Back in 2008, we identified one of the earliest lies WorldNetDaily told about Barack Obama: that Obama’s reference to a “civilian national security force” was a call to create a police-state apparatus. In fact, Obama was referring to an expansion of the foreign service.
More than two years later, WND is still spreading that lie.
An Oct. 27 WND article announcing the latest edition of its Whistleblower magazine begins this way:
While running for the presidency, Barack Obama made a mysterious and bizarre campaign promise.
He said that as president he would create “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military, to advance his “objectives” for America.
The astonishing announcement, made July 2, 2008, to an audience in Colorado Springs, was ignored by virtually the entire media – except WND. Nobody bothered to ask Obama specifically what he meant, or how he could possibly assemble and fund such a massive civilian army, or why – and he never spoke of it again.
WND is still lying. Obama did explain what he meant — WND simply chose to ignore him.
This time around, WND furthers the lie by claiming that the “civilian army” is a reference to unions:
America’s largest labor unions – especially the huge government employee unions like the 3-million-member National Education Association and 2-million-member Service Employees International Union – provide battalions of ground troops in the ongoing war to “fundamentally transform” America into a socialist utopia.
“But wait,” you might ask. “I know most unions lean left, some engage in street tactics and their dues strongly support Democrats. But what about Obama’s statement that his civilian army would be ‘well-funded’ by the government?”
As the scathing November 2011 issue of Whistleblower proves, “OBAMA’S ARMY” is very large – and very well-funded.In fact, from Day One the Obama administration has been generously “funding” the union army. From the General Motors bailout, which blatantly favored union workers, to Obamacare, whose burdensome new regulations don’t apply to many unions thanks to special White House waivers exempting them; from Obama’s early executive order requiring all federal agencies to accept construction bids only from contractors who agree to use union workers, to packing the D.C. bureaucracy with union officials – the Obama regime has been characterized by non-stop union payoffs, special treatment, insider access and blatant power grabs. All in return for their undying loyalty and service in “OBAMA’S ARMY.”
[…]“Every army has its generals, its politicians, its propagandists and its behind-the-scenes chess-masters,” said WND Managing Editor David Kupelian. “But in Obama’s army, who are the ground troops? This issue of Whistleblower dramatically and definitively answers that question.”
Kupelian is lying. WND is lying. There’s no reason to take WND’s word for anything.
To paraphrase an old journalistic saying: If WND tells you your mother loves you, check it out.