Putting the “max” in Newsmax

Newsmax's Ronald Kessler has a problem with the facts as ConWebWatch notes today:

...in his Feb. 9 column, in which he quotes Ken Klukowski, " a legal expert who consults for major conservative interest groups," as saying of Obama: “Remember, Barack Obama has spoken out in terms of redistributive justice and considered it a shame that the Warren Court, which is the most liberal court in American history, did not engage in wealth redistribution.”

That is false -- Obama never said that. As we've repeatedly noted, the context of Obama's words clearly demonstrate that he said the civil rights movement relied too much on the court system to advance its agenda instead of promoting change from the bottom up, i.e., legislatively, and that the Warren Court did not address it was a sign that it was not as radical as right-wingers have claimed it to be.

In a Feb. 10 column, Kessler uncritically passes along a claim by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan that “spending stimuluses were tried in Japan in the 1990s and in America in the 1930s, but they never have worked.” In fact, as Media Matters has pointed out, New Deal and Japanese stimulus packages were shown to fail only when their implementation was abandoned in an attempt to reduce deficits.

Perhaps ConWebWatch is unaware that the “max” in "Newsmax" refers to their “max”imum use of false and misleading information in their so-called reporting.

Note: ConWebWatch's Terry Krepel is a senior editor at Media Matters.