Ken Ham claims news reports that his "Ark Encounter" has not stimulated the local economy are based on "urban legends." Just let that sink in for a minute.

Courtesy of Answers in Genesis:  

Recently, a number of articles in the mainstream media, on blogs, and on well-known secularist group websites have attempted to spread propaganda to brainwash the public into thinking our Ark Encounter attraction is a dismal failure. Sadly, they are influencing business investors and others in such a negative way that they may prevent Grant County, Kentucky, from achieving the economic recovery that its officials and residents have been seeking.

In one sense, such negative, misleading, and outright false reporting doesn’t worry me. As Christians, we know we will receive opposition like this—and after 40 years in Bible-upholding ministry, I have become used to such antics by those who oppose us. Nowadays, it seems very few reporters in the secular media actually want to report facts regarding what they cover as news. When it comes to reporting on theologically conservative Christians like those of us at AiG, whose ideology they strongly oppose, many writers have an agenda to undermine Christianity as they file their stories. 

I’ve found that not only do these kinds of reporters generally do very poor or lazy research, they will actually make things up for their agenda purposes. They often just quote others, who themselves have quoted yet others, who have quoted even yet others. Urban legends have now been created around our life-size Noah’s Ark, mixing misleading and untrue statements gathered from a variety of sources, often not using primary sources but hearsay.

"They often just quote others, who themselves have quoted yet others, who have quoted even yet others." Isn't that essentially how the Bible came to be?

That's right moron the reason that your exhibition, based on iron age children's stories, has not made money hand over fist is because the secular media is relying on "urban legends."

Apparently the article that got under Ham's thin skin was this one from the Richmond Register: 

It has been almost a year since Ark Encounter opened near the northern Kentucky city of Williamstown, and Ark co-founder Mike Zovath said the attraction will have its millionth visitor by July. 

While a steady stream of visitors has flocked to visit the ark and the nearby Creation Museum, the impact on Williamstown’s economy has been far less than what many local residents expected.

The article then provides quotes from local businesses complaining about the lack of a windfall promised to them by the Ham and his partners.

And keep this in mind as well:  

Answers in Genesis received a generous combination of state and local incentives, acknowledging in numerous documents that without them, the $100 million attraction would not be built in Grant County.

The idea was that the exhibit would attract tourists from all over the world and that some of those dollars would find their way into the pockets of local merchants ensuring a return on the city and state's investments.

However since most of the visitors are super religious people who only have eyes, and money, for the Ark they learned about in Sunday school class, that has simply not been the case.

So the state gets ripped off for millions of dollars in incentives, the people get nothing in return, and the Christians in charge of the scam make out like bandits.

Yep, sounds like religion to me.