With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made global warming crashing and burning on a daily basis, climate alarmists are being forced to accelerate their fearmongering to unprecedented levels. With the evidence failing to match up to the doomsday proclamations, Al Gore has turned to photoshop in order to make a CO2-choked earth look scary enough to sell his cap and trade scam.
The latest example of climate cult fakery comes in the form of the front cover of Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice; A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis.
Shortly after the devastation of Katrina, Al Gore was busy making a correlation between hurricanes and global warming in an effort to drive home his claim that higher global CO2 emissions cause an increase in extreme weather events. The cover art for Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, features an image of a hurricane rising out of a smoke stack.
Seemingly underwhelmed that there have been no major hurricanes since Katrina, along with the fact that global hurricane activity is now at a thirty year low, Gore came up with an ingenious method of solving the problem of the lack of scary depictions of frightening hurricanes to display on his book – simply airbrush them in!With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made global warming crashing and... more
On his November 19 radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that undocumented immigrants "are covered" under the recently passed House health care bill. In fact, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) stipulates that those "not lawfully present" may not receive subsidies to purchase insurance.
Following ThinkProgress’ report yesterday that Fox News had recycled old file footage of Sarah Palin rallies to assert that she is currently getting huge turnouts on her book tour, the network issued an on-air apology this afternoon. Fox’s Happening Now co-host Jane Skinner said it was mistake, but didn’t explain how it happened:
In the tease before the segment — the tease to commercial — we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is, we didn’t actually show you the video we were referencing. Instead, we mistakenly aired what’s called file tape of Sarah Palin. We didn’t mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake. And for that, we apologize.
Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann's smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was.
Is Fox News up to the same tricks today? Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress thinks so, and he pulls a segment that seems to tout the crowds that greeted Sarah Palin on the stump during the 2008 campaign as throngs that are gathering to purchase Sarah Palin's book, 'Going Rogue.'
In the clip above, watch as Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett describes "pictures just coming into us" as "huge crowds" that have amassed while Palin is "promoting her new book." The pictures that are supposedly "just coming in" are actually year-old video from the presidential campaign. Palin's book signing stop in Michigan drew 1,500 people.
Before people start in that this is just a republican made-up story: This is fox news, but there are reports coming in from other news sources as well, just the first vid I could find. ABC also is on it, so save the left right screaming guys, it's all just one big corporate party.Before people start in that this is just a republican made-up story: This is fox news,... more
I love the Information Age because we can fully cite the lies and misdirection of our so-called representatives ...I love the Information Age because we can fully cite the lies and misdirection of our... more
It really is not looking good for the CDC. Eventually after many attempts by CBS the CDC released the test results for the H1N1 cases around the USA. It turns out that the a massive percentage of test results were NOT the H1N1 swine flu. With a lot of cases it wasn't even the regular flu ! As CBS intelligently points out these exaggerated cases and statistics would have had an impact on medical treatments and hospitals resources. NOTICE how the word EPIDEMIC is used several times. A really great reupload from the CBS channel which is here http://www.youtube.com/user/CBSIt really is not looking good for the CDC. Eventually after many attempts by CBS the... more
Sean Hannity speculated that "there is a chance our government knew all about" alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan "and did nothing because nobody wanted to be called an Islamophobe," and asked, "What does it say about Barack Obama and our government?" But there is no evidence that Obama was aware of the emails between Hasan and an imam with alleged ties to Al Qaeda; moreover, Hannity did not address what the incident says about President Bush, who was in office when the authorities reportedly first intercepted the emails.
"It is the punishment of the wise, who refuse to take part in government, to live under the government of worse men." Plato said that. I always found it rather charming. Presumably Professor Nutt and his colleagues at the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) are mulling similar thoughts today, after the home secretary sacked its chief, and watched his colleagues resign in protest over the weekend.
A great read on The government's backwards drug policies, and the general backwardness of the government themselves.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, murdered twelve people and wounded twenty-one inside Fort Hood in Texas yesterday, while, according to eyewitnesses, "shouting something in Arabic while he was shooting." Investigators are scratching their heads and expressing puzzlement about why he did it. According to NPR [1], "the motive behind the shootings was not immediately clear, officials said." The Washington Post [2] agreed: "The motive remains unclear, although some sources reported the suspect is opposed to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and upset about an imminent deployment." The Huffington Post spun faster, asserting that "there is no concrete reporting as to whether Nidal Malik Hasan was in fact a Muslim or an Arab."
Yet there was, and what's more, Major Hasan's motive was perfectly clear -- but it was one that the forces of political correctness and the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for years to obscure. So it is that now that another major jihad terror attack has taken place on American soil, authorities and the mainstream media are at a loss to explain why it happened - and the abundant evidence that it was a jihad attack is ignored.
Nidal Malik Hasan was born in Virginia but didn't think of himself as an American: on a form he filled out at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, he gave his nationality not as "American" but as "Palestinian." A mosque official found that curious, saying: "I don't know why he listed Palestinian. He was not born in Palestine."
He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and has a doctorate in psychiatry from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. While there, NPR reports, Hasan was "put on probation early in his postgraduate work" and was "disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues."
He was a staff psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before transferring to Fort Hood earlier this year. While at Walter Reed, he was a "very devout" member of and daily visitor to the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring. Faizul Khan, a former imam at the Center, expressed puzzlement over Hasan's murders: "To know something like this happened, I don't know what got into his mind. There was nothing extremist in his questions. He never showed any frustration....He never showed any remorse or wish for vengeance on anybody."
So he identified himself as Palestinian and was a devout Muslim - so what? These things, of course, have no significance if one assumes that Islam is a Religion of Peace and that when a devout Muslim reads the Koran's many injunctions to wage war against unbelievers, he knows that they have no force or applicability for today's world. Unfortunately, all too many Muslims around the world demonstrate in both their words and their deeds that they take such injunctions quite seriously. And Nidal Hasan gave some indications that he may have been among them.Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, murdered twelve people and wounded... more
Well, if you were wondering what paranoiac smear artist would be the first to step out and attempt to name President Barack Obama as the man who guided Nidal Malik Hasan to his murderous rampage at Fort Hood yesterday, the answer -- naturally! -- is Jerome Corsi. Corsi has a long history of lunatic, fact-averse ravings and he fails to disappoint on that regard on the pages of World Net Daily, today, in a piece entitled "Shooter advised Obama transition." Except, of course, he didn't do any such thing.
Last week, Liz Cheney berated the President of the United States for publicly honoring the war dead. The scathing rebukes, most notably Lawrence O'Donnell, were well-deserved.
Most were also misguided.
To be sure, the facts and perspective they presented were important. After all, Ms. Cheney's egregious contentions were disingenuous lies, and to even think that the American President shouldn't honor the war dead in public is shameless. It is suggesting that the commander-in-chief should only salute the war dead from past wars, not those newly-arrived back to our shores. A nation is comforted when it is allowed to honor with the president those who fell defending it. It understands more deeply what the national sacrifice is.
Moreover, had it been George Bush at Dover Air Force Base, Elizabeth Cheney would be exalting him as America's Greatest Patriot.
And none of this includes her lie that George Bush did such a thing at Dover. Even privately. Nor did her father. The two architects of the lie that caused those deaths. Her own lie that Mr. Bush did is self-serving deceit.
All such comments about Ms. Cheney's dishonesty - and her many previous lies - have all been highly merited. What is misguided, though is something else.
Why in the world are putting Liz Cheney on television??
Responding to lies is one thing. But to give such a nonentity face time? Even sportscasts have stopped showing the loon who runs onto the field, realizing that getting on TV only encourages the next one.
In the media rush to cover the DOJ memo on the Obama administration’s redirecting federal law enforcement efforts away from arresting and prosecuting state compliant medical cannabis providers CNN’s Lou Dobbs interviewed former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey and Cato Institute’s Tim Lynch…
Any long time observer of Mr. Caffrey’s m.o. when being interviewed is to tell some whoppers to an unquestioning media, but in these recent videos McCaffrey, again, wrongly claims that no one gets arrested for cannabis; no one goes to jail or prison for cannabis-related offenses; that he didn’t lose in the seminal case Conant vs McCaffrey; cannabis is de facto legal in the United States, etc…Geesh! I guess when the hundreds of cannabis consumers who call the toll-free number (888-67-NORML) or email NORML this week post arrest looking for legal information and assistance, we”ll just inform them, ‘Don’t you know, according to Barry McCaffrey, cannabis is de facto legal, and that you didn’t really get arrested.’
Makes one wonder how honest and credible McCaffrey has been for the last nine years as a paid, on-air military consultant for NBC News when his track record for anti-pot prevarications (I’m in DC…and therefore not suppose to use the word ‘lie’) are so obviously refuted. If he’d so obviously twist the truth about cannabis, would he mislead an audience or interviewer about America’s military and defense contractors?
FOX News is on a witch hunt, aimed at destroying the Obama administration and the progressive movement. Theyve already succeeded in pushing Van Jones out of the White House and badgered Congress into passing an unconstitutional bill to defund ACORN. Glenn Beck actually keeps an enemies list on a blackboard thats a regular part of his show.
ACORN is just the beginning. FOX has an enemies list, and theyre going to keep destroying progressive champions until we stop them.FOX News is on a witch hunt, aimed at destroying the Obama administration and the... more
A list of hoaxes and stories from the past few years, including Balloon Boy and Turkish "Big Brother"A list of hoaxes and stories from the past few years, including Balloon Boy and... more
EOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A disgraced South Korean scientist who falsely claimed to have achieved major breakthroughs in stem cell research was convicted Monday of charges connected to his research and faced sentencing later in the day.
Hwang Woo-suk, 56, was charged with accepting funds under false pretenses, embezzling and illegally buying human eggs for his research, which carry a total maximum penalty of life in prison. It was not immediately clear which charges he was convicted of.
Prosecutors have demanded a four-year prison term for the man once hailed as a national hero for his purported scientific breakthroughs. Sentencing was due to take place later Monday at Seoul Central District Court.
In 2004, Hwang and former colleagues at Seoul National University claimed in a paper published in the journal Science that they had created the world's first cloned human embryos - and had extracted stem cells from them.
Stem cell research is highly sensitive, and Hwang had been the only South Korean scientist allowed to carry out studies on the master cells that scientists say could lead to revolutionary cures for hard-to-treat diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
A year later, Hwang's team also claimed in the journal that they had created human embryonic stem cells genetically matched to specific patients, a purported breakthrough that promised a way to withstand rejection by a patient's immune system.
However, a university committee declared that the 2005 paper was based on faked data, and cast doubt on his 2004 findings as well. The journal Science retracted both papers.
The South Korean government stripped him of the license to carry out stem cell research in 2006, citing "ethical problems." Hwang was charged later that yearEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A disgraced South Korean scientist who falsely claimed to... more
Republican smear master Rush Limbaugh is at it again, this time rally the troops against Washington Posts "lies" in a recent poll saying that 57% of Americans believe in a public option, and another more recent poll of republicans finding that 73 percent of GOP voters say Republicans have "lost touch with their base."
LIMBAUGH: Don't believe all these polls, the fraudulent poll from The Washington Post earlier this week, 57 percent want public option. There has never been 57 percent for the public option, and there isn't in this poll. It is a fraudulent poll.
also he takes the stance that the democrats are a splintered party...yeah no typo ... the democrats
Also Rush quotes from a fake excerpt of Obama's undergrad thesis to label him an "anti-constitutionalist" from a fake essay that was supposable from Obama undergrad years at Columbia ...
Excerpt from article:
...... Rush took a gander at a blog post by Michael Ledeen which purported to have an excerpt of Barack Obama's undergrad thesis that he wrote when he attended Columbia University. Ledeen sourced the excerpt to an obscure conservative blog, which claimed the excerpt came from Time's Joe Klein in an article that would supposedly appear in an "upcoming special edition about the president." That post was written eight weeks ago, and that "upcoming special edition" of Time has yet to surface. Color us skeptical. (Ledeen later posted an apology for running with this "hoax." Rush also cast some doubt as the program went on.)Republican smear master Rush Limbaugh is at it again, this time rally the troops... more
this video taken from media matters an unbiased organization that i feel serves as a very effective watchdog organization....
Fox News should be renamed, or taken off the air.
This is right wing talk radio masquerading as News.. it is lies and misconceptions and acts to instill fear, and deliberately mislead the american people.
It is more conservative than Logo is liberal.this video taken from media matters an unbiased organization that i feel serves as a... more
