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Nominations Needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 | Kristinn

Posted on 04/26/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by kristinn

Nominations are needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards, which are to be presented this Saturday outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner by the D.C. Chapter.

10 winners will be announced. First Place will be awarded the Buckhead, the rest will get framed Sixty Minutes Faux Bush National Guard documents.

The criteria for nominees is as follows: A news reporter, editor, commentator, producer, executive or organization who has lied, fabricated, tried to dupe the public or stretched the truth so far that the truth is unrecognizable and called it news.

Please provide documentation for your nomination if possible. Links and/or excerpts are the best documentation for these awards.

Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. EDT. Voting will commence as soon as the nominations are sorted out.

Link to details of Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner freep.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awards; dcchapter; fauxnews; frauds; liars; propagandawingofdnc; propagandists; schadenfreude; tools
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To: William Creel

nope...maybe a ribbon though...and my warmest regards.


61 posted on 04/27/2005 8:14:43 AM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: kristinn
Does CBS News producer Mary Mapes and Dan Rather get the Irving Thalberg Award for lifetime achievements in distorting the news?

I would also like to nominate the editors at Time Magazine for the Ann Coulter fish lens shot and the Protest Warrior pics inside the same issue.

62 posted on 04/27/2005 8:17:36 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: kristinn
And the winner is !


63 posted on 04/27/2005 8:22:19 AM PDT by John Lenin
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To: Howlin; kristinn

My vote is the fake soldier hostage.


64 posted on 04/27/2005 8:28:26 AM PDT by eyespysomething (hmmm....)
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To: 1 Olgoat; 103198; 10Ring; 11Bush; 1stbn27; 2SterlingConservatives; 2yearlurker; 3D-JOY; ...

DC Chapter ping!

Please make any nominations in the next few hours. Time is running out unless we can find a Dem St. Louis judge to keep the nominations open for extra time.

If you are in the DC area, please also join us this Saturday night for the fabulous fun-filled FReep of the White House Correspondents Assoc. Dinner where we will try to present the awards. Details at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385502/posts.

We've seen or talked with Ann Coulter, Al Franken, Joe Scarborough, Matt Drudge, Norah O'Donnell, George Stephanopolous, Fred Barnes, Ralph Nader, and countless others in various of the previous 6 FReeps in this annual event. Come this year and you can cheer or jeer those in the media.


65 posted on 04/27/2005 1:43:59 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: kristinn

Every utterence from the left that is reported, ie., all.


66 posted on 04/27/2005 1:58:26 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Nuke the energy crisis.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Like they say: "A damn fool gigolo and his heiress wife's money are soon parted.


67 posted on 04/27/2005 2:00:56 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Nuke the energy crisis.)
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To: Lovergirl

Hey LG, that response was terribly cruel-William was serious.


68 posted on 04/27/2005 2:06:39 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Nuke the energy crisis-conserve the sun and wind for future generations.)
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To: kristinn
Found the transcript of the comments a newsjerk (Paul Wilkes) made to Larry King on April 19, 2005.

Larry King directs a question to Paul Wilkes, "BeliefNet.com's special correspondent and expert on papal succession".

KING: Paul Wilkes, can you clear up any of this story of him being a member of the Hitler Youth?

WILKES: Well, I think, this was perhaps a youthful excess. I don't think we should put too much stock in that. He was just a kid. It probably was, like, the rest of the guys are doing it and so am I.

Asinine comments! - "youthful excess", "the rest of the guys are doing it and so am I". Infuriates me.

I therefore nominate Paul Wilkes for the Newsjerk of the Year Award. He lied and fabricated his information. It's a deliberate smear of the Pope. If he had done his homework, he would have known that as a youth, Ratzinger didn't have a choice in the matter because membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory. Ratzinger later was a deserter from the German army and became a U.S. prisoner of war for 6 weeks. See article.

As a religious correspondent, Wilkes should have his facts straight before he spouts off. And Larry King deserves a special award for saying nothing after Wilkes' stupid/lying comments.

69 posted on 04/27/2005 2:36:48 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: tgslTakoma

Interisting post. Lots of canidates this year. The BS has been flying with the Dems losing. Rush was right, just sit back and watch them makes jerks of themselves.


70 posted on 04/27/2005 4:07:07 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: tgslTakoma

May I suggest "waffles for Rather". I mean, that's what he did. It's gonna be tough to get to him for the presentation.


71 posted on 04/27/2005 4:10:51 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: BillF
Here's a few more nominations:

The NY Times for trying to gin up op-eds from Republicans that slam fellow Republicans. Robert Livingston and Lawrence Eagleburger as examples.

The BBC for planting hecklers complete with wireless mics at a Tory party gathering.

The NY Times for the Al-Qaqa (sp.) weapons depot non-story right before the election.

MSNBC for doing a serious news report on the 'is Jeff Gannon Johnny Gosch rumor' even though there was nothing factual at all to connect the two. Just rumor and conspiracy theories by liberal moonbats.

Nightline for the show featuring Vietnamese propaganda taken as gospel over John O'Neill regarding John Kerry.

72 posted on 04/27/2005 4:58:01 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: BillF; All

I found a judge in St. Louie who has ordered the nominations stay open until midnight PDT. The voting thread will be posted tomorrow morning.


73 posted on 04/27/2005 4:59:41 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Lawrence O'Donnell for (1) his "creepy liar" performance against John O'Neill and (2) his ridiculous discussion of secession because his Dems can't win (except on the lame West Wing TV show).

WashPost and ABC News for their incredibly biased poll on the judicial nominations fight and the proposed GOP attempt to overcome Dem filibusters. Rush said the poll was not a push poll. "It was a push-up poll." Details here
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050426.asp

Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and SeeBS News for the most obvious reasons.

Carol Simpson of ABC News blaming dumb voters and Dixie (i.e., the former slave states) for electing Bush.
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2004/nq20041122.asp

I can't remember who trumpeted the phony exit polls that had Kerry winning, but whoever it was deserves a nomination.


74 posted on 04/27/2005 5:02:41 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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worldnutdaily needs an honorable mention.


75 posted on 04/27/2005 5:04:49 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod ( I'm going to open Cobra Kai dojos all over this valley!)
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To: kristinn

O'Reilly covered the Swift Boat Vets for Truth so badly I think he deserves one. His research, in general, is often half assed. It was terrible for his first SBVT piece. He tried to cover his ass by having SBVT reps on, then ended up taking an uninformed stand in the middle (not a credible position for one who claims to be a traditionalist and a non-spinner), propped up by unsupportable conclusions from his lame and poorly researched (and thought out) first piece. Give him the Nonspinners Spinning Prize.


76 posted on 04/27/2005 5:14:02 PM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Re-elect Dino Rossi in 2005! Then give Dean Logan 2 years in the Crossbar Hotel.)
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To: Howlin
Very good nomination, Howlin; and it will make a great visual to taunt the limosine liberal elite MSM with. The MSM is so blinded by their hatred of anything "America" that they either fell for the kidnap photo OF A G.I. Joe type doll, or they knew it was a fake photo but they wanted to try and cause more hand-wringing and quagmire whining from their commentator brethren - to lower support polling for Iraq actions.

Either way, it's a great example of MSM fact-checking.

77 posted on 04/27/2005 5:36:56 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: kristinn; tgslTakoma

"OOPS FROM CNN A close watcher catches a CNN blooper: At 8 am, Jane Arraf reports a "nightmare" situation at school polling station in Baquba, Sunni area. No Iraqi election commission workers had shown up. But, at 9:15, viewers learn Arraf had just shown up at the wrong school, which was not a polling site. The real polling site was actually open. At 9:30, Arraf reports that she is "now at 'another' polling site. No mea culpa/recognition of previous mistake. Her new polling station is crowded and jubilant."


78 posted on 04/27/2005 6:00:35 PM PDT by deadhead (God Bless Our Troops and Veterans)
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To: kristinn

I-knew-that-you-would-put-the-fix-in bump.


79 posted on 04/27/2005 6:45:06 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: kristinn

EDWARD LEE PITTS, Chattanooga Times Free Press military reporter who set up Rumsfeld with the misleading question, indirectly via military members, about armor on the military vehicles. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297858


80 posted on 04/27/2005 7:59:02 PM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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