Feb. 17 WorldNetDaily article making a plea for donations to WND’s legal defense fund again cites unsupported assertions regarding a libel lawsuit filed against WND by Clark Jones, a supporter of Al Gore. The headline derogatorily calls Jones a Gore “crony” — an assertion repeated in a quote by WND managing editor David Kupelian, who refers to “fighting Al Gore’s cronies in court” — and repeated WND editor Joseph Farah’s baseless assertion that “Understand that this lawsuit would be dropped in a flat second if Al Gore wanted it to be dropped. … Understand also that WND did nothing wrong and libeled no one in the publication of this exhaustive series.” The article also claims that WND has defended itself from the lawsuit “at great cost.”
So we will expand our challenge to Farah and WND to demonstrate full transparency regarding the Jones lawsuit. Not only do we challenge WND to display all legal documents filed in the case on the WND website, we challenge it to open its books to show the costs of defending itself as well as a complete list of donations to the legal defense fund so that WND’s donors can be assured that the money is going where WND says it is.
Waddaya say, guys?