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NewsMax.com is an American news website. It is unabashedly right-wing in viewpoint, promoting itself as "a leading conservative news source providing an Internet alternative to the liberal mainstream media" and featuring a section devoted to media bias. Unlike fellow right-wing Web daily WorldNetDaily, it does run mostly its own content and that of a collection of guest editorial writers in much the same way that Alamance Independent and (somewhat) the Drudge Report do.

Many left-wing commentators have condemned NewsMax.com as being a hub of conspiracy theories about Democrats, and Bill Clinton in particular.

NewsMax originated sales of the "Deck of Evil" playing cards and followed up with the "Deck of Weasels" lampooning prominent opponents of the 2003 invasion of Iraq as well as the "Deck of Hillary" and the "Deck of Reagan". The website provides links to comics that Conservatives will enjoy: Dan Lacey's "Faithmouse" (conservative Christian), "The Leftersons" by Colin T. Hayes, Bruce Tinsley's "Mallard Fillmore", to name a few.

The site's parent company, NewsMax Media, also publishes a monthly magazine, NewsMax. The company's owner is Richard Mellon Scaife.

NewsMax was founded in September 1998 by journalist Christopher Ruddy, who is its current president, CEO, and editor-in-chief. Its headquarters are in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Incorrect Stories

  • On May 26th 2001 Newsmax started an Urban Legend when it printed a smear article titled "Hillary Snubs Gold Star Mothers." Newsmax claime Clinton

refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers.

  • On November 29, 2005 Newsmax started an rumor that John McCain advocated torture. Newsmax claimed:

Sen. John McCain is leading the charge against so-called “torture” techniques allegedly used by U.S. interrogators, insisting that practices like sleep deprivation and withholding medical attention are not only brutal – they simply don’t work to persuade terrorist suspects to give accurate information.

Nearly forty years ago, however – when McCain was held captive in a North Vietnamese prison camp – some of the same techniques were used on him. And – as McCain has publicly admitted at least twice – the torture worked!

Furthermore:

The punishment finally worked, McCain said. “Eventually, I gave them my ship’s name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant.”

Recalling how he gave up military information to his interrogators, McCain said: “I regret very much having done so. The information was of no real use to the Vietnamese, but the Code of Conduct for American Prisoners of War orders us to refrain from providing any information beyond our names, rank and serial number.”

  • On Oct. 29, 2005 Newsmax published an article claiming "Patrick Fitzgerald Retreats From Plame 'Covert' Claim." The article commented that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald

declined to bring any charges to that effect, casting even more doubt on the claim that her CIA job was a closely guarded secret.

References

  1. ""Politics: Gold Mother Stars"". Snopes.com. November 29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  1. ""John McCain: Torture Worked on Me"". MTV. November 29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)


  1. ""Patrick Fitzgerald Retreats From Plame 'Covert' Claim"". MTV. November 29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)


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