False CNS article now the top story on its website

Last night, Media Matters posted an item detailing how CNSNews.com, in a January 14 article, falsely portrayed references to “Christian identity” in a 2008 interview by Erroll Southers, nominated to head the Transportation Safety Administration, as generic references to Christianity. In fact, the context of the interview shows that Southers was referring to the Christian Identity movement, which according to the Anti-Defamation League has “virulently racist and anti-Semitic beliefs” and is tied to several domestic terrorists.

Now, you'd think that after this story was demonstrated to be false, CNS would issue a correction or withdraw it. Nope -- we just checked a little bit ago, and not only is the story still live and unchanged hours after it was proven to be false, it's the top story on the CNS website's front page:

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We'd be embarrassed if such an obviously false claim was left uncorrected on our website -- and we sure wouldn't be playing it up long after it was debunked. The Brent Bozell-operated CNS, it seems, operates by a different set of rules.