WorldNetDaily is incredibly intolerant of any criticism of it, no matter how factual and legitimate. That intolerance also applies to syndicated columnists.
One of WND’s token liberal voices (whose presence at WND appears to be for the sole purpose of allowing Joseph Farah to misleadingly claim that his website carries “widest ideological spectrum of political commentary anywhere on the Internet”) is the syndicated column of Bill Press. In his column last week, he wrote:
Barack Obama was born at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is an American citizen. He is the legitimate president of the United States.
Of course, even production of this long form, which they’ve been demanding, will still not satisfy Donald Trump, Joseph Farah, Orly Taitz, or other members of the Obama Hate Machine, because they don’t care about the truth. They’re just out to destroy Barack Obama.
But when that column was posted at WND, the references to Farah and Taitz were deleted, and the sentence rewritten to reference only “Donald Trump and other members of the Obama Hate Machine.”
Yes, WND is so thin-skinned that it will censor and rewrite the words of others to keep that criticism from spreading. We learned that first-hand a couple of years ago, when the column we submitted in response to Joseph Farah’s attack on us was stripped of links to ConWebWatch and a reference to rival Newsmax.
(h/t reader L.C.)