WorldNetDaily is in full spin mode on its epic birther banner fail.
If you’ll recall, last weekend WorldNetDaily spent an undisclosed amount of money to fly an airplane over Cowboys Stadium carrying a banner reading, “Where’s the real birth certificate?” But as was clear from the video WND posted to document the event (shot from another aircraft that WND presumably spent even more money to hire), the banner was clearly flying over an enclosed stadium, and the mostly empty parking lots indicate that it few well before the start of the evening game. All told, few people who attended the game even saw it.
But that’s not what WND wants you to think. A Dec. 17 article forwards the mostly optimistically possible take on this embarrassment, in response to CNN’s Anderson Cooper joining the numerous others who have ridiculed this effort: “[Cooper] didn’t mention that the roof of the dome typically is open during the pregame time period when the banner flew, and even as it closed, those fans presumably walked from the vehicles in the parking to the stadium before the game when the banner was flying.”
But WND offers no evidence that the stadium’s roof was ever open during the time WND flew its banner — indeed, the video evidence WND provides shows conclusively that it wasn’t.
WND then shifted into there-is-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity mode:
Joseph Farah, WND CEO, noted that while CNN was lamenting the fact that the video was of a banner to “nowhere” and it was a waste of money to fly banners no one would see, CNN was, in fact, publicizing that video, and putting it before viewers.
“Isn’t that funny – as CNN airs video footage of the stunt! I know CNN’s ratings are hurting, too, but Cooper provided a virtual infomercial – including pitching ‘Where’s the real birth certificate?’ yard signs on sale in the WND Superstore,” Farah, who originated the banner idea, said.
Shorter Farah: Sure, we look like creepily obsessed Obama-haters, but we got our message out!
UPDATE: Farah keeps up this up-is-down attitude in his Dec. 17 column, asserting without evidence that “not only did most of the 95,000 or so fans see the banner because they arrived early to the game for tail-gate parties and the best parking spots, but, thanks to the media reports like Olbermann’s and dozens of others, the banner was actually viewed by millions.”
Farah adds: “When people are sniping at you, you probably must pose some threat to them.” We feel that way when Farah snipes at us.