An Oct. 25 WorldNetDaily article is headlined “Media finally notice ‘anti-Obama’ film ‘Dreams.'” But WND is being very selective about noticing the media that has “noticed” the film.
The article focuses on a Denver TV station that called Joel Gilbert’s “Dreams From My Real Father” an “anti-Obama film full of false claims.” OF course, it is, but WND will never admit that; in this case, WND complains that the reporter “presents no evidence to back his assertions.”
Unmentioned by WND was the fact that the Orlando Sentinel published an article about Gilbert’s movie that backs up its claim that the film is fraudulent.
Whereas WND complained that the Denver TV report “made no mention of Davis’s relationship with Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, and the photographic evidence that she posed nude for him about the time she became pregnant,” the Orlando Sentinel article does, and it features Loren Collins — who has extensively debunked the film — pointing out that the photos Gilbert claims are of Obama “were actually published in a magazine two years before Dunham arrived in Hawaii.”
And thus, WND continues its pattern of ignoring any legitimate, documented criticism of Gilbert’s flim, just as it has ignored any documented debunking of birther conspiracy theories.
UPDATE: WND’s article is even more dishonest than we first thought. Contrary to WND’s assertion that the Denver TV station’s report “presents no evidence to back his assertions,” an article accompanying the video on the station’s website provides that evidence — quoting not only Collins but Obama biographer David Maraniss refuting Gilbert’s claims. WND made no mention of this article.
The article also notes this: “Gilbert would not agree to an interview regarding his film unless 9News agreed not to use clips from his film. 9News did not agree to those parameters for an interview.” That seems to fit with Gilbert forcing Collins to remove a excerpt of Gilbert’s video for his own video debunking Gilbert.