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Right-Wing Blames Gore For Discovery Channel Bomber By: Kristi - September 3, 2010 - 11:30am The Right-wing media are shamefully trying to pin the Discovery Channel bomber's actions on Al Gore. The right-wing media have shamefully attempted to tie James Lee, who created a hostage situation in a Discovery Channel building, to former Vice President Al Gore, due to Lee's statement that he was "awakened" after reading Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth. In fact, Lee, who criticized Gore's book for not providing "solutions," holds a number of views Gore does not, including extreme opinions on population control and immigration. Glenn Beck Proves he is Still a Racist By: Kristi - September 3, 2010 - 11:00am If You Still Think Glenn Beck Is Not Racist...Think Again! Glenn Beck and his defenders have fiercely denied any allegations that he is a racist or has incited racial hostilities on his radio and TV programs. But the evidence of his animosity toward people of color is clearly abundant since the election of our black president. Looking back on Beck's crusades since the inauguration (which, coincidentally, was also the inauguration of his show on Fox News), Beck opened with an attack on ACORN, a group of community organizers who advocated on behalf of poor and minority populations. Then he went after Van Jones, an African-America who fought to bring jobs and environmental justice to disenfranchised communities. Then it was Mark Lloyd, an African-American working to insure diversity in the media in his role at the FCC. Then it was Valerie Jarrett, the African-America aide to President Obama. The it was Shirley Sherrod, an African-American woman who was slandered by Beck and Andrew Breitbart in a phony attempt to cast her as a racist. Now Beck is attacking Dolores Huerta, an Hispanic labor activist with a legendary resume. She co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez. She is presently working with the Department of Labor to insure that workers are not exploited by employers seeking to pay them less than they are entitled to under the law. Presumably Beck would like to bring back indentured servitude. The real question here is why are the targets of Beck's attacks so often people of color? Even though there is the occasional Caucasian like Cass Sunstein (who is Jewish), the racial scale for Beck's tirades is heavily weighted toward minorities. Anyone who doesn't recognize the significance of that fact is dwelling in deep denial. With this assault on Huerta, Beck continues to prove that he is extremely discriminatory in his selection of enemies. On a tangential point, the Obama administration has a pretty poor record of standing up for its people. They let Van Jones go. They forced Shirley Sherrod to resign (before apologizing). They never defended ACORN, even after they were absolved of any wrongdoing. If they permit Beck to railroad Huerta out of the Labor Department they are going to see the last remaining remnants of their support from progressives, and others on the left, drift away. So my message to the Obama administration: Don't be stupid. Hannity Lied About Obama Victorious Claims By: Kristi - September 2, 2010 - 10:00am Hannity complains that Obama did not say "we were victorious" in Iraq, except he did. Bolling Caught Lying About Jobs & Stimulus Again By: Kristi - September 2, 2010 - 9:30am Eric Bolling claims that millions of jobs are "nothing" Fox News Eric Bolling repeated the discredited claim that the stimulus has "done nothing to help the economy." In fact, economists agree that GDP and employment levels are significantly higher than they would have been without the stimulus. Even Shep Smith from Fox News admitted the Obama stimulus saved us from a new depression. The stimulus has "done nothing to help the economy." During the September 1 edition of Fox & Friends, guest host Eric Bolling has made claims that the stimulus has "done absolutely nothing to help the economy" and that "the economy is far worse than it was when we signed over $750 billion that turned into $862 billion." Bolling added, "Forget the other programs, it's literally trillions of dollars of economic stimulus that aren't working." Fox Caught Lying Again About Unemployment Insurance By: Kristi - September 1, 2010 - 8:30am On Fox & Friends, Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney continued attacking unemployment insurance, by seizing on a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by Harvard economist Robert Barro, which claimed that unemployment rates would have been at 6.8% had Congress not extended unemployment benefits. But Barro's theory and similar claims -- that extending unemployment benefits in the current recession provide a disincentive for people to find work -- have been widely disputed by experts. Basically Robert Barro is a right-wing hack who wrote that garbage so Fox and the right can use it for political reasons, when it's not even true. Beck Rally About One Thing: Glenn Beck By: Kristi - August 31, 2010 - 9:30am The Saturday 8-28 rally was about Beck "elevating himself and his delusions of grandeur" Fox News Latest Election Controversy Falls Apart By: Kristi - August 31, 2010 - 9:00am Fox News baselessly suggested that Democrats would attempt to skew the fall elections by exempting "battleground" states from a requirement that they ship ballots to overseas military personnel at least 45 days before the election. This manufactured controversy has completely fallen apart: The only "battleground" state (as defined by Fox News) that received an exemption has a Republican official overseeing its elections. Moreover, the waiver process is part of the law and was mentioned during the debate over the legislation, which was co-sponsored by 26 Senate Republicans. Williams Amazed People Actually Follow Beck By: Kristi - August 30, 2010 - 10:00am Juan Williams on Beck: "Wow, I'm amazed that people follow this guy" Some People Still think Obama is a Muslim By: Kristi - August 30, 2010 - 9:00am Even though he is an American, a christian, and has been his whole life. If Obama was worried about people thinking he is Muslim, "wouldn't he have kept his name as Barry and not Barack?" Stupid Sarah Used Beck 8-28 Rally to Attack Obama By: Kristi - August 29, 2010 - 9:00am Yesterday, speaking at Glenn Beck's alleged nonpolitical "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C., Sarah Palin took a cheap shot at President Obama. On August 26, Time reported that Special Operations Warrior Foundation, the charity to which all the proceeds from the rally will go, had "required speakers at the event, who will include Sarah Palin, to sign an agreement promising not to talk politics." Nonetheless, during her speech, Palin said: "I must assume that you too, knowing that, no, we must not fundamentally transform America as some would want, we must restore America and restore her honor." Palin's audience of Beck fans were well aware that she was referencing comments Obama made during his presidential campaign about "fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Over the past year and a half, Beck has repeatedly used Obama's remark to featmonger about Obama's purportedly radical goals, going so far as to claim that Obama is "fundamentally transforming" the country to make it "look more like ACORN." There's no question at all what Sarah Palin meant by her comment. In the past, she has explicitly used it to attack Obama. On the August 4 edition of Hannity, asked if Obama is pursuing certain policies, Palin said, "It's ideology and it's a commitment to what he had set out to do as a candidate. Barack Obama. And that was to fundamentally transform country." She later added that "People are sending a message to President Obama and Congress that we do not support that fundamental transformation of America, that they are hell bent on kind of cramming it down our throats." Likewise, in the "Mama Grizzlies" video produced by her political action committee, SarahPAC, Palin says that "these policies coming out of D.C. now, this fundamental transformation of America, well, a lot of women who are very concerned about their kids future are say, 'We don't like this fundamental transformation and we're going to do something about it." Last week, it was pointed out that Palin's presence on the rally's program called into question Beck's claim that the rally would be "non-political" due to her inextricable links to GOP politics. Today, Palin proved our point. Wow someone is definately a sore loser, or maybe just a loser. Fox News is Officially Part of The GOP Now By: Kristi - August 29, 2010 - 8:30am There is no daylight between Fox and the GOP, and it looks like they don't care who knows it. Beck's Divine Destiny With End-Times Pastor By: Kristi - August 28, 2010 - 9:30am Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny" includes end-times pastor who blamed gays for Katrina. Beck claims that he was "restoring honor" at his Divine Destiny religious revival with Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Lapin's honor-restoration bona fides include a close relationship with Republican-lobbyist/convicted felon Jack Abramoff. Unsurprisingly, Lapin was not the only controversial figure to join Beck on stage. The last religious mougel to appear at the event was Rev. John Hagee, who some of you may remember from earlier this summer as one of the "leaders in the faith community" that Beck used as an example of "people that need to start standing up." Back in July, Beck plugged Hagee's "excellent" book, Can America Survive? 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation. As it was said, Can America Survive? is an account of how the world is fast-approaching Biblical Armageddon. Hagee views himself as an expert in Biblical prophecy, and laid out several bold predictions in the book, including: The "very real fact" that one third of humanity will soon die in an ecological disaster. "The Antichrist will rule the world with the full authority and anointing of Satan himself. Satan and his legions are coming!" "Why is this divine covenant for a specific land to the Jewish people so crucial in the twenty-first century? It's urgent because World War III is about to begin over the failure of humanity to recognize Israel's historic right to the land." "The truth is the next prophetic event that will shake the foundations of planet Earth is the rapture of the church. The word rapture is the Latin version of a phrase the bible uses to describe the catching away of all Christians, both dead and alive, on the earth at the appointed time." When he isn't engaged in Biblical soothsaying, Hagee is busy making offensive statements. According to a report by The Huffington Post's Sam Stein, Hagee "argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine." In 2006, Hagee blamed Hurricane Katrina on gays, claiming that "there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades." Hagee once claimed that "all Muslims have a mandate to kill Christians and Jews." In his book, What Every Man Wants in a Woman, Hagee wrote, "Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist." Hagee's controversial history actually led John McCain to (eventually) publicly reject his endorsement during the 2008 election. Though the FAQ page for the Divine Destiny event mentions that leaders from "all faiths" would be represented, Hagee used the platform to attack the idea of "pluralism" and announced that we need to "begin the process of returning to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." I guess this answers the question of what Beck considers "all faiths." Fox News Caught Lying About ICE Policy By: Kristi - August 28, 2010 - 8:30am Fox botches ICE policy to claim feds are granting "backdoor amnesty" Fox News has falsely reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has instituted a new policy of only deporting unauthorized immigrants who have committed serious crimes. In fact, DHS continues to deport those who have not committed crimes, but, in an effort improve the efficiency of the removal system, the agency will dismiss cases against certain individuals who have pending visa applications and are likely to receive those visas under current law. The 8-28 Rally About Beck & His Delusions By: Kristi - August 27, 2010 - 9:30am The 8-28 rally is about Beck "elevating himself and his delusions of grandeur." News Corp. Million Dollar Donation Sparks Ethics Concerns By: Kristi - August 27, 2010 - 9:00am Journalism ethics experts and news veterans are criticizing News Corp. for its $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association, saying it is the height of conflict of interest. Some also had said that the company's news outlets at Fox News, Dow Jones and the New York Post will most likely not be able to offer the amount of disclosure it needed to properly inform the public on related stories. "In an ideal world", they would be very transparent about that," said NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard. "But I do think it would be really cumbersome. I don't think they should be giving money to this group in the first place." Shepard had said for the parent company to give such a sizeable, and generous contribution undermines the news ethics: "I can't imagine NPR or The New York Times giving money to a particular political group. Your job is to be neutral and to not take positions and this is supporting one political party over another." Kelly McBride, an ethics instructor at The Poynter Institute, agreed: "It reinforces the notion that the media organization itself has a political bias. For the consumer who wants non-partisan news, they are less-likely to seek out that source." Asked about the need for greater News Corp. disclosure because of this contribution, McBride said: "to be perfectly ethical, they should not make the donation - you are compromising the appearance of fairness. Transparency doesn't erase the act itself." Calls for comment to the New York Post and Fox News today have not yet been returned. Dow Jones & Company, which oversees Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's, offered a one-line statement when asked about the potential conflict: "The donation has no impact on our journalists or their reporting." Still, the donation raised concerns among those who critique news fairness and teach young journalists. "They try to say they aren't that partisan, but things like this only confirm that suspicion in the public's mind," said Fred Brown, vice chair of the Society of Professional Journalists ethics committee. "If you are going to call yourself fair and balanced, you can't really do this." Brown, who lives in Colorado, noted that the RGA has produced numerous "attack ads" in his state this year: "We have seen a lot of them." Tim McGuire, an ethics and business instructor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, said such donations hurt the company's image. "By the ethical standards we operated by for the past 40 or 50 years, it is outrageous," said McGuire, a former editor of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. "One of the issues this raises is what do you want the press to be in the future? Chuck Baldwin, faculty member at the Al Neuharth Media Center at the University of South Dakota, agreed: "We draw the line at the appearance of impropriety. When you do that, you give people cause to question you. It matters what the public thinks. What the average person on the street thinks. That is what is wrong with this." But most of those who spoke with me said it is not practical to offer disclosure on each related news cast or in stories related to the Republican Party because there are so many. "I don't think it is possible to do it in an appropriate fashion," Baldwin stated. "Transparency is a marvelous thing. But it would be kind of silly to say it at the top of each story." McGuire added: "They should be disclosing. But Fox has changed all of the rules: They disclose (their Republican ties) every time they open their mouth." Would Beck Have Supported MLK March on Washington? By: Kristi - August 26, 2010 - 9:00am Glenn Beck has repeatedly time and again portrayed the civil rights marches of the 1960s as a movement solely for equal civil rights that did not seek to promote social justice or economic rights. But according to contemporaneous documents, that portrayal is entirely inaccurate with regard to the most famous of those marches: the 1963 March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech. Back in May, Beck sought to distinguish the "civil rights marchers" of the 1960s from today's progressive advocates. Beck defines "social justice" as "the same thing" as "economic justice," "taking money from one group and giving it to another." Beck has since claimed that his rally taking place this Saturday -- scheduled at the same location and on the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington -- will "reclaim the civil rights movement." The full name of the rally at which Dr. King delivered his historic speech was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Its leaders numbered not only civil rights leaders, but labor leaders as well, including the president of what is now the UAW. And its reported rationale was to push back against "the twin evils of racism and economic deprivation," recommending massive federal intervention in the economy to fight the latter. According to the October 1963 edition of The Crisis, NAACP's official publication, the rally was "first conceived" by A. Philip Randolph, the legendary founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Workers and at the time a vice president of the AFL-CIO. According to Stanford University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, when Randolph first contacted King seeking his support for the March, he described it as a rally "for Negro job rights." Randolph -- who was a candidate for office in the 1920s on the Socialist Party line and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 -- was the March's first speaker and one of its ten chairmen. His comments, quoted by The Crisis, expose Beck's flawed conception of the March: The NAACP's October 1963 magazine also published "TEN DEMANDS OF MARCHERS." While many of those demands were calls for civil rights legislation seeking to end racial discrimination, the marchers also sought federal legislation to "guarantee all Americans... decent housing," set a "national minimum wage" that would "give all Americans a decent standard of living," and create a "massive federal program to train and place all unemployed workers - Negro and white - on meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages." The Crisis' report that the March sought to alleviate the "twin evils of racism and economic deprivation," rather than racism alone, is confirmed by what Stanford's King Institute refers to as the August 1, 1963 announcement for the March. The flyer, issued on behalf of King, Randolph, and other civil rights leaders, urges participation in the march. How Beck and even come close to comparing himself to Martin Luther King is a total amazement to me, he isnt even fit to spit shine Dr King's shoes. Glenn Beck Is A God Using Liar By: Kristi - August 26, 2010 - 8:00am Here are two clips from the Glenn Beck radio show that prove he is a tool. In the first one he claims that if you have faith in God you should buy gold. In the 2nd one he says he is not writing a big speech for the 8-28 rally in case God wants to talk during his time. Woah, are you kidding me. If God were here he would most likely ignore Glenn Beck, and not want anything to do with his crazy lying ass. Beck is using the God talk to get people to buy gold, and to promote his lame rally, if that's not as low and pathetic as you can go, what is. Beck: "Only writing a few bullet points" for speech "so I don't get in the way of the spirit in case he wants to talk." Beck: If you "put your faith" in God, "I ask you to look at gold." Beck even claims he will get up to 300,000 people at his rally. I wonder if God told him that too, what an idiot. Fox Should Not Have White House Media Seat By: Kristi - August 25, 2010 - 9:00am Because they are not a real media outlet, they are a propaganda arm of the Republican party. Fox "duped folks into thinking they're a real news organization" and got front-row WH briefing room seat for it. Beck Caught Lying About Imam's Wife By: Kristi - August 25, 2010 - 8:30am Beck falsely claims Imam Rauf's wife said "all Americans hate Muslims" As part of an escalating attack on the Park51 Islamic community center, Glenn Beck has made false claims that Daisy Khan, the wife of the imam who is heading the Park51 project, said that "all Americans hate Muslims." In fact, while discussing the strident opposition to the center, Khan said that hatred for Muslims in America is a cause for concern. Palin Defends And Lies For The Crazy Dr. Laura By: Kristi - August 23, 2010 - 9:30am Sarah Palin makes up ridiculous and offensive defense of Dr. Laura, claims they've been "shackled" by critics. You would think that in a discussion about racial insensitivity and the use of the n-word by a very prominent conservative media figure, you might want to avoid a loaded word like "shackled" or "shackles." And yet, Sarah Palin goes there in her latest Facebook missive: "I can understand how she could feel "shackled" by those who would make a single word out of decades of on-air commentary. I understand what she meant when she declared that she was "taking back my First Amendment rights" by turning to a new venue that will not allow others the ability to silence her by going after her stations, sponsors, and supporters". That has to be one of her more ridiculous statements ever. Lets just start with the idea that anybody has shackled Palin or Schlessinger. They are both well-off media figures in the 21st century. Unlike slaves who were actually shackled and in shackles, neither Palin or Schlessinger are anyone's property, and they both have the freedom to speak, marry, vote, and engage in all the other privileges of being a citizen of the United States. In other words, they aren't shackled at all. As to the substance, such as it is, of Palin's complaint -- nobody is parsing "a single word" out of Schlessinger's rant. What is at issue here is her constant useage of the n-word eleven times in the middle of an argument that because African-American comics on HBO use the word, she should be able to use it with no recourse. In addition, Schlessinger argued that her African-American caller "had a chip on her shoulder" because she supposedly had "an over sensitivity" about racial language which has been "brought on by black activists." Schlessinger also argued that "We've got a black man as president, and we have more complaining about racism than ever," and that if you are "that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race." In the eyes of Palin, this is all apparently "one word." Despite Palin and Schlessinger's complaint about purported denial of First Amendment rights, there is no constitutional right to a radio program. The first amendment clearly discusses the freedom of speech and religion and assembly, but it does not prohibit criticism and commentary of a radio broadcast. Palin and Schlessinger are free to say what they wish, without fear of government-sanctioned censorship, but at the same time their commentary isn't immune from speech and actions which may run in a contrary direction. Steve Hayes Part of Right-Wing Cover Up By: Kristi - August 23, 2010 - 9:00am Steve Hayes is the latest to cover up the conservative attacks on Muslims' religious freedom. On Fox News Sunday, Steve Hayes joined a very long line of commentators candy coating conservative attacks on Muslims' religious freedom by falsely stating that "nobody's making the argument" that the organizers of the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan "don't have the constitutional right to do it." In fact, opponents have advocated using government intervention to restrict construction of the center or have asserted that the planners don't have a right to build it at the proposed location. Glenn Beck Compared Acid Attack to Black Panthers By: Tracy - August 22, 2010 - 10:00am The totally insane Glenn Beck compared reaction to the racial acid attack and the Fox-driven controversy over that New Black Panthers case. Sarah Palin Nationalized The Dr. Laura Debate By: Tracy - August 22, 2010 - 9:30am The media should ask those Palin-endorsed candidates if they think she is right. Glenn Beck blames the Holocaust on Charles Darwin By: Tracy - August 21, 2010 - 11:30am Last night, Glenn Beck blended his anti-progressive nonsense with anti-evolution bullshit, attacking Charles Darwin as "the father of modern day racism" who "planted the seed that leads to progressivism." He expanded on this critique on the radio this morning, saying that Darwin wrote about "the savages" and announcing: "I understand why Darwin has to be taught in schools now. You have to teach evolution, because if you don't teach evolution, progressivism falls apart." According to Beck and his cohorts, a direct line can be drawn between Darwin, eugenics, and Hitler: "Charles Darwin is the father of the Holocaust." Much of what Beck is referring to can be found in Darwin's The Descent of Man, published in 1871 -- in particular Chapter 5, titled "On the development of the intellectual and moral faculties during primeval and civilized times." And, indeed, Darwin's writings are peppered with terminology and assertions that, to modern sensibilities, are offensive. That Darwin was writing at a time in which theories of racial superiority were widely accepted -- the United States had just wrapped up a war predicated on the notion that blacks were inferior to whites -- is not exculpatory but does add some needed context. But to lay the blame for "modern racism," eugenics, and the Holocaust at Darwin's feet is not only wrong, it's phenomenally lazy and an act of profound cowardice from a self-styled "thinker" like Glenn Beck. Let's take a look at Darwin's thoughts on natural selection and the human race. In the Descent of Man, Darwin argued that the "civilized" trait of caring for the weaker members of the species appears to contravene the natural selection observed in the rest of the animal world: With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and out medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of the every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. This is hardly what one would call politic, and most people would recoil at such a dispassionately cruel assessment of the human capacity for benevolence. However, Darwin immediately went on to explain why we, as a species, are obligated to care for the weakest among us, and that to shirk that duty would be "evil": The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself while performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were to intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. This passage would seem to run counter to the idea that Darwin was the "father" of eugenics. Limbaugh Denies Calling Obama a Muslim By: Tracy - August 21, 2010 - 10:30am Rush Limbaugh denies he ever said Obama is a Muslim while wondering "what's obvious" about his Christianity Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to Your Viewers By: Tracy - August 20, 2010 - 9:30am Right-wing blogger Pamela Geller has been quite a frequent guest on television news programs to discuss the controversy about the building of an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, a controversy that her group, Stop Islamization of America, has been largely responsible for heading. She has used these appearances as a way to make obsurd, ridiculous, and false claims. On Fox, Geller had made a false claim that Obama gave "seminars in Sharia finance" a week "after he nationalized some banks." Geller also stated on the July 28 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends that Obama "was giving seminars in Sharia finance" a week "after he nationalized some banks." While Geller did not specify when this action supposedly occurred, she's presumably referring to a claim she made in a July 5 blog post, when Geller referred to "the Treasury's Islamic Finance 101 Seminar in Nov 08 right after the AIG takeover," which numerous right-wing media outlets also objected to at the time. Obama took office in January 2009. As Media Matters has noted, the Bush administration hosted a similar seminar in 2002. On MSNBC, Geller also falsely claimed that the NYC mosque is scheduled to open on 9-11-11. On the August 10 edition of MSNBC Live, Thomas Roberts hosted Geller, who falsely claimed that "it's September 11, 2011, when the mega-mosque is scheduled to open." For a fact, the executive director of one of the groups spearheading the project as well as the imam involved have flatly denied that the center is slated to open on September 11. During the segment, Roberts did not correct her claim. Geller most absurdly compares NYC mosque to building a KKK "shrine" near black Alabama church. On the August 11 edition of Fox & Friends, Geller foolishly compared building an Islamic cultural center two blocks away from Ground Zero in New York to building a Ku Klux Klan "shrine" near a black church in Alabama. On CNN and The O'Reilly Factor, Geller falsely claimed the NYC mosque would be "looking down on the sacred ground of Ground Zero." On the August 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor , Geller also falsely claimed that the Islamic center would be "looking down on the sacred ground of Ground Zero, where they're still finding human remains." Geller repeated this falsehood on the August 17 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees. But as an Associated Press "fact check" article has noted: On FBN, Geller pushed the "nasty narrative" that Obama is "taking ... cues from Hamas," instructing British PM to "blame Israel" for the "jihad flotilla" incident. On the July 30 edition of Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard, David Asman hosted and encouraged Geller's baseless claim that the Obama administration is "taking their cues from Hamas and passing it on to the British government" by tutoring the British Prime Minister David Cameron to "blame Israel" for the flotilla incident in the Gaza Strip. She has it on the good authority of a "highly placed confidential source ... in the U.K." From America's Nightly Scoreboard: Geller calls Obama "the Muslim president." Geller's blog contains 267 posts tagged, "Muslim in the White House?" In a June 2, 2009, post, Geller called Obama "The Muslim president." Calling it a "critical issue," Geller wrote in January 2008 that "Obama went to a madrassa in Jakarta," that "he practiced Islam," and that "if Obama makes it to the big house, Israel is screwed. Finished." On May 30, 2009, Geller wrote that with his Cairo speech, Obama "proved everything I said to be true." In fact, CNN debunked the "madrassa" falsehood back in January 2007, and as Newsweek stated, "Barack Obama has never been Muslim and never practiced Islam. So,I am going to stop here, I think we have the general idea of just how idiotic and racist she really is. She cries terrorism, and racism, yet she is to me one of the biggest racist around. Right-Wing Media Still Spinning Obama Muslim Lies By: Tracy - August 20, 2010 - 9:00am CNN's Roberts highlights the right-wing media's "stoking" of the myth that Obama is a Muslim. Dr. Laura Calling it Quits at The End of The Year By: Tracy - August 19, 2010 - 9:00am Dr. Laura announced on Larry King that she is ending her radio show in the wake of the firestorm over her crazy n-word rant. Beck Claims Obama Will force Doctors to do Abortions By: Tracy - August 19, 2010 - 8:00am Glenn Beck has falsely claimed that President Barrack Obama wants to rescind a Bush-era regulation so that "doctors can't refuse to" perform abortions. In fact, even without the regulation -- which was approved in December 2008 -- federal law prohibits public officials from requiring recipients of public funds to perform abortions. On the August 17 edition of his Fox News show, Beck misrepresented the Obama administration's reported intention to "rescind a Bush-era regulation" to falsely assert that the administration "would like to force doctors who believe abortion is the equivalent -- the equivalence of murder" to perform abortions. He further added that according to Obama, "it's totally cool to go forward with a mosque run by a potentially radical nutjob, and it's not -- doctors can't refuse to do procedures that they believe is murder. During the same segment, after quoting an anonymous Health and Human Services official telling The Washington Post that the Bush regulation was "worded so vaguely that some have argued it could limit family-planning counseling" -- which Beck said was a reference to abortion -- "and even potentially blood transfusions and end-of-life-care," Beck offered to "translate bullcrap to English," adding: "End-of-life care? Nite-nite, Grammy. Pulling the old plug." Will O'Reilly Condemn Fox Million Dollar Political Donation By: Tracy - August 18, 2010 - 9:00am Update 8-19-10 - No, O'Reilly has ignored the entire story, proving once again what a giant right-wing tool he is. Yeah he will, when hell freezes over. Bill O'Reilly constantly goes off on one of his classic tirades about the media, complaining that they are all liberal and biased, and the only hope for the free press in America is the "Fair and Balanced" Fox News. Of particularly note was O'Reilly's blatant attack on General Electric, the parent company of NBC and one of O'Reilly's favorite punching bags, for "using its money and power to benefit a presidential candidate. That is a gross violation of the spirit of the constitutional powers given to a free press." As O'Reilly so openly stated, General Electric allegedly sided with Barack Obama so "they could lure millions of Obama supporters and make money." So lets fast forward to today, and we find out that News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, has donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, an openly partisan outfit that helps to elect Republican gubernatorial candidates through campaign coordination and independent advertising. According to Politico's Ben Smith, a News Corp. spokesman said that the company "believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA's pro-business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy." Here we have the big News Corp., to borrow O'Reilly's words, "using its money and power to benefit" several Republican candidates for statewide office. And unlike General Electric, whose alleged support, according to O'Reilly, came in the form of biased news coverage, News Corp. has made a direct cash contribution to this Republican group. So when can we expect O'Reilly's denunciation of News Corp.'s "gross violation of the spirit of the constitutional powers given to a free press"? Conservatives Pretend They Never Attacked Muslim Religious Freedom By: Tracy - August 18, 2010 - 8:30am The Right-wing media has responded to President Obama's comments that he "believes Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country" by falsely claiming that opponents of the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan have not talked about restricting Muslim religious freedom. In fact, many Republican opponents have advocated using government intervention to restrict construction of the center, or have said that the planners don't have a right to build it at the proposed location. Gingrich Compares Islamic Community Center to Nazis By: Tracy - August 17, 2010 - 9:30am Newt Gingrich compared the NYC Islamic community center to "Nazis" putting a sign next to the Holocaust museum. |
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