While surfing the Web the other day, we noticed the above ad from WorldNetDaily.
Clicking on the ad — it’s a Google AdSense ad, part of WND’s continued softening of an anti-Google stance once so strident that WND devoted an entire chapter of his 2007 book “Stop the Presses” bashing the company — takes you to a page featuring a poll on whether President Obama should be impeached. Much like Newsmax’s online polls do, WND pretends this poll means something, claiming that “The results of these polls will be published online and are shared with major news networks and policymakers.”
The real purpose of the poll is revealed by the information voters are required to provide: an email address and a zip code. The disclaimer at the end reads, “I understand that as a voter in this poll I will be signed up for FREE Worldnet Daily alerts. I can unsubscribe at any time. Votes with invalid emails will not be counted.”
In other words, the poll is just a gimmick to build up WND’s mailing list. Caveat emptor.
P.S. Notice that Obama is referred to only as “Barack Obama”; at no point does WND acknowledge that Obama is the president, which makes it unclear exactly from what job WND wants to see him impeached from.