We already know that WorldNetDaily is trying to buy a favorable outcome for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “cold case posse” birther investigation through fawning coverage of Arpaio and by raising money to cover the investigation. Now WND is hiding the involvement of Arpaio’s office in a lawsuit involving homeschoolers.
A Feb. 4 WND article by Bob Unruh details how “The Home School Legal Defense Association has filed a petition asking the justices to review the case of John and Tiffany Loudermilk,” who they saygave in to a search of their home “after social workers used an anonymous tip to threaten to handcuff them and seize their five children, and then summoned deputies to do that.”
As is Unruh’s style, he lavishes attention on the Loudermilks’ side of the story, completely ignoring the authorities side of the story. But aside from a references to the Loudermilks’ “Maricopa County home” Unruh has hidden the fact that the Arpaio-led Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is one of the targets of the lawsuit, which is called Loudermilk v. Arpaio.
Unruh writes: “Named as defendants are Deputies Joshua Ray, Joseph Sousa, Richard Gagnon and Michael Danner, social workers Rhonda Cash and Jenna Cramer, and Assistant Attorney General Julie Rhodes.” But Arpaio is a defendant too. Why did Unruh leave him off that list, when he listed Arpaio as a defendant in an April 2010 WND article on the case?
These omissions smack of WND continuing to curry favor with Arpaio by whitewashing his misdeeds.