Saturday, November 21, 2009

• On March 10, WorldNetDaily was first to report shots fired near the Peabody Hotel in Memphis where President Bush was staying during a sweep through the South to push his Social Security plan.
  
  
• On March 16, WorldNetDaily revealed plans by grass-roots Jewish activists to ascend the Temple Mount on April 10 to spark Israeli dialogue about reclaiming the holy site from its Muslim custodians. In the early hours preceding action, WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein was onsite, reporting on the developing situation and the subsequent arrests of the Jewish leaders.
  
  
• On Oct. 7, WorldNetDaily reported Israeli police had learned of the presence of an operations control center in Saudi Arabia that finances suicide bombings and important terror campaigns in Israel after interrogating a nabbed senior Hamas activist. A month later, on Nov. 9, the White House acknowledged the Saudis had renewed funding to Palestinian insurgency groups, having relayed "millions of dollars," after a lull of more than a year, primarily to Hamas.
  
  
• On Nov. 13, WorldNetDaily published an exclusive interview with seven gun-toting leaders of the terror group Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, conducted by Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein and nationally syndicated radio host Rusty Humphries. The exchange, held in a secret location on the West Bank, covered everything from the 72 virgins terrorists say await suicide bombers in heaven to the Al Aqsa leaders' belief Monica Lewinsky was an undercover Israeli agent. Less than an hour after the conclusion of the meeting, Israel conducted an anti-terror raid that wounded three wanted Islamic Jihad members on the same street the interview took place.
  
  
• On March 9, when most of the world's press was reporting the nearly half-million turnout in Beirut for a Hezbollah-sponsored rally in support of the Syrian occupation, WorldNetDaily readers learned Damascus had bussed in Syrian citizens, pressured Syrian workers in Lebanon to attend and called out the residents of three Palestinian camps in a sham to make the world believe the Lebanese preferred foreign domination – and they read it because of WND's exclusive interview with Lebanon's prime minister.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily was the first news organization to bring wide attention to the fact that vulgar rapper Kid Rock had been scheduled to perform at a youth event as part of President Bush's second inaugural. After the initial article, the Presidential Inauguration Committee backpedaled, saying the rapper was "not confirmed" to appear. Ultimately, Kid Rock did not perform.
  
  
• WND reported extensively on the arrest and charging of the "Philadelphia Five," Christian protesters who were jailed after protesting at an outdoor homosexual festival - including an exclusive story about a U.S. Justice Department source claiming personnel from the agency's Civil Rights Division not only attended the homosexual event, but advised police on the scene who arrested the protesters. WorldNetDaily also reported on the fact that one of the protesters was a 17-year-old girl who faced eight counts in the juvenile justice system.
  
  
• Reporting on a Consumer Reports analysis of contraceptives, WND revealed that the trusted magazine listed "abortion" as a "birth control" method and included a section describing how the procedure gets rid of a pregnant mother's "uterine contents." A follow-up story explained that Consumer Reports' CEO once led a state branch of Planned Parenthood.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily broke a heart-wrenching story about a woman claiming the staff of a Florida abortion clinic ignored her calls for help after she birthed the 22-weeks-along child alive in a restroom.
  
  
• WND was the first to report that a former manager with Allstate sued the insurance giant, alleging the company, which financially supports homosexual advocacy groups, fired him solely because he wrote a column posted on several websites that was critical of same-sex marriage and espoused his Christian beliefs.
  
  
• The first of several news organizations to cover the story, WorldNetDaily reported a libertarian activist's quest to get a small New Hampshire town to condemn the property owned there by Supreme Court Justice David Souter in retaliation for his vote to allow a Connecticut city to take residents' homes for private development. The activist hopes to have a hotel built on Souter's property, the Lost Liberty Hotel.
  
  
• Was the U.S. Supreme Court fooled by a make-believe sodomy case – one manufactured by homosexual activists to entrap police and ensnare the judicial system in a conspiracy to change the law of the land? In October, WorldNetDaily was first to publicize the compelling findings of a new book, "Sex Appealed: Was the U.S. Supreme Court Fooled?" by Judge Janice Law. Law was presiding as a judge in a Houston courthouse when she first heard rumors that key figures in what became the landmark Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court case, actually invited arrest in a pre-arranged setup designed from the start to test the constitutionality of anti-sodomy laws.
  
  
• WND exclusively reported President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers as Supreme Court justice might have an unintended consequence – renewing questions about the president's National Guard service and charges of influence peddling by the man who raised those allegations in a CBS News interview in 2004. The WND report led to a "guaranteed" prediction by editor Joseph Farah on Oct. 13 that Miers would withdraw her name from consideration, which she subsequently did within days.
  
  
• The Internet's No. 1 search engine is often criticized for playing political favorites with content. In May, WorldNetDaily revealed how a search of Google's political contributions as recorded by the Federal Elections Commission showed executives and employees of the company gave a staggering $463,500 to Democrats in the last three election cycles and a paltry $5,000 to Republicans.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily was first to report on Iran's plans to knock out the U.S. with a single nuclear bomb. In April, WND revealed how the radical Shiite regime had conducted successful tests to determine if its warhead-carrying missiles can be detonated by a remote-control device while still in high-altitude flight. U.S. intelligence sources, top scientists and western missile industry experts told WND there is no other explanation for such tests than preparation for the deployment of electromagnetic pulse weapons – even one of which could knock out America's critical electrical and technological infrastructure.
  
  
• On Nov. 10, at 1 a.m. Eastern Time, WorldNetDaily broke the story of a national boycott against No. 1 retailer Wal-Mart for allegedly discriminating against Christians with its online store and an employee's statement about the pagan origins of Christmas. More than 19 hours later, the Associated Press picked up the story, and by the morning of Nov. 11, WND was first to report the boycott had been called off. Bill Donohue of the New York-based Catholic League, which called for the boycott, personally thanked WND for its coverage, noting it was "a sweet victory. [WND] played a huge role in this win."
  
  
• On Oct. 29, on the heels of USA Today's doctored photograph of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a WND inquiry into an altered photo of a gun-toting Ward Churchill prompted a Seattle-area college to remove the image from its website.
  
  
• WND was first to reveal President Bush was the target of a new "Google bomb" where he's labeled an "a-- hole" in a vulgar filmstrip when the graphic term is entered into the popular search engine.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily broke several major stories in connection with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. On Aug. 16, WND published photos of President Bush kissing the so-called "peace mom," and one week later, WND unearthed stunning comments from Sheehan who called the enemies of America "freedom fighters." The comments were originally told to a CBS reporter surrounded by a host of other journalists, but the remarks were never published until posted on WND.
  
  
• In March, WND revealed an explosive U.N. campaign depicting children being blown apart on a soccer field.

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