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Sean Hannity Winks at the Birthers

By | 12.09.09 | 2:24 pm

Here, via Charles Johnson, is audio of Sean Hannity telling a critical caller that questions about President Obama’s birth certificate are perfectly legitimate. The disagreement starts when the caller knocks Hannity for citing WorldNetDaily as a source, given its “birther” content.

HANNITY: Let me ask you a question. What

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Chrysler Dealers: The New Birther Dupes

By | 12.09.09 | 9:26 am

WorldNetDaily breathlessly reports the latest from the birtherverse: two owners of Chrysler dealerships are going to sue to get their businesses back, on the basis that Barack Obama, having never been the legitimate president, had no right to use TARP funds to restructure car companies.

The Enemy of My Enemy

By | 12.07.09 | 9:19 am

WorldNetDaily draws the latest over-heated attack on a member of the Obama administration from an unlikely source — the autobiography of Princeton University professor Cornel West. In his new book, West claims that then-Harvard University President Larry Summers encouraged him to help “f**k up” Prof. Harvey Mansfield, apparently an More…

Birtherism as a Fundraising Tool

By | 12.04.09 | 10:55 am

Continuing today’s unexpected surge of “birther” news, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.)–the freshman Republican who has introduced legislation that would demand proof of citizenship from future presidential candidates–is using WorldNetDaily’s “alerts” email list to raise reelection cash.

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Bachmann and WorldNetDaily, Together at Last

By | 11.18.09 | 9:10 am

My profile of WorldNetDaily made the case that the conservative Website, which opinion-makers brush off as a conspiracy hub, is actually incredibly influential on the right. Here’s some evidence for that argument.

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Not That You’d Expect a Conspiracy Site to Apologize, But …

By | 11.06.09 | 12:25 pm

Jason Linkins, in fine form after Jerome Corsi’s conspiracy ramblings about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, does some reporting:

I contacted Frank Cillusso, the director of the HSPI at George Washington University, who tells me that Nidal Hasan has no affiliation with the HSPI or

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Birther Site Is Already Lying About Ft. Hood Shooter and Obama

By | 11.06.09 | 11:04 am

Conspiracy-theorist Website WorldNetDaily posts the inevitable “connection” between Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, and it possesses the same level of rigor and responsibility we’ve come to expect from the leading source of disinformation that the president wasn’t born an American. Under the headline “Shooter More…

Myrick, Shadegg, Broun, Franks: Congress’ Anti-Muslim Bigot Caucus

By | 10.15.09 | 11:35 am

Via Justin Elliott, Greg Sargent and Tim Fernholz, the aforementioned Republican members of Congress are incensed that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a lobby group for the American Muslim community, would … lobby Congress. They’ve ordered the House sergeant-at-arms to investigate whether CAIR “is connected to or More…

‘Muslim Mafia’

By | 10.15.09 | 11:02 am

This is a must-read: Jordy Yager’s report on the quartet of Republican members of Congress who’ve endorsed the “investigative” new book “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.” WorldNetDaily’s report on the book, published in-house, is also worth a read for the quotes from More…

Another Day, Another ‘Birther’ Forgery

By | 09.08.09 | 11:00 am

Josh Gerstein is all over the Justice Department’s filing in Orly Taitz’s latest “birther” lawsuit. Taitz’s suit includes — not as evidence, but as something she wants the court to verify — a ridiculously obvious forgery of a 1961 Kenyan birth certificate, obtained by a man who identifies himself More…