Readers who regularly partake of the postings over at No Minister will be familiar with the blatherings of a poster called Fairfacts Media. he is anything but a writer of fair facts. Am I the only one who checks his statements?

One recent post is a case in point — starting with poor analysis, pulling in a bunch of random stuff from wingnut websites and a few genuine MSM sources, then finishing with a triumphant non sequitur. Pure bollocks.
- FFM says Obama “calls for a nuclear free world just as North Korea fires a test missile’. Obama’s Prague speech was planned and signalled a long time ahead, and North Korea equally planned their launch to thumb their noses at Obama. Nothing is simple when dealing with Kim’s regime; FFM does his limited reputation no favours by attempting to portray it as simple.
- Thinks it’s interesting that “Even the Obama-phile ABC News notes the timing.” Why would it report the timing? It is news; it is significant. Didn’t FFM learn anything in journalism 101?
- A comment on mainland Europeans’ distaste for the Afghanistan conflict takes us to Commentary magazine, a right-wing Zionist organ of American Jewish Committee, aligned to the US neoconservative movement (Its own website bragsabout being the “flagship of neoconservatism“). Like that publication is going to say anything unbiased about a Democrat president!
- A comment about Turkey becoming more Islamic links to another right wingnut blog covering a single protest that reflects a general antipathy by Turks toward most of the West, as shown on the Gallup website. This isn’t a flash in the pan; the Christian Science Monitor reported a few years ago that “during the years of President Bush’s administration, the Turkish public’s opinion of America reached new lows, with a 2007 survey finding that only nine percent of Turks held a favorable view of their NATO ally, down from 52 percent in 2002.”
- And if being rebuffed by Middle East leaders is an indicator of failure, why doesn’t FFM brand Bush Jnr, Bush Snr., Ronald Reagan, and the rest as failures?
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