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White House Communications Director Anita Dunn doesn’t hold anything back in this interview with Howard Kurtz, blasting Fox News for being “the communications arm of the Republican party.” Dunn also comments on right wing celebrations over America’s loss of the Olympics bid, and the knee-jerk negativity toward Obama’s Nobel Peace ...
White House, Anita Dunn, Barack Obama, Fox News, Propaganda, Video
Last Saturday in a thread about climate change, I wrote: Again, I’m struck by the similarity between the techniques of global warming deniers and creationists; they both use cherry-picked data, they both make outrageous claims couched in pseudo-scientific language that sounds convincing to gullible people, they both compile lists ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Propaganda
A new blog is keeping an eye on the biased stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that continue to pour out of one of the world’s main sources of news: Reuters Middle East Watch.
The Investigative Project has a chilling report on the increasingly sophisticated jihad propaganda aimed at children in the Middle East: ’Birds of Paradise’ – Martyrdom Recruitment as Children’s Entertainment.
Militant Islam, investigative project, Children, Propaganda, Jihad
Courtesy of MEMRI TV, a bizarre Iranian CGI propaganda film starring “John McCain” with co-star “George Soros.” This was aired February 5, 2008 on Iranian TV. [Video]
Some Somali Muslims in Minneapolis are figuring out that CAIR is not on their side. Relatives, friends and neighbors of a Minneapolis teen killed in Somalia pressed their argument Thursday that a Muslim civil rights group is hampering a federal investigation into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities ...
CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Hamas, Radical Islam, Propaganda, FBI, Minneapolis, Somali
Hamas: the eHarmony of Radical Islam. About 40 marriages have been arranged since Tayseer opened its matchmaking department in 2007. Most women apply in secret because it’s taboo for women in Gaza to seek husbands outside the traditional route. Most girls are married in matches set up by their ...
Every year, when the Palestinian whinefest known as “Nakba” rolls around, the wire services dutifully publish photo after photo of Palestinians holding keys, “symbolizing” the loss of their houses in 1948 when the state of Israel was established. But this year we have the most ridiculous example yet — an ...
Palestinians, Nakba, Propaganda, Fauxtography, staging, Associated Press, Media Bias
The Investigative Project has new details on the FBI’s decision to sever its ties to the Hamas-linked radical Islamic front group CAIR: FBI Explains Its CAIR Cut Off. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is not “an appropriate liaison partner” for the FBI because of evidence linking the organization ...
CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Hamas, Radical Islam, Harassment, Propaganda, FBI
Leave it to the Palestinians to try to turn a visit from Pope Benedict into a propaganda show: IDF bans Palestinians from hosting pope next to West Bank fence. A Palestinian official says the Palestinian Authority has scrapped plans to host Pope Benedict XVI next week on a stage ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Propaganda, Security Barrier, Pope Benedict
Here’s the fascinating story behind the outing of the infamous “Wedge Strategy” of the creationist propaganda farm calling itself the Discovery Institute: Discovery’s Creation. In 1998, members of a Seattle nonprofit think tank drafted a secret five-year plan with an ambitious goal: to “defeat scientific materialism” and “replace materialistic ...
discovery institute, Wedge Strategy, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Propaganda, Deception
The former Mayor of London, “Red” Ken Livingstone, has found a new gig—guest hosting for George Galloway on Iran’s Holocaust-denying Press TV: Ken Livingstone Is Working For the Islamic Republic of Iran Propaganda Station. [Video] (Hat tip: Damian Penny.)
Britain, Iran, press tv, Propaganda, Anti-Israel, Antisemitism
A British group called the Taxpayer’s Alliance has issued a report on the astonishing amount of British money going to genocidal hate education in the Middle East. * Britain gave nearly £100 million in aid to the Palestinian territories in 2007. * This money supports attempts to indoctrinate the ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Education, Britain
In the new era of hope and change, Al Jazeera, the hateful antisemitic voice of the Muslim Brotherhood, is making another push to get US and Canadian cable providers to carry their slick, sanitized, but still hateful English version: Al Jazeera Lobbies Online for U.S. Cable Access. The Middle ...
Al Jazeera, JihadTV, Propaganda, cable television, Samir Kuntar, Terrorism, Muslim Brotherhood
Hamas is trying to wring some sympathy out of the world’s animal lovers, with a propaganda video accusing the Israelis of targeting the Gaza Zoo for a heinous massacre: [Video] It might be more believable if the IDF hadn’t already taken their own video, showing the same zoo wired up ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Zoo
Denis Maceoin makes some powerful points in this column for the Jerusalem Post: Marching for Hamas. In a bizarre reversal of all their commitment to human rights and the struggle of men and women for independence and self-determination, the European Left has chosen again and again to side with ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Leftists
Despite the report from Italian newspaper Corriere della sera, Israeli officials are standing by their estimate of 1300 Palestinian casualties in Operation Cast Lead, mostly Hamas fighters. Despite a report by Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy’s Corriere della sera, that the number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Casualties
The casualty numbers pushed out by Hamas—and reported uncritically by the mainstream media—are beginning to deflate: Gazan doctor says death toll inflated. Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported Thursday that a doctor working in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital claimed that Hamas has intentionally inflated the number of casualties resulting from ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Casualties
A classic mainstream media moment, brought to you by UPI: Boy’s death on video is a fake, blog says - UPI.com. But IsraelINN.com said Charles Johnson’s U.S. blog Little Green Fields uncovered several alleged discrepancies... Layers upon layers of fact-checking!
Mainstream Media, Media Bias, Blogosphere, Palestinians, Israel, Propaganda
The International Committe of the Red Cross has issued a statement that Israel’s use of white phosphorus is not illegal. This, of course, has not stopped the international left from making accusations. GENEVA – The international Red Cross said Tuesday that Israel has fired white phosphorus shells in its ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, White Phosphorus
The media and the United Nations are screaming again today about an IDF attack on a UN compound; Ehud Olmert apparently apologized to the UN immediately after the incident, but now the IDF says Hamas was using the compound as a firing station. Gunshots and an anti-tank missile were ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, UNRWA, United Nations
Israel National News has a pretty fair and complete account of the controversy over that staged hospital room video from Gaza: Bloggers Uncover Possible CNN Video Fraud. Most of the mainstream media are ignoring the story, of course, because it leads to issues they’d rather not explore—e.g., the ethics of ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert
In a video interview at Norway’s Channel 2 wesbite, radical Marxist pro-Hamas doctor Mads Gilbert says to his critics, “Bring it on!” Also see: CAMERA Snapshots: Norwegian Doctors Return from Gaza to Attack their Critics LGF: Norwegian Doctor in Gaza Supported 9/11 Attacks LGF: A Staged Scene in a ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert
This is an email sent to us by Paul Martin, who supplied Western media with that Gaza hospital video. Martin demands an apology from bloggers, and insists that we have no reason to be suspicious of video footage that comes from a Hamas-linked photographer and a radical Marxist doctor. We ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert, Paul Martin
At Erik Svansbo’s Swedish blog, more information about the pro-terrorist agenda of Mads Gilbert, the doctor seen in that staged video from a Gaza hospital: Doctor in CNN video outspoken communist and pro-terror. The doctor’s colleague actually told the Aftonbladet newspaper that spreading pro-Hamas propaganda is more important to them ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert