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WorldNetDaily, Obama campaign cash-in on birther industry

By | 05.19.11 | 12:39 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Righty activist author Jerome Corsi’s latest anti-Obama book, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” is climbing the ranks at Amazon. It’s now reportedly number 22 with a bullet. The Obama reelection campaign is using news of the book release to fundraise. WorldNetDaily, internet birther headquarters and also publisher of Corsi’s book, More…

‘Coast to Coast AM’ Host Mulls White House Bid

By | 03.10.10 | 4:48 pm

If circumstances have put you in a car on a long drive in the very, very early morning, you’ve probably heard “Coast to Coast AM” host George Noory dish with guests about extraterrestrial life, time travel and ghosts. WorldNetDaily grabs a scoop: Noory wants to run for president.

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WorldNetDaily’s Farah: ‘Today I Pronounce CPAC Dead’

By | 03.08.10 | 9:17 am

Joseph Farah, who sparred over the “birther” conspiracy theory with Andrew Breitbart at the National Tea Party Convention, pens a lengthy column — a promo for his own convention — attacking CPAC organizers for not holding a birther panel. It’s interesting in the same way that the More…

Joseph Farah: Birth Certificate Theories Are ‘Popular Because of Us’

By | 02.10.10 | 2:11 pm

After Andrew Breitbart criticized World Net Daily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah for using his speaking slot at the National Tea Party Convention to raise questions about President Obama’s citizenship, I chatted with Farah about why and how he wanted the media to cover his pet issue.

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Birther Speaker Takes Heat at Tea Party Convention

By | 02.06.10 | 11:00 am

NASHVILLE — During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama’s citizenship, Andrew Brietbart was among the conservatives in back of the room grumbling audibly about what he was hearing.

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Media Allowed to Cover National Tea Party Convention: Fox, WorldNetDaily, Breitbart

By | 01.14.10 | 12:28 pm

The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville have announced which media outlets will get full access to the event. “Everyone from a small town newspaper in Iowa to Fox News has asked for press credentials,” say organizers in a press release. “We have had requests from More…

Palin Goes After CPAC, Sticks With SRLC

By | 01.08.10 | 1:29 pm

Via Ben Smith, it seems meaningful that Sarah Palin’s camp explained her decision not to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference with two unprovoked attacks on the American Conservative Union. The first is on a More…

WorldNetDaily and Palin, Together At Last

By | 01.07.10 | 10:32 am

I was surprised that Sarah Palin, who has twice passed on chances to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, agreed to keynote the National Tea Party Convention. Undoubtedly the Tea Party event has more to offer her financially–tickets for her speech, as I reported last month, are selling More…

WorldNetDaily Wants Us to Know How Many People Hate It

By | 12.31.09 | 11:47 am

Chelsea Schilling has published the best WorldNetDaily article in my recent memory, an expose of the many, many, many names that WND Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah has been called on Wikipedia. To wit:

Wikipedia’s profile page for Farah has dubbed him “homophobic,” a “conspiracy theorist,” “white supremacist,” a “proud member

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WorldNetDaily’s Year That Was

By | 12.30.09 | 1:55 pm

The fringe right-wing Website that became a lot less obscure this year is out with a Top-10 list marking its “groundbreaking reports.” Five (and a half if you count the self-promoting birther billboard campaign) of the stories really did break through to the mainstream media, though you could More…