Just how thin-skinned are Joseph Farah and WorldNetDaily about criticism? Something as insubstantial as a Twitter post will bring down WND’s wrath.
That’s the case with an April 26 WND article by Aaron Klein. Responding to a tweet by the liberal blog Think Progress that WND’s upcoming cruise to Alaska is the “worst vacation ever,” Klein delivered one of his patented guilt-by-association harangues, denouncing Think Progress as a “George Soros-funded advocacy blog that is a project of a radical left think tank with deep ties to the Obama administration.”
Also damning evidence against Think Progress: It supposedly “routinely reprints pieces by the Soros-funded Media Matters for America.” Klein offers no evidence for this.
Fully half of the Klein’s article was copied-and-pasted bullet points from a report issued by Think Progress’ parent, the “radical left think tank” Center for American Progress, containing “Recommendations to Advance Progressive Change.” That’s just padding; apparently, Klein’s outrage wasn’t enough to fill out the article.
WND picked an odd occasion to do some disclosure here, adding an editor’s note that “Aaron Klein is one of the featured speakers on the 2011 WND cruise to Alaska.” Meanwhile, WND routinely hides its conflicts of interest on much more substantive matters.
Remember, this is all over a tweet. Sheesh.