Roger Aronoff

Washington Post Comes to Bowe Bergdahl's Defense

The U.S. military "threw the book" at Bowe Bergdahl, charging him with "misbehavior before the enemy," which could result in life imprisonment. Yet the mainstream media have clearly chosen sides before the case is decided. Members of the media have once again elected to skew their coverage of the Bergdahl case in order to place the Obama administration in a favorable light.

The Democratic Party’s Deepening Dilemma

While Republicans are preparing for their second debate on Wednesday night, with most of the attention focused on the surprising, continuing strength of the Donald Trump campaign, the Democrats are facing an identity crisis of their own. It could prove far more chaotic than the one that the Republicans are facing.

The Absurdity of Hillary Clinton’s Apology Tour

Hillary Clinton has been desperately trying to sell a number of lies to the American people about her inexcusable behavior as Secretary of State, but it is mainly the mainstream media who are buying her excuses. And even that avenue appears to be drying up as a source of support. Despite her protestations of innocence, it is clear that she has violated both the spirit and the letter of the law in an attempt to skirt accountability and stay on track to win the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2016.

Hillary's Email and National Security Scandal Continues to Grow

The latest batch of Hillary Clinton's emails establishes beyond a doubt that she regularly received classified information. This has become both an email scandal and a national security scandal, as Mrs. Clinton risked the safety and well-being of all Americans with her lax security practices.

Huffington Post Attack on Admiral Lyons is Based on Willful Ignorance

Too often members of the mainstream media are content to marginalize those with whom they disagree, and mock experts as dark conspiracy theorists rather than rebutting their points. When the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) held its first conference exposing the Benghazi scandal, The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank followed this derogatory playbook to the letter.

Iran Nuclear Side Deals Expose Additional Flaws

More Democrats are falling in line to support the Iranian nuclear deal, despite recent revelations further exposing the farcical nature of the inspections regime on which it depends. And according to The New York Times, nearly everyone they talk about in this article who either is or might be opposing the deal is doing so because of their loyalty to Israel, or because they come from a state where "anti-Obama sentiments" are "feverish." It's never based on the merits.

The Trump Effect on the Media

Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, he has clearly struck a chord with Americans on several fronts: contempt for the media, the belief that America is far too often a chump when it comes to international dealings (whether trade or national security), and, of course, issues related to illegal immigration. He was even recently defended—sort of—by the liberal MSNBC pundit, Chris Matthews. Matthews appears to be somewhat moved by Trump’s recently released immigration agenda, questioning whether this candidate is a “true phenomenon.”

The Clinton Email Scandal Threatens to End Her Presidential Bid

The number of confirmed classified documents found among Hillary Clinton’s emails in a State Department review has climbed to 60, and yet she was joking about it this past weekend in Iowa. “You may have seen that I recently launched a Snapchat account,” said Mrs. Clinton. “I love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves.”

CNN Corrects Story About Trump and Biden—Still Gets it Wrong

When the news media correct themselves, those corrections often remain unacknowledged. This permits a false perception of accuracy. It also allows incorrect, damaging information to be disseminated by news reporters regardless of accountability.

Krugman and the Times Still Spinning Obama’s Legacy

In the view of The New York Times and other beacons of the liberal media, President Barack Obama’s policies are a resounding success and he rarely makes a misstep. The harmful effects of his policies, as well as his many scandals, must be ignored or covered up with misleading statistics and deceitful reporting that preserve his radical, left-wing legacy, and even make it sound mainstream.

The Real Drama is in the Democratic Primary

While the attention of the world was on the first Republican presidential debates in Cleveland on Thursday night, the drama in the Democratic Party may soon overshadow anything the GOP has to offer. Look at what’s happening on the way to Hillary Clinton’s coronation in 2016. All of a sudden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-identified “democratic socialist,” is within striking distance in some of the key early primary states. But the real action is with Vice President Joe Biden. Will he or won’t he challenge Mrs. Clinton? That is the question.

The “Stop Iran Now” Rally in Times Square Sent a Powerful Message

President Barack Obama’s disastrous deal with Iran paves the way for this totalitarian regime to attain nuclear weapons, ones which Iran’s dictators could then aim squarely at the United States, Israel, and our allies. But the complicit media repeatedly join the administration in championing the deal, which both falsely claim is the only viable alternative to war.

New Report Confirms Findings of Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi

Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) member Clare Lopez, believes that in 2011 Hillary Clinton’s State Department was orchestrating its own gun running operation to the Libyan rebels—and that arms dealer Marc Turi has been set up to take the fall for these “illicit arms deals.”

AIM Editor on FAA’s Air Traffic Control Hiring Scandal [Video]

Accuracy in Media Editor Roger Aronoff recently appeared on The Daily Ledger on the One America News Network to discuss an ongoing scandal at the Federal Aviation Administration which has prompted an investigation by the department’s inspector general.

'Stop Iran Now' Rally in New York’s Times Square Today

President Obama was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Tuesday night, pitching the Iran deal as the best way to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and claiming once again that it came down to this deal, or war. This week he did an end-run around Congress by going to the United Nations, where the UN Security Council unanimously adopted the agreement between the P5+1 (U.S., England, France, Germany, Russia and China) and Iran.

TWA Flight 800 Anniversary Stirs Memories [Video]

Friday, July 17^th, marked the 19^th anniversary of the deaths of 230 people on TWA Flight 800. There remain unaddressed questions about how this jet mysteriously exploded off the coast of Long Island. But the mainstream media aren’t interested in providing the public with much needed answers, pursuing this scandal, or even, really, marking the anniversary of the victims. Instead, recent coverage of this anniversary has been confined to some local news reports. I’m sure there will be much more coverage next year, for the 20^th anniversary.

Hillary Clinton's Lies Are Starting to Catch Up with Her

The mainstream media appear eager to distract from the substantive issues raised by the email scandals continuing to plague Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. One example is the media's focus on the timeline surrounding a Select Committee on Benghazi subpoena for her emails, and when those emails were deleted. As I recently argued, the media wish that these stories about Mrs. Clinton were not true. Most reporters cannot fathom, or will not acknowledge, that she routinely lies to the public about her activities--and those of the Clinton Foundation--while stonewalling both the press and the public.

Can the Nuclear Deal with Iran Be Derailed?

The mainstream media are celebrating, as a deal has been reached between Iran and the P5+1 nations. It appears, however, to be a complete capitulation by the West. CNN described it as "historic," along the lines of Richard Nixon's deal with China, which certainly must be music to President Obama's ears. But even as terms of the deal are starting to emerge, the holes in the agreement are becoming clear.

Email Dumps Continue to Undermine Clinton Candidacy

Hillary Clinton’s reputation is taking repeated blows as the drip, drip, drip of email productions from her private email server draw attention to her many lies. The Obama administration has admitted that she did not, in fact, turn over all the necessary emails from her private mail server to the government. It also has released nearly 3,000 pages of emails implicating members of the Obama administration in their own lies.

AIM Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare

The Supreme Court bent over backwards today in an attempt to save Obamacare from its own tortured language by reinterpreting the statute, making the plain phrase "Exchange established by the state" signify both the state and federal exchanges. The mainstream media, in turn, are triumphal, having helped sway the final decision. We have repeatedly written about The New York Times' biased reporting regarding the King v. Burwell case and Obamacare in general. Today, the Times' Editorial Board came out and said what Americans already knew, having read many of this paper's farcical health care columns masquerading as reporting. The Times condemned the plaintiffs as having spearheaded a "blatantly political effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act," called the case an "ideological farce dressed in a specious legal argument," and claimed "the court should never have taken review of it to begin with."