In his Nov. 17 WorldNetDaily column, Michael Ackley copied-and-pasted a transcript that he claims is a “colloquy between PBS interviewer Charlie Rose and NBC talking head Tom Brokaw” about how much they don’t know about Barack Obama. Ackley then adds: “Alas! This is not satire; it is not parody. I wish it were. The American media, which were able to find out everything about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, couldn’t find out much about Barack Obama.”
In fact, this transcript was taken from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, who pulled the Brokaw and Rose quotes out of context and spliced them together to create a false picture of what the two were actually talking about. As Media Matters points out, Brokaw’s statement that “there’s a lot about [Obama] that we don’t know” was in fact Brokaw attributing that view to “conservative commentators.”
Ackley rather hilariously adds: “During the campaign, you could find the real Barack Obama only in the alternative (soon to be dominant) media, like WorldNet Daily.” Well, yeah, if you mean by “the real Obama” WND’s litany of lies — not to mention Ackley’s own false distortion.
And such brazen lying and sloppy journalism will make WND the “dominant media” how, Michael?