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Fox News, Fox Nation, Right Wing, Extremism, President Obama, Distortion, Bias
Dave Weigel tells his side of the story in Esquire: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sarah Palin (Kinda). Over the first churning 48 hours of this whole mess, I resisted — and then accepted — a new sympathy for a politician I’d never pretended to admire much: ...
Dave Weigel, Washington Post, Media, Journalism, Ethics, Bias
The big blogosphere story today is that libertarian (and Rand Paul apologist) Dave Weigel has resigned from the Washington Post after a series of emails were leaked from “Journolist” in which Weigel bashed conservatives using very strong language; here’s the apology Weigel posted yesterday: Right Now - An apology to ...
This is an index of our most important posts related to the photos from the Mavi Marmara that were taken by a Turkish journalist/Islamist advocate, cropped to remove knives, blood, and bodies, and released to the wires by Reuters. Starting with Killgore Trout’s original post that broke the story in LGF ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Fact Checking, Fauxtography, Reuters, Cropping, Bias, Propaganda, Ethics, Turkey, Adem Ozkose
Turkish journalist Adem Ozkose was aboard the Mavi Marmara when it was boarded by the IDF, and he is the person credited with the photos that were misleadingly cropped by someone unknown. (And Reuters has ignored requests for more information and accountability, by the way, which means you can expect ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Fact Checking, Fauxtography, Reuters, Cropping, Bias, Propaganda, Ethics, Turkey, Adem Ozkose
Robert Mackey at the New York Times Lede blog has identified the person who took the photos that were cropped by Reuters as Turkish journalist Adem Ozkose: Photographs of Battered Israeli Commandos Show New Side of Raid. Mackey fails to note, however, that Turkish journalist Adem Ozkose is hardly what one ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Fact Checking, Fauxtography, Reuters, Cropping, Bias, Propaganda, Ethics, Turkey
I just spoke with Dana Goldstein from The Daily Beast, who has been trying to get more information from Reuters about the photos; so far Reuters isn’t sharing anything. And serious questions remain. The photographs that came from the IHH in Turkey were never attributed to a particular person, for starters. Who ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Fact Checking, Fauxtography, Reuters, Cropping, Bias, Propaganda, Ethics
Robert Bernstein, a former chairman of Human Rights Watch, had an extraordinary op-ed in the New York Times yesterday, blasting his former organization for its overwhelming bias against the state of Israel: Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast. AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 ...
There’s a reason why I never linked to a popular YouTube video with millions of views titled “Muslim Demographics,” despite having it recommended many times by emailers and commenters: because on first viewing it was clear that the video was an alarmist work of distorted propaganda, sort of an anti-Muslim ...
Islam, Europe, Eurabia, Immigration, Eurofascism, Hoax, Anti-Islam, Bias, Fraud
Today, Sonia Sotomayor held a series of private meetings with high-ranking Democrats and Republicans, from which some interesting comments are emerging. Sotomayor, who would be the high court’s first Hispanic and its third woman, told senators she would follow the law as a judge without letting her life experiences inappropriately ...
The Frank Gaffney-Martyn Burke film “Islam vs. Islamists,” canceled by PBS after being reviewed by a panel that included at least one radical Islamist, will be aired tonight on Fox News at 9 pm ET: FOX To Air Controversial Documentary on Islam.
Tonight, Fox News will show the film that PBS suppressed (after a negative review by at least one radical Muslim), “Islam vs. Islamists:” Muslims Against Jihad. UPDATE at 6/23/07 9:25:09 am: Allahpundit straightens out the record—this is not “Islam vs. Islamists,” but a related film made by the same producers, Frank Gaffney ...
M. Zuhdi Jasser has a piece at RealClearPolitics on a frequent topic at LGF; the media’s outrageous coddling and whitewashing of radical Muslim front groups: The Mainstream Media: Islamist Facilitators. Jasser was featured in the documentary Islam vs. Islamists, suppressed by PBS after they had it reviewed by Islamist sympathizers ...
Today the Washington Times has a front page article on the film “Islam vs. Islamists,” suppressed by the Public Broadcasting System because it didn’t toe their line of political correctness: PBS shelves film on moderate Muslims. Originally, the film was intended to be shown on “America at a Crossroads,” a six-night ...
This is the Public Broadcasting System at work, making sure that you, the public, are insulated from all doubleplus ungood knowledge about Islam, as they strive to achieve Total Political Correctness™: Producer: PBS dropped ‘Islam vs. Islamists’ on political grounds. (Hat tip: Kenneth.) The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic ...
Painfully on-target: The New Pocket Casualty Counter From The Associated Press! Are you freakishly obsessed with the daily casualty count in Iraq? Do you find yourself disappointed when a day or two goes by and no American soldiers die? Have you ever been at a cocktail party and said, “How can ...
The AP has silently rewritten their ghoulish piece equating the number of 9/11 victims with the number of soldiers killed in Iraq, and made the original vanish down the memory hole: U.S. deaths in Iraq exceed 9/11 count. (Hat tip: Rand Simberg.) This is how the article originally started: BAGHDAD, Iraq - ...
The incredibly biased and one-sided entry for Little Green Footballs at Wikipedia is an object example of the worthlessness of this online user-edited encyclopedia for anything besides simple factual articles. The various factions that work to smear LGF and myself have overwhelmed our entry with negative coverage. UPDATE at 9/6/06 1:14:36 ...
Agence France Presse likens the display of US flags on the Fourth of July to an outbreak of a deadly disease: US ‘flag epidemic’ reaches peak on Fourth of July. (Hat tip: JP.) WASHINGTON (AFP) - It’s a true epidemic: the red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes banners are everywhere in the ...
AFP, Anti-American, Flag, Bias
The ACLU was busy today, applauding the EU Court decision striking down the US-EU data-sharing agreement, and at the same time condemning a new law banning state-paid travel to terrorist states. A civil rights group criticized a new law, signed Tuesday by Gov. Jeb Bush, that restricts colleges and universities from ...
Two more “conservative” bloggers are reporting today that Google has inexplicably dropped them from their index: Outside The Beltway and Dan Riehl.
Newsbusters has a piece on Google News and their continuing exclusion of “conservative” sites: Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites? To be sure, there have been complaints in the past from conservative bloggers that Google seems to have dubious requirements to be a part of its News Crawl. In February 2005, ...
Associated Press writer Lauren Frayer says the latest Al Qaeda video shows the lighter, non-decapitating side of Zarqawi. CAIRO, Egypt - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s new video marks a shift by the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq toward a less radical image, one that might appeal to the Iraqi insurgency more than ...
Pulitzer Prize winning Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who took the infamous pictures of a terrorist execution on Haifa Street in Baghdad, may be in coalition custody tonight: Michelle Malkin: Where is Bilal Hussein? UPDATE at 4/13/06 7:45:38 am: And this embedded enemy reporter has been pumping out a continuous stream of ...
The Associated Press will not even use the word “terrorist” to describe a convicted mass murderer who attacked night clubs full of innocent tourists: Bali Bomber’s Family Says He Wants to Die. “Martyr,” on the other hand, is not a problem. JAKARTA, Indonesia - Relatives of a militant on death row for ...