PM EDT
Newsmax's Latest Scheme: Fleece The Government For All It's Worth
Topic: Newsmax Newsmax has a notable history of promoting dubious financial schemes to its readers. Now Newsmax is at it again -- this time with one that would seem to be at cross purposes to its conservative agenda. Media Matters' Simon Maloy details how the Newsmax-published Franklin Prosperity Report is telling its audience to take advantage of a "weird trick" to go on taxpayer-funded vacations and "add $1000 to monthly Social Security checks," despite Newsmax being otherwise opposed to instances of government waste. The Newsmax page telling you all about it says that people over 50 can "Grab up to $20,500 of the trillions in money, services, This is the usual Newsmax modus operandi -- throwing in a bunch of "free" reports on top of a "free" trial subscription to two Newsmax newsletters that you must cancel at the end of the "free" period to avoid being charged for an entire year's subscription to them, at a cost of $144 for both (which Newsmax optimistically frames as "convenient automatic renewal").
Posted by Terry K.
at 5:52 PM EDT
WND's Flaherty: It's Prudent To Assume That All Black People Are Violent
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Colin Flaherty, July 26 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:51 AM EDT
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Newsmax Sticks False Headline On AP Article
Topic: Newsmax A July 28 Associated Press article states that "Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream." The headline on Newsmax's version of that article, however, falsely blamed it all on President Obama: Newsmax seems to have missed the AP article's stating that this occurs "for at least parts of their lives," not since 2009.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:41 PM EDT
WND Reveals 'Secret' About Huma Abedin (That It Reported Months Ago)
Topic: WorldNetDaily A July 25 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein carries the headline "The explosive secret Huma is hiding." According to Klein, "there is a glaring part of Huma Abedin’s personal story that is not being told – her ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic supremacists." But this supposedly "secret" information was previously reported by WND months ago. And it's all the kind of guilt-by-association attacks that Klein specializes in. Klein writes: "As WND reported last August, a manifesto commissioned by the ruling Saudi Arabian monarchy places the work of an institute that employed Abedin at the forefront of a grand plan to mobilize U.S. Muslim minorities to transform America into a Saudi-style Islamic state, according to Arabic-language researcher Walid Shoebat." Klein makes no mention of the fact that numerous questions have been raised about Shoebat's self-proclaimed ex-terrorist background, as well as the finances of the charity Shoebat operates, making him a less-than-credible source. The other claims about Abedin rehashed by Klein from earlier WND articles are also sourced to the untrustworthy Shoebat. And Klein provides no direct link between Abedin and terrorist activity. Surprisingly, Klein comes off as a voice of reason on Abedin compared with WND columnist Diana West, who slimes Abedin as "a veritable Muslim Brotherhood princess."
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:35 PM EDT
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