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In the New York Daily News, political correspondent Michael Saul has a piece about the crudely faked “Obama thesis” that tricked Rush Limbaugh and a gaggle of right wing bloggers: Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize. “So here is who we ...
Rush Limbaugh, Hoax, Barack Obama, Fake But Accurate, Hypocrisy
Rush Limbaugh, Michael Ledeen, and a host of wingnut blogs were radically punk’d today by a hoax report that originated at ‘jumpinginpools’ (a blog run by a fool who was recently banned from LGF for relentlessly pimping his blog, and registering sock puppet after sock puppet to upding his own ...
Rush Limbaugh, Hoax, Barack Obama, Fake But Accurate, Hypocrisy
Several major news organizations fell for a hoax today, when a left wing group put out a phony press release announcing that the US Chamber of Commerce had dropped its opposition to the climate change legislation currently in the US Senate: CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax. An email ...
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
Layers upon layers of sophisticated fact-checking, foiled again: Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote. PDT DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy ...
Probably a hoax, but you just never know with Jimmy Carter: Jimmy Carter reported to accept coca invitation from Evo Morales. Globovision of Caracas reports news that we hope is inaccurate, and which will be denied by former President Carter. The Venezuelan television network states that he has accepted ...
A CBS News story on US military equipment supposedly “looted” in Afghanistan is apparently bogus, according to The Voice of Warriors: CBS News fooled by Faux military equipment in Pakistan. [Video]
Imagine the mental anguish suffered by Sasquatch devotees worldwide, as the latest Bigfoot carcass turns out to be a cheap rubber gorilla suit. (AP) Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a ...
This is a public notice that I’m going to be deleting any posted spinoff links that try to promote the “Obama birth certificate” nonsense. I’ve mentioned this several times in comments, but it apparently hasn’t been heard by enough people. The story is absolute garbage, and it’s being promoted now ...
Michelle Malkin blogs about the incredibly dishonest smears going on around that “whitey tape” hoax: Fight Their Smears: ABC News, Bob Beckel, Time, AP, Guardian, and NYT slime the Right. Michelle can add LGF to the list of bloggers who did not fall for the hoax, with several posts alerting ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hoax, Smear
Richard Landes has been filing excellent reports from France about the unfolding lawsuits by France 2 Television against critics of their outrageously corrupt reporting on the Mohammed Al-Durah hoax; here’s his category index for the topic: Augean Stables - al Durah Affair. Neo-Neocon has an interesting comparison: It’s as though ...
Mohammed al-Dura, Al-Durah, Palestinians, Propaganda, Hoax, Media Bias, France
The gruesome video reported by the Sunday Times to show the beheading of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat is a cruel hoax; the video does depict an Islamic torture killing, but the victim is not Atwar Bahjat. Rusty has the details: The Jawa Report: Atwar Bahjat Beheading Video a Hoax. (Warning: ...
As we noted earlier this week, the New York Times was so eager to splash another Abu Ghraib story all over Page One that they let themselves be hoodwinked by a fraud: Cited as Symbol of Abu Ghraib, Man Admits He Is Not in Photo. In the summer of 2004, ...
The New York Times has been caught peddling a phony front page story about Abu Ghraib, an interview with a man who said he was the infamous hooded prisoner: N.Y. Times’ Iraq Detainee Story Challenged. NEW YORK - The New York Times is investigating questions raised about the identity of ...