Posted 4:10 PM by Scoobie Davis

WorldNetDaily's Marginalization
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the fringe right was able to do damage to the Clinton administration with its paranoid conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's death but that recently things have been rough. WorldNetdaily, run by Scaife-paid operative Joseph Farah, was a major proponent of the Vince Foster conspiracy theories. Before Farah ran WorldNetDaily, he was the head of a Scaife front group, the Western Journalism Center, whose goals was to provide cedibility to another Scaife-subsidized operative Christopher Ruddy (now at NewsMax), who had concocted theories (all of them discredited) about Foster's death.

The current conspiracy theory put forth by WorldNetDaily and the Western Journalism Center (currently run by veteran dirty tricks operative Floyd Brown) is that President Obama was not born in the United States. This time around, right-wing conspiracy theories are paying a price for their loony theories. This is largely due to forces such as the Daily Show, MSNBC, and media watchdogs like Media Matters for America.

Addendum: Terry Krepel of ConWebWatch has a comprehensive article about Brown's ascension to the helm of the Western Journalism Center . . . I noticed in today's WorldNetDaily that columnist Peter W. Heck cited a discredited study by fringe researcher Paul Cameron. Years ago, the Bookie of Virtue William Bennett cited the same methodologically flawed study.