http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/medialies/ en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:16:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412396/posts MSNBC's Rachel Maddow launched an error-riddled attack against the John Birch Society in her December 18 show, nominally because the John Birch Society has become a sponsor of the upcoming February 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412396/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411926/posts CNN: Sarah Palin's 'Death Panel' Comment Wins 'Lie of the Year' By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-12-20 18:44 If President Obama or any Democrat had actually won the dubious honor of committing PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year," do you think CNN would have reported it? Fat chance, right? Before you answer, consider the glee exhibited by CNN's Josh Levs Sunday when he announced Sarah Palin had "won" for her Facebook comment concerning a "death panel" in healthcare reform legislation (video embedded below the fold with transcript, h/t Story Balloon [1]): BETTY NGUYEN, CO-ANCHOR: Well, let's talk about politics, shall we? Something... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411926/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:34:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410668/posts And of course, stories that Joe Klein makes up get recycled in Palestinian propaganda. Ben Smith reports: U.S. and Israeli officials are dismissing an eyebrow-raising claim from a prominent Palestinian activist and official, Mustafa Barghouti, in today's International Herald Tribune. "The Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, stands up and walks out on the U.S. envoy, George Mitchell, every time the American envoy mentions East Jerusalem," Barghouti wrote in an op-ed deploring "U.S. and European inaction" in the face of Israeli intransigence. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, through a spokesman, dismissed the claim as "nonsense." "I have never heard such a thing,"... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410668/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:10:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407023/posts The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009 From jobs 'saved or created,' to stimulus saving the economy, to 'deficit neutral' health care reform; here are ten biggest stories the media got wrong this year. By Julia A. Seymour Business & Media Institute 12/9/2009 12:18:20 PM Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2009 list: 10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian Shakedown of U.S. oil company 9. Media Fail to Scrutinize Obama’s Job Claims 8. Government Stimulus is the Answer to Our... Business and Media Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407023/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:39:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373889/posts While CBS and NBC ignored yesterday’s expansion of the federal definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation, ABC’s Charlie Gibson reported it, explaining that the amendment was “named for Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student killed 11 years ago because he was gay.” It’s true that the amendment, attached to a defense spending bill, was named for Shepard but Gibson ignored his own network’s investigation of the Shepard case that revealed sexual orientation was not the sole motive behind his murder. ABC’s “20/20” investigation in 2004 found that drugs fueled Shepard’s brutal murder, not homophobia, as is widely believed.... Culture and Media Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373889/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:06:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364803/posts The NYT is calling Marcus Brauchli, the executive editor of the Washington Post, a liar. The NYT has reported this morning -- in a brief, buried "postscript" in the corrections column -- that it now has evidence that Brauchli lied last July when he told the NYT that he didn't know the paper's controversial corporate-sponsored dinner parties would be off-the-record. The NYT doesn't state flatly that Brauchli lied. But the juxtaposition of the two Brauchli statements in the postscript make clear the NYT's position that he misrepresented the truth in interviews with the NYT. [UPDATE: In an email to The... The NYTPicker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364803/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:14:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364785/posts In the wake of the news that radio host Rush Limbaugh was hoping to buy a chunk of the St. Louis Rams, Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a column containing the now-infamous quote, supposedly from Limbaugh, regarding the notion that slavery "had its merits." We first became aware of the quote not from perusing the copy of the Post-Dispatch that arrives in our mailbox every morning in West Virginia, but because Limbaugh mentioned the issue during the Monday broadcast of his radio show. (Indeed, if Limbaugh had never talked about the quotes on his radio show, we... nbc sports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364785/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364204/posts Now that they played their part in smearing Rush Limbaugh and creating a firestorm that resulted in Limbaugh being criticized by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and eventually being dropped from the group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, some in the media are admitting they used alleged "quotes" that they cannot confirm. First, here is Rick Sanchez at CNN apologizing for using quotes against Limbaugh that he now admits he cannot independently confirm . . . MSNBC's David Shuster admitted on air today that they cannot verify the quotes they used either, be he did not apologize . .... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364204/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:55:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363719/posts Rick Sanchez: i've know rush. in person,i like him. his rhetoric,however is inexcusably divisive. he's right tho. we didn't confirm quote. our bad. National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363719/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361694/posts "We want to be fair to Rush" - no, you don't. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2361694/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:47:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350916/posts Veteran Washington Post reporter Daryl Fears, part of a two-person writer team, unmistakably wrote that filmmaker John O'Keefe had “said” he “targeted” ACORN, the advocacy group, for his candid-camera expose, because it registered voters to defeat Republicans. O'Keefe said no such thing. It was a non-quote made out of whole cloth by reporter Fears, and published as fact on Sept. 17. Making the falsehood exponentially worse, the Post story then was retailed worldwide by the Associated Press. human events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350916/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:44:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339149/posts The whispers among some of his allies: that those who loathe Obama are driven in part by racism. Demonstrators are shown during a rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday. Photo: AP AUSTIN – Eight months into Barack Obama’s presidency, as criticism of his administration seems to reach new levels of volume and intensity each week, the whispers among some of his allies are growing louder: That those who loathe the nation’s first African–American president, and especially those who would deny his citizenship, are driven at least in part by racism. It’s a feeling that’s acutely felt among... politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339149/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:49:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338256/posts TELL THE TRUTH TELL THE TRUTH TELL THE TRUTH NO MORE LIES NO MORE LIES GO HOME CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338256/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:37:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2336684/posts Supporters of the President have been bragging all day about the CNN poll which claimed that among people who watch the Health Care speech there was a 14-point gain in support for the plan read the report below.. pay extra special attention to the final paragraph: CNN/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2336684/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:17:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2298243/posts I have not found one person in the major media-and that includes on the "conservative" Fox News Channel-who has dared to tell the ugly truth about Walter Cronkite's disastrous record in favor of defeat in Vietnam, unilateral disarmament in the face of the Soviet threat, and one-world government. His press has been as good as that of Barack Obama. However, many people are aware of Cronkite's real record, primarily because of the work of AIM founder and long-time AIM Report editor Reed Irvine. Here are just a few of the messages I received in response to my column, "The Terrible... Accuracy In Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2298243/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:41:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322943/posts For once, mainstream journalists did not retreat to the studied neutrality of quoting dueling antagonists. They tried to perform last rites on the ludicrous claim about President Obama's death panels, telling Sarah Palin, in effect, you've got to quit making things up. But it didn't matter. The story refused to die. The crackling, often angry debate over health-care reform has severely tested the media's ability to untangle a story of immense complexity. In many ways, news organizations have risen to the occasion; in others they have become agents of distortion. But even when they report the facts, they have had... WaPo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322943/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:01:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321236/posts Network Edits Clips of a Black Man with Guns at an Obama Rally to Support Race Narrative In their statement yesterday explaining why they were removing their ads from ALL "political talk shows" on cable, Clorox said per their standards, they do not advertise on programs which "present facts inaccurately or distort them to blatantly partisan advantage". Well I commend the executives at Clorox and indeed all other advertisers revising their ad placement standards over the Glenn Beck brouhaha, to see what MSNBC did during their morning show on August 18th. continued... DefendGlenn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321236/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:35:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321086/posts Last week, there were several instances of protesters showing up outside of town hall meetings openly carrying firearms. Anti-gun activists and the media were flabbergasted not only at the audacity of the protesters, but that the carrying of firearms happened to be perfectly legal where it occurred. (Eleven states allow unlicensed open carry, with 12 more requiring a permit.) MSNBC, not content to simply say, “Golly, guns are scary!” decided that there must be something racist going on. After showing close-cropped video footage of a protester with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, MSNBC host Contessa Brewer went... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321086/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:50:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320641/posts On Tuesday, MSNBCs Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white people showing up with guns." Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black. youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320641/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2320191/posts "Here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists or to their legs." -- MSNBC Editor's note: The man was black. breitbart.tv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2320191/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:13:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320023/posts I missed this yesterday at Newsbusters but Treacher, rightly aghast, tipped me to it this afternoon. Never will you see a starker example of MSNBC getting away with the sort of deception for which Fox News would be pilloried, especially in the context of race. If you missed Monday’s post about this, go watch the footage (or look at this photo) and see if you can deduce why they wouldn’t want to show the guy with the rifle from the neck up during this particular segment. For all the well-deserved heat that MSNBC’s primetime line-up has taken for its demagoguery... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320023/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:25:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315810/posts U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Thursday distanced herself from a University of Houston graduate student and Texas Obama delegate who falsely identified herself as a pediatric physician at the congresswoman's health care reform town hall meeting this week. “I've never met her,” Jackson Lee said as she prepared to take questions from doctors and other health care workers in a session at St. Joseph Medical Center. Roxana Mayer, who warmly embraced Jackson Lee at the close of Tuesday's session at a Fifth Ward community center, had spoken in favor of the president's health care package. The Texas Medical Board,... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315810/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:32:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315730/posts http://www.thebigfeedblog.com/2009/08/bustedagain-democrats-caught-planting.html http://46in08.blogspot.com/2009/08/democrats-have-fake-doctors-at.html Not only was Mayer not a doctor, Roxana Mayer was an Obama delegate, as Patterico discovered with some digging. What’s more, the Houston Chronicle apparently knew this and failed to include it in its glowing coverage of Mayer’s appearance. The reporter, Cindy Horswell, has admitted that she knew Mayer was an Obama delegate and that Mayer didn’t live in Jackson-Lee’s district when she wrote the Chronicle story. After getting exposed, the Chronicle quietly changed the caption on the photo without issuing a correction, removing the reference to Mayer being a doctor. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315730/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:06:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315053/posts Yesterday we informed you of the media's serial misuse of an Obama-as-Hitler poster from esoteric left-winger Lyndon LaRouche's website, as outlets like NBC (on their Nightly News and Meet the Press), CNN and MSNBC all ascribed the poster to sentiments roiled up by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh specifically and conservatives generally. Well apparently CBS hasn't yet learned the lesson we had hoped to impart. In fact, last night they did the other networks one worse. NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315053/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:57:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313514/posts CNN’s Jim Acosta claimed that Rush Limbaugh’s website “compares the [ObamaCare] reform supporters to Nazis” during a report on Tuesday’s American Morning. The website actually draws a comparison between the DNC’s “Organizing for Health Care” logo and the Nazis’ Parteiadler (Party Eagle) symbol. Acosta also claimed that conservatives “falsely compared” ObamaCare to the Canadian health system. ...[T]he CNN correspondent made his claim about Limbaugh’s website: “Democrats charge the people shouting health care questions at members of Congress these days are being encouraged by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, whose website compares the reform supporters to Nazis.” As Acosta read this... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313514/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:37:11 GMT