WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah is never going to stop being an Obama birther — and he’ll never admit that his birther crusade has been totally debunked and discredited. He was at it again in his Aug. 3 column:
Do you know what today is?
It’s supposedly Barack Obama’s birthday – his 63rd, I think.
Do you recall all of the contention about his birth certificate?
Have you ever seen a birth certificate cause as much controversy?
We here at WND considered it very important. You might want to re-examine some of the articles on the subject in case you missed them. This was “Birth Certificate Central” during the Obama years. It was akin to the only place to find Hunter Biden laptop stories in the New York Post during the 2020 presidential election. Of course, that was before Big Tech ran the internet like the secret police.
Why was it relevant then? Because Obama would become president of the United States, a position that absolutely required him to be a “natural born citizen” according to this nation’s Constitution. Was he? Let’s review a few facts.
He claims he was born in Honolulu in August 1961, to Ann Dunham, a 17-year-old high school student, and Barack Obama Sr., a visiting student from Kenya.
Biographers agree without objection that Dunham moved her son from Hawaii to Seattle within three weeks of his birth. It is doubtful that either a visiting student from Kenya or a minor from Hawaii could confer “natural born” citizenship on their son.
This may seem like small potatoes in a time when this nation is experiencing an invasion of something in excess of 20 million illegal aliens thanks to Joe Biden and his partner in crime, Kamala Harris.
But the controversy back when Obama was first selected by Democrats was anything but small potatoes. It would change America fundamentally.
That was the BIG question, the mystery – which has never been resolved or answered.
If this sounds familiar, it is — Farah plagiarized most of this from a 2021 column he wrote on the occasion of Obama’s birthday that year, right down to the lie that questions about Obama’s birth have “never been resolved or answered.” as we wrote back then, the mere fact that Obama was born in the United States to an American citizen mother makes him a “natural born citizen.” Farah will never admit that, of course, or the fact that the birther stuff was always — always — a partisan political attack, which he proved in 2016 when he gutlessly punted on the issue of whether Ted Cruz was a “natural born citizen” despite the fact that his longstanding assertion of what the phrase meant to him would have disqualified Cruz (his preferred presidential candidate that year), who was born in Canada to a non-citizen father.
Farah then plagiarized his attempt to make his obsession relevant to today: “Of course, since then, the Democrats have run another presidential candidate that stretches the boundaries of the Constitution. Both of Kamala Harris’ parents were foreign born – her mother was an immigrant from India and her father was born in Jamaica.” He didn’t mention Cruz, of course — or that Harris was born in the U.S., thus making her a natural born citizen and the birthplaces of her parents to be irrelevant.
Farah served up even more plagiarism:
All of this was thoroughly documented in WND and in Dr. Jerome Corsi’s No. 1 bestselling book published by WND Books, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” In fact, it was of significant interest by Donald Trump.
The stories in WND continued for several years, beginning with Obama’s candidacy for president in 2008 until the book hit the No. 1 bestseller ranks and an Obama “birth certificate” was finally produced in April 2011. It’s worth noting that even Democratic Hawaiian Gov. Neil Abercrombie was perplexed at not being able to find a birth certificate or “any slip of paper” designating the birth of Obama.
You may recall that it was the Democrats’ favorite law firm, Perkins Coie, that was assigned the task of defending against Republican challenges to Joe Biden’s “immaculate” election of 2020, that also finally discovered the long lost “birth certificate,” not to mention the discredited Steele Dossier it helped Hillary Clinton produce.
Again, as we originally wrote, Farah appears to be lying — we could find no instance outside of Farah’s column in which Abercrombie said he could not find “any slip of paper” designating the birth of Obama. To the contrary, Abercrombie said the certificate existed in the state archives — which was irrelevant anyway because the certificate Obama originally released was a certified state document, and which also means that Perkins Coie did not “discover” the “long lost” birth certificate.
Farah also copy-and-pasted his hype of “Dr. Jerome Corsi’s No. 1 bestselling book published by WND Books, ‘Where’s the Birth Certificate?’ In fact, it was of significant interest by Donald Trump.” As before, Farah to discloses the list on which the book was a “No. 1 bestseller.”
Farah even plagiarized the end-of column sneering from the 2021 piece (with the addition of a Kamala reference):
So I guess it’s about time for the big shindig of a 63th birthday party for Barack Obama because he’s still running the show for his faux native land.
You can bet there will be no “birth certificate” jokes – or maybe there will be?
Will Perkins Coie be represented?
Will Joe Biden be attending? Hillary? Kamala?
In honor of that, we’ll copy-and-paste a relevant part of out 2021 debunking: We covered WND’s lies and misinformation about Obama’s birth certificate every step of the way (scroll down for our complete list of articles). Farah has never rebutted or corrected anything we published about it — which means he knows he was lying and that we got the goods. And he is continuing to lie to this very day.
Farah is invited to engage with us and offer hard data to defend WND’s birther obsession. But he hasn’t before, and he likely never will.