Santorum To Be Columnist For Birther Website

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This report comes from The Hill. Excerpts:

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has taken a job as a columnist for World Net Daily, a conservative website best known for articles advancing “birther” conspiracy theories about President Obama.

The former Pennsylvania senator will write a weekly column appearing on Mondays. Other writers for the site include actor Chuck Norris and fellow 2012 Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.

The site made waves last year when founder Joseph Farah told NBC Newshe was unconvinced by the president’s long-form birth certificate. Farah told the network he paid for private detectives to travel to Hawaii in an effort to discredit the president’s claims of having been born in the United States, and conferred with real estate mogul Donald Trump on the issue.

—Chad Blair

Elizabeth Santorum, daughter of GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, sign waves in Honolulu.

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