Topic: WorldNetDaily
It appears that WorldNetDaily hasn't given up of promoting sleazy, unproven rumors that President Obama is gay.
WND drives the sleaze home in this front-page promo today:
Sunday, January 19, 2014
WND Can't Stop Suggesting That Obama Is Gay
Topic: WorldNetDaily It appears that WorldNetDaily hasn't given up of promoting sleazy, unproven rumors that President Obama is gay. WND drives the sleaze home in this front-page promo today:
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:29 PM EST
Saturday, January 18, 2014
CNS' Starr Censors FRC's Anti-Contraception Agenda
Topic: CNSNews.com
Starr doesn't mention that the FRC has an anti-contraceptive agenda:
Does this sound like a group that's capable of looking at issues related to contraception in a balanced and objective way? Apparently it does to Starr; she simply regurgitates the findings of the FRC report and doesn't bother to contact any pro-choice groups for a response. She also fails to identify the FRC's political ideology, even though it clearly plays a role in skewing the focus of the report.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:40 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014 11:51 PM EST
WND's Unruh Continues His Inability To Report Both Sides Of A Story
Topic: WorldNetDaily
Unruh devotes his entire article to the arguments of anti-gay activists against the law, and as you'd expect from the gay-bashers at WND, there is no mention of the evidence that sexual orientation not only doesn't work but can be psychologically damaging. But then, as we've noted, Unruh isn't getting paid to report the entire story -- only the parts that advance WND's right-wing agenda. That would seem to disqualify Unruh from representing himself as a journalist.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:37 PM EST
Friday, January 17, 2014
Newsmax Tries To Attack Roger Ailes Bio
Topic: Newsmax
A Jan. 15 Newsmax article by David Patten highlights how "liberal media critic" Michael Wolff has criticized Sherman's book. Patten notes that "Wolff is no friend of Ailes, Fox News or its parent company, News Corp. Wolff wrote his own controversial book attacking Fox's founder Rupert Murdoch." But he fails tomake the more likely connection that it's a competing book, not media analysis, that's making Wolff criticize Sherman's book. Patten also makes this odd complaint about Sherman:
If Fox wouldn't make Ailes available to Sherman, why would they acknowledge his book by permitting him to fact-check it? Yet Patten identifies no fact in the book that anyone at Fox News has substantively contradicted.
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:26 PM EST
WND's Rush Adds Lies To His Obama Derangement
Topic: WorldNetDaily
In fact, the complete opposite was reported: Both the House Benghazi transcripts and the Senate bipartisan report found that no stand-down order was given, by Jarrett or anybody else. Rush is simply lying. But when has the truth ever stood in the way of Rush's Obama derangement? (Remember, he thinks Malcolm X is Obama's father.) Rush blithely continues on to advocate a military coup:
Rush has also avocated Obama's assassination. Presumably, us pointing this out is more evidence that we'll first against the wall when the Erik Rush revolution/military coup comes.
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:03 PM EST
CNS Still Falsely Implying That Government Money Pays For Abortions At Planned Parenthood
Topic: CNSNews.com
CNS performs that dishonest trick again in a Jan. 14 article by Barbara Boland:
Nowhere does Boland feels the need to mention that no federal money pays for abortions at Planned Parenthood because it's prohibited under the Hyde Amendment, and she makes no effort to prove that any non-federal government money does. Instead, she allows the juxtaposition to imply something she can't prove. That's sloppy and slanted reporting. But that's how CNS rolls.
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:07 AM EST
Who Is Jerome Corsi's Mysterious Benghazi Witness?
Topic: WorldNetDaily
Corsi tells us nothing further about Salem than the above. He does not explain how he became acquainted with Salem enough to Skype with him, and no picture of Salem is included in Corsi's article. Curiously, a Google search for "Ahmed Salem Benghazi" uncovers no other reference to Salem being a witness to the Benghazi attack other than Corsi's article -- odd, since one would think that given how politicized right-wingers like Corsi have made the attack, Salem's story would have surfaced long before now. That search, however, uncovers something else -- a November 2013 article in a magazine called the Libya Herald stating that a Libyan Special Forces officer in Benghazi named Ahmed Hamouda Salem was killed while manning a checkpoint. Is Corsi's Benghazi source assuming the identity of a dead man? We have no idea. But given Corsi's history of substandard, vengeful reporting -- from going to Kenya to retrieve fake documents to pushing a story about Obama's wedding ring that was so false that Corsi's birther buddies were compelled to shoot it down -- there's no reason to take anything Corsi writes at face value. Corsi is such a rabid Obama-hater, and he's put his agenda before the truth too many times, that he simply can't be trusted.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:45 AM EST
Thursday, January 16, 2014
MRC Keeps Up Its Whining That Gays Are Permitted on TV
Topic: Media Research Center
And because gays must somehow be tied to President Obama, Marsh obliges:
Marsh concludes by lamenting, "'The Fosters' is only the latest broadcast TV show to depict 'The New Normal' of gay couples on TV that has become commonplace." Marsh, along with her fellow MRC employees, apparently prefer the "old normal," when gays could be discriminated against with impunity.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:12 PM EST
WND's Farah Dishonestly Washes His Hands of Cruz's Eligibility
Topic: WorldNetDaily
False. Farah has never been interested in discussing Obama's eligibility "rationally and openly." If he was, his website would have reported that all the major birther conspiracies have been discredited. If he was, his website wouldn't have spent so much time trying to fluff Joe Arpaio and get a seat on his Cold Case Posse to ensure that the so-called investigation would be shoddy and biased. If he was, his website would never have published a fake birth certificate without bothering to verify its authenticity first. In fact, Farah's actions over the past five years have been all about ensuring that birther conspiracies wouldn't be discussed rationally and openly. Farah continues:
We will presume that by making this statement, Farah is admitting the opposite -- that his birther crusade was all about destroying Obama, not about the truth. Farah makes that even more clear by writing the following:
Actually, it's Farah who's trying to have it both ways. He raised a stink for five years about Obama's purported non-eligibilty, all the while censoring any research proving otherwise. He has never proven his main conceit, that Obama was not born in the U.S. -- the one thing that might make Obama ineligible for the presidency -- and whines that he's been blackballed for putting conspiracy theory ahead of facts. Now that Farah has a potential candidate who aligns much closer to his right-wing ideology than Obama does, but is by his own definition arguably ineligible to be president becuase he, unlike Obama, was not born in the United States, Farah is taking his ball and going home. He won't be sending Jerome Corsi to Canada to wave around fake documents, nor will Aaron Klein be devoting a WND-published book to Cruz's radical associations. WND has long refused to get involved in the issue of Cruz's eligibility like it did Obama's, which only proves the hollow, dishonest partisan intent of the whole enterprise. Farah doesn't give a damn about the Constitution. All he was ever interested in was bashing Obama by turning the birther issue into Obama's Vince Foster. Farah should stop lying to the public by pretending otherwise.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:30 PM EST
CNS Just Can't Stop Doing Its Afghan Body Count, Ignoring Iraq Troop Deaths Under Bush
Topic: CNSNews.com
Ali Meyer writes in a Jan. 9 CNS article:
As has been typical of CNS' Afghan body-count obsession, there's no mention of the far higher U.S. troop death toll in Iraq, the vast majority of which occurred under President Bush. Meyer doesn't explain why she's ignoring the Iraq death toll.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:47 PM EST
WND's Unruh Promotes Dishonest MRC Christie Coverage Study
Topic: WorldNetDaily
As we've documented, the MRC coverage study relies on a dishonest apples-and-oranges comparison -- the breaking news of the Christie scandal vs. a story that broke two months before the MRC started counting. Also, the lack of coverage also meant that the networks ignored news that the scandal was overblown. Unruh mentioned none of that, of course -- it's not his job to tell the whole story, just the part that advances the political agenda of his employer, no matter how dishonest it is.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:28 AM EST
Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:28 AM EST
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
NewsBusters' Double Standard on Gleefully Pushing A Scandal
Topic: NewsBusters
Graham's complains might be taken a little more seriously were they not immediately preceded on NewsBusters by a post by Matthew Balan gleefully pushing a different so-called scandal by leaping all over President Obama:
The partisan MRC is on fire. Too bad Graham doesn't see the irony.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:11 PM EST
WND Loves Allen West's Race-Baiting of Obama
Topic: WorldNetDaily
Unruh says nothing about the racist language West is using, or why he deserves special dispensation for saying such things because he is a black conservative. Then again, wouldn't WND embrace West's race-baiting? After all, it's of a piece with Colin Flaherty's fearmongering over "black mobs" (which, somehow also include non-blacks and non-humans). And it publishes Mychal Massie, who told blacks to go back to Africa and has repeatedly smeared a black woman he didn't agree with as a "Negress." WND apparently thinks it can get away with racism as long as it's blacks who are saying racist things or blacks can be dismissed as evil thugs.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:25 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:03 PM EST
CNS' Vespa Tries to Distract From Christie Scandal
Topic: CNSNews.com
Vespa wrote a Jan. 10 blog post headlined "Five Reports of Political Bullying that DON'T Involve Chris Christie," adding the standard right-wing equivocation:"Christie's administration may have caused some traffic problems, but he fired the ones allegedly responsible for the act. Obama did nothing after the IRS fiasco was unearthed." Vespa followed that with a rehashing of a 14-year-old story of how Al Gore's presidential campaign allegedly caused a traffic jam to hinder voting for his primary opponent. Vespa laughably begins his post by stating, "This isn't meant to excuse what happened on the George Washington Bridge." Yeah, whatever you say, Matt. But it sure looks like you'd rather talk about anything else but that.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:31 PM EST
No, You Didn't Read It At WND First
Topic: WorldNetDaily
There's just one thing wrong here: It's a lie. As we documented, Corsi's "WND Exclusive" appeared more than two weeks after Buzzfeed reported Salem's purchase on Dec. 13. So, no, you didn't read that story at WND first. And don't expect WND to whip up an honest graphic stating, "You Read It Here Two Weeks Later."
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:42 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:43 AM EST
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