Dan Johnson, the Kentucky state legislator who committed suicide after being accused of sexually molesting a teen girl, has a WorldNetDaily link.
Blogger Richard Bartholomew details how a 2011 WND article by Bob Unruh uncritically repeats Johnson’s tale of having set up a morgue near Ground Zero on 9/11 and performed last rites as part of a legal action by WND columnist and terrible lawyer Larry Klayman for clergy to be represented at 9/11 memorials in the city. Johnson also spoke at a 2013 anti-Obama rally headed by Klayman and at which WND editor Joseph Farah also spoke.
(Johnson’s story about ministering at Ground Zero on 9/11 appears to be bogus, like a lot of things he has claimed to have done.)
Despite that connection to WND, Bartholomew noted, the only coverage Johnson’s scandal and suicide got from WND was a copy-and-paste story stolen from a Kentucky TV station, Klayman’s latest WND column, published on Dec. 15, didn’t mention Johnson at all despite having a relatively close relationship.