Topic: WorldNetDaily
Remember WorldNetDaily's last-minute drive to get readers to send it letters that WND would FedEx to the Supreme Court in order to badger it into hearing a baseless challenge over Barack Obama's birth? It appears that channeling its readers' Obama-hate is turning into a profit center for WND.
WND claimed in a Dec. 5 article that it sent "6,682 FedEx packages of nine letters each" to the Supreme Court. WND charged each letter-writer $9.95 for the privilege. Somehow we suspect FedEx charged WND a lot less than $89.45 each to overnight those envelopes to Washington. Profit!
So WND's going to that well again -- according to a Dec. 8 article, it's launching "a similar FedEx letter drive directed at individual Electoral College members" to harrass them into not voting for Obama. WND has jacked up the price -- it's now $10.95 for the privilege of badgering "470 members of the 538-member Electoral College with a pre-written letter raising questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to be the next president."
Again, it doesn't send that much to send boxes of letters relative to the cash WND will be raking in from each individual letter.
WND repeats its usual false claims in order to rile up the base -- most prominently that "the [Obama] campaign posted a document purporting to be a birth certificate devoid of these details [of "the hospital of his birth, the attending physician and other details"]. It has also come under fire as a possible forgery." No mention, of course, of the fact that WND found that document to be authentic and that any challenge to the contrary "relies on discredited claims."
If WND ever had any sincere motives in attacking Obama over the birth certificate, they fell by the wayside long ago. At this point, Joseph Farah and WND are engaging in a cynical exercise of profiteering and pure hatred. We'll believe differently if WND ever accounts to its readers exactly where their FedEx money is being spent -- highly unlikely since WND hides behind the scrim of being a privately held company and refuses to release any financial information to the public, even that of its legal defense fund.
The fact that WND's profiteering is based on a fraud is icing on this cynical cake.
