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Obama Conspiracy Theories blog calls for WND to correct the public record (UPDATED AGAIN)
In an email sent today by Doctor Conspiracy (not a real doctor) to Joseph Farah, publisher of the WorldNetDaily web site, documentation was provided that WorldNetDaily publishes a story claiming that there was a travel ban for US Citizens to Pakistan in 1981, and documentation was provided that this claim is completely false. Dr. Conspiracy called on Farah to correct the public record by publishing a retraction.
The Obama Conspiracy Theories blog is dedicated to the proposition that a well-informed public is essential to democracy. Its purpose is to correct misinformation and faulty reasoning wherever it is found on the subject of conspiracy theories involving Barack Obama. Many rumors and false claims have been debunked by the site, including the widely-repeated travel ban to Pakistan. In fact, American citizens could travel freely to the tourist-friendly country of Pakistan in 1981.
Joseph Farah, in an e-mail replied that the article in question is commentary and not reporting. [The text of Farah's reply has been removed because I discovered after scrolling down that it had a boiler plate statement on it that the sender intended the message to be private and confidential.]
I understand the difference between reporting and commentary. This blog has comments of all kinds from all points of view, and they are often factually false. However, this blog’s format would never leave anyone for a moment confused between the site’s edited content and visitor comments. WorldNetDaily does label its commentary as such, and Janet Folger Porter’s piece where she makes several false statements including the fake travel ban to Pakistan is labeled commentary; however, one has to look for it and I think it likely that many readers of WorldNetDaily readers lack the critical thinking skills to make the distinction.
Indeed WND not only published the commentary containing Porter’s lies, but its reporter, Bob Unruh, later quoted the lie in a news article and it also appears quoted on another unattributed page not labeled as commentary. [Thanks Rickey for pointing these out.] I think that puts to rest any question as to the integrity of WND reporting.
Orly Taitz talks about the Tea Party movement
From the Tea Party convention in Nashville, TN.
WND Joseph Farah and Andrew Breitbart tangle over birtherism
Andrew Breitbart
It was a a “Tea Party” convention last Friday night in Nashville. WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute talk, 10 minutes of which revolved around Obama’s birth certificate.
Andrew Breitbart, a conservative publisher and former editor for the Drudge Report, clashed with Farah in the hall with some harsh words that are reported by David Weigel of the Washington Independent. The basic disagreement was whether the “birther” questions are a winning or losing issue.
The various exchanges are fascinating, and I won’t take thunder from the Washington Independent (who also have an audio clip) by pasting them in here. I do want to mention one comment Farah made to Weigel afterwards:
Joseph Farah
The citizenship issue had stuck around and taken off, he said, “because of us.” [said Farah]
I think this may be largely true. Even though the stories WorldNetDaily are quickly debunked (like the nonexistent travel ban to Pakistan in 1981), and they are more innuendo than fact, they persist and WND has a large readership.
Democrats seize the birther issue
We’ve discussed the Democrats’ attack on Scott Brown in Massachusetts in his tight race with Martha Coakley. They claimed Brown was a “birther” based on a comment he made in televised debate, about the possibility that the President’s parents might not have been married. We’ve also talked about recent comments by the Lt. Governor of Tennessee, Ron Ramsey.
Now the Democratic party in South Carolina is going against Joe (“you lie!”) Wilson, calling him a “birther” too. This letter came from Jay Parmley, the Executive Director of the SC Democratic Party:
The news broke on the morning of the State of the Union: Joe Wilson is a birther. He won’t say if the President he’s already publicly disrespected was born in the United States or not. This is unacceptable. Help us defeat Joe Wilson in November.
In just 48 hours, over 1000 of you signed our petition to ask Joe to publicly clarify if he believes the President is a U.S. Citizen. We delivered it to his office this week, and so far, he hasn’t responded. This is unacceptable. Help us defeat Joe Wilson in November.
Joe is either a member of the lunatic fringe of American politics, or he’s too afraid of them to do his job. This is unacceptable. Help us defeat Joe Wilson in November.
Mr. Parmler didn’t say in this letter why he thinks Wilson is a birther, but it may stem from a comment Wilson made on a radio call-in show where he said:
“I was an election commissioner and so I always take seriously that when people file, that’s where that should have been brought up,” Wilson told the Kevin Cohen Show on December 21. “And it should have been brought up when he filed for president in the first state wherever it was and whichever had a primary where he should file. So that is a legal issue that should have been brought up at that time.”
This quotation, without further context, doesn’t prove Wilson is a birther. I might have said the same thing, and I have no doubts whatever where President Obama was born.
Meanwhile, on February 6, 2010 the WorldNetDaily web site published a list of what it calls “lawmakers … questioning eligibility of [the] president,” listing Ramsey, but not Wilson.
Defend Our Freedoms Foundation
This is a reference article.
Orange County, California, has a system of registering “Fictitious” businesses. According to the County:
What is a Fictitious Business Name (FBN)?
For an individual, it is a name that does not include the surname of the individual or a name that suggests the existence of additional owners.
- For partnerships, it is a name that does not include the surname of any general partner or suggests the existence of additional owners.
- For a corporation, it is a name not stated in the Articles of Incorporation.
Defend Our Freedoms Foundation is such a fictitious business, owned by Orly Taitz, as shown in the county registration of the name. The Foundation claimed to be a non-profit organization and that it had obtained an EIN (US Federal Tax Reporting ID) that was once posted on the Foundation web site (this web site is no longer under control of Orly Taitz and the EIN has been removed). The EIN (26-4328440) was located from an old article in WorldNetDaily and corroborated by other sources including the Liberi v Taitz lawsuit filings. In a March 2009 article, I discussed the difference between a charity and a non-profit organization. DOFF is not a charity recognized by the IRS.
DOFF has a pending registration with the State of California as a charity, and a registration as a corporation. (Thanks to Politijab.com for the links to the California registrations.) The state filing address (also the address of Orly Taitz’s dental practice) is:
26302 La Paz
Ste 211
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
I searched for DOFF under its published zip codes of 92688 and 92691 at Melissadata.com’s Non-profit organization lookup, but didn’t find anything, nor did its EIN search return results. I also searched in the largest private database of EINs, EINFinder.com, for 26-4328440 and any California company beginning with “Defend our f”: no results were found. Various comments are found on the Internet that others have tried to verify this number with no success.
Caution: Orly’s web site is still on the malware warning list.
Massive birther identity theft attempt?
Batshirt crazy
We deal with a lot of things on this web site that have a questionable rational basis, but this is really totally wacko.
I received an email from Phil J. Berg, Obama denialist litigant, and confirmed that it’s the same as what appears on his web site, ObamaCrimes.com. Berg is planning a “Birth Certificate March on Washington.” That in and of itself is in my opinion silly, but what is totally wacko is this:
Berg is requesting all citizens of the United States to email, fax or mail a “copy” of their Birth Certificate that will be presented to Obama demanding that Obama resign because he has failed to produce his long form [vault] Birth Certificate to show he is “Constitutionally eligible” to be President.
Now think for a moment. You call up your bank and they want to verify that you are who you say you are. They ask you a “security question.” The question is something like “what’s your mother’s maiden name?” or “what’s your father’s middle name?” or “what is the city where you born?” or “what’s the name of the street where you lived as a child?”. Well DUH! All of that information could be found on your birth certificate! In some places, a birth certificate gives you enough information to show you are entitled to a real state-issued certified copy of a birth certificate, which along with a fake social security card will get you a driver’s license and then a passport, and then a way to get around that pesky terrorist watch list at the airport.
I bet the scam artists are already casing Berg’s office for the robbery of all that juicy personal information.
I don’t who is more out of their mind, the person who would ask for something like that, or the person who would send their personal information to a fax number or an email address they found on the Internet.
Allen v. Soetoro dismissed
The Doctor is stifling a big yawn as yet another birther lawsuit bites the dust.
Allen v. Soetoro was a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit demanding a host of documents from the Department of State, Immigration and Naturalization Service and Homeland Security including requests for birth certificates, passports, name change records and so on, insisting on the possibility that President Obama is an illegal alien.
The court upheld the agency regulations that prohibit disclosure of information about a living person without their authorization as consistent with the FOIA.
