WND began the year by admitting in court that it published false information and ended it by recklessly spreading lies about Barack Obama. Why should anyone take it seriously as a source…
AIM’s Feder Gets It Wrong Again
A Nov. 10 Accuracy in Media “Boycott the New York Times” article by Don Feder notes a Times article on the reaction of some Middle East terrorists to the election of Barack…
NewsBusters Misleadingly Defends Limbaugh
A Nov. 9 NewsBusters post by Rusty Weiss bashing the Los Angeles Times’ James Rainey for an article that, in Weiss’ words, “attempted to castigate the right wing media as a bitter…
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch
It was the Sunday after the election, and everywhere I looked I could only see impending doom. There is no way God would have allowed Barack Obama to become president were He…
CNS Baselessly Claims ‘Many Democrats’ Back Fairness Doctrine
A Nov. 11 CNSNews.com article by Nicholas Ballasy states that “many Democrats in Congress have said the Fairness Doctrine should be re-imposed to counter the influence of conservative talk radio, which dominates…
Newsmax Takes Refuge In Irrelevant Land Mass Vote
We’ve previously noted that after the 2004 presidential election, Newsmax was selling a U.S. map depicting the presidential vote by county, which showed an overwhelming red color for President Bush — which…
Klein Repeats Unverified Claim
A Nov. 11 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein claims: Hamas held a meeting in the Gaza Strip several months ago with aides to President-elect Barack Obama, but the terror group was asked…
Newsmax Features Claims of Discredited Researcher
A Nov. 10 Newsmax article by Phil Brennan cited a discredited researcher in claiming voter fraud in the Minnesota Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Brennan repeated claims by “John…
WND Misleads on Another Gun Case
WorldNetDaily has a bad habit of uncritically repeating claims made by the right-wing Gun Owners of America without verifying them, let alone bothering to tell the full story. WND does it again…
Graham Bashes Newsweek for Doing What Bozell Did
In a Nov. 11 NewsBusters post, Tim Graham bashes Newsweek’s Jon Meacham for claiming “that Barack Obama ran a ‘centrist’ campaign and that he in some way already resembles Ronald Reagan.” But…