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WND Editor: I'm No Birther -- I Just Think Obama Needs To Release Birth Certificate
Zachary Roth | February 16, 2010, 2:45PM



Prominent right-wing columnist Joseph Farah is threatening to sue Newsweek, after the magazine reported that he believes President Obama was not born in the U.S.

Farah, the founder and editor of WorldNetDaily (WND), claims he's never said that -- he just wants Obama to release his birth certificate, in order to put "concerns" about the issue to rest.

The brouhaha was kicked off by a Newsweek.com column that appeared Friday, entitled: Know Your Conspiracies: NEWSWEEK's guide to today's trendiest, hippest, and least likely fringe beliefs." The piece, perhaps ill-conceived from the start, listed "Barack Obama was not born in the United States," as one such fringe belief, and included Farah as one of its "proponents."

The column was written by David A. Graham, whose LinkedIn profile describes him as a reporting intern at Newsweek.com.

But in a public letter to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, posted yesterday on WND, Farah writes:

While I have written tens of thousands of words about the subject of Barack Obama's eligibility and talked for dozens of hours on the public airwaves and given hundreds of interviews on this subject, never have I stated that Obama was not born in the United States.

Therefore, I demand an immediate apology and retraction.

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