Educate yourself - All about Joseph Farah

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Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/, a web site of supposed conservative opinion, created WorldNetDaily Books. In reality, WorldNetDaily is an internet journal of misanthropy and anti-intellectualism (just the other day, WND had an interview defending creationism). Farah is a fraud and a dirty tricks operative posing as a journalist (scroll down to the post on front groups). Farah and WND is not much better; it is revealing that many of its writers also have a problem with the truth (e.g., Ann Coulter, John Hagee, and Jerry Falwell). Didn¡¯t the Bible say something about not bearing false witness against thy neighbor? For that matter what about the biblical prohibition against stealing? Falwell made a lot of money fleecing his flock with his phony infomercial with con artist Patrick Matrisciana, whom Farah declared under oath was a good man, with a good heart -- who has poured his creative talents into a selfless pursuit of the truth?
In fact, when Matrisciana, the author the of the infamous Clinton Chronicles video was sued successfully by two law enforcement officers who were libeled in one of Matrisciana and other anti-Clinton conspiratorial videos, Farah served as an expert witness and promptly perjured himself when he wrote in his affidavit that the producers of the video acted well within the confines of accepted journalistic standards and practices. Here is the truth about Matrisciana and his libel case. Bill O¡¯Reilly called Hillary Clinton a liar when she claimed that there was a vast rightwing conspiracy to destroy her husband with libels and dirty tricks. O¡¯Reilly¡¯s charge against Senator Clinton is refuted by the history of Farah, the man who gave Mr. No-Spin a fat paycheck for his WND column. Also, Fox colleague Sean Hannity has a cozy relationship with fellow Scaife errand boy Christopher Ruddy.

The Western Journalism Center (WJC) (Front Group)

WJC is headed by Joseph Farah who also runs WorldNetDaily (which published The Savage Nation). In its heyday in the 1990, WJC was a Scaife-subsidized front group disguised as a journalistic organization. It engaged in a series of dirty tricks; the best known of WJC¡¯s dirty tricks was its full-page newspaper ads that supported Reporter Christopher Ruddy error-laden conspiracy theories regarding the mysterious death of Vince Foster, a favorite paranoid delusion that has obsessed Scaife (60 Minutes investigated Ruddy's reporting on Foster's death and exposed Ruddy as a fraud.) Trudy Lieberman wrote a great article about the incestuous echo chamber that Scaife and Farah created in order to give legs to Ruddy¡¯s smears. Lieberman quotes Farah: "We can reach key legislators, key journalists, key radio talk show hosts...It's an easy, inexpensive way to make sure Chris Ruddy's work just doesn't appear in Pittsburgh and just die."

WJC also used similar tactics in an attempt to give credence to the discredited stories of the Arkansas troopers who had been Bill Clinton¡¯s bodyguards. Here was what happened: The troopers were paid by Scaife to tell lies to a Reporter (David Brock) from a Scaife-funded journal (The American Spectator); in order to give credibility to this dirty tricks operation, a Scaife-funded front group (the Western Journalism Center) disguised as a journalistic organization give a Journalism award to Brock for his Reporting.In addition, Scaife-beneficiary Ruddy sold tapes of one of the trooper allegations. Ironically, after Brock came clean and repudiated the Troopergate dirty tricks operation (years after the troopers admitted they were lying for pay), Farah¡¯s reaction was to treat the discredited allegations by the troopers as established fact and accused Brock of mendacity.

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