A Dec. 3 WorldNetDaily article touts its newest columnist, Diana West, for “her boldness and penchant for eliciting dropped jaws from opposing pundits.” It also helps that she’s a birther.
WND notes that West has discussed “the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as president of the United States.” Indeed, West wrote a Nov. 22 op-ed promoting the case of WND birther poster child Terrence Lakin, whom she sympathetically portrayed as “a senior military officer with an unblemished career” who is committing “what amounts to a historic act of civil disobedience for which he may well serve time in prison.”
The reality she failed to mention is that a military judge has already ruled that, according to military law, the personal beliefs or convictions of a soldier are not enough for the soldier to deem an order illegal, that Lakin cannot introduce any evidence related to Obama’s citizenship at his court-martial, and that the military court was not the proper venue for determining the eligibility of a president.
Farah again repeats his disingenous claim that WND has “the broadest spectrum of political opinion found anywhere.” But West does not widen that supposed “spectrum” — she’s another right-wing columnist at a website already lousy with them. Indeed, WND highlights her advice to Republcans “not to compromise with Democrats.”
West is not bold. She’s a standard-issue right-wing columnist, and a birther to boot. That latter is what likely sealed the deal for WND, given the speed at which she was added following her birther column.