A March 10 WorldNetDaily article by Alyssa Farah reported on how Focus on the Family founder James Dobson is “striking back hard” against allegations that he is linked to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. But by citing only a New York Times ad by the Campaign to Defend the Constitution — which she is quick to dismiss as “a left-wing special-interest group” with ties to “the national Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a former ACLU director and the former president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League” — Farah ignores other evidence of Abramoff’s links to Dobson.
As Media Matters has noted, articles in The Washington Post and World Magazine (a conservative Christian weekly) also raise questions about Dobson’s connection with Abramoff, mainly through Ralph Reed, a conservative Christian activist who was working for Abramoff. Additionally, Media Matters links to e-mails that lay out a Focus on the Family connection to Reed and Abramoff.
Alyssa Farah, by the way, is Joseph Farah’s daughter. Unfortunately, she seems to be following in her father’s shoddy-reporting footsteps.
UPDATE: We’ve noted Alyssa’s dubious reporting before. Like father, like daughter: Think about it, won’t you?