Joseph Farah’s Dec. 2 WorldNetDaily column was dedicated to ranting about the “hostile interrogation” CNN’s Anderson Cooper did of a birther, Texas state Rep. Leo Berman, much of it focused on the difference between a birth certificate and a certification of live birth. Farah did concede one little point, though: “Berman did get off track on Obama’s travels to Pakistan.”
The problem here is that Berman’s “off track” point on that issue — that Obama visited Pakistan “when no U.S. citizen could get to Pakistan at all” — is the exact same track WND has repeatedly traveled, including in WND’s birther video. As Cooper points out, that’s “factually incorrect” because “Americans could travel to Pakistan” in 1981, when Obama visited.
Farah, of course, is much less interested in admitting a falsehood on his website and work product than he is in keeping the birther myth alive. Indeed, he declares that “I, for one, have grave doubts that Obama’s biological father was a Kenyan.”
If Berman is an “off track” birther, so is Farah. Not that he’ll admit it.