WND’s Klein Smears Again

David Streeter — April 2, 2010 – 1:57 pm | Barack Obama | Israel | Stop the Smears Comments (0) Add a comment

WorldNetDaily’s (WND) Aaron Klein has struck again with another baseless charge against President Barack Obama. Klein wrote:

The Obama administration has encouraged “resistance” by Palestinians to protest Israel’s presence in eastern Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian Authority official claimed to WND.

The senior PA official, speaking from Ramallah on condition of anonymity, said that in recent meetings with U.S. envoys to the region, the American diplomats supported and encouraged the concept of Palestinian protests to pressure Israel into evacuating eastern sections of Jerusalem.

This accusation is totally false and the dead giveaway is Klein’s reliance on an anonymous Palestinian source. Are we really to believe that a site like WND has that kind of privileged access to Palestinian officials and sensitive information?

Furthermore, mainstream news outlets do not appear to be buying Klein’s report. That begs the question: if a Palestinian official wanted to perpetuate a story of this importance, why would they speak with WND instead of a major news outlet that provides reliable coverage while scrupulously protecting the anonymity of its sources?

According to Media Matters, this is part of a long chain of Klein using supposed anonymous sources to attack Obama. He’s cried wolf before, so unless another reliable publication provides a substantive account of this absurd charge, then this malicious claim will remain as just another baseless smear.  

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