Media Promote Al Qaeda Propaganda, Spinning Fake Beheading Story
June 30th, 2007 12:09 PM
Remember when you were a kid and got caught telling a lie, but your excuse was that a pal "made you do it" and it was so hard to tell the truth anyway because of this reason or that? It didn't matter to your parents then, did it? Well, here we have Reuters revealing that they fell for a false story about 20 beheaded Iraqis that was planted by insurgents, but do they just admit it and take…
WashPost Series Presents Cheney As Villain, The Advocate of U.S. 'Crue
June 26th, 2007 11:20 PM
As Scott Whitlock noticed today, the networks are loading up the Darth Cheney segments again, based on this week’s "Angler" series in The Washington Post. The most obnoxious installment so far of the four-part series was Monday’s front-pager, which carried the big headline "The Unseen Path to Cruelty." Beneath those words was a picture of a Gitmo guard tower at sunset that associated Cheney with…
CNN’s Roberts to Kids: ‘The President Said We Respect Human Rights
June 26th, 2007 5:38 PM
Just over 12 hours after Monday's NBC Nightly News reported that 50 out of 141 high school seniors visiting the White House presented President Bush with a handwritten letter asking him to "stop the violations of the human rights of... all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants," CNN's "American Morning" had 3 of the 50 students on for an interview. Co-host John Roberts asked the…
Scotland Yard Officer Admits Leaking Al Qaeda Terror Plans to Newspape
June 19th, 2007 11:49 PM
If a counterterrorism officer working for England’s Scotland Yard admitted to leaking an intelligence report containing al Qaeda attack plans to a British newspaper, do you think this would be newsworthy here in the States?Well, our media certainly didn’t think so, as such occurred in a British courtroom Monday, but not one American press outlet deigned to share the information with us.Not one.As…
Media Ignore Report on Al Qaeda Suicide Bombers Heading to America
June 19th, 2007 9:51 PM
ABC’s Brian Ross broke an exclusive story Monday, first at his blog “The Blotter,” and then on “World News with Charles Gibson,” concerning teams of well-trained al Qaeda suicide bombers supposedly heading to the United States and Europe. This report included video-clips of a Taliban “graduation” ceremony (video available here), with still-pictures of the event available here. Yet, despite the…