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.<\/p>\n
Kendra Marr of Politico reports<\/a> that Joseph Farah has been “on the phone with Donald Trump every day this week.”<\/em> Farah is the publisher of WorldNetDaily, a fantastical compendium of demented disinformation and conspiracy theories. They are major sponsors of the Birther movement. They believe that Obama’s biography was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers. If there is a crazy story that reflects poorly on the President you can bet that WND is behind it. And if you question their journalistic credentials Farah will forthrightly declare<\/a> that…<\/p>\n “Admittedly, we publish some misinformation by columnists, as does your publication and every other journal that contains opinion.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nice of him to be so honest. He is actually right about the fact that many news organizations publish opinions that are not factually vetted. However, most publications do not regard misinformation as an acceptable part of the news business, and the reputable ones will endeavor to make necessary corrections.<\/p>\n Farah seems to think it’s just business as usual. In his defense, if he had to correct every mistake or lie that appears on his site he wouldn’t have time to invent any new ones.<\/p>\n Trump is rapidly rising in my GOP presidential hopes primary. I have been rooting for a Palin\/Steele ticket for quite a while, but now I think that Trump deserves some serious consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. Kendra Marr of Politico reports that Joseph Farah has been “on the phone with Donald Trump every day this week.” Farah is the publisher of WorldNetDaily, a fantastical compendium of demented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[554,713,714],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-joseph-farah","tag-worldnetdaily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-16A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1349,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1349","url_meta":{"origin":4252,"position":0},"title":"Bill O’Reilly Books, Then Bumps, WorldNetDaily Birther","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/3\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Joseph Farah is the editor of the uber-conservative WorldNetDaily. 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