A June 16 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein begins ominously: “Former President Jimmy Carter passed a message to Hamas from the Obama administration, according to senior sources in the Islamist group.” But…
WND Ignores Birther’s Prayer for Obama’s Death
WorldNetDaily has already dismissed the alleged shooter of George Tiller as mentally ill and the alleged shooter of a guard at the Holocaust Museum as a liberal. How will it address the…
Boone Takes Obama Out of Context, Makes Up Quotes
Pat Boone’s June 6 column, published at WorldNetDaily, begins with a series of out-of-context and manufactured quotes of President Obama in an effort to smear him as “a president without a country.”…
Matthew Vadum, Sucky Researcher
From a June 5 Capital Research Center blog post: I just found out that the Center for Independent Media and George Soros’s professional character assassins at Media Matters for America (headed by admitted…
Vadum Distorts ACORN, Unhappy About Getting Busted For It
Matthew Vadum got caught hurling a load of BS, and now he’s complaining that he got caught. PolitiFact.com wrote a fact-checking item about the distortion inherent in a claim, originated by Vadum’s…
WND Quietly Makes False Obama Attack (Mostly) Disappear
WorldNetDaily has published so many lies about Barack Obama that it makes no effort whatsoever to correct that it’s a shock when it actually tries to disassociate itself from a false claim…
NewsBusters Bashes Reporters for Fact-Checking Cheney
Apparently, merely fact-checking a Republican is evidence of “liberal bias” at the Media Research Center. A May 22 NewsBusters post by P.J. Gladnick invokes the Colbert principle — “Reality has a well-known…
UK Bars One-Time Aaron Klein Source From Entering Country
British media have published a list of people who have been barred from entering the UK because they “promote hatred, terrorist violence or serious criminal activity.” Among the Islamic extremists, racist skinheads…
WND Repeats CRC’s Dubious Attack on ProPublica
A May 3 WorldNetDaily article is a poorly done attack on the nonprofit journalism site ProPublica and its main funders, Herb and Marion Sandler. The article is, in turn, based on an…
Vadum Swings, Misses Again in Attack on Media Matters
We finally got around to reading Matthew Vadum’s attack on Media Matters (disclosure: our employer) in the current issue of Townhall magazine. Vadum, of the right-wing Capital Research Center, has a history…