Terry Krepel has worked for newspapers for more than 17 years as a reporter, designer, and editor. He is the founder and editor of ConWebWatch, which monitors conservative news websites. Krepel holds a master's degree in multimedia journalism from Arkansas Tech University and is a Senior Editor at Media Matters for America.

Blog Entries by Terry Krepel

Newsmax's Rehab of Bernard Kerik Fails

Posted November 12, 2009 | 05:48 PM (EST)


I've detailed how Newsmax has labored over the past several months to rehabilitate the reputation of former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik, giving him a regular column and publishing articles that whitewashed the corruption charges he was facing.

But all of Newsmax's efforts have gone for...

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WorldNetDaily Can't Stop Whitewashing Orly Taitz

5 Comments | Posted November 1, 2009 | 10:48 PM (EST)


In August, I detailed how WorldNetDaily is telling only part of the Orly Taitz story -- the anti-Obama birther lawyer with whom WND has long had a symbiotic relationship -- in order to hide from its readers the increasingly questionable job of lawyering she's doing.

WND is still keeping...

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WorldNetDaily Loves Providing Anonymity -- Even To Terrorists

Posted October 18, 2009 | 10:03 PM (EST)


In 1999, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah criticized the use of anonymous sources -- as done in a profile several years earlier by the Columbia Journalism Review on Farah's tenure as editor of the now-defunct Sacramento Union -- as "usually quotes made up out of whole cloth to help...

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Our Newsmax Problem

1 Comments | Posted October 8, 2009 | 11:34 PM (EST)


John L. Perry began his Sept. 29 Newsmax column this way:

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will...

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The Secret Connection Between Mel Gibson And Newsmax

3 Comments | Posted October 4, 2009 | 11:20 AM (EST)


Amazing where you end up when you follow a thread.

In a March 24 Newsmax "Left Coast Report" item, James Hirsen -- according to his bio, the "author, commentator, media analyst and law professor" who is also a Newsmax pundit -- unsurprisingly came down on the side of supporting...

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John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits

1 Comments | Posted October 1, 2009 | 11:34 AM (EST)


John L. Perry's Newsmax column advocating a military coup against Obama -- since deleted from Newsmax's website, though without any explanation to its readers -- was merely the latest and most extreme example of Perry's hatred of the president.

Perry -- who has written regular columns for Newsmax...

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WorldNetDaily Red-Baits Obama

3 Comments | Posted September 28, 2009 | 09:32 PM (EST)


Aaron Klein seems not to be aware that the 2008 presidential election is over.

The WorldNetDaily Jerusalem bureau chief as repeatedly endeavored to tie Barack Obama to assorted nefarious folks, from getting a spokesman for the Palestinian militant group Hamas to endorse Obama (the circumstances of which Klein has...

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WorldNetDaily Still Protecting Orly Taitz

2 Comments | Posted September 18, 2009 | 12:40 AM (EST)


I've detailed how WorldNetDaily has been the biggest media promoter of anti-Obama lawyer Orly Taitz, promoting every filing in every eligibility lawsuit she's filed, penning fawning profiles and -- most importantly -- studiously ignoring Taitz's growing record of shoddy lawyering.

So when Larry Sinclair -- whose claim that he...

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Media Research Center Takes Ted Kennedy-Related Quote Out of Context

Posted September 10, 2009 | 10:47 AM (EST)


When you've given a quote one of your top awards, it's hard to backpedal even when people figure out the quote doesn't say what you've claimed it said.

That's the situation the Media Research Center finds itself in. At its 2004 Dishonors Awards, the MRC gave its quote of...

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Birthers Gone Wild: A Review of 'A Question of Eligibility'

10 Comments | Posted September 2, 2009 | 11:01 PM (EST)


Save your $17.99: WorldNetDaily's anti-Obama "documentary," "A Question of Eligibility," has popped up on YouTube (in six parts -- here, here, here, here, here, and here). I watched the whole thing, and found it to be every bit as biased and factually deficient...

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Whitewashing Orly Taitz

17 Comments | Posted August 29, 2009 | 01:06 AM (EST)


WorldNetDaily has long had a symbiotic relationship with Orly Taitz, the California attorney/dentist/real estate agent who has been a lead filer of lawsuits against President Obama regarding his birth certificate.

WND has enabled Taitz by uncritically reporting her anti-Obama legal actions without noting factual errors in them. For instance, WND...

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Life Imitates The Daily Show: WorldNetDaily Wants You To Think Obama Is the Antichrist

10 Comments | Posted August 21, 2009 | 01:35 AM (EST)


You're WorldNetDaily. You've made your name (and a fair bit of money) by throwing every bit of mud you can find at President Obama, telling lies and beyond. You've even repeatedly depicted him as a Nazi. What do you do for an encore?

Well, you reach...

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WorldNetDaily Does Not Do Journalism

5 Comments | Posted August 14, 2009 | 01:09 AM (EST)


Joseph Farah admitted it in his August 5 WorldNetDaily column: "A few months ago, I stepped beyond my role as a journalist and media entrepreneur to become an activist, a crusader, some might even say a 'birther.'"

That's not quite correct. Farah, WND's founder and editor, actually "stepped beyond"...

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Joseph Farah's Birther Factory

5 Comments | Posted August 7, 2009 | 12:16 PM (EST)


In 1996, Columbia Journalism Review published an article called "The Vincent Foster Factory," detailing the role played by Joseph Farah, then head of the Western Journalism Center, in promoting conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Clinton White House counsel Vince Foster. It states:

One of the Center's major activities...
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WorldNetDaily Shoots First, Ask Questions Later

3 Comments | Posted August 3, 2009 | 04:06 PM (EST)


It's not often you see someone who claims to be a journalist declaring himself to be proud to report something he has no idea is true. But that's what WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah is doing.

From an August 3 press release (yes, WND has its own PR agents) touting...

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WorldNetDaily's Obama Birth Certificate Lies

1 Comments | Posted July 28, 2009 | 01:19 AM (EST)


How craven is WorldNetDaily in its lies about Barack Obama? It's trying to cash in on them.

WND, the chief promoter of the Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy, has an entire section of its online store dedicated to shilling various tsotchkes related to it -- yard signs, postcards, etc....

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Jackie Mason, Humorless Obama-Hater

23 Comments | Posted July 8, 2009 | 01:56 AM (EST)


(Updated with Mason's latest rant at end.)

Jackie Mason appears to have traded his career as a legendary comedian for one as a professional Obama-hater for right-wing website WorldNetDaily.

Certainly, Mason has forsaken his humor for venom -- asserting that Obama has "plans to destroy America" and "can't tolerate the...

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What's WorldNetDaily Hiding on Obama Birth Certificate?

9 Comments | Posted July 2, 2009 | 02:23 PM (EST)


As the saying goes: When you have nothing to hide, you hide nothing. By that standard, WorldNetDaily is clearly hiding something.

WND's desperate campaign to demand that Barack Obama prove he's a "natural born citizen" -- even though he already has -- is one long trail of falsehoods presented as...

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Newsmax Tries to Rehabilitate Bernard Kerik

2 Comments | Posted June 25, 2009 | 01:55 AM (EST)


Newsmax has long been a booster of Bernard Kerik. When the former New York police chief was nominated by President Bush to be homeland security secretary in 2004, Newsmax was quick to accuse the "leftist media" of mounting "an unprecedented, full-scale attack" on Kerik by writing "journalistic hatchet jobs"...

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WorldNetDaily Feeds the Extremists

2 Comments | Posted June 17, 2009 | 01:42 AM (EST)


Did Scott Roeder, alleged killer of abortion doctor George Tiller, read WorldNetDaily on a regular basis? How about James von Brunn, accused killer of a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington?

After all, WND shares interests with both alleged shooters, no matter how fervently it wants to conceal...

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