Earlier this week, I linked approvingly to Jon Henke’s call for a conservative boycott of World Net Daily.
Well, Joseph Farah himself has responded:
Joseph Farah at WorldNetDaily…
* He says my call for right-of-center organizations to stop supporting WND’s conspiracy peddling is “bullying tactics”.
* He says he has never heard of me.
* He says that WND didn’t say they were “concentration camps”; they just said that the legislation “appears designed to create the type of detention center” that people “fear” could be used as “concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany.” He calls this “nuanced”.
* He claims I have called “for an all-out jihad against WND.”
* He says, “Am I scared? No, folks. I’m not.” and says he’s just standing up for “truth”.
Farah expanded on that in an interview with the Washington Times
“In the little bit of time I’ve had to figure out who Jon Henke is and what the Next Right is, I see it’s pretty much a Republican establishment group who has worked for the RNC and the Republican Party and I can certainly understand why a group like that would have problems with World Net Daily,” he said. “We are not in anybody’s pocket and we don’t have to take our cues from them. We never have and never will and that will probably bother some people.”
He added about the Next Right: “Just looking at their biographies I see these are not journalists, they are political activists who have their own agendas.”
Jon also shares some of the email he’s received since calling for the boycott, and it’s a pretty good indication of the type of person that WND attracts:
Carmen Valdes says I must be enjoying the traffic from WND (actually, WND doesn’t really send much traffic) and I’m a communist:
you must be basking in the sun with all the free publicity you must be getting from Farah’s editorial in WND directing traffic to your unknown little hole. since you are in the same bed as media matters and the huffinton post no serious normal thinking conservative would be associated with the likes of you. why don’t you direct your efforts to exposing obama’s administration being run by communists and terrorists? what am i thinking? you are one of them
Jeffery says I am an “enemy of American”, he’s going to troll the web attacking me and our CAPTCHA sucks:
YOU sir are an enemy of America in the WORSE FORM! www.wnd.com is one of the FEW REAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST LEFT!! So I will be posting and suggesting a boycott of YOUR MOVEMENT all over the net today and the rest of the week, then month and maybe even year unless I see a retraction of some type from wnd.com. Have a good day. By the way your “captcha” makes no sense, the first word is no “word” at all.
Gunnery Sgt D.C. Robertson threatened me with violence and wrote a lot of things that I’m going to redact.
Jon,I hope you get a triple case of AIDS the next time you take it up the a**, you f*****g homo. You and your putrid ilk put that Comie n****r in the White House and accidently woke up the silent majority of white, Christain, tax-paying Americans. No longer will the soul of this great nation be intimidated by political correctness. You f****d up buddy and now you have a front row seat to see the newly awakened vanquish the cancer of fascism from this land. Oh, by the by, I do hope to meet you in person some day for a bit of attitude adjustment.Semper Fi, Motherf****r.
Whoa.
Meanwhile, the RNC still isn’t providing a coherent response to the question of why it is giving advertising dollars to a wingnut publication like WND
Stay tuned.
