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In reply to the discussion: Replacing white people to kill gun rights [View all]sarisataka
(21,001 posts)15. That's rich
WND (formerly WorldNetDaily or, as it was affectionately known to its fans, WingNutDaily or WhirledNutDaily) is an extremist conservative website founded by Joseph Farah in 1997 as a project of his Western Center for Journalism.[1] It espouses a fundamentalist Christian, creationist view of the world, and regularly engages in racist attacks against African-Americans. Its political leanings are right-wing, pro-"Christian right," and supposedly pro-United States, with strongly libertarian economic views. Its coverage provides multiple sides of the issues: the conservative viewpoint and the ultra-conservative viewpoint. It is far to the right of Fox News.
While they present themselves as news, WND is essentially a tabloid for radical right-wingers. Their publishing standards are rock-bottom, and they have run stories from extremely questionable sources on many, many occasions.[2][3] They are best known for distributing Ann Coulter's insipid columns, as well as articles written by noted political analysts Chuck Norris, Pat Boone and Charlie Daniels. They recently added disgraced baseball bigot John Rocker as well, indicating they've decided to drop the dog whistles and go with overt racism.
The scary thing is that this bilge is actually slightly influential, with made-up bullshit from WND making its way out the mouths of wingnut congressmen and cable TV pundits far too often.[4]
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/WND
While they present themselves as news, WND is essentially a tabloid for radical right-wingers. Their publishing standards are rock-bottom, and they have run stories from extremely questionable sources on many, many occasions.[2][3] They are best known for distributing Ann Coulter's insipid columns, as well as articles written by noted political analysts Chuck Norris, Pat Boone and Charlie Daniels. They recently added disgraced baseball bigot John Rocker as well, indicating they've decided to drop the dog whistles and go with overt racism.
The scary thing is that this bilge is actually slightly influential, with made-up bullshit from WND making its way out the mouths of wingnut congressmen and cable TV pundits far too often.[4]
Why do so many gun control proponents spend so much time on far-right websites?
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You have a very fertile mind and great skill finding souces rife with confirmation bias
Surf Fishing Guru
Nov 2015
#74
The NRA and accomplices managed to change the reading of the Second Amendment...
Human101948
Oct 2015
#8
"...articles written by noted politcal analysts Chuck Norris, Pat Boone and Charlie Daniels."
beardown
Oct 2015
#22
Gee, SecMo, someone was complaining in ATA 'bout using RW sources in gun discussions.
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#17