For the second day in a row, Joseph Farah is so apoplectic that someone would dare criticize WorldNetDaily that he can’t get his facts straight.
Farah’s target in his Nov. 21 column is an Anti-Defamation League report, “Rage Grows in America: Anti‑Government Conspiracies.” After noting that the ADL states that “Some even compared the Obama administration’s intentions to Nazi eugenics programs,” Farah proudly notes, “Well, to the aforementioned, I plead guilty.”
But then, after defending his pro-Jewish bona fides by stating that is “asked to speak to more Jewish audiences, including many chapters of the B’nai Brith, both in the U.S. and Canada, than Christian audiences” and that his “coverage and analysis of the Middle East has been hailed by Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as thousands of other prominent Jewish leaders in Israel and the U.S.,” he writes, “If that’s the new definition of anti-Semitism in America, I guess I am one.”
But the ADL is not accusing Farah or WND of anti-Semitism — indeed, the word is nowhere to be found in the report’s introduction or its section on the birthers, where WND figures prominently. The focus of the ADL report is on anti-government conspiracies, which WND is undoubtedly guilty of propagating.
Nevertheless, Farah takes this opportunity to lie about himself and WND: “Of course, no one at WND to my knowledge has ever said Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. or suggested he was born in Kenya.”
Really? Publishing a purported “Kenyan birth certificate” without bothering to authenticate it beforehand is not suggesting he was born in Kenya? Longtime WND columnist Craige McMillan repeatedly calling Obama an “illegal alien” is not an assertion that Obama was not born in the U.S.?
Does Farah really think is readers are that stupid? Between this and his longtime denial of the painfully obvious fact that WND has a right-wing bias — a myth he tried to perpetuate again in his previous column — it appears so.