Ethics

Farah Backpeddles on Forged Birth Certificate

By Ed Brayton

It's really quite amusing watching the Worldnutdaily try to feign rationality and objectivity while falling hook, line and sinker for the Obama birther bullshit. They practically have half their homepage now devoted to that one story, which they've been pushing relentlessly. And when this latest forged Kenyan birth certificate was shown by Orly Taitz, the wingnut lawyer that the Worldnutdaily has worked overtime to turn into a mixture of Clarence Darrow and Mother Teresa, they jumped at the bait like a shark on chum.

But since the authenticity of that Kenyan birth certificate lasted about as long as Chuck Norris would on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Farah is now backpeddling hard and pretending that they were just presenting the evidence - and he never really believed it was real anyway.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).