WorldNetDaily may well be the most petulant news organization on the planet (with Joseph Farah leading by example).
A Nov. 25 article declares that WND plans to sue the United Nations “for its refusal, thus far, to issue press credentials for coverage of the global climate-change convention next month in Copenhagen.” Farah added, “It takes time to make arrangements to travel to Copenhagen for an extended period, and I began to believe the U.N. was stalling.”
Read that again: It’s not because WND has been refused press credentials. It’s because the U.N. is not moving fast enough for WND’s credentials to WND’s satisfaction.
Of course, the U.N. may not be terribly thrilled about granting credentials to a “news” organization whose editor has declared “Death to the U.N.!” and called it “a global criminal enterprise determined to shift power away from individuals and sovereign nation-states to a small band of unaccountable international elites.” And the person to whom those press credentials will be issued, Jerome Corsi, isn’t exactly a friendly reporter, having already attacked the U.N. for being among the “globalist” organizations plotting to destroy American sovereignty.
Given that WND’s coverage of the Copenhagen summit is pretty much guaranteed to be hostile, why should the U.N. give press credentials to Corsi? Indeed, WND has threatened to provide “substantial negative press coverage” over the press credentials incident — never mind that WND’s coverage would be just as negative were those credentials to be granted. At no point is any evidence offered that the U.N. is obligated to issue press credentials to all comers.
Also of note is that WND’s lawyer in this threatened lawsuit is Gary Kreep of the U.S. Justice Foundation. Kreep, of course, is among the birther lawyers WND has touted — without, of course, noting the conflict of interest in promoting the work of a lawyer who also represents WND.