Topic: WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily sure loves its race-baiting headlines.
The latest is from an unbylined Aug. 5 article about a school bus fight. WND started off with "Blacks pummel white child on bus":
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Race-Baiting WND Headline of the Day
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily sure loves its race-baiting headlines. The latest is from an unbylined Aug. 5 article about a school bus fight. WND started off with "Blacks pummel white child on bus":
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:28 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 7:37 PM EDT
CNS' Fred Lucas Moves to The Blaze
Topic: CNSNews.com
To get an idea of what The Blaze will be getting, here's a quick look back at some of Lucas' ideologically skewed reporting for CNS: Misleading about an Obama judicial nominee. Attempting to manufacture an IRS controversy. Dishonestly reporting on alleged pay disparities by gender in the Obama White House. Arguing that spending federal money on LGBT issues is a waste. Trying and failing to manufacture another Obama White House controversy. Giving President Bush credit for killing Saddam Hussein, and not blaming him for the thousands of troop deaths in Iraq. Putting words in Obama's mouth. Was three weeks late to a story about Bill Clinton and still managed to get key facts wrong. Cleaned up after Mitt Romney. Presumably, such biased, ideologically motivated work was what The Blaze is looking for in a White House correspondent, because that's what it's getting.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:00 PM EDT
Joseph Farah's Wicked, Deceitful Ways
Topic: WorldNetDaily
Of course, few people have wicked ways to turn from than Farah himself, what with his continual lying and his use of WND to attempt to personally destroy Barack Obama by pushing falsehoods and distortions. But he has never admitted to this wicked behavior, let alone indicated that he will repent for it. That would seem to be a stumbling block for a man who's promoting a "Day of Prayer and Repentence" -- and it should be a red flag for anyone thinking of taking part in it. And, wouldn't you know it, the day after he writes the above, he tells another blatant lie. He writes in yet another Obama-bashing screed (bolding in original):
In fact, the federal deficit for fiscal year 2013 is projected to fall well below $1 billion. And that projection means the 2013 deficit would equal 4.7 percent of gross domestic product versus the 10.1 percent of GDP in 2009. Farah then whines, "Sadly, too many low-information voters believe anything this guy says." Sadly, the same is true about Farah.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:30 AM EDT
Monday, August 5, 2013
Where's The Collusion, MRC?
Topic: NewsBusters
Geoffrey Dickens starts a July 30 NewsBusters post -- which has been updated over the past week with alleged offenses by the broadcast networks in alleged non-coverage of controversies involving the IRS -- like this: "The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have colluded with the Obama administration to censor the latest IRS scandal news." The definition of "collusion" is "secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose." Dickens offers no evidence of such an "agreement." Even if allegegd behavior suggests collusion, such a claim is dishonest without proof -- otherwise, it's just a correlation-equals-causation fallacy. Nor does Dickens offer any evidence of "censorship." Failure to report a particular spin that not equal "censorship" -- indeed, given the talking points Dickens is providing as evidence, that's the prudent and honest path. For instance, he writes:
Dickens didn't mention that "the liberal NPR" also pointed out a serious problem with the House Republicans' metholodogy:
That means the House Republican list is incomplete at best and highly biased at worst. Dickens also writes:
In fact, there is no scandal here. As Media Matters details, there's no evidence of the direct link Dickens and National Review claim -- just a suggestion of wrongdoing from selectively leaked emails from partisan sources that don't actually establish any malfeasance. In short, Dickens is demanding that these things be reported -- even though they are dishonest, unproven or have been discredited -- because they conform to right-wing talking points. Not because they are true -- because they advance Dickens' right-wing agenda (not to mention his boss, Brent Bozell). Dickens would be screaming at media outlets if they had reported similar things on such flimsy evidence if they had taken place under a Republican administration. But such shoddy reporting is just peachy with Dickens because it advances his political agenda.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:28 PM EDT
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Bonus WorldNetDaily Leftover Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Larry Klayman, July 5 WorldNetDaily column
-- Mychal Massie, July 8 WND column
-- Burt Prelutsky, July 9 WND column
-- Robert Ringer, July 10 WND column
-- Larry Klayman, July 12 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 5:11 PM EDT
CNS' Love Letters to Limbaugh
Topic: CNSNews.com
Gwyn-Williams includes numerous of Limbaugh congratulating himself for his success. But no mention is made of the two most recent controversies involving him -- his tirade of misogyny against Sandra Fluke, and the fact that one of the largest groups of radio stations in the country, Cumulus Media, is apparently planning to drop Limbaugh's show from dozens of its stations, in part because of the fallout and decreased revenue it has experienced in the wake of Limbaugh's attack on Fluke. CNS' parent, the Media Research Center, similarly gave Fox News' Greta Van Susteren a pass for conducting an hourlong interview with Limbaugh without touching on those controversies. An Aug. 5 CNS article by Susan Jones uncritically quoted Limbaugh from the Fox News interview, making no mention of the fact that Van Susteren never asked Limbaugh about Fluke or Cumulus. So much for the MRC caring about fair and balanced journalism.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:52 AM EDT
What The ConWeb Ignores About Fired Newspaper Editorial Writer
Topic: The ConWeb
But these ConWeb sources have all failed to report a couple of pertinent facts that back up the Times Free Press' claim that Johnson was fired for violating newspaper policy, not because of politics. First, the Times Free Press is one of the very few newspapers, if not the only one, that runs two separate editorial pages each day -- the liberal-leaning Times page and the conservative-leaning Free Press page. That's a legacy from when there were two separate newspapers in Chattanooga. Johnson was editor of the conservative page, and his departure does not mean any diminishing, let alone the end, of conservative opinion in the Chattanooga newspaper. Second, the ConWeb has been utterly loath to mention who owns the Chattanooga paper. It's WEHCO Media, which also owns the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The head of WEHCO is Walter Hussman Jr., who made his biggest splash in the newspaper industry in the 1980s by engaging in a newspaper war in Little Rock, ultimately defeating and merging with his own newspaper the rival paper owned by deep-pocketted giant Gannett. It was under Hussman that the two newspapers in Chattanooga -- the Free Press and the Times, the latter formerly owned by the Ochs family of New York Times fame -- were combined and allowed to keep their separate editorial pages. As the Arkansas Times points out, "Hussman's sympathies — indeed much of his game plan for his own newspaper building strategies came from the former Free Press owner — are not generally with those of the New York Times." Indeed, the Democrat-Gazette's editorial page is headed by Paul Greenberg, a conservative who's perhaps most notorious for his Clinton-bashing during the 1990s.The American Journalism Review has reported that Hussman says the best part of his day is "proofing the paper's stridently conservative editorial page." It's lazy and dishonest for the ConWeb to shove Johnson's firing into its tired "liberal media" narrative. A conservative-leaning newspaper owner, after all, doesn't fit their agenda. (Disclosure: I'm a former employee of the Democrat-Gazette.)
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:39 AM EDT
Sunday, August 4, 2013
A Listsicle from Newsmax
Topic: Newsmax
One has to question the wisdom of a list of influential Republican women that places Palin second.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:18 PM EDT
WND Birther Blackout Watch, Reed Hayes Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
WND, needless to say, is hiding facts here, too. As Dr. Conspiracy points out, Reed is an expert in handwriting analysis, and no evidence has been provided that he has any experience examining a computer copy of a document. Also, Hayes' full 40-page report has not been made public, making it difficult to determine what exactly he considers to be "fabricated." Possibly related but no less interesting is the fact that Hayes is also the author of a book titled "Handwriting: Its Socio-Sexual Implications." What do Jerome Corsi and Mike Zullo have to say about that as a key qualification for their so-called expert?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:15 AM EDT
Saturday, August 3, 2013
CNS Unemployment Numbers Distortion Watch
Topic: CNSNews.com
In one Aug. 2 CNS article, Elizabeth Harrington plucked out the obscure number that "There were 988,000 discouraged workers in the United States in July, an increase of 136,000 from July 2012" and focused on that. He made no mention of the fact that 162,000 jobs were added in July. Editor in chief Terry Jeffrey piled on with a cherry-picking article obsessing over the Hispanic unemployment rate.How much cherry-picking did Jeffrey do? He writes: "During President Obama's time in office, the number of American Hispanics who are unemployed has increased 161,000--rising from 2,205,000 in January 2009 to 2,366,000 in July 2013." But Jeffrey fails to mention that, according to the numbers he's using, Hispanic unemployment peaked in November 2009 at 2,978,000. For Jeffrey to refuse to mention that Hispanic unemployment is down more than 600,000 -- or about 20 percent -- from the bottom of the 2009 recession is simply dishonest.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:58 PM EDT
Updated: Saturday, August 3, 2013 9:59 PM EDT
Meanwhile ...
Topic: WorldNetDaily Richard Bartholomew details how, to nobody's surprise, the “Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit” that included WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah as a featured speaker is "a striking convergance of Tea Party conspiracy theories, fringe pseudo-scientific speculations (derived from pop science fiction), Biblical interpretation, and Christian Zionism."
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:01 PM EDT
Friday, August 2, 2013
MRC Defies Pope by Bashing Gays
Topic: Media Research Center
So what does Enk do the rest of the week? Defy the pope by judging and marginalizing gays. Enk sneered in an Aug. 1 CMI item:
The next day, Enk followed that up with even more gay-bashing:
Mind you, the MRC is a heavily Catholic organization -- chief Brent Bozell is on the board of advisers of the right-wing Catholic League, and several other key MRC staffers are conservative Catholics. Apparently, nobody at the MRC is ready to embrace the Pope's call not to judge or marginalize gays.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:36 PM EDT
CNS Forgets To Denounce Immigration Reform As Amnesty
Topic: CNSNews.com It's usually CNSNews.com's editorial policy to smear any attempt at immigration reform with the inaccurate tag of "amnesty." Which makes us wonder what happened to create an Aug. 1 article by Shannon Quick, which not only doesn't use "amnesty" but actually -- and accurately" refers to the "path to citizenship" that immigration reform promises to establish:
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:12 PM EDT
Newsmax Still Goosing Its Peter King Presidential Boomlet
Topic: Newsmax
Hoffmann failed to mention, however, that the person who planted the idea of running for president in King's head was none other than his boss, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:04 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013 11:37 AM EDT
WND's Farah Lies Again
Topic: WorldNetDaily
In fact, as we pointed out when WND managing editor David Kupelian made a similar claim, heterosexuals are as likely as homosexuals to molest children. And as Equality Matters elaborates, pedophiles tend not to be capable of a relationship with an adult, male or female, making Farah's labeling of pedophile priests as homosexual doubly dishonest. We wonder if Farah will repent for this malicious lie on his Sept. 11 "Day of Prayer and Repentence." The lies he needs to repent for are piling up, after all.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:18 AM EDT
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