WorldNetDaily blunders in late to the Obama-Decemberists party, in the form of a May 27 article by Jerome Corsi that begins: “A hip rock band that features the Soviet national anthem and…
WND Repeats False Attacks on Day of Silence
WorldNetDaily’s habit of repeating claims without bothering to verify them for accuracy frequently comes back to bite it (see Jones, Clark, and Sinclair, Larry). A May 19 WND article by Chelsea Schilling…
WND vs. Real Journalists, Part 2
Nowhere is the distinction between WorldNetDaily and real news organizations clearer when both cover the same story. A May 22 WND article by Jerome Corsi claimed that Barack Obama purportedly has “extensive ties…
WND Anti-Gay Agenda Watch
WorldNetDaily continued its anti-gay agenda with a pair of articles: — A May 19 article by Chelsea Schilling declared: “Nationwide outrage against public school participation in the ‘gay’-friendly 2008 Day of Silence…
Huston Likens Homosexuality to Bestiality, KKK, Nazis, Black Panthers, Anti-Americanism
In a May 21 NewsBusters post, defending a South Carolina high school principal for resigning rather than presiding over a school that has a Gay/Straight Alliance Club, Warner Todd Huston baselessly attacked…
Has Anyone At NewsBusters Actually Listened to the Decemberists?
A May 20 NewsBusters post by Robert Knight fowards one of the more absurd ideas of the election season: that the 70,000-plus attending a speech by Barack Obama in Portland didn’t go…
Klein Absurdly Denies Having Anti-Obama Agenda
Joseph Farah’s May 20 WorldNetDaily column attacked a Congressional Quarterly writer who suggested that WND is promoting John McCain’s agenda by repeatedly attacking Barack Obama (which, as we’ve noted, is arguably true)….
Farah Disingenuously Claims He’s Not Helping McCain
WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah has regularly proclaimed that he won’t support John McCain for president and won’t help him get elected. For instance: That’s a disingenuous claim. Farah is very much “helping” McCain through…
Sheppard Inconveniently Ignores Truth Behind Anti-Global Warming Petition
From a May 18 NewsBusters post by Noel Sheppard: The names of over 31,000 American scientists that reject the theory of anthropogenic global warming are to be revealed on Monday. Although this…
Real Journalists vs. WND
A May 13 item on the Columbia Journalism Review’s website described how ABC’s Jake Tapper handled the out-of-context twisting of Obama’s “constant sore” comment: Of course, WorldNetDaily did none of this —…