Topic: WorldNetDaily
WND made up a quote from Houston's mayor that the city's new non-discrimination ordinance was all about her. It's so invested in the blatant falsehood that even Joseph Farah is repeating it. Read more >>
Friday, October 31, 2014
NEW ARTICLE: WorldNetDaily Keeps The Lie Alive
Topic: WorldNetDaily WND made up a quote from Houston's mayor that the city's new non-discrimination ordinance was all about her. It's so invested in the blatant falsehood that even Joseph Farah is repeating it. Read more >>
Posted by Terry K.
at 11:32 AM EDT
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Will CNS Publicly Fire Its Biased Reporters?
Topic: Media Research Center The Media Research Center's Kyle Drennen enthusiastically highlights a statement by conservative pundit Bernard Goldberg stating that the only way to stop media bias is to "not only get fired, you get publicly fired, and the management let's everybody know why you got fired." Unmentioned by Drennen: The MRC operates a "news" division, CNSNews.com, that employs highly biased reporters like Penny Starr and Barbara Hollingsworth. If the MRC really believed in Goldberg's advice, it would immediately fire Starr and Hollingsworth and explain that their egregious bias is why they were fired. Will that happen in real life? Don't count on it -- the MRC wants the media to do what it says, not what it does.
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:29 PM EDT
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
MRC Gives Discredited AAPS A Forum To Fearmonger About Ebola
Topic: Media Research Center WorldNetDaily is not the only ConWeb outlet that's relying on the Ebola fearmongering of the discredited fringe medical group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. The Media Research Center is giving them free, uncritical publicity as well. In an Oct. 17 video, the MRC's Dan Joseph interviewed AAPS president Jane Orient, whom he declares is an "Ebola expert" without any explanation. Joseph let Orient suggest that actual medical experts are lying to the American public about how contagious Ebola is. Joseph also gave Orient a forum to rant about Obamacare. Joseph also let Orient claim that Ebola can be spread by immigrants "crossed over our Southern border" -- which is utterly false fearmongering -- and that terrorists and sociologists think Ebola is a great tool for reducing the Earth's population: "There's been so much talk about how wonderful it would be to have something like Ebola to wipe out 90 percent of the population. There are people who think the Earth is greatly overpopulated and people who would like to destroy Americans and they don't mind blowing themselves up with a suicide vest."Joseph mildly challeged Orient on this, to which Orient responded, "We don't know it's happening, but on the other hand, we don't know that it isn't." Joseph provided no forum for anyone to respond to Orient. In an Oct. 27 CNSNews.com blog post, Monica Sanchez touted an "exclusive interview" with Orient, whom she also baselessly describes as an "Ebola expert." In it, Orient proclaims her support for a mandatory 21-day quarantine of anyone possibly exposed to Ebola, saying that some "exposed health care workers, along with other people, have shown that they can't be trusted to stay home voluntarily." Like Joseph, Sanchez offered no rebuttal to Orient's views. AAPS peddles numerous fringe views, like opposition to mandatory vaccination and falsely blaming illegal immigrants for a spike in leprosy cases. It also published a column claiming that Barack Obama was using "using the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis" to get people to vote for him for president. Yet the MRC think the head of the organization that promulgates such fringe views is crediblly posing as an "Ebola expert." Go figure.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:25 PM EDT
Birther Corsi Wants You To Trust Him On Ebola
Topic: WorldNetDaily Jerome Corsi is the face of the birther conspiracy theory. He peddled it on behalf of his employer, WorldNetDaily, he got himself appointed to a highly biased "investigation" that had no intention of finding the truth about President Obama's "eligibility," and he has steadfastly refused to acknowledge the existence of all the evidence that discredits his conspiracy theory. Now, Corsi wants you to believe he's an expert on Ebola. The URL corsionebola.com takes you to a website promoting a "continuously updated e-book" by Corsi, "Ebola: Battling the Crisis." The site is hosted at something called 48 Bricks, which "leverages social networks to help spread the word about your campaign; driving qualified and measurable leads." Let's look at Corsi's recent track record as a WND reporter, beyond his fact-ignoring birther obsession. He can't read a simple chart, he plagiarizes from Wikipedia, and he has fearmongered to baselessly blame an enterovirus outbreak on undocumented immigrants. And yet, Corsi wants us to trust him as a self-proclaimed expert on Ebola. Really, Jerome?
Posted by Terry K.
at 1:17 PM EDT
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Is A Future Ruddy Candidacy Behind Newsmax's Endorsement of Rick Scott?
Topic: Newsmax After first opposing his campaign in 2010, Newsmax learned to love the idea of Rick Scott for Florida governor (though it took ignoring its own previous attacks on him to do so). Now that Scott is running for re-election, Newsmax has endorsed him again. In an unsigned Oct. 26 editorial, Newsmax declared:
What Newsmax isn't telling you: how much it has donated to Scott's PAC. As we've previously documented, Newsmax Media gave $100,000 to Scott's Let's Get To Work PAC in 2010. In 2012, Newsmax donated another $5,000. Additionally, Newsmax Media has donated at least $200,000 to the Florida Republican Party in recent years. With its endorsement of Scott, Newsmax is not acting as a media outlet -- with its monetary interests in Florida politics, it's trying to buy influence. It has a vested interest in doing so; Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy's name was floated as a possible Senate candidate for 2012. Two of the best ways to keep political ambitions alive is to support the party you like and support its candidates. Through Newsmax, Ruddy is doing both.
Posted by Terry K.
at 8:35 PM EDT
WND Pushes Discredited Ballot-Box-Stuffing Story
Topic: WorldNetDaily An unbylined Oct. 22 WorldNetDaily article hyperbolically states:
In fact, that's not what happened at all, and WND's source appears to be lying. As the Phoenix New Times explains, a group called Citizens for a Better Arizona was dropping off early voters' ballots , a practice it has conducted for several years and which is perfectly legal. As is usual for WND, it couldn't be bothered to investigate the story -- it just repeats LaFaro's false accusations and treat them as fact, then go on to fearmonger about vote fraud (which, again, was not happening here). As is also usual for WND, its false story stands uncorrected. Is it any wonder that nobody believes WND?
Posted by Terry K.
at 6:15 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:22 PM EDT
NewsBusters: Cyberbullying Of Model Not That Bad Because She's A Model
Topic: NewsBusters Ken Shepherd declares in an Oct. 28 NewsBusters post that he's not that terribly bothered by the cyberbullying of Chrissy Teigen over an "anti-gun" tweet because, well, she's a model -- well, a "public figure" -- and kinda has it coming to her:
Remember that Shepherd's Media Research Center collegaues were quite approving of Rush Limbaugh's three-day tirade of misogyny against Sandra Fluke. And his boss, Brent Bozell, expressed only the most tepid criticism of Limbaugh before starting an "I Stand With Rush" website. (The MRC did give Limbaugh its very first "William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for Media Excellence," after all.) So he knows how acceptable ad hominem attacks, hateful comments, and threats of violence are without having to leave his place of employment. Indeed, his employer considers such attacks to be "media excellence," so maybe he's not the best judge of who deserves to be bullied. Curiously, Shepherd was silent about the content of her supposedly "anti-gun" tweet, which simply stated, "active shooting in Canada, or as we call it in america, wednesday." Shepherd concludes by huffing: "Of course, if this is the standard MSNBC wishes to have, we eagerly await its complaints of cyberbullying the next time a conservative celebrity receives wave after wave of social media vitriol for expressing an opinion that is anathema to the Left." Somehow, Meanwhile, a non-conservative who ran afoul of the right's PC police deserves what they have coming to them. Just ask Sandra Fluke.
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:58 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:22 PM EDT
Dishonest WND Article Smears Muslims, Ignores Provocations
Topic: WorldNetDaily An Oct. 27 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh carries the urgently worded headline "Stone-throwing Muslims bloody Christians in MICHIGAN." It's not until you start reading Unruh's article that the fraudulent nature of the headline quickly becomes clear: The incident in question happened two years ago, and the story is about a proceeding in a lawsuit related to the incident. That's not to say Unruh isn't dishonest in the article -- this is Bob Unruh, after all. As usual, he reports only one side of the story, heavy on criticism of the "rock-throwing Muslim mob," and curiously disappears all information on why the Muslims might have been throwing rocks at them in the first place. As we've previously documented when WND last failed to tell the truth about this incident, the "Christian" group was headed by inflammatory street preacher Ruben Israel, who was carrying a severed pig's head because, he told police, Muslims are “petrified” of pigs and so it “keeps them at bay.” The supposedly Christian group was also shouting at the Muslims that they are going to hell and their religion is a lie. Unruh's article includes a heavily edited video of the incident that conveniently omits Ruben Israel's pig's head and other provocative behavior of the so-called Christians. The lawsuit pushes the views of the lawyers for the "Christians," the right-wing American Freedom Law Center, claiming that law enforcement personnel "stood by" while the incident occurred. But as one blogger who observed unedited video of the entire incident points out, police intervened several times and that Muslims tried to calm the incident. Unruh also uncritically forwards the Law Center's claims that this is a First Amendment issue. Not only doesn't Unruh mention that members of Israel's group were shouting things like "You’re a disgusting Muslim. You’re on your way to the devil’s hand" and "You're a wicked Muslim," we weren't aware that a severed pig's head was a form of speech. Perhaps the Law Counter would like to explain how that can be. (Photo: Ruben Israel's website)
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:24 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:35 PM EDT
Monday, October 27, 2014
MRC's Bozell, Graham Bash Opera They've Never Seen
Topic: Media Research Center Brent Bozell and Tim Graham rant in their Oct. 24 column about the New York Metropolitan Opera's production of "The Death of Klinghoffer":
Like their Media Research Center employee Tianna DiMartino, who unleashed a similar tirade last month against the opera, they provide no evidence that they've seen the work they're attacking. And as we've previously pointed out, critics who -- unlike Bozell, Graham and DiMartino -- have actually seen the opera note that "The Death of Klinghoffer" does not romanticize terror; rather, it "attempts to counterpoise toterror’s deadly glamour the life-affirming virtues of the ordinary, of the decent man, of small things." But Bozell and Graham offer no evidence they've seen any opera, let alone the one they're bashing, so all they can be counted on for is mindless, ignorant bashing. Speaking of which, DiMartino served up more of the same in an Oct. 23 follow-up MRC article. While devoting the vast majority of her article to critics of the opera, DiMartino acknowledged the critique of a Jewish rabbi who, unlike her, saw the opera and noted that it “certainly reflects the horror and criminality of the terrorists. It also reveals, through the terrorists' anti-Jewish canards, that anti-Zionism is equivalent to anti-Semitism.” But then she rants because the opera does not explicitly condemn the Palestinians' violence: "And yet the writer John Adams, the Librettist, Peter Gelb and Liberal critics alike all praise the show for it’s non-bias. For the human element of both sides and the rationale for all involved." And again, DiMartino shows she's so ignorant that she can't even get the names of the opera's creators straight. John Adams wrote the music, while Alice Goodman is the librettist. Gelb is the Metropolitan Opera's general manager and was not involved in the creation of the opera. Her ignorance notwithstanding, DiMartino concludes by whining: "Moral cowardice dressed up as sophistication is a luxury afforded by the left’s grip on entertainment and the arts. In the real world, in which real terrorists murder wheelchair-bound seniors and fly passenger jets into sky scrapers, we don’t have that luxury." It seems that DiMartino has decided she doesn't have the luxury to know anything about the opera she's bashing.
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:08 PM EDT
WND's Farah Perpetuates His Reporter's Lie About Houston Mayor
Topic: WorldNetDaily We wondered if WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah would ever hold his reporter Bob Unruh for spreading the blatant lie that Houston Mayor Annise Parker said that the city's non-discrimination ordinance is "all about me." Turns out that Farah is helping Unruh spread the lie. In an attempt to hyperbolically claim that a discovery request by the city in a lawsuit filed by right-wing activists over that non-discrimination law somehow means Christianity is being criminalized, FArah writes in his Oct. 26 column:
Farah is lying, as he does so often. Parker actually said that "the debate is about me," pointing out that opponents of the law are personally attacking her over it -- as demonstrated by the made-up quote Farah and Unruh are promoting. The fact that the leader of a so-called news organization would actively promote a lie is just one more reason nobody believes WND.
Posted by Terry K.
at 2:05 PM EDT
Sunday, October 26, 2014
NewsBusters Pushes Bogus Wedding Chapel Discrimination Story
Topic: NewsBusters Ken Shepherd uses an Oct. 23 NewsBusters post to take exception to a CNN op-ed pointing out the fact that wedding chapels are for-profit businesses and are not necessarily religious operations:
Moving on to the specific manufactured controversy at hand, a wedding chapel in Idaho that falsely claims it's being forced to marry same-sex partners, Shepherd writes:
But as we pointed out, the Hitching Post is not a church, used to regularly conduct secular wedding ceremonies (that presumably did not necessarily conform to "the Christian faith of the Hitching Post's owner/operators"), and was not an exclusively religious wedding chapel until hooking up with a right-wing legal group and scrubbing its website of references to the civil ceremonies it used to perform. Further, no legal action has been taken against the wedding chapel, and if it is now operating as a legitimate religious corporation, they are exempt from being forced to perform same-sex marriages. Shepherd even quotes from the wedding chapel's website claiming its ministers will "will marry you using a traditional, religious ceremony," ignoring the fact that as recently as two weeks ago, that very same page stated that its ministers "will marry you using a traditional or civil ceremony." That sudden conversion would seem to undermine the chapel's case that it's a strictly religious operation.
Posted by Terry K.
at 10:26 PM EDT
WND's Farah Chooses The Bible Over Science
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Joseph Farah, Oct. 22 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K.
at 7:58 PM EDT
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Supersize WorldNetDaily Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily
-- Mychal Massie, Oct. 13 WorldNetDaily column
-- Selena Owens, Oct. 14 WND column
-- Barry Farber, Oct. 14 WND column
-- Erik Rush, Oct. 15 WND column
-- Jack Cashill, Oct. 15 WND column
-- Larry Klayman, Oct. 17 WND column
-- Tom Tancredo, Oct. 17 WND column
-- Mychal Massie, Oct. 20 WND column
-- Morgan Brittany, Oct. 21 WND column
-- Erik Rush, Oct. 22 WND column
-- Alan Keyes, Oct. 23 WND column
Posted by Terry K.
at 9:20 PM EDT
Friday, October 24, 2014
CNS' Starr Gives Platform To Homophobic Minister
Topic: CNSNews.com Penny Starr writes in an Oct. 24 CNSNews.com article:
As we've documented, Welch -- a former WorldNetDaily columnist -- is a rabid homophobe who portrayed the elecion of Houston Mayor Annise Parker, a lesbian, as a moral failing of the citizenry, criticized pastor Joel Osteen for offering up a prayer at Parker's inauguration, and has likened the existence of gays to a controlled demolition of church buildings. After complaining that one pastor "made no formal endorsement of either side" on an anti-discrimination ordinance, Welch added: "It sounds like his gender identity may be up for question. If that sounds harsh, so be it." Yet Starr apparently thinks Welch is a reasonable person to interview. Incidentially, Starr quotes nobody in her article who supports Houston's non-discrimination ordinance, a seeming violation of CNS' mission statement that it "fairly present all legitimate sides of a story."
Posted by Terry K.
at 4:21 PM EDT
David Limbaugh Pushes Factually Deficient Claim About Ministers And Same-Sex Marriage
Topic: WorldNetDaily David Limbaugh rants in an Oct. Oct. 20 column appearing at WorldNetDailiy and CNSNews.com:
Let's count Limbaugh's falsehoods and misdirections, as detailed by Media Matters:
In other words, Limbaugh is simply regurgitating the ADF's talking points without bothering to do any actual research. Still, Limbaugh rants about "the left’s militancy."
Posted by Terry K.
at 12:36 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 24, 2014 12:38 PM EDT
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