Articles tagged with: Terrorism
By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media The scandal involving the politicization of the IRS under the Obama administration continues to grow. Congressmen briefed by IRS officials say that instead of 300 groups that received closer scrutiny, the number has climbed to 471. More drip, drip, drip. But in an effort to stop the bleeding, President [...]
By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media You would have thought that the Obama administration would have learned from the growing Benghazi scandal that the best way to handle such controversies is to get out in front of them, and put it all out there, rather than let it drip, drip, drip, as is now happening [...]
By: James Simpson Examiner.com 1973: reporters investigate All the President’s Men. 2013: reporters are All the President’s Men. You knew the mainstream media was biased, but this is incredible. It was revealed today that CBS News President David Rhodes’ brother is Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who was instrumental in rewriting the Benghazi [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media Bill Ayers’ claim that the Weather Underground bombed property, not people, in order to protest the Vietnam War, is two lies in one. First, they specialized in anti-personnel bombs using heavy metal staples. Second, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn were not opposed to the war, only to a [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media We have seen in the Boston bombings case how terrorists depend on a network of sympathizers. But the Russian connection remains a mystery. The press should follow up on the Russian angle to the Islamic terrorist bombers story before President Obama gets carried away with cooperating with Russian President [...]
NoisyRoom Hat Tip: Walid Shoebat Mike Vanderboegh at Liberty Oath Keeper with Stewart Rhodes From Walid Shoebat: Mike Vanderboegh founded the Three Percenters Movement, which is based on the reality that only three percent of the early American colonists took to the battlefield and still won. He is also the guy who not only broke [...]
By: Bethany Stotts Accuracy in Media The mainstream media are absent on the Misha story, preferring to let the discussion of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s possible mentor devolve into hearsay reporting rather than to delve in-depth into the background of this Islamist. Perhaps he undermines the narrative that this was a couple of self-radicalized kids who were [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media If the FBI wants to find Joanne Chesimard, who has just been added to the “Most Wanted Terrorists List,” it could begin by wiretapping President Obama’s friends, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and other members of the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground helped Chesimard—a convicted cop-killer—escape from a New [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media The claim that the Russians somehow “warned” the U.S. about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic connections has been accepted by most news organizations and commentators as established fact. But while U.S. intelligence agencies have a lot to explain, the Russian security services have been treated with kid gloves and even [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media The possible involvement of a Saudi in the Boston terror attacks is being curiously ignored or downplayed by most of the mainstream media. Steve Emerson, Glenn Beck, and others have pressed for answers, however. Beck has issued a full report with updates on the controversy. When Rep. Jeff Duncan, [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media The local police reacted heroically to the Boston terror bombings, and it is tragic that MIT police officer Sean Collier was a victim of the terrorists’ shooting spree. However, the inescapable conclusion, after the media get done praising local police reaction to the bombings, is that law enforcement at [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media CNN has been criticized for reporting the arrest of a suspect in the Boston bombing case when no one in fact had been arrested. The channel was apparently given inaccurate information by an anonymous official. Even more serious, however, was the claim by CNN’s “terrorism analyst,” Juliette Kayyem, that [...]
NoisyRoom By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton Last week was horrific with the Boston Marathon bombing claiming the lives of 3 and injuring several score. Two Chechen brothers, one a U.S. citizen, one not, were caught on video placing the bombs. The older brother (the non-citizen) was shot and killed by police (or by his younger brother driving [...]
The Watcher’s Council Every week on Monday morning, the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: How Would You Solve The Problem Of Illegal Immigration? Simply Jews: Building a few pyramids in Texas and/or Arizona? The Noisy Room: [...]
NoisyRoom Hat Tip: BB Read more at Gateway Pundit… Transcript from the Rush Limbaugh Show: Bill Ayers celebrated, memorialized efforts to kill cops and actually planted a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties. “[T]he blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.” “Ayers participated in [...]
KeyWiki Pamela Costain assumed leadership of AchieveMpls in 2010, after four years as an elected member of the Minneapolis Board of Education. In this role, she will work closely with the leadership of the Minneapolis Public Schools, the Board of Directors of AchieveMpls and business and community leaders to help ensure that Minneapolis students excel [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media In discussing the letters reportedly laced with the poison ricin, which followed the Boston bombings, correspondent Andrea Mitchell claimed on the NBC Nightly News on Wednesday night that there was an “eerie coincidence” to the anthrax letters that followed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and killed five people. [...]
NoisyRoom Read more at Walid Shoebat’s site… Exclusive Photo of Alharbi in Hospital and more evidence of coverup Exclusive: Saudi National Once Considered ‘Person of Interest’ May Be Deported on ‘Security’ Grounds — And How It’s Supposed to Be Framed Your browser does not support iframes. Marathon bombing suspects sure don’t look like ‘white Americans’ [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media After Florida broadcaster Jerry Kenney asked his member of Congress, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), to examine the strong ties between Al Jazeera and known terrorist organizations, he received a personal telephone call from the congressman promising action. But DeSantis has now told Kenney and other residents of Volusia County [...]
By: Michael Cutler Accuracy in Media The “Gang of Eight,” aka the “Eight Gangsters,” are concocting Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation. Purportedly this legislation is needed to address the presence of the officially-estimated population of 12 million illegal aliens. While the legislation is referred to as being “Comprehensive,” there is nothing truly comprehensive about their approach, [...]
The Watcher’s Council Every week on Monday morning, the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: The 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War just passed. Was the Iraq Invasion Worthwhile? The Razor: I’ll admit I was wrong about [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media A former Al Jazeera producer who describes himself as Palestinian told the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, “My job as someone in the media is to humanize my people, my heritage…” Ahmed Shihab-Eldin now hosts a show for HuffPost Live, an on-line television service associated with the [...]
By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media Why do the media consider the filibuster a strong, principled stance under Democrat leadership, but an obstructionist tool when used by Republicans? This media double standard has been used consistently during the current and past administration, and is currently being used to shame Republicans on the gun control debate. [...]
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NoisyRoom By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton North Korean and South Korean guards face each other in the Demilitarized Zone, 2011. Photo: Michael Jesus Day/Flickr America is on the brink of World War III, but seems to be more concerned with Beyonce and her Cuban exploits (she’s a Marxist elitistist – what do you expect?), than impending nuclear [...]
By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media Denver, Colorado: Disgraced CBS newsman Dan Rather returned with an appearance in a new film, “Shadows of Liberty,” which had its U.S. premiere at the “National Conference for Media Reform” in Denver on Thursday night. The film—and Rather—contend that corporate power has taken control of the American media, leaving [...]
By: James Simpson Accuracy in Media These are trying times. Never in the history of this country have we been so weakened and polarized by what many view as deliberate government policy. Now anti-gunners in the U.S. Congress, the Obama administration, and legislatures across the country are seeking to exploit the Newtown tragedy to promote [...]
KeyWiki Kurt Alan Stand, then 42, a regional labor union representative along with his wife, Theresa Squillacote (39), a former senior staff lawyer in the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, and friend James Clark (49), a private investigator, were arrested October 4, 1997, on charges of spying for East Germany and the [...]
