Joseph Farah’s May 20 WorldNetDaily column attacked a Congressional Quarterly writer who suggested that WND is promoting John McCain’s agenda by repeatedly attacking Barack Obama (which, as we’ve noted, is arguably true). Showing the class we’ve come to expect from WND, Farah smears the CQ writer, Shawn Zeller, as “some lightweight staffer,” “this little twit,” and “a pasty-faced nerd who gets his jollies ripping real reporters from the friendly confines of his CQ office.”
One paragraph from Zeller’s CQ item caught our eye:
But in an e-mail exchange from Jerusalem, Klein says that it’s absurd to say, as some liberal bloggers have of late, that WorldNetDaily has an anti-Obama agenda. “WND has one agenda: fierce independent reporting that exposes the truth,” he says. “Isn’t it fair to report that the man running for our highest office has some questionable advisers and affiliations? What is not fair is when liberal bloggers call out any reporter who dares expose the truth about their favored presidential candidate.”
To which we say: Yeah, right. But don’t take our word for it; just examine Klein’s WND article archive. A look at articles Klein has written since the beginning of the year reveals the following count:
Klein articles that attack or reflect negatively on Obama: 24
Klein articles that attack or reflect negatively on McCain: 1
That, of course, doesn’t include Obama-bashing articles not written by Klein, of which there are at least as many.
That’s irrefutable proof of an anti-Obama agenda. Farah and Klein can deny it — and likely will — but you can’t spin away hard numbers.
P.S. More evidence: In March, Klein slammed supporters of Obama has having a “malignant messianic infatuation.”