WorldNetDaily loves Roy Moore — former Alabama judge now running for a Senate seat — so much, it published his autobiography in 2005, re-releasing it in paperback in 2009. So it has a vested interest in countering reporting about Moore that he (and WND) don’t like.
Which is pretty much the reason for existence of an Oct. 20 WND article by Bob Unruh:
The Washington Post apparently has misfired in a political attack on former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, now the GOP candidate for the Alabama Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The newspaper accused Moore of not reporting or paying taxes on compensation to which he was entitled but did not receive.
The Foundation for Moral Law, which was paying Moore as its president for the years at issue, said in a statement that all transactions and arrangements were reported fully to the IRS. The foundation then charged the reporters essentially were working on a political hit.
“For the Washington Post to state that Judge Moore secretly ‘collected’ monies he never received or that the Foundation failed to properly report its indebtedness to the IRS is false,” a statement from foundation officials charged.
[…]The Post article, published Friday morning, stated “the promised back pay ‘was not reported to IRS as income.’”
But the foundation’s tax filings for 2011 and 2012 did report the obligation owed to Moore.
But Unruh is simply in stenography mode; he doesn’t offer any documentation to back up the foundation’s statements. He also doesn’t link to the Post article in question, which, unlike Unruh, provides copies of the foundation’s tax documents to back up its claims.
Finally, Unruh fails to disclose his employer’s clear conflict of interest in reporting on Moore — after all, it wants to make hay while the sun shines in the form of Moore’s current Senate campaign by selling copies of Moore’s bio .Indeed, embedded in Unruh’s article are two exhortations to “Get Judge Roy Moore’s autobiography!” that are linked to WND’s online store.
Unruh is serving as Moore’s PR shop, and WND is his retail outlet.