TagsTagsWould you be surprised to learn that the GOP's "Pledge to America" plays fast and loose with facts? Factcheck.org counts the ways: FactChecking ‘The Pledge’. Summary The Republican “Pledge to America,” released Sept. 23, contains some dubious factual claims: [Item List] For details on these and other examples please read on to the Analysis ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Pledge to America, Fact Checking
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
In their four and a half minute video segment about Reuters cropping out the knives from those photos, Fox News crops out all mention of Little Green Footballs. An absolutely classic case of Fox News lifting a story from the blogosphere without any attribution except unnamed “critics” and “bloggers.” Media Outlet’s Anti-Israel ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Humanitarian Aid, Fact Checking, Fauxtography, Reuters, Fox News, Cropping
So far today, LGF has had 1,948 visits from the Canary Wharf offices of Reuters in London. The usual number of visits per day from that location is zero to 5. Did something happen?
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Humanitarian Aid, Fact Checking, Fauxtography, Reuters
Am I imagining things, or did LGF break a story about Reuters cropping photographs yesterday? Didn’t Killgore Trout find the first photo and tip me off? Wasn’t LGF the first to publish this? And haven’t we been credited for breaking the story by Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, the Israeli government, ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Humanitarian Aid, Fact Checking, Hot Air, Ethics
The Canada-Israel Committee has an interesting breakdown and analysis of the massive amounts of humanitarian aid regularly delivered to Gaza by Israel: Facts Beyond the Spin: Israel Delivers Massive Aid to Gaza. Despite the fact that Israel publicly offered to inspect and then transfer the flotilla’s aid to Gaza several ...
I hope you’re sitting down, because Radar Online has the exclusive breaking news story that Chief Justice Roberts is not resigning! In other exclusive breaking news, Julia Roberts will not be named to the Supreme Court.
In an interview with blogger Mike Stark (posted at Crooks and Liars, Brad Blog, and Stark Reports), Andrew Breitbart admits that when he released the James O’Keefe-Hannah Giles undercover ACORN sting videos, he “did not know” that O’Keefe never wore his outrageous pimp costume into an ACORN office — even ...
Acorn, Right Wing, James O'Keefe, Andrew Breitbart, Fact Checking
Bertha M. Lewis, CEO of the dreaded right wing boogeyman ACORN, is interviewed by Esquire’s John H. Richardson, and mentions Andrew Breitbart’s crazy accusation (that he finally retracted yesterday after leaving it hanging out there for 6 days): Acorn Group vs Fox News - Interview with Bertha Lewis of ACORN ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News, Andrew Breitbart
It took him six days to do it, but Andrew Breitbart has finally issued a lame semi-apology for his completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: UPDATE: White House Spokeswoman Says Different Bertha Lewis on Visitor’s Log - Big Government. Of course, it ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News, Andrew Breitbart
Still no retraction at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog for their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence Week Before Sting Videos Launched - Big Government. And no correction at Fox Nation ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News
Should we start taking bets on whether Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog is going to retract their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th? It’s been four days now, and still no correction: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News
Here we go again. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog has a story on the release of another batch of White House visitor records, and they’ve found sinister evidence that Barack Obama is in cahoots with the dreaded demons of ACORN: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong
Gossip site TMZ ran a story today about a photo of John F. Kennedy on a yacht with several naked women, and headlined it: The JFK Photo That Could Have Changed History. In their article, TMZ cited “multiple experts” and quoted a “forensic analyst” who vouched for the authenticity of the ...
Pamela Geller, Hate Speech, Fact Checking, Idiocy, Barack Obama, JFK, Hoax
Taking the Obama Christmas tree nontroversy to the next level of deranged absurdity, Pamela Geller says Obama’s tree is festooned with evil. I could not help but smile to myself when I got a gander at Obama’s vile “Christmas” ornaments, defiled with images of history’s most evil men, like the ...
Pamela Geller, Hate Speech, Fact Checking, Idiocy, Barack Obama, Christmas
At wingnut site Hot Air, Ed Morrissey is promoting yet another anti-abortion story, citing a “local investigator” in Virginia who claims that a woman who smothered a newborn infant cannot be charged with a crime because of a statute that says as long as the umbilical cord is still attached ...
Abortion, Extremism, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Crime, Virginia, Fact Checking
Michelle Malkin rants again: Public school lunacy of the day: A second-grader in Taunton, MA was kicked out of school, suspended, and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation for… …drawing a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. (Hat tip: Michael Graham) One picture of Jesus gets a kid booted from the classroom. But ...
Nontroversy, War on Christmas, Right Wing, Fact Checking, Victimhood, Persecution, Michelle Malkin
Tim Blair joins the crowd of right wing bloggers trying to spin up the attendance numbers at the Washington DC tea party, responding to my post about Metrorail ridership by quoting the Heritage Foundation, who, as we all know, are completely unbiased (ahem): BIGNESS ENSMALLENED. ...Comparing September 12, 2008, to ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
Again we must revisit the issue of attendance at the Washington DC tea party, because, amazingly, the right wing blogosphere is still trying to artificially pump up the number, with very scientific-sounding calculations. Here’s the Washington DC Metrorail service information for Saturday, September 12, 2009: September 12, 2009: Metrorail: 437,624 Comparable ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
Brendan Nyhan has a good post on the spread of the two million protestor myth across the right wing blogosphere — one of the most embarrassing episodes I’ve witnessed among people who pride themselves on “fact checking.” After all, who cares about basic fact checking when there’s an ideology to be ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
Glenn Beck, naturally, falls right in line with the absurdly inflated crowd numbers that are all over the right wing blogs. His source for this claim? A ... university somewhere. He can’t remember the name. Just some university that did a ... study. [Video] UPDATE at 9/15/09 11:33:47 am: One of the crowd pictures going ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail, Glenn Beck, Video
This is so pathetic I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Dozens — if not hundreds — of right wing blogs are running with this quote, portraying it as a statement about the tea party held last weekend: ‘We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever.’ The ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail