Two days ago, I woke up to my daughter's radio blaring her favorite radio program. It's usually these three DJ's playing grab ass, but that morning, they were discussing these following articles regarding nukes already in the US, planted by Muslim terrorists. I listened and it didn't take long for me to be outraged. They were reading various parts of these articles and then talking hypotheticals, and saying things like, "if this happens, we will nuke the Middle East until it glows, blah, blah, blah..."
They ranted and raved about this for over an hour, and used it as a way to spread hate and prejudice against all Muslims and Middle-Easterners. People were calling in saying things like, "Yeah, I've been telling everyone for years that they own all the 7-11's and wonder what they keep in the back of their stores...." or "If they set off a nuke and kill a million of us, we will take revenge by rounding up all olive-skinned people who are not Mexican or African...blah, blah, blah." I tried to call in, to get the name of the report they were reading from, to ask if this report is credible, to ask what their point was, whether it was to merely rile the American public to hate Middle Easterners.
I found their website, and they have links to these four articles they were "discussing":
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-11-poll-americans-terror_x.htmAmericans expect attack, poll finds
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45194Monday, July 11, 2005
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Intel analyst: Attack
on U.S. imminent
Former Israeli agent says
government not preparing citizens
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Terrorists will try to carry out an attack on the United States within the next 90 days, a former Israeli counterterrorism intelligence officer predicts.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/21/wmd.threat/index.html'High risk' of WMD attack in decade
U.S. survey finds more nations will acquire nuclear weapons
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45203FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Al-Qaida nukes already in U.S.
Terrorists, bombs smuggled across Mexico border by MS-13 gangsters
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Here's a little background on Joseph Farah. This site, ConWebWatch, has been following him and others (Internet-based conservative "news" organizations NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, CNSNews.com., and conservative media "watchdogs" Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media) and debunking their articles:
From ConWebWatch:
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The Internet has spawned a plethora of "alternative" news sources. Some of them -- with substantial backing from political conservatives -- claim to offer some version of the “real truth,” the stories you suppposedly don’t get from “mainstream” media.
In reality, these sites are no less slanted or arrogant than they accuse the "mainstream" media of being. They demonstrate time and again that, despite promoting themselves with words like "fairness," "responsibility," "accuracy" and "balance," their real goal is to attack and discredit anyone who doesn’t agree with them, as well as to promote their own political views -- the same exact thing they accuse the "liberal" media of doing.
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Millions of dollars have been poured into the creation and promotion of these conservative web sites, with money coming from such sources as Richard Mellon Scaife and the usual armada of conservative foundations. Additionally, conservative talk radio hosts often use these conservative news sites as sources of topics to discuss on their shows, giving the slanted, distorted and, on occasion, just plain inaccurate stories that appear on these sites an even greater audience.
The goal of ConWebWatch is to document the distortions, excesses and hypocrisy of these conservative media sites. Using their own words, ConWebWatch hoists the conservative media on the petard of hypocrisy, accuracy and objectivity.
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/about.html _________________________________________________________________
If you go to that site, and search Joseph Farah, you'll find a great deal of his articles and this site's responses to his articles:
Farah is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com
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Media Matters follows him, too:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200409160002 WorldNetDaily.com (WND) founder, editor, and CEO Joseph Farah denied that WorldNetDaily is "conservative." On the September 14 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, host and former Representative Joe Scarborough (R-FL) introduced Farah as "the founder and editor of WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative website." Farah responded, "WorldNetDaily is not a conservative news site. We have never described ourselves that way. ...
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Farah appeared on Scarborough Country to discuss whether "conservative Internet bloggers" could "bring down CBS News'
Dan Rather" over the controversial memos exposed by CBS's 60 Minutes.
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Media Matters for America has repeatedly documented conservative misinformation being propagated by WorldNetDaily.com:
* WND columnist and author Bob Kohn fabricated evidence that Senator John Kerry was having an affair with a New York Times reporter.
* WorldNetDaily.com columnist and White House correspondent Les Kinsolving distorted a 1973 statement by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to smear Kerry.
* WorldNetDaily.com news reports have repeated discredited charges against Kerry's Vietnam war record; distorted a speech by progressive financier and philanthropist George Soros; and claimed that weapons of mass destruction were discovered in Iraq.
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He's an Arab-American Christian Reconstructionist and wrote a book called Taking Back America:
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-newwave.shtml
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Taking America Back does not advocate separatism or secession, although its author, Joseph Farah, says it may be time to "reconsider" the issue. What Farah does advocate is cultural revolution, in which Christians and Jews would take back America using the "long march through the institutions" approach conceived by Marxist Antonio Gramsci. This means reclaiming State and local governments, schools, media and the arts from the atheist left.
http://afajournal.org/2003/may/503_farrah_dw.html
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And how to go about doing that? First and foremost, Farah says Americans must repent and humbly seek God’s help. In addition, he urges a “second American Revolution,” through which the “people must once again take control of their government – not beginning with their elected representatives in Washington, but right in their own backyards” (through involvement on town councils, county commissions, etc.).
He also advocates, among a long list of actions, withdrawing from the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and other “globalist traps;” eliminating all foreign aid; privatizing all federal lands; and abolishing the income tax and the IRS.
For fighting back and restoring liberty to America, Farah suggests twelve steps that include home-schooling children, using local power to resist federal intrusion and mandates, and insulating children from the effects of the popular culture.
On the moral front, Farah says it is imperative that the church come out of its protective shell and become involved once again in civic activities and politics. He acknowledges that the government discourages civic involvement by pastors, priests and rabbis.
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Farah writes and pushes pure propaganda for the neocons and the fanatical Christian Reconstructionists, the latter of which who want to turn our nation into a Christian nation in preparation for the return of Christ (It calls for Christian dominion over government and the enforcement of the general principles of Old Testament moral law, see, for example:
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Christian_Reconstructionism )
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