WorldNetDaily put up a video-only post on May 16, with the headline “Video ‘proves’ Obama birth certificate is fake; Simple examination of lettering leaves little doubt Barack’s long-form fraudulent.”
It turns out the video was created by “ppsimmons,” supposedly the nom de YouTube of “a highly successful and respected businessman in Birmingham, Alabama — and also another man who is a youth minister in the gulf coast area” that features the narration of a pastor named Carl Gallups, who insists that he isn’t “ppsimmons.”
This is not the first time WND has promoted a “ppsimmons” video. Back in July 2009, Joe Kovacs devoted an entire article to a “ppsimmons” video strongly suggesting that President Obama is the Antichrist. But as blogger Richard Bartholomew documented (and as we noted as part of WND’s obsession with portraying Obama as the Antichrist), the video’s proof is based on a fallacious reinterpretation of Scripture.
If “ppsimmons” is changing Scripture to push a political agenda, it’s more than likely that the “SMOKING GUN!” its video claims to provide isn’t one.
Interestingly, the YouTube channel of “ppsimmons” includes a playlist of 10 videos it claims to have “produced for WND.” Funny, we don’t recall WND explaining that “ppsimmons” is on the WND payroll. In fact, in that 2009 article, Kovacs went to great pains not to reveal the videomaker’s real identity, claiming that he “spoke to WND under condition of anonymity out of concern for members of his local church.”
An April 29 WND article by Bob Unruh also embeds a “ppsimmons” video, who is described only as someone “PPSimmons, who previously has analyzed and provided commentary on the issues of eligibility to the presidency,” not as an apparently paid WND contractor.
Not only is WND pushing silly falsehoods about Obama, it’s hiding its relationship with, and the identity of, what appears to be its second-favorite videomaker behind gay-basher Molotov Mitchell. That’s yet another reason never to take WND seriously as a “news” organization.
(P.S. Is “ppsimmons” the same cowardly filmmakers who wouldn’t allow themselves to be credited for WND’s error-laden video “A Question of Eligibility”? Then again, if we had made such an amateurish, factually challenged production, we’d be ashamed to put our names on it too.)