ConWebWatch: Supreme Confusion

Accuracy in Media attacks WorldNetDaily! The Media Research Center bashes NBC for not reporting criticism of President Bush! NewsMax accuses Robert Bork of borking! The Harriet Miers nomination is turning the ConWeb topsy-turvy.

By Terry Krepel
Posted 10/11/2005

How bad does a conservative journalist have to screw up to be criticized by his fellow conservatives?

WorldNetDaily founder and editor Joseph Farah now knows. WND has launched a John Kerry-esque attack -- complete with appearance by Swift Boater and bigot Jerome Corsi -- against Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court.

In a badly written Oct. 3 "news" article, Farah claims that Miers "is on record as supporting the establishment of the International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, a major local tax increase and women in combat." Farah's evidence for this is a list of "potential agenda items" from a 1999 American Bar Association meeting purportedly submitted by Miers "that included recommendations to develop and establish an International Criminal Court and the enactment of laws and public policy providing that the sexual orientation of adults be no bar to adoption of children." Miers' name is not in the document, and Farah does not offer any evidence that Miers submitted it. Farah cites (but does not reproduce) a memo accompanying the agenda, purportedly signed by Miers, asking meeting delegates to "review this list for items of interest to their constituencies." Farah does not cite any evidence that Miers endorsed any of the items on the agenda, yet claimed anyway that this somehow proves that Miers "is on record as supporting" them.