April 18 articles by WorldNetDaily (by Bob Unruh) and CNSNews.com (by Fred Lucas) hype the opposition to a federal hate-crime bill by highlighting the idea that grandmothers will be jailed for, in…
CNS Paints Mike Adams As Victim, Ignores His History
An April 11 CNSNews.com article by Randy Hall repeats unsourced claims attacking an alleged critic of Mike Adams, the conservative writer who is suing the North Carolina university where he works for…
WND Columnist Trusts Mendacious Convicted Killers
WorldNetDaily columnist Janet Folger, in a March 27 column, thinks that we should take the word of convicted killers. Arguing against hate-crime laws, she claimed that Matthew Shepard wasn’t killed because he…
Sheppard Loves the Lord (Monckton)
A March 19 NewsBusters post by Noel Sheppard touts a challenge by Lord Monckton, “a former advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,” to Al Gore to hold “an internationally televised, head-to-head,…
Farah’s Body Count
The headline from Joseph Farah’s Feb. 28 WorldNetDaily column reads: “Does Obama know about body count?” The so-called “Clinton body count,” that is. Does Farah know that the “Clinton body count” has…
WND Misleads on Library Porn Filters
Here’s the lead of a Jan. 31 WorldNetDaily article: While pornography itself doesn’t “shoot the bullet” for sex crimes, it does “cock the trigger,” and Sacramento officials who supervise their public library…
WND Still Silent on Israeli President’s Sex Scandal
As we’ve reported previously, Israeli president Moshe Katsav has been accused of numerous offenses, including rape — a scandal WorldNetDaily Jerusalem reporter Aaron Klein has ignored, presumably because Katsav is a member…
Another Selectively Edited Finkelstein Transcript
Noel Sheppard apparently hasn’t had that talk we recommended he have with Mark Finkelstein — you know, about selectively editing the transcripts he posts on NewsBusters. Because Finkelstein has done it again….
Massie Crops Boxer’s Remarks
Mychal Massie’s Jan. 16 WorldNetDaily column attacking Sen. Barbara Boxer’s comments to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was predictably rantlike. Also predictable was Massie’s failure to note one important fact: When Boxer…
Life Imitates ‘The Colbert Report’
Tim Graham concludes his Jan. 12 NewsBusters post complaining that “The Washington Post wanted to send one message loud and clear today: almost nobody supports Bush’s Iraq surge” this way: The Post could…