The scam operation that is WorldNutDaily, making some big bucks off of birthers, homophobes, etc.

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WND was begging its readers to pay it to send a form letter to all nine members of the Supreme Court stating in part:

With the Electoral College set to make its determination Dec. 15 that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. be the next president of the United States, the Supreme Court is holding a conference Friday to review a case challenging his eligibility for the office based on Article 2, Section 1.

WND editor Joseph Farah joined in the begging: "Please take advantage of this brief opportunity to let the Supreme Court know you care and you are watching. The hearing is set for Friday. That means you have only today and tomorrow to act."

A few days later, WND claimed that it sent out "6,682 FedEx packages of nine letters each that will be delivered before the court reviews a case Friday challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, which stipulates the position can only be filled by 'a natural born citizen.'"

A few days after that, WND kicked off an expanded campaign aimed at the Electoral College, asking readers to pay it $10.95 to send letters "to 470 members of the 538-member Electoral College for whom addresses are available. They will all be delivered Friday morning, giving each elector the weekend to consider the constitutional issues raised by Obama's presidency." The WND article repeated the discredited claim that "two Obama family members have told WND they were present at his birth in Mombasa, Kenya" and Polarik's discredited claim that Obama's birth certificate is " a possible forgery."

In May 2009, WND teamed up with Porter to charge readers $10.95 to send letters to all 100 senators "in opposition to new hate-crimes legislation on the fast track of the U.S. Senate." Unfortunately for WND and Porter, the letter invoked a massively false talking point to justify its opposition.

Still, the falsehood suckered numerous readers -- WND proclaimed that "dispatched more than 705,000 letters to senators."

WND and Porter teamed up once more in September 2009 for an even more ambitious campaign of pure spam: sending a "pink slip" to all members of Congress threatening them by claiming that if they don't support WND and Porter's right-wing agenda in four specific areas, "our real pink slip will be issued in the next election." WND charged $29.95 for the privilege.

WND misleadingly promoted the campaign by highlighting how many letters were sent, taking care not to mention how few people actually took part. For instance, WND offered unsurprisingly positive coverage of its own press conference in which it and Porter managed to get a few Republican members of Congress to endorse their "pink slip" campaign, touting how the number of pink slips "have surged past 5 million." But divide 5 million by 535, and you get 9,345 -- the number of people who have paid WND $29.95 to do this. That's a far less impressive number than 5 million.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2010/wndletters.html

Teabaggers are suckers, but yet they want fiscal conservatism.

The fact that these guys are running in elections instead of being stopped cold is a wall banger for sure.

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