Glorious fall of a red czar

WorldNetDaily ^ | SEPTEMBER 07, 2009 | Vox Day

[RobinMasters]

I am occasionally asked why I would ever choose to write for WorldNetDaily. I am, after all, a columnist who has been nationally syndicated by Chronicle Features and Universal Press Syndicate. My scribblings have appeared in newspapers ranging from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Boston Globe to Pravda and the North Bay Nugget. I was one of the first St. Paul Pioneer Press columnists to be syndicated in the paper's 150-year history, and I'm the only one who was ever syndicated twice, for two different columns. I'm considering either a gardening or a women's shoes column just so I can go for the trifecta. I don't know anything about either subject, but since Paul Krugman has an economics column, that can't possibly be a problem.

Meanwhile, according to its critics, WorldNetDaily is an unreliable and histrionic news source that is one step below the National Enquirer, which at least has a printed product. And while the National Enquirer likes reporting on celebrity alien abductions by surgically inclined extraterrestrials, WND rarely misses a story dealing with the antichrist, Harry Potter or other religious bugaboos. But this is merely flavor, and while it may be an acquired taste of sorts, it's no more meaningful than the flavor that accompanies major media institutions such as the New York Times.

One cannot honestly say that headlines like "Church bell 'noise' under attack – in America" are any more indicative of journalistic unreliability than the "Wither Gambia?" sort that P.J. O'Rourke accurately characterized as MEGO (my eyes glaze over), or those that accompany the "What you can buy in Slovenia for $250,000" articles.

[Hardastarboard]

I don't know anything about either subject, but since Paul Krugman has an economics column, that can't possibly be a problem.

ZZZZZZIIIIINNNGGGGG!!!!!! LOL!

[Albion Wilde]

"WorldNetDaily's reporting has forced one communist out of the White House, which is a lot more than one can say for the Republican Party leadership... that believes a return to Rockefeller Republicanism of the '70s is a viable political strategy for the future."

Awesome post!

[RummyChick]

Isn’t this the writer that claimed Obama said he was born at Queens Hospital in a speech he gave to announce that he was running for President.

I listened to that speech.

It didn’t happen.

[RummyChick]

Yep,
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=104445

Wouldn’t have been that hard for such a writer, who toots his own horn about how good he is, to have actually listened to the speech.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Too much wind up. Me, me, me, me..I I i....

[Paladin2]

"WorldNetDaily's reporting has forced one communist out of the White House, which is a lot more than one can say for the Republican Party leadership, whose main accomplishment of late is forcing Republicans out of Congress."

Heh, Heh, Heh.