WorldNetDaily is best known for publishing falsehoods and conspiracy theories. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see WND pretend to be an actual news organization and publish — gasp! — a fact-check. Art Moore served it up in a Dec. 18 article, but rather than go after anything WND has previously published — James Zumwalt’s libelous election-fraud smears, to name just one recent example, about which WND has remained silent despite the fact that other right-wingers have been sued for publishing the exact same things — he went after an obscure, easy to debunk claim:
A claim repeated by a Texas elector that Chief Justice John Roberts was heard from an adjacent room at the Supreme Court building screaming at colleagues for considering the Texas election-fraud case has a fundamental flaw.
The justices have been meeting remotely for the past two months during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Nevertheless, video of Texas elector and State Republican Executive Committee official Matt Patrick making the claim Monday at the Texas State House has gone viral on social media.
“This is an absurd fantasy,” said Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, of Patrick’s claim.
“For starters, the Justices haven’t been having in-person conferences,” tweeted Whelan, a former clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
This may be just a front to drum up business the finally launched Daily Caller-clone nonprofit WND News Center and portray it as something legitimate rather than a last-ditch bid to keep WND alive by offloading its reporters from the core for-profit operation.