Is WorldNetDaily happy to have descended to the level of a supermarket tabloid? It appears so.
A July 5 WND article by Joe Kovacs details how the charges leveled by new birther hero Tim Adams are “now featured in a cover story in Globe Magazine, repeating the allegations originally revealed by WND.” Kovacs adds that “in every instance of a quotation from Adams, the tabloid appears to have simply copied Adams’ comments to WND verbatim, without ever mentioning the remarks originated with a WND interview.”
Of course, the Globe isn’t exactly a “magazine”; it’s a supermarket tabloid. The Globe promoted the birther story last August, which WND also touted. It seems fitting, since WND has roughly the same standards of accuracy as a supermarket tabloid.
But lifting stuff from WND without sufficient credit has long been a sore point. Does this mean that WND will start attacking the Globe like it did the New Republic, when it slimed writer John B. Judis as “Judas” for not crediting WND for a story? You’d think it would, and we can’t wait to see it.
Kovacs also repeats the claim that Adams’ “direct contradiction of the White House storyline that Obama was born in Hawaii has sparked detractors to attack him personally online and on the air in a vicious smear campaign.” But as before, Kovacs doesn’t address the basis for the so-called “smear campaign”: Why did Adams make his claim to a “pro-white” radio show at a convention of the white-supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens?