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The Revolutionary Political Blog has a story on the Barack Obama three point basketball shot at this link: http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=938 The site claims that a military source revealed that Obama actually missed five three pointers in a row before making the shot that has been broadcast all over the MSM. The video was edited to make it seem like Obama canned the three on his first attempt.

This morning the papers were overloaded with positive stories proclaiming that Barack Obama was back on his A-Game and raising money like there was no tomorrow. Unfortunately the MSM once again failed to look at the actual numbers that should be of concern for the Obama campaign. It is true that the Obama campaign did raise $52 million in June, along with DNC fundraising that added another $22 million to their coffers. That's a total haul of $74 million for the Democrat party in the month of June. But...

In a report on Monday’s "The Situation Room" purporting to clarify how Barack Obama "really voted on abortion" (as the graphic on-screen at right stated), CNN correspondent Carol Costello misconstrued the Democrat’s stance on legislation during his time in the Illinois state senate that would have protected infants that survived abortions.Besides the two votes specifically mentioned by Costello in the report, Obama also voted against it at the committee level, and when he was committee chair, denied a simple up or down vote on the legislation. The CNN correspondent also misrepresented the apparent pro-life stance of pro-abortion senators like...

The New York Times published an article Monday about the anger some Vietnam veterans feel over the vessel they used to serve on, Swift Boat, now being synonymous with "the nastiest of campaign smears." In dredging up this issue, Times' writer Kate Zernike not only misrepresented many of the facts surrounding the claims made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but also completely ignored the mainstream media's role in turning the name of this patrol craft into a political pejorative. In fact, something the Times conveniently chose not to share with its readers was how one of its own...

THE facts about your security are being torn to shreds by activist liars. And they think that you're too stupid to know the difference. Let's lay out the worst current examples of media make-believe and election-year truth-trashing: Whopper No. 1: America is less safe today than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. ....

Here is hard, irrefutable proof that the Obama campaign is engaged in a huge deceit related to what they are claiming is a copy of his birth certificate. Notice on Obama's official site, his birth certificate says OHBM 1.1 in the lower left corner. The original document displayed on the Daily KOS website says OHSM 1.1 in the lower left corner. The million dollar question is: If the Daily KOS document was supplied by a Obama campaign staffer, as was reported, then how on earth can these two documents differ? There may be a Hawaiian state agency or department with...

Barack Obama's first general election ad says about 46 seconds in that the Illinois senator passed laws that "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected." The ad "Country I Love", which was released Friday, provides a citation at the bottom of the screen which reads "Public Law 110 - 181." The problem is Senator Obama never voted for that legislation.

LifeNews.com Note: William Beckman is the executive director of the Illinois Right to Life Committee. Opinion articles like this one do not necessarily reflect the views of LifeNews.com. The June 19, 2008 headline reads “US doctors kill skin cancer with cloned T-cells.” Does this suggest that human cloning of embryonic stem cells has been successful in treating skin cancer? Absolutely not! The details of the New England Journal of Medicine report that generated this news coverage reveal that adult stem cells obtained from the patient were used. As reported in ScienceDaily, researchers “removed CD4+ T cells, a type of white...

THERE IS A SURE-FIRE WAY to make the news these days: Just issue a press release beginning with the words, "New scientific study shows," and have it assert a conclusion that the MSM fervently want to believe--especially if the resulting story would serve to debunk or refute a Bush administration policy. Slam-dunk! Your press release will become news! You are skeptical, you say? But what other explanation is there for the decision by CBS and MSNBC to post on their websites a ridiculous story about a new scientific "finding" that global warming is causing an increase in the world's earthquakes--an...

ROANOKE | The Virginia Lottery has taken in millions of dollars illegally by misrepresenting the prize money available for its "Scratcher" games, according to a Washington & Lee University business professor. Scott Hoover contends that the lottery has not ordered retailers to pull shipments of tickets from Scratcher games after the top prizes have been awarded, meaning players are buying tickets with no chance of winning the largest prize promised on the ticket. John Fishwick, an attorney representing Mr. Hoover, has filed a notice of a claim with the lottery seeking refunds of $84.7 million to those who purchased an...

The Senate Intelligence Committee finally released it's long-awaited/overdue report on their investigation into pre-war intelligence on Saddam's Iraq. This final report was supposed to look at statements made by government officials in the run up to war from 1991-2003. It was supposed to examine the pre-war marketing or threat assessment and descriptions to the public about the intelligence regarding the threat posed by Saddam's regime. Instead, the report looked at just 5 Bush Administration speeches. It completely left out any and all comments from Pres Bush Sr, Pres Clinton, anyone in his administration, and every member of the House and...

Three Harvard psychiatrists facing a US Senate inquiry got a vote of confidence from their hospital as "beloved and trusted by thousands of grateful children and families." Senator Charles Grassley is looking into the doctors' failure to report payments of more than a million dollars in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007. A memo from top officials at Massachusetts General Hospital obtained by the Globe praised Drs. Joseph Biederman, Timothy Wilens, and Thomas Spencer as "pioneers in the field of child mental health" while also endorsing "closely managed" collaboration with industry and promising a review of conflict-of-interest...

Casual visitors to Barack Obama's website might be misled about the position on gun control held by the U.S. Senate's most liberal member - that is, if they can even find it. One has to first click on "Issues" - then on "Additional Issues" - and then on "Sportsmen" to locate it. Even then, ones gets this rather nebulous paragraph: Barack Obama did not grow up hunting and fishing, but he recognizes the great conservation legacy of America’s hunters and anglers and has great respect for the passion that hunters and anglers have for their sport. Were it not for...

The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran. At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel's parliament earlier this week. Specifically, White House counselor Ed Gillespie laments that the network edited the interview in a way that “is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that [Bush] agreed with [correspondent Richard Engel's] characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it. “This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and...

A senior at Missouri State University, studying social work, she’d already helped found a Christian sorority, and was investing a lot of her free time in a place called ‘The Potter’s House,” a local Christian outreach barely disguised as a coffee shop. She was excited about her growing faith, but increasingly eager to put that faith into action. “I kept asking God, ‘Why aren’t You using me?’” she remembers. “Is there something wrong with me? Am I not strong enough?” And yet, by her own admission, Emily was not exactly the type to find a fray and fling herself into...

Two frightening killers were on the loose, and the Sacramento Bee’s readers wanted to protect themselves. They wanted more than descriptions of the attackers’ clothing at the time of the murders. They wanted to know the criminals’ race. The Bee, they accused editors, had allowed outdated policies to endanger public safety. Challenged by readers and by bloggers who don’t adhere to journalistic conventions, many editors have been thinking about loosening their rules for identifying race in crime stories. In general, news outlets have avoided racial and ethnic identifiers unless they were important to the case, or, perhaps, if victims’ descriptions...

This one is EXPLOSIVE, folks! MUST SEE VIDEO! (Before it gets deleted from Youtube, anyway!) A KOS'r has posted a video on Youtube in which Stephanapolis, Carville, and Mickey Kantor are discussing Polling numbers from Indiana, when Kantor walks up and says: "Those people don't matter." (then whispers loud enough for the camera to hear) "How would you like to be... A worthless White Nigger?" OMG!!! The ARROGANCE of these people!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/2/93316/53926/838/507664

I just spoke to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of "The War Room," who said his film had been doctored to produce a widely-viewed YouTube clip. In a clip from his film on the 1992 Clinton campaign, posted to YouTube today, Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor is -- according to subtitles -- seen referring to Indianans with an expletive and to his colleague George Stephanopolous with a racial slur. "He does not say that. He does not say that," said Pennebaker, after viewing the clip. He said the initial expletive referred to the anticipated reaction in the Bush White House to the...

"Intellectually and fundamentally dishonest."

She once claimed that her mother named her after the famous mountaineer. When it was pointed out that Sir Edmund didn’t scale Mount Everest until after she was born, the little lie was exposed. Hillary’s exaggerated claim that she “helped bring peace to Norther Ireland” is another example of her natural inclination for fabrication, half-truths and deception. When Hillary adopted the phony Southern drawl in Selma last year, I described her contrivance and pretense

Is it the responsibility of the government of Canada to assist Democratic presidential candidates in telling lies? Apparently the answer is "yes" -- at least according to the opposition parties in Ottawa. The opposition parties are slamming the Harper government for inadvertently leaking a memo that revealed Barack Obama's anti-NAFTA posture to be a fake. While Obama was trying to win union votes in Ohio by slamming the North American Free Trade Agreement, Obama's top economic advisor was quietly assuring the Canadian government that the candidate's words were just "positioning," not "policy." For Obama, this revelation was deeply damaging. Obama...

...I thought it might be helpful to offer the candidates a cheat-sheet of easy-to-use-cliches when addressing the hot-button issue of immigration. Granted, some of the contenders are polished pros when it comes to using meaningless rhetoric on immigration...like Sen. John "Straight Talk" McCain, who now insists that he never supported amnesty.... But even veteran political contortionists can use a little brush-up on sure-fire phrases that pander to the open-borders crowd... "Living in the shadows": The gold standard of public utterances on illegal immigration that deftly defies reality while evoking Dickensian imagery to pull heart strings, use it liberally — but...

It looks like the judge in Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS may let the case go to trial. But the fascinating thing about this Associated Press article on the case is how they describe the Rathergate scandal—without even mentioning that it was based on fake documents. Rather was removed from his “CBS Evening News” post in March 2005, six months after he narrated a report that said Bush disobeyed orders and shirked some of his duties during his National Guard service. The report also said a commander felt pressured to sugarcoat Bush’s record.

On Thursday my brothers in the blue suits put 40,000 pounds of iron on Al Qaida with F-16s and B-1s. It appears that this is the last stage of clearing out the Baghdad area. What I find especially interesting is that some versions of the AP story went out on the wire with this photo... The caption (not included in some versions of the story, most notably the one on Breitbart) went like this: Children watch as U.S. army soldiers from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, unseen, search their home during Operation Phantom Phoenix in the village...

January 10, 2008 2:59 AM EST Threat Assessment Regarding US Ships in the Persian Gulf Last weekend’s incident involving Iranian fast boats and US naval ships underscores the volatile nature of the Persian Gulf. During the incident, a US naval convoy was approached by five fast boats operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG). The Iranian boats came within 200 meters of convoy and issued threats indicating that they were conducting a suicide attack of some sort. The Iranian boats then turned around and fled the area. The incident occurred in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, through which 20%...

RNC head denies party's responsibility to electorate for primary election process Chairman Mike Duncan responds to Keyes campaign's allegations of 'Iowa deception' January 9, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monday, Stephen Stone, CEO of Alan Keyes for President, met with Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan to discuss "evidence of deception by the Iowa Republican Party with regard to the recent caucuses." Stone delivered a letter that described the campaign's allegations against Iowa GOP officials. According to Stone, the state party's behavior in the caucuses "disenfranchises voters" and appears to have "violated the election laws." Among the facts outlined by Stone:...

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(CNN) — Republican Fred Thompson has long faced criticism he lacks motivation to be President of the United States, but the Tennessee Republican's latest comments Saturday are likely to spawn fresh heat. “I’m not particularly interested in running for president," the former senator said at a campaign event in Burlington when challenged by a voter over his desire to be commander-in-chief. “But I think I’d make a good president," Thompson continued. "I have the background, capability, and concern to do this and I’m doing it for the right reasons.” Thompson took heat for not jumping into the White House race...

CNN, as part of its Republican debate with YouTube, failed to mention that retired general Keith Kerr, who announced he was gay after his retirement from the Army, is a member of Hillary Clinton’s "LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee." Not only did General Kerr ask the question via a YouTube video, but he was also present in the audience, and got to ask the candidates for a "straight answer" (pardon the pun). General Kerr’s, whose question came 47 minutes into the 9 pm Eastern hour the debate, is also part of the Servicemembers’ Legal Defense Network's advisory council, an...

PBS Airs False Facts in its "Inherit the Wind" Version of the Kitzmiller Trial (Updated) UPDATE: A tenth PBS blunder is addressed, where PBS makes the false insinuation that intelligent design is no more scientific than astrology. Scroll down to read more. More than 50 years ago two playwrights penned a fictionalized account of the 1920s Scopes Trial called "Inherit the Wind" that is now universally regarded by historians as inaccurate propaganda. Last night PBS aired its "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design" documentary, which similarly promotes propaganda about the 2005 Kitzmiller trial and intelligent design (ID). Most of the misinformation in...

Saturday, November 17, 2007 CNN's six "undecided voters" were all Democratic operatives    UPDATES BELOW - CNN hits bottom and digs: All six debate questioners appear to be Democratic Party operatives. So much for "ordinary people, undecided voters". To paraphrase Junior Soprano, CNN is so far up the DNC's hind end, Howard Dean can taste hair gel. In a nutshell, CNN's six "undecided voters" were: A Democratic Party bigwigAn antiwar activistA Union officialAn Islamic leaderA Harry Reid stafferA radical Chicano separatist Wow. This looks "rather" like a scandal. Hot Air: ...You’d think the network’s audience might want to know who...

CNN, during a report on Thursday’s "The Situation Room," mislead its viewers by reporting that a new document issued by the Catholic bishops on voting stated that "the candidate who supports abortion rights shouldn't necessarily be counted out for your vote." Besides this misrepresentation, the report also highlighted the issue of denying pro-abortion politicians Communion. CNN correspondent Mary Snow reported that some "critics" state that "the Communion question was created by extremists, and they hope they're shut out of this election cycle." Speaking of "shutting out," conservative and faithful Catholics were not featured at all in the report. Instead, Snow...

The deceit behind global warming By Christopher Booker and Richard North Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 04/11/2007 No one can deny that in recent years the need to "save the planet" from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our time. As Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, claimed in 2004, it poses "a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism", warning that by the end of this century the only habitable continent left will be Antarctica. Polar bears find the Arctic sea ice shrinking, but many scientists now predict that the world...

I'm convinced that when the United States went to war in April of 2003, the media drew arms as well, and although professional neutrality is key to reporting the news, I'm not always sure how many members of the press have chosen sides. When I first got to Iraq six months ago, I had my fingers crossed. I literally had no idea what I would find. My biggest fear was that I'd see a group of very discouraged men and women trying to implement a failing policy. I thought I'd see Iraqis poorly coping with an oppressive American military. What...

Many Americans pride themselves on being discriminating foodies, avoiding excessive salt, sugar and fat. However, discriminating listeners we are not. We’ll scarf down anything as long as it sounds good or vaguely logical. The once straight-talking America prefers truth-lite, and we’re big into sound-bites. Spin is slathered on with a spatula to make less marketable concepts palatable, even tasty. Presidential campaigns gave our brain cells a vigorous workout that kept us intellectually fit. Candidates waxed eloquent, but astute voters knew candidates accentuate the positive and sweeten the poison. No more. Rudy Guiliani told us “illegal immigration isn’t a crime.” There...

Many Americans pride themselves on being discriminating foodies, avoiding excessive salt, sugar and fat. However, discriminating listeners we are not. We’ll scarf down anything as long as it sounds good or vaguely logical. The once straight-talking America prefers truth-lite, and we’re big into sound-bites. Spin is slathered on with a spatula to make less marketable concepts palatable, even tasty. Presidential campaigns gave our brain cells a vigorous workout that kept us intellectually fit. Candidates waxed eloquent, but astute voters knew candidates accentuate the positive and sweeten the poison. No more. Rudy Guiliani told us “illegal immigration isn’t a crime.” There...

City of Aurora Initiates External Investigation Into Planned Parenthood's Deceptive Building Permit Applications Applications as late as March, 2007 state that tenant is "Unknown at this time" By Meg Jalsevac AURORA, Illinos, September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The proposed Planned Parenthood clinic being built in the city of Aurora, Ill has been peacefully opposed by dedicated pro-lifers that have garnered national attention with their rallies and round the clock vigils in an effort to halt the building process.  However, Planned Parenthood officials must now also wade through possible legal conflict as the city searches for a new attorney to examine...

WASHINGTON - Days after unveiling a major crackdown on businesses that hire illegal immigrants, the Bush administration is now quietly admitting that its most heavily touted weapon in pursuing employers will be virtually useless. At the heart of the new rules announced last week is toughened Homeland Security enforcement of so-called "no match" letters - which the Social Security Administration sends to companies when employees have questionable identification numbers. But Homeland Security officials acknowledged this week that because of a privacy provision in the IRS code, immigration officials will actually have no way of knowing which employers have received "no-match"...

Like most religions, Islam in general, forbids lying. The Quran says, "Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies." Surah 40:28. In the Hadith, Mohammed was also quoted as saying, "Be honest because honesty leads to goodness, and goodness leads to Paradise. Beware of falsehood because it leads to immorality, and immorality leads to Hell." However, unlike most religions, within Islam there are certain provisions under which lying is not simply tolerated, but actually encouraged. The book "The spirit of Islam," by the Muslim scholar, Afif A. Tabbarah was written to promote Islam. On page 247, Tabbarah stated: "Lying...

MANASSAS, Va., May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by GrassrootsFreedom.com and Mark Fitzgibbons regarding grassroots legislation, H.R. 2093 introduced May 1 by Congressman Marty Meehan (news, bio, voting record), and expected to be debated in the House May 15: "Now that we've finally seen Congressman Meehan's grassroots bill, H.R. 2093, we know that its proponents were selling the public and Congress a bill of goods. They said: The bill would close a 'Jack Abramoff loophole.' Fact: Neither Jack Abramoff nor the kick-backs to him under the 'Gimme- Five' scandal would have been disclosed under H.R. 2093. They...

Posted: May 1, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Aleksandar Pavic For more than 10 years, the term "Srebrenica" has been used to denote the slaughter of "innocent Muslims" at the hands of Christians – more specifically, the Bosnian Serb army, alleged to have slaughtered, according to the version currently accepted by most major media, "between 7,000 and 8,000 Muslims" when it captured that small town in eastern Bosnia in mid-July 1995. As the story goes, the Bosnian Serbs captured this "U.N.-protected zone" and proceeded to take away and execute thousands of men, women and children in the space of several...

TEHRAN, April 24 (MNA) -- The first international conference on the “culture of resistance” will be held under the name of “Islamic World, a Victim of Terrorism” in Tehran on May 1-2. “The event is planned to help expand the culture of resistance in the Islamic world,” Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri, told a press conference on Tuesday. 45 figures from 28 different countries will attend the conference, Taskhiri said. He said the main objective of the conference is to “study terrorism and the ways to confront it, the...

For more than a century and a half, men and women of The Associated Press have had the privilege of bringing truth to the world. They have gone to great lengths, overcome great obstacles – and, too often, made great and horrific sacrifices – to ensure that the news was reported quickly, accurately and honestly. Our efforts have been rewarded with trust: More people in more places get their news from the AP than from any other source. In the 21st century, that news is transmitted in more ways than ever before – in print, on the air and on...

With two weeks to go before the election, this can't be said often enough: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has no plan to balance the state's budget, or, if he does have a plan, he's not sharing it with the voters. John Myers takes a look at the issue here, on his blog and, linked, KQED radio. Schwarzenegger is staring at a $5 billion gap between projected revenues and spending next year -- and that's assuming the economy performs as expected. Unless he is bailed out by higher tax revenues than his own economists have told him are likely, Schwarzenegger is going...

Talk about deja vu all over again. There was something awfully familiar about Bill Clinton's hissy fit on Fox News last Sunday. What was it, exactly? The finger-pointing? The raised voice? The way he kept interrupting his interviewer? The mounting furor that threatened to reach red-in-the-face levels despite the pancake makeup? The attribution of base motives to a reporter who'd dared question him about something he'd done? Or, in this case, what he hadn't done to prevent a terrorist attack on this country. It was an operatic performance. All the Sturm und Drang was there, if not the art. But...

In the latest categorical rejection of Saddam Hussein's links to al Qaeda Charlie Gibson said the following in an interview with President Bush: Gibson: And that's the one thing that I question, whether people do have any sense of that. For loathsome as he may have been, Saddam Hussein was not connected to al Qaeda This isn't just bias. It means that ABC isn't telling the truth now or wasn't telling the truth in some of their previous reporting. Charles Gibson doesn't need to even go outside of his own network to find examples of Saddam Hussein's links to al...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CNN apologized Tuesday after an open mike transmitted an anchor's bathroom conversation with another woman live over the network as it was carrying President Bush's speech in New Orleans. "Live From" anchor Kyra Phillips had apparently left the set around 12:48 p.m. EDT Tuesday for a bathroom break while the news channel carried Bush's speech marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Phillips' wireless microphone was turned on and picked up about a minute and a half of a muffled conversation she had with an unidentified woman where she apparently talked about her husband, laughed...

The newsmakers of today are full of it. They are obsessed with the "distrust" people have in the President. These Hippies fail to take note that according a July poll; the public has more trust in the President, than in their trash. (See more results at polling Report.com).

Amid the controversy over certain pictures from Lebanon, a longtime student of war photography asks, "I'm not sure if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both." By David D. Perlmutter (August 18, 2006) -- The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism. In twenty years of researching and teaching about the art and trade and doing photo-documentary work, I have never witnessed or heard of such a wave of attacks...

It is stated in the Bible that the devil is the father of all lies. And I believe it. I am something of a student of history, a subject that is pretty much ignored by our school system, and when it isn’t, it teaches more historical revisionist lies. The frightening thing about it is that our schools, our leaders, and especially our media, repeat flat out bald-faced lies as often as they can. And we believe them. God help us all, but we believe those lies so easily at times.