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Another WorldNetDaily columnist comes out in support of LTC Terry Lakin

by Dr. Conspiracy on 04. Sep, 2010 in Terry Lakin, WorldNetDaily

Photo of former judge Roy S. Moore and 10 Commandments monument

Former judge Roy S. Moore

Roy S. Moore, who writes a weekly Wednesday column for WorldNetDaily, has come out in support of LTC Terry Lakin’s military disobedience because of doubts where Barack Obama was born. In typical WorldNetDaily style, Moore was interviewed by WND and the reader was not informed that Moore is a columnist for the web site. Rather, Moore was introduced only as the former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. WND said:

Moore said he’s seen no convincing evidence that Obama is a “natural born citizen” and a lot of evidence that suggests he is not.

Former Judge Moore is better known as the judge who was removed from office for refusing to carry out a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building. Moore now runs the Foundation for Moral Law, an organization that advocates a greater role for religion in public life. Moore served in the Vietnam War as a military police commander. Moore is the author of the book, So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom and also mounted an unsuccessful bid to be Alabama’s governor in 2006.

The actual WND interview is difficult to follow, being more WND birth certificate talking points with little more than a few sound bites from Moore dropped in from time to time. In this typically long WND article, titled “Battle-scarred judge says Lakin decision ignores Constitution” there is really very little from Moore himself. It appears, however, that Moore sees a parallel between his own ouster from the Alabama Supreme Court and Judge Lind’s decision to exclude Obama’s eligibility as a defense; Moore says his ouster as the result of someone blindly following orders, what Lakin has refused to do.

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WND scrubbs article on Obama / Kagan

by Dr. Conspiracy on 07. Aug, 2010 in Supreme Court, WorldNetDaily

Not a photo WND would use

I continue be amazed. I thought here was noting bad about President Obama that WorldNetDaily wouldn’t say and keep saying in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (A certain travel ban to Pakistan comes to mind.) I was wrong.

An August 4 WND article under the byline of Joe Kovacs, WND executive news director,  titled “Just lovely: Look who’s tied to Obama’s birth certificate” showed a screen shot of what it called 5  cases “challenging President Obama’s constitutional eligibility for office” which he said were handled for the government by Supreme Court nominee Elana Kagan.

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Obama made me do it!

by Dr. Conspiracy on 09. Jul, 2010 in Charles Kerchner, Lawsuits, Mario Apuzzo, WorldNetDaily

Is attorney Mario Apuzzo trying to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Perhaps, according to an article in WorldNetDaily yesterday (July 8, 2010).

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied Apuzzo’s appeal in the case of Kercher et al v Obama et al, going so far as to order Apuzzo to show cause why he shouldn’t face penalties for filing a “frivolous appeal” (in a case where his clients lacked standing to bring suit in the first place).

However, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In this case Apuzzo wants to turn the penalties themselves into an individual cause of action because of the particularized harm to Apuzzo from the penalties. Says WorldNetDaily:

He told WND he definitely will explore the issue of “standing” now because of the possible penalties, which might be considered an “injury.”

So what’s wrong with this picture? First, Apuzzo is not a party to this lawsuit and any harm to him doesn’t give Kerchner standing. Second, he can’t bring up something in the appeal that was not part of the original suit. The more important issue, however, is that there is no causal link between Obama’s actions and Apuzzo’s pending penalties unless Apuzzo is going to say of his filing the appeal:

Obama made me do it!

PS: if you think you’ve heard this before, perhaps you have. Orly Taitz tried the same gambit in Taitz v. Obama (Page 3).

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Old lie from WND

by Dr. Conspiracy on 26. Jun, 2010 in Birth Certificate, Fakes and frauds, WorldNetDaily

Thanks to an email, presumably from a birther, telling me that the authentic Kenyan birth certificate of President Barack Obama has been found. The certificate is the old Bomford hoax, but what was interesting was what WorldNetDaily said about it in their article titled Is this really smoking gun of Obama’s Kenyan birth? (August 2, 2009). They wrote:

WND was able to obtain other birth certificates from Kenya for purposes of comparison, and the form of the documents appear to be identical.

I did a double take when I saw that. Why? Because WorldNetDaily said 4 days later (August 6, 2009) in the article Obama birth doc update: Kenya sources weigh in:

…an authentic 1961-era Kenyan birth certificate obtained by WND shows distinct differences. (more…)

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WorldNetDaily has premature ejournalism

by Dr. Conspiracy on 16. Jun, 2010 in Media, WorldNetDaily

On Monday, WorldNetDaily published an article whose opening sentence is:

An Egyptian foreign-service official’s comment about President Obama is turning into a sensation among bloggers for its claim that the American leader claims to be Muslim.

There’s just one problem. The basis for this claim is that somebody’s wife heard it on TV. Even WorldNetDaily admits (should you have the stomach to go down half way to the bottom of the article): “There was no independent verification of the statement.”

WorldNetDaily treats the comment as fact in its opening sentence even though WND admits that they can’t verify it.

That’s what one comes to expect from WorldNetDaily:

READY!

FIRE!

AIM!

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Did WND sign crash stock market?

by Dr. Conspiracy on 07. May, 2010 in Wild & Wacky, WorldNetDaily

What was behind the incredible plunge in the New York stock indexes Thursday? Could it be this press release signage in New York? Or was the fact that this book is #8 in rank at Amazon.com enough to trigger fears of the imminent collapse of America from utter stupidity? Stranger things have happened.

Scene from Times Square

By the way, I may shortly appear on the cover of Time Times Magazine. Stranger things have happened.

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WorldNetDaily’s inflated petition numbers

by Dr. Conspiracy on 17. Apr, 2010 in WorldNetDaily

For some time now, WorldNetDaily has posted an online petition where readers could demand President Obama’s birth certificate. WND recently touted: Petition demanding birth certificate surges past 500,000.

We now know that the 500,000th signer of that petition was an Internet blogger who was not demanding Obama’s birth certificate, but rather just trying to see how fast they could sign petitions (they signed the petition 216 times in 20 minutes). This is documented on a new web site.

The petition that keeps going, and going and going

I recall when the petition was first published that there was some speculation over whether the petition contained adequate safeguards to prevent multiple entry by one person. Here at Obama Conspiracy Theories, for example, we take some steps to reduce the possibility that someone votes multiple times on the same poll. None of these methods are fool proof, but WorldNetDaily takes no precautions at all beyond verifying that that something is different between the two entries. You can even put numbers in instead of a name to more easily generate a unlimited string of different ones!

No wonder WorldNetDaily won’t release the names. It would be very embarrassing.

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