Topic: Media Research Center
The Media Research Center hates it when people fearmonger about vaccines -- while it fearmongers about anti-HPV vaccines like Gardasil. Read more >>
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
NEW ARTICLE: The MRC's Double Standard on Vaccines
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center hates it when people fearmonger about vaccines -- while it fearmongers about anti-HPV vaccines like Gardasil. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:29 PM EDT
WND's Farah Conspiracy-Mongers About Shooting Outside Capitol
Topic: WorldNetDaily Joseph Farah writes in his Oct. 6 WorldNetDaily column:
Should Farah think twice before engaging in such conspiratorial speculation? Yes. Farah's admonition about the police "firing their weapons at a car that might be carrying an innocent child" is nonsensical. He seems not to understand that every car "might be carrying an innocent child," and he offers no evidence that police had any reason to suspect a child was in the car in the first place. We suspect that Farah would advise police to be less reticent about shooting a suspect if said suspect "might be" a Muslim. Such paranoiac ranting is of a piece with his house attorney, Larry Klayman, who declared that the police who shot and killed Carey were "Obama's henchmen." No wonder Farah keeps such an obviously incompetent lawyer on the WND payroll.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:43 PM EDT
Newsmax's Hirsen Unhappy With Pro-Obamacare 'Propaganda'
Topic: Newsmax James Hirsen begins his Oct. 7 Newsmax column by grousing that "Young Americans are being inundated with propaganda that sings the praises of Obamacare." That's ironic, considering that Hirsen's column appears at a website that inundates its readers with propaganda opposing Obamacare. But Hirsen is willing to turn a blind eye to that as he bashes "liberal Hollywood elitists" for supporting "the mounting Obamacare debacle." (That sounds like propagandistic language, doesn't it?) Hirsen takes particular offense to a "Saturday Night Live" skit mocking Michele Bachmann and John Boehner that "additionally made the GOP’s efforts in Congress the subject of further humiliation." Hirsen called the skit "pornographic" and huffed: "Hopefully, for the public, this will be the last straw. No private or public figure should have to endure this type of nationally televised wholesale ridicule and derision, political leaders of any party affiliation being no exception." Funny, we can't recall a single instance when Hirsen came out so aggressively against ridicule of a liberal. Perhaps Hirsen can point us to one, if it exists.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:51 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:49 AM EST
WND Removes Aborigines From 'Black Mob' Article, Doesn't Explain Why
Topic: WorldNetDaily It took a while, but WorldNetDaily has removed the image of Australian aborigines from an Oct. 6 article by Colin Flahery that's supposed to be about "black mob violence." But in typical WND style, it has not mentioned the deletion of the dishonest image to its readers, let alone publicly explain why it was deleted. Tweets and emails directed at WND by ConWebWatch have gone unanswered, though one could surmise that the deletion is our answer. But we still have the screenshot of the erroneous image, as well as its use in promoting the article (above), so we will continue to bring this up as necessary until WND publicly explains the snafu to its readers. Yes, we're clearly horrible people for demanding WND live up to professional journalism standards. But they fancy themselves to be real journalists, so we will hold them to that standard until they tell us not to.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:32 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 11:10 AM EDT
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
MRC Whines That Fringe Climate Deniers Are Being Ignored
Topic: Media Research Center Julia Seymour writes in an Oct. 2 MRC Business & Media Institute item:
Seymour didn't mention that these "other viewpoints" are considered fringe within the scientific community. One recent review of 12,000 peer-reviewed abstracts on "global warming" and "global climate change" showed that 97 percent of the papers that took a position on the cause said humans were causing it. Seymour quotes deniers like Roy Spencer to attack the IPCC report. In fact, Spencer has a lengthy record of misleading on climate change.
Posted by Terry K.
at 6:55 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:56 PM EDT
WND: Gay Rights Are A 'Trojan Horse for Totalitarianism'
Topic: WorldNetDaily The latest issue of WorldNetDaily's Whistleblower magazine is heavy on the gay-bashing:
Among the gay-bashing articles in this issue include anti-gay activist Scott Lively's rant that the rainbow belongs to God, not gays, and that Russians at the upcoming Sochi Olympics should take the rainbow back to prevent it from being used as a protest against Russia's law banning homosexual "propaganda." Apparently, Lively and WND don't think that a Russian law censoring free speech is totalitarian at all.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:49 PM EDT
MRC Doesn't Like That Its Shutdown-Blame Study Is Being Mocked
Topic: Media Research Center Remember how the Media Research Center complained because Republicans were accurately being blamed for the government shutdown? Now the MRC is complaining because it's being mocked for coming to that conclusion. Tim Graham writes in an Oct. 4 NewsBusters post:
Like MRC "study" author Rich Noyes before him, Graham doesn't address why it's wrong to blame Republicans for the shutdown -- he's just complaining that it's being done, because defending Republicans is his job.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:30 PM EDT
WND Treats Logrolling Review As 'News'
Topic: WorldNetDaily An unidentified WorldNetDaily writer breathlessly gushes in an Oct. 6 article:
After reprinting much of the review, WND states:
Unmentioned by this anonymous WND writer:
This is not a review -- it's logrolling. The fact that WND is treating this "review" as "news" only confirms its logrolling nature.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:20 AM EDT
Monday, October 7, 2013
Bill Donohue At Newsmax: De Blasio Has 'Problem With the Truth' Because He Changed His Name
Topic: Newsmax Bill Donohue huffs in an Oct. 1 Newsmax column about Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio:
Donohue, of course, didn't mention why de Blasio changed his name, which has been explained:
That's not the only sleaziness Donohue engaged in. He also sneers that maybe de Blasio will "honeymoon in North Korea" if he wins.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:02 PM EDT
WND's Ellis Washington Again Pretends He's Not Likening Obama to Hitler
Topic: WorldNetDaily For a guy who insists he's not likening President Obama to Hitler, Ellis Washington sure spends a lot of time likening Obama to Hitler. Washington does so again in his Oct. 4 WorldNetDaily column, while of course denying he's doing any such thing:
Pro tip: If you've written a column titled "Hitlercare vs. Obamacare," if you've included the above Hitler-Obama image with your column, and if you've stated that "Obama is using his Gestapo and SS Stormtroppers or so-called “navigators” (e.g., the youth, the unions, Planned Parenthood, NAACP, ACORN, La Raza, etc.) to propagandize the poor, the miseducated and minorities who are being exploited to lead this final blitzkrieg toward forcing universal health care," you are, in fact, contending that Obama is Hitler. Stop lying to us, Ellis. Especially stop telling us lies that are so transparently false.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:20 PM EDT
MRC Runs With Distortion Of Harry Reid's Words on Cancer Research
Topic: Media Research Center Last week, it came to light that members of the conservative media are working to coordinate messaging on the government shutdown with the office of Sen. Ted Cruz. The Media Research Center has not mentioned this development to its readers (just like it has yet to mention the existence of another right-wing message coordination effort, Groundswell, despite its outrage ofer a liberal-leaning listserv, Journolist). Whether or not anyone at the MRC is actually involved in Groundswell or Cruz's office, it's certainly trying to reinforce right-wing talking points. That was made even more clear with its effort to distort something Sen. Harry Reid said. Susan Jones writes in an Oct. 3 CNSNews.com article about an exchange between Reid and CNN reporter Dana Bash about a Republican attempt to fund the government on a piecemeal basis by, for instance, funding cancer research at the National Institutes for Health:
Jones conveniently left out the fact that Reid's statement "why would we want to do that?" wasn't a response to Bash. As the video accompanying Jones' article shows, after Bash answered her question, Sen. Charles Schumer said, "Why pit one against the other?" and Reid picked up on that. The rest of the MRC ran with the distortion:
Of course, at the MRC, full context matters only for conservatives, not liberals.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:39 PM EDT
WND Pretends Australian Aborigines Are "Black Mobs" In North Carolina
Topic: WorldNetDaily The picture WorldNetDaily used to promote Colin Flaherty's latest attempt at race-baiting -- under the headline "Pack of black youth terrorize city" -- sure looks scary enough: The picture was used again with Flaherty's article:Just one little problem: The picture does not illustrate what Flaherty is writing about, which is "black mob violence" in Raleigh, N.C. In fact, the people in the picture aren't American, nor are they technically black.The picture is, in fact, of gang members in an indigenous Aborigine community in Australia, and it apparently first appeared in a 2006 Sydney Morning Herald article:
WND's photo does not include a credit that would accurately identify where the photo came from, or of what is actually of. WND apparently stole the photo from the Sydney newspaper's website, believing that they looked scary enough to illustrate a race-baiting article about "black mobs." This is how far Flaherty and WND will go in its race-baiting -- pretending that scary-looking dark-skinned foreigners are really "black mobs" in the U.S.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013 12:04 AM EDT
Sunday, October 6, 2013
CNS Promotes Views of Suspected Murderer
Topic: CNSNews.com Matt Vespa writes in an Oct. 4 CNSNews.com blog post:
In promoting views that conform to right-wing talking points, Vespa fails to mention the, shall we say, colorful history of McAfee that makes him less than trustworthy. At the top of the list is the fact that he's wanted in Belize for questioning in the death of one of McAfee's neighbors there. McAfee fled the country for Guatemala, then faked a heart attack and made his way to America. McAfee has proclaimed his innocence, but he has no intention of returning to Belize. The New Yorker has described McAfee's life as "an odyssey of drugs, guns, young women, corruption, the promise of a miracle antibiotic, a secret laboratory, a government raid, a murder, a manhunt, and a healthy dose of paranoia." Wired reported that McAfee's success "was due in part to his ability to spread his own paranoia, the fear that there was always somebody about to attack." But McAfee's paranoia makes Obama look bad, so Vespa seems willing to overlook the fact that McAfee may have killed someone. (Photo: Wired)
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:07 PM EDT
WND's Klayman: Woman Killed Outside Capitol By 'Obama's Henchmen'
Topic: WorldNetDaily Yes, Larry Klayman really did write this in his Oct. 4 WorldNetDaily column:
So Klayman thinks that protecting the president from an apparent threat makes the Secret Service and the Capitol Police (the two law enforcement agencies that responded to the incident) Obama's "henchmen." Klayman also left out the fact that the woman led police on a car chase from the White House to the Capitol, and that the woman also hit a Secret Service officer with her car. How utterly consumed with Obama Derangement Sydrome has Klayman become? One only needs to read the rest of his column, in which he encourages to engage in "revolution" against the government. Klayman claims he wants to do so with "well thought out civil disobedience," but his inflammatory, increasingly deranged rhetoric doesn't exactly create an atmosphere for reasoned thought.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:18 PM EDT
Saturday, October 5, 2013
MRC's Chief Heatherer Hates It When Heathering Is Called Out
Topic: NewsBusters Tim Graham is perhaps the chief Heatherer at the Media Research Center, taking to task anyone who dares deviate from right-wing dogma and branding them as insufficiently conservative. So what does Graham do when a conservative calls out said Heathering? Why, he goes into Heathering mode, of course. Conservative Bernard Goldberg has gotten tired of being bashed by conservatives who get offended when he "falls out of lock step" with right-wing ideology:
Graham used an Oct. 3 NewsBusters post to bash Goldberg, apparently oblivious to the fact that it's people like him Goldberg was calling out:
Of course, Graham will never admit that he is one of those "ayatollahs" Goldberg is calling out -- if, indeed, he picked up on that at all.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:41 PM EDT
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