Topic: WorldNetDaily
With all the lies and fearmongering she spreads WorldNetDaily columnist Dr. Gina Loudon appears to be in need of the psychiatric help she purports to dispense. Read more >>
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
NEW ARTICLE: Doctor, Heal Thyself
Topic: WorldNetDaily With all the lies and fearmongering she spreads WorldNetDaily columnist Dr. Gina Loudon appears to be in need of the psychiatric help she purports to dispense. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:08 AM EDT
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Newsmax Buries Full Truth About IRS' Donor Disclosure
Topic: Newsmax A June 27 Newsmax article by Todd Beamon touts how the IRS was ordered to pay $50,000 in damages to anti-gay group National Organization for Marriage for having "illegally exposed" the group's donor list. Beamon goes on to uncritically quote right-wing activist Tony Perkins claiming that the IRS "deliberately" released the information to a "gay activist." But Perkins is lying. The investigation into the leak found that the IRS' release of NOM donor information was not deliberate. The release was the inadvertent mistake of a low-level employee, which even NOM chief Maggie Gallagher has conceded. It's not until the 17th paragraph of his 19-paragraph article that Beamon gets around to mentioning the fact that the IRS release was inadvertent. Still, Beamon tried to keep the nonexistent conspiracy going, highlighting that the head of the group to which NOM's information was leaked left "to work on President Barack Obama's re-election campaign as national co-chairman."
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:16 PM EDT
WND Defends George Will's Trivializing Of Sexual Assault
Topic: WorldNetDaily Even when WorldNetDaily is defending someone, it has trouble getting its facts straight. Leo Hohmann uses a June 23 WND article to paint columnist Gedorge Will as a victim of the "though police" for writing about sexual assault on college campuses:
Hohmann gets an important thing wrong. The government has never claimed that 1 in 5 college women "get raped"; it claimed that they experience a sexual assault, which covers not only rape but attempted sexual assault and forced sexual contact. Hohmann also downplays Will's claim that being a victim on a college campus was becoming a "coveted status" by claiming he merely "implied" it. Actually, Will's statement was made in a very straightforward manner. An unbylined June 29 article tried to up the ante, copying-and-pasting Hohmann's error that the government claims that 1 in 5 college women "get raped," then segues into promotion for Todd Akin's upcoming WND-published book and another failed attempt to insist that Akin was right to claim that women routinely lie about being raped and that even if they do suffer a "legitimate rape," they have a biological mechanism to "shut that whole thing down." WND continues to pretend that long-term stress that inhibits fertilitity is the same thing as the sudden trauma of being rape. Perhaps portraying women as inveterate liars about sexual assault isn't the most effective way to promote a book or defend a columnist.
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:40 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 12:42 AM EDT
Monday, June 30, 2014
MRC Unhappy Media Acknowledges Anti-Abortion Protesters Can Be Violent
Topic: Media Research Center Kyle Drennen complains in a June 27 Media Research Center item:
Drennen offered no evidence that the networks' reporting that anti-abortion protesters can be violent, beyond dismissing the idea as "NARAL spin." Of course, people like George Tiller and Barnett Slepian would dispute that anti-abortion violence is "spin." If they could, that is.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:19 PM EDT
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Supersize WorldNetDaily Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Barbara Simpson, June 22 WorldNetDaily column
-- Les Kinsolving, June 23 WND column
-- Selena Owens, June 24 WND column
-- Burt Prelutsky, June 24 WND column
-- Erik Rush, June 25 WND column
-- Craige McMillan, June 27 WND column
-- Jesse Lee Peterson, June 29 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:38 AM EDT
Sunday, June 29, 2014
WND Tries, Fails To Defend Todd Akin's 'Legitimate Rape' Remarks
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily is publishing a book by Todd Akin, the former Missouri congressman who Senate bid imploded after he claimed that if a woman suffered a "legitimate rape," her body has ways to "shut that whole thing down." And how is WND promoting the book? By relitigating Akin's remarks and insisting they were accurate. In a June 10 column, WND editor Joseph Farah insisted that "the anti-Akin hysteria was a completely manufactured smear":
Curiously, Farah did not disclose in his column that he was publishing a book by Akin. Farah defended Akin again in a June 16 column:
Curiously, Farah did link to any of that research, even though there is a "library of research" available.Again, Farah failed to disclose he's publishing a book by Akin, though he includes a link to it at the end of his column. That supposed proof finally showed in an unbylined June 25 WND article promoting Akin's book:
So Farah's "library of research" line is an unacknowledged direct quote of Akin. Some people would call that plagiarism. First, as Slate's Amanda Marcotte points out, false rape reports are rare, and women falsely accusing men they consented to have sex with after the fact is especially rare. Second, the studies the anonymous WND writer cites in support of Akin's idea that stress decreases fertility focuses on long-term stress factors, not a single traumatic event like a rape. In fact-checking Akin's claim, PolitiFact reported:
WND is promoting Akin's book by trying to claim he was right about something no legitimate medical authority has proven. Perhaps WND needs to rethink its marketing strategy.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:43 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:33 AM EDT
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Soccer (And Obama) Derangement Syndrome
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Carl Jackson, June 25 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:31 PM EDT
Friday, June 27, 2014
CNS Falsely Links Border Crisis to DREAM Act
Topic: CNSNews.com A June 26 CNSNews.com article by Brittany M. Hughes, detailing her visit to an overcrowded detention facility in Texas for the influx of Central American refugees currently crossing the border, carries the misleading headline "The ‘DREAM Act’ I Saw." But the surge in refugees has nothing whatsoever to do with the DREAM Act, which was never implemented. A separate CNS article appears to concede this, approvingly quoting a bishop pointing out that the influx is primarily caused by "the rise of violence against children, fomented by organized criminal networks, including drug cartels. They act with impunity, threatening families and coercing children and youth to join their membership or face violence or even death."Further, even if the DREAM Act -- which would provide a path to citizenship for certain children of illegal immigrants -- had been implemented, it wouldn't apply to the current influx of refugees. The act would apply only to those who were in the U.S. before June 2007.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:30 PM EDT
NEW ARTICLE: WorldNetDaily's Literary Hype Man
Topic: WorldNetDaily WND columnist Jim Fletcher has never read a WND-published book he didn't absolutely love. But he won't tell his readers those books are from the same folks that publish his column. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:02 PM EDT
Thursday, June 26, 2014
AIM's Kincaid Just Can't Stop Lying About Panetta
Topic: Accuracy in Media Cliff Kincaid devotes a June 26 Accuracy in Media column to decrying the fact that former secretary of defense Leon Panetta is receiving an award named after Ronald Reagan.
Kincaid's attack is completely false. As we previously noted, Media Matters has documented how the correspondence between Panetta and DeLay occurred when Panetta was a congressman, and the "relationship" was nothing more than that of a congressman and a constituent. That shoots a major hole in Kincaid's attempt to smear Panetta as a secret commie -- but Kincaid doesn't want to admit the truth.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:19 PM EDT
WND Pushes Bogus Bergdahl Ransom Claim
Topic: WorldNetDaily Garth Kant writes in a June 22 WorldNetDaily article:
In fact, the Obama administration has consistently denied that it paid a ransom for Bergdahl, something Kantfails to acknowledge. Of course, Kant is merely carrying water for his BFF Stockman, for whom Kant serves as his de facto communications director despite being a so-called reporter. By contrast, Kant has refused to report on Stockman's latest extralegal antics, in which the Office of Congressional Ethics announced that it had urged the House Ethics Committee to look into the circumstances surrounding Stockman's acceptance of campaign contributions from two of his congressional staffers. PR people don't do news, you see.
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:50 AM EDT
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
WND's Farah Admits Gun-At-Airport Mistake, Tries To Blame It On Liberals Anyway
Topic: WorldNetDaily WorldNetDaily rather belatedly notes editor Joseph Farah's getting caught at at an airport with a loaded revolver -- not as a news article, even though it certainly is news, but as a column by Farah himself. While Farah apologizes for his "dumb mistake," he plays the blame game anyway, because it's apparently the fault of liberals that he has to carry a gun in the first place:
No mention, of course, of the unhinged right-wingers who shoot at law enforcement, an attitude Farah's WND encourages by fearmongering about the "militarization of police." Farah also begrudgingly gives a little credit to the TSA agents who stopped him: "The TSA agents were very nice. They expressed concern about my making the flight. They called the Virginia police as is protocol. They took photos of the firearm and me. They gave me a summons. Then they sent me on my way." That's a change from WND's standard hatred of the TSA. In announcing "e-mail hotline address for the reporting of first-hand abuse complaints at the hands of airport security personnel," Farah declared, “I personally canceled family travel plans this week as a result of widespread reports of groping, voyeurism and humiliation techniques. The American people will not be treated like cattle." This being Farah, he can't stop himself from peddling at least one lie:
Actually, as the SPLC itself points out, the Washington Post first reported the airport incident (with a picture of Farah's piece); the SPLC simply connected the dots to confirm Farah's identity as the culprit. And the SPLC does not call WND a "hate group" -- its 2012 profile of WND contains no such description, though it notes that WND promotes hate groups. (UPDATE: WND has also accused the TSA of "gate rape" by using now discontinued "nude-image scanners.") Farah claimed he wrote this column because "I thought you deserved to know the rest of the story, as my inspiration Paul Harvey would say." But Farah identifies no factual error in the reporting of the SPLC or anyone else about the incident (even though the Post did, in fact, get Farah's age wrong). Farah's justification for carrying a gun is irrelevant to the incident, and it's hypocritical given his silence about right-wing extremists who target the police and his own expressed hatred of the TSA.
Posted by Terry K.
at 3:07 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 4:44 PM EDT
MRC Upset Anti-Gay Protesters Identified As Anti-Gay
Topic: Media Research Center The headline on Katie Yoder's June 20 NewsBusters post reads "Surprise! Liberal Media Bash ‘March for Marriage’." Apparently, Yoder considers accurately identifying the marchers as opposing gay marriage to be "bashing":
But Yoder doesn't explain why supporting "traditional marriage" does not equal opposing gay marriage. The MRC has a bit of a complex about the media accurately labeling things.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:18 PM EDT
WND's Farah Caught With Loaded Gun At Airport
Topic: WorldNetDaily As if running a "news" website that has forfeited all credibility wasn't enough, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah is in legal trouble. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that Farah was caught by TSA agents with a loaded .38-caliber revolver in his carry-on bag as he passed through security at Dulles International Airport. Farah faces a class 1 misdemeanor charge for carrying a gun in an airport terminal. The SPLC confirmed reporting by the Washington Post, which has a picture of Farah's revolver. As of this writing, WND is silent about Farah's arrest, but it has published video of Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett being arrested. Will WND grace us with the video of Farah's arrest?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:03 AM EDT
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
WND Thinks Homosexuality Is Just A 'Trendy Notion'
Topic: WorldNetDaily Bob Unruh writes in a June 21 WorldNetDaily article:
That's right -- Unruh and WND think homosexuality is nothing but a "trendy notion."
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:24 PM EDT
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