Add Joseph Farah to the list of WorldNetDaily employees who doesn’t read the website he works for.
In his Nov. 17 column, Farah claims that “Obama’s record of non-cooperation and secrecy” in the matter of his birth certificate “has now resulted in conspiracy theories that will plague him throughout his administration if he doesn’t address them now with utter transparence. … Count me among those who really want to see that birth certificate now.”
Farah doesn’t mention that his own website is among those promulgating those conspiracy theories — despite the fact that his own website debunked them. Which, of course, he also doesn’t mention.
As we’ve repeatedly detailed, WND determined in August that the birth certificate released by the Obama campaign is “authentic,” and that the lawsuit filed by Philip Berg demanding that Obama prove his U.S. citizenship “relies on discredited claims.” Farah continues a pattern of WND writers who fail to acknowledge this simple fact in writing about accusations regarding the birth certificate.
Farah goes on to state: “This is hardly a laughing matter. The longer this soap opera drags on, the more suspicions it will raise – the less credibility our electoral system will have, the more many people will believe the whole political system is rigged.” Of course, that’s exactly the perception Farah wants to prevail.
By clinging to this false conspiracy theory — which his own website has debunked — Farah shows himself to be a very dishonest journalist. But then, we already knew that.