The Gunny is on a roll today, highlighting the perfidy of the liberals, or moonbats, in the Libstream Media. What's funny is that liberals themselves think that the press has a RIGHT-WING bias although how they arrive at that conclusion is up for grabs. It could be a post-Woodstock LSD flashback, or too much Boone's Farm Strawberry Wine over the decades, or simply the loss of brainpower through too much dope, hitting their heads against brick walls, or just plainly, their inability to grow the h*ll up mentally. Let's check out the flow of libturdism in the press.

1. Walter Duranty, The New York Times (1930s), Pulitzer Prize winner. Lying. This man visited Stalin's Russia and wrote that nothing untoward was happening there, no famine, no murders, no gulags, etc. Over 10 million people died in the Ukraine famine alone. His writings matched Russian propaganda almost exactly. His Pulitzer Prize still stands.

2. Pham Xuan An, Time (1960's). Communist spy reporter. Pham Xuan An was a Viet Cong colonel who worked as a reporter for U.S. news organizations during the Vietnam War while also spying for the communists. He was the first Vietnamese to be a full-time staff correspondent for a major U.S. publication, working primarily for Time magazine. His job as a spy was to uncover and report the plans of the South Vietnamese and U.S. military. He was considered the best Vietnamese reporter in the press corps. He died in Vietnam in 2006, where he had been "promoted to major general and was named a Hero of the People's Armed Forces, with four military-exploit medals." Unbelievably, he was never vetted by Time. And liberals wonder why the US Military views them as the enemy.

3. Peter Arnett, CNN, NBC, National Geographic (1999-2003). Lying, bias, treasonous behavior. CNN fired him in 1999 for his reporting the Operation Tailwind story. (The televised special claimed that the U.S. military used nerve gas in a mission to kill American defectors in Laos during the Vietnam War, but the story had no factual support. CNN later retracted the story.) NBC and National Geographic fired him in March 2003 for being interviewed on Iraqi TV during war, in which he stated that the U.S. war plan had failed. "It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state-controlled Iraqi TV, especially at a time of war," said NBC. Well, treason is nothing to liberals, just ask Hanoi Jane and Hanoi John.

4. And SPEAKING of Traitors, here is Jimmy "The Dhimmi" Carter, former U.S. President, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. Lying, plagiarism, bias. His book was so full of errors, including doctored maps, that his chief collaborator, Kenneth Stein of Emory University, resigned his position with the Carter Center. Carter's book was condemned by Alan Dershowitz and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, among others.

5. (SEE)BS, Dan Rather, The Wall Within (1988). Fell for hoax, liars. This documentary had Dan Rather interviewing six Viet Nam veterans who told stories of slaughter, cruelty and the horrors of war. Dan Blather asked the posers: "You're telling me that you went into the village, killed people, burned part of the village, then made it appear that the other side had done this?" The posers stated: "Yeah. It was kill VC, and I was good at what I did." It turned out that five of the six were never in the service at all, and the sixth, who claimed to be a Navy SEAL, was an equipment repairman and never near combat!

6. Jason Jordan, CNN (2005). False accusations. He accused U.S. forces in Iraq of deliberately targeting and killing journalists. He apologized and resigned.

7. Rueters, Lebanon coverage (2006). Fake/staged photos.A burning tire dump as the scene of an Israeli bombing, Photoshopped bomb smoke, etc. during the Lebanon-Israel conflict.

8. Rueters, Russia's North Pole coverage (2007). More fake photos and footage. "Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic." The mistake was caught by a 13-year-old Finnish boy.

9. Gary Webb, Pulitzer Prize winner, San Jose Mercury News (1996). Lying. He wrote the series of articles saying the CIA under President Reagan brought crack cocaine to Los Angeles. "Major parts of Webb's reporting were later discredited by other newspaper investigations. An investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department found no evidence of a connection between the CIA and the drug traffickers. He committed suicide in 2004, but remains a hero to many conspiracy theorists (and moonbats no doubt).

10. Micah Wright. Author and anti-war activist (2003). Lying. Claimed to be a former U.S. Ranger and combat veteran. His book, You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want!, was endorsed by novelist Kurt Vonnegut and historian Howard Zinn. He was never in the military.

11. NBC Waiting to Explode segment on Dateline NBC (1992). Faking evidence and footage. NBC demonstrated the explosive danger of GM trucks' gas tanks by showing one actually explode in what appeared to be normal circumstances. NBC consultants set off explosive miniature rockets beneath the truck split seconds before the crash, yet no one told the viewers.

12. NPR, CNN, "Jenin massacre" (2002). Lying. CNN reported: "There's almost a massacre now taking place in Jenin. Helicopter gun ships are throwing missiles at one square kilometer packed with almost 15,000 people in a refugee camp. This is a war crime, clear war crime." However, the actual "death toll was 56 Palestinians, the majority of them combatants, and 23 Israeli soldiers.

13. Nina Totenberg, The National Observer (1972). Plagiarism. She was fired by The National Observer for plagiarism. "Totenberg had allegedly lifted several paragraphs from a Washington Post story and dropped them into a piece she was writing about former House Speaker Tip O'Neill for the now-defunct National Observer." She is currently legal correspondent for NPR.

14. Michael Bellesiles. Professor of history, author of Arming America and recipient of Columbia University's Bancroft Prize. Lying/fabricating. He made "myth shattering" claims about the history of guns in America that were based on fabricated historical records. He resigned from Emory University. To be noted, Historian Clayton Cramer wrote a book, well-researched, named "Armed America," that used bona-fide historical documents to refute all of Bellesiles hogwash. Well worth the read. 

   The stupidity of liberals can clearly be seen here. Especially in the case of Nina Totenberg. The Gunny wonders if NPR plans to hire Jayson Blair anytime soon. There are far far more examples at the American Thinker. In fact, 101 examples of liberals out and out LYING to the American Public. So in the future, when a liberal states that someone is lying, chances are, they know from experience that which they protest.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/media_dishonesty_matters.html