Accuracy in Media

There’s conflicting reports whether longtime Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal was involved in Hillary Clinton’s campaign and pushed the ‘birther’ theories to the campaign. One reporter claimed that Blumenthal told him in a conversation, while liberal media plays the skeptic.

CNN reported that Hillary Clinton did not start the ‘birther’ rumors, where some alleged that Obama was not born in the United States of America. Reason being, Donald Trump’s allegation and a recent tweet by a former McClatchy reporter have brought it back into the public spotlight. Based on Jake Tapper’s record of good reporting (Tapper contributed […]

“New birthers”?! Apparently, the charges of Hillary Clinton’s possible health problems have have upset someone at CNN to ask whether Donald Trump supporters and some “right-wing media” types in the “blogosphere” are “the new birthers”? The tag line ran, “Hillary Clinton opponents try to sow doubts about her health.” FYI, she is 68 years old as […]

He does have ancestral ties to Kenya, and this statement also happens to troll the Birther movement at the same time.

Monday night on MSNBC’s Hardball, during a segment on Mitt Romney, host Chris Matthews commented to former RNC Chairman and current MSNBC contributor Michael Steele that the Republicans were part of the “Grand Wizard crowd,” referring to the leader of the KKK. Matthews: Okay, let’s go. Well it certainly was—you’re the Grand Wizard crowd over […]

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The Obama re-election campaign has apparently decided that while all the attention focused on the President’s birth certificate was nothing more than a right-wing conspiracy, it might provide an opportunity to make a few bucks. For $20 supporters can now buy a mug with the President’s picture on one side and a copy of his birth […]

In the “that must have hurt to say it department,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow admitted last night that she used a one-year-old clip of Rush Limbaugh questioning where Obama was born. I’m in a face off, I’m in a huge fight, I’m in a massive brawl with Rush Limbaugh right now. And you know what, […]

Chris Matthews who gets a thrill just mentioning Barack Obama’s name is puzzled as to why the president hasn’t done more to clear up the birth certificate controversy. Newly elected Gov. Neil Abercrombie had vowed to put this matter to rest and silence the birthers once and for all but Matthews told Clarence Page and […]