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BACKGROUND

The webpage was founded in '' cited Farah who claimed WND had turned began to profit employing 25 workers. {Link without Title} Currently the webpage has a staff of 20 people.


DESCRIPTION

The site features links to news articles and political/social commentaries. Subsequently, some feel WorldNetDaily has also provided many stories criticizing 's magazine '' The New American ,'' Farah claimed that by March 1998 the website was receiving 20,000 to 30,000 hits per day. In the April 17, 1998, issue of '' Dispatches '' (a WorldNetDaily-published magazine now known as ''Whistleblower''), Farah claimed 150,000 hits per day." WND currently claims 8 million visitors a month to its website. {Link without Title} Although WND features exclusive stories, it also features many articles that originate with other news services that correlate with its right-leaning views.

The website markets conservative and religious merchandise at "ShopNetDaily," and it also publishes books under the name WND Books. In 2002, WND became a book publisher in a partnership with , among other authors.

Currently, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson has threatened/pursued Legal Action against WorldNetDaily and Paul E. Vallely for allegedly publishing false information about the Plame Affair .


CONGRESSMAN JIM WELKER CONTROVERSY


In March 2006 Republican Colorado State Representative . Welker stated that he did not agree with everything in the article. He said that the reason he sent it was because of its message "about society victimizing people by making them dependent on government programs."


EXAMPLES OF CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLES



9/11

  • The cover story of the March 2005 issue of '' Popular Mechanics '' magazine sought to debunk 9/11 conspiracy theories. The magazine noted:


''WorldNetDaily.com'' weighs in: "Witnesses to this low-flying jet ... told their story to journalists. Shortly thereafter, the FBI began to attack the witnesses with perhaps the most inane disinformation ever--alleging the witnesses actually observed a private jet at 34,000 ft. The FBI says the jet was asked to come down to 5000 ft. and try to find the crash site. This would require about 20 minutes to descend."

  • ---WND was refuted by ''Popular Mechanics'' authors:


There was such a jet in the vicinity--a Dassault Falcon 20 business jet owned by the VF Corp. of Greensboro, N.C., an apparel company that markets Wrangler jeans and other brands. The VF plane was flying into Johnstown-Cambria airport, 20 miles north of Shanksville. According to David Newell, VF's director of aviation and travel, the FAA's Cleveland Center contacted copilot Yates Gladwell when the Falcon was at an altitude "in the neighborhood of 3000 to 4000 ft."--not 34,000 ft. "They were in a descent already going into Johnstown," Newell adds. "The FAA asked them to investigate and they did. They got down within 1500 ft. of the ground when they circled. They saw a hole in the ground with smoke coming out of it. They pinpointed the location and then continued on." Reached by PM, Gladwell confirmed this account but, concerned about ongoing harassment by conspiracy theorists, asked not to be quoted directly.



Valerie Plame-CIA Leak

  • WND has also been told misinformation about the The Plame Leak . After two and a half years after the original Plame leak, it was noted on November 5, 2005 Fox News commentator Paul E. Vallely told WND:



Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told ''WorldNetDaily'' that Wilson mentioned Plame's status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three, possibly five, conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.

Vallely says, according to his recollection, Wilson mentioned his wife's job in the spring of 2002 -- more than a year before Robert Novak's July 14, 2003, column identified her, citing senior administration officials, as "an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."

  • ---Over that weekend Vallely supposedly recalled another time Wilson allegedly shared classified information on his wife's CIA status. As noted above Vallely said he was told once in Spring 2002, but the WND on November 9, 2005 reported:



After recalling further over the weekend his contacts with Wilson, '''Vallely says now it was on just one occasion''' – the first of several conversations – that the ambassador revealed his wife's employment with the CIA and that it likely occurred some time in the late summer or early fall of 2002.



On Saturday, WorldNetDaily published a story based on an interview with Maj. General Paul Vallely, a distinguished career military man and Fox News analyst, who said Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the man at the center of the CIA leak case, had told him in casual conversations in the Fox News studios that his wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA employee - more than a year before this was first disclosed publicly in a column written by journalist Robert Novak.

  • ---Joseph Wilson has currently threatened/pursued legal action against WorldNetDaily and Vallely.



Dirty Bombs in the United States

  • On March 20, 2002 WND cited Robert Morey as an expert, even though his Ph.D is from an unaccredited institution. The article said that he told the FBI :


"that Muslim Pakistan is brought into the U.S. a small nuclear device called a 'dirty bomb' through Niagara Falls out of Canada," Morey says." He described the terrorists as "driving this nuclear device in the back of a van or a car waiting for Bin Laden to tell them when it's time to set it off."


Middle East reporting


In early 2005, WND hired shot and killed four people on a bus in Gaza on August 4, 2005, then was beaten to death by a crowd, Klein wrote an article for WND claiming that Zada was "murdered" by a "mob of Palestinians." {Link without Title}

The Uk turned admitted their men are ugly and the women are all turning into lesbians, who are getting fatter every day. The Civil Partnership Act allows British same-sex couples to effectively marry when it came into force on December 5,2005. No wonder the british are so anti america, they are egotistical perverts who think being gay will save them from terrorism. Lesbian marriage is leading into pedophilic relationships amongst homosexual women now those women want legalized sexual contact with little girls (only if they are girls it is ok) proof is at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28336


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