{"id":1349,"date":"2009-08-03T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T19:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2010-02-02T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:51:36","slug":"bill-oreilly-books-then-bumps-worldnetdaily-birther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly Books, Then Bumps, WorldNetDaily Birther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Farah is the editor of the uber-conservative WorldNetDaily. He is also one of the chief proponents of the Birther Conspiracy that holds that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president because, they hysterically allege, he isn&#8217;t a U.S. citizen. This thoroughly caramelized nut case for reversing last November&#8217;s election has been debunked repeatedly, but continues to be peddled by dogged rightist reality deniers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the WorldNetDaily is reporting that their leader, Mr. Farrah, was all set to appear on The O&#8217;Reilly Factor until his list of demands was rejected by Bill O&#8217;Reilly himself. Here is the list as printed at WND:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though a sober and civil discourse is always welcome, shouting is not;<\/li>\n<li>No other guests on during the segment with Mr. Farah;<\/li>\n<li>Discussion to be limited to the facts of the story;<\/li>\n<li>Accurate, approved description of Mr. Farah and news organization he represents;<\/li>\n<li>Screen ID chyron to be approved by Mr. Farah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this account is true, then O&#8217;Reilly retracted his invitation to Farrah because he objected to constraints on his freedom to shout at people and distort facts. But just the fact that a right wing web editor felt it necessary to itemize a list of criteria that included no shouting, stick with the facts, and chyron approval, for a right wing TV host, is pretty delicious irony. Even O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s natural allies don&#8217;t trust him.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2188\/2087801556_7667d4598b.jpg?v=0\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Farah is the editor of the uber-conservative WorldNetDaily. He is also one of the chief proponents of the Birther Conspiracy that holds that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president because, they hysterically allege, he isn&#8217;t a U.S. citizen. This thoroughly caramelized nut case for reversing last November&#8217;s election has been debunked repeatedly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,56,1],"tags":[26,612,33,713],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-media","category-censorship","category-general","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-birther","tag-fox-news","tag-joseph-farah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-lL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4252,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4252","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump Gets His Birther Material From WorldNetDaily","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/16\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The next time you hear Donald Trump spouting off nonsense about President Obama's citizenship you should know from where he is acquiring his information. 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Like Henry Ford, who revolutionized manufacturing while supporting Hitler, Trump might be able to get an office building erected, but he can't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14229,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=14229","url_meta":{"origin":1349,"position":5},"title":"WND Nutcase Urges Tea Party To Launch 24 Hour Birther News Network","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/14\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The ultra right-wing WorldNetDaily website published an article today with the promising title, Good Riddance To The Dying 'Mainstream' Media.\" Indeed, much of the corporate dominated press that controls about 90% of what is disseminated through television, radio, print, and the Internet, is hopelessly biased and\/or lacking in substance. 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