Okay, first the background. "Newsmax" is the brain-child of Richard Mellon Scaife. Ever watch the "Clinton Chronicles" produced by the "Arkansas Project" that talked about how Arkansas was turned into a haven for coke-smugglers who flew in to the Mena, Arkansas airport and then partied with Bill Clinton at the Governor's Mansion and how people were killed and so on? Great stuff! Scaife spent $3 million funding the effort.
Okay, so now Scaife is trying to get a hard-right Newsweek off the ground by starting up an online service. Not working too well. But it publishes reliably right-wing crap, so when something on Newsmax takes an anti-Republican position, ever, that is breaking news.
So here is what one of their fawning writers says about McCain. Boy, is he pumped! Not really...
So here is what one of their fawning writers says about McCain. Boy, is he pumped! Not really...
My favorite quote is:
"Like Dole, then, we are left with a tired, old, and suspect candidate who is facing his last hurrah. One can only hope he doesn’t fall off a platform somewhere."
Now understand, I have nothing against age, as such. My complaint comes when someone's ideas are old. McCain's are timelessly awful.
Arthur
"Like Dole, then, we are left with a tired, old, and suspect candidate who is facing his last hurrah. One can only hope he doesn’t fall off a platform somewhere."
Now understand, I have nothing against age, as such. My complaint comes when someone's ideas are old. McCain's are timelessly awful.
Arthur
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"Newsmax" is the brain-child of Richard Mellon Scaife.
Well, not really.
Newsmax Media is a news organization founded by journalist Christopher W. Ruddy and based in West Palm Beach, Florida. It runs the Newsmax.com website and publishes Newsmax Magazine. Ruddy, who serves as editor-in-chief, describes Newsmax.com as "the leading independent online news site with a conservative perspective."
Christopher W. Ruddy started Newsmax.com on September 16, 1998, supported by a group of conservative investors, including the family of the late CIA Director William J. Casey. Later Richard Mellon Scaife, his former employer at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a supporter of conservative causes, invested in the fledging company. One of the initial board members was author James Dale Davidson who edited a financial newsletter that had shared Ruddy's interest in the Vincent Foster case. Davidson's co-editor, Lord Rees-Mogg, former editor of the The Times and Vice Chair of the BBC, later became chairman of Newsmax Media.
Other news figures who later joined the Newsmax board included Arnaud de Borchgrave, the longtime Newsweek chief correspondent who also serves as editor at large of UPI and Jeff Cunningham, former publisher of Forbes. The late Admiral Thomas Moorer, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who helped bring the Vietnam War to a close, also served as one of the company's founding board members. Former Nixon Chief of Staff and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. has served as special advisor to NewsMax.
Gee Jon, you make NewsMax sound almost like a respectable news source. Unfortunately, upon futher investigations, NewsMax turns up to be not much more than a neo-con propaganda rag, making up stuff as it goes along. Sort of like Fox News. Try Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsMax_Media which is where you got your information, but read down to "Contoversial Articles." Now there's an eye opener.
Oh, as a tabloid agency it's probably no worse than the rest of them, but check out this one: http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/nmcorrupt.html.
Lies, baby, all lies.
Thanks for the comment.
EPRush
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