After WorldNetDaily debunked the idea that Barack Obama has faked his birth certificate, we wondered if WND would continue to point out that there is no basis to the claim or pretend it never debunked it in the first place.
We have our answer, and it’s not the former.
An Oct. 4 WND article by Drew Zahn promoted a lawsuit by “prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg” demanding that Obama “produce authorized proof of citizenship.” Zahn wrote: “Despite assertions by the Washington Post, FactChecker.org and other organizations that Obama has produced a certified Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg told WND he remains ‘99.99 percent sure’ that the certificate is a fake and he wants a court, not a website, to determine its validity.”
Zahn failed to note that among those “other organizations” that have debunked the claim is … WorldNetDaily. Zahn said so himself in a Aug. 23 article about Berg’s lawsuit:
A separate WND investigation into Obama’s birth certificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic. The investigation also revealed methods used by some of the bloggers to determine the document was fake involved forgeries, in that a few bloggers added text and images to the certificate scan that weren’t originally there.
Either Zahn is so stupid he can’t remember what he originally wrote about the Berg lawsuit, or he is so dishonest that he will lie to his readers about his own employer demonstrating that Berg’s lawsuit has any sort of merit. Either way, he has no business presenting himself as a journalist.