We’ve long noted that WorldNetDaily pledge of “hard-hitting investigative reporting” doesn’t apply to conservatives. WND keeps up that selective enforcement of its purported mission of being “a light exposing wrongdoing, corruption and abuse of power” by ignoring controversies surrounding a group it has long championed.
Over the past year or so, as David Neiwert detailed, a rift has been developing between the Minuteman movement’s co-founders, Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox, and questions have been raised over where the money raised by the Minutemen has gone. Earlier this month, CNN reported that the border fence the Minutemen are attempting to build in Arizona — promised to be 14 feet high and topped with razor wire — is instead a mere 5-foot-high wire-mesh cattle fence.
WND has devoted no original coverage whatsoever to this controversy — surprising since it has been among the Minutemen’s biggest boosters, even touting the Minutemen’s fence project in an April 2006 article.
Perhaps WND is a little too cozy with the Minutemen to tell the truth. As we’ve noted, Simcox was a featured player in then-WND writer Jon Dougherty’s anti-illegal-immigrant book (in which he whitewashed the weapons violations of Simcox and allegations of pistol-whipping of a border-crosser against a Simcox collegaue). Last year, current WND writer Jerome Corsi also co-authored with Gilchrist a book about the Minutemen, which we somehow suspect also whitewashed the Minutemen’s misdeeds.
It appears that WND isn’t going to report anything negative about the Minutemen — which means it will not be telling its readers the truth.