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To: redfish who wrote (30036)	7/25/2005 5:38:38 AM
From: redfish	Respond to of 361855

Snake Oil Salesman Farah Sells Info on Terrorist Attacks Wednesday April 13th 2005, 1:19 pm Danger, danger, Will Robinson! Evil Islamic terrorists, having deliberately infected themselves with the Ebola-like Marburg disease, are on the loose and are bent on spreading “the plague to the West, according to a report in the premium, online, intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.” It’ll cost you about $200 to learn more. You’d think Mr. Farah would post this information as a public service—but no, he wants to charge you big bucks to learn more. Nothing sells online newsletter subscriptions like the prospect of terrorists spreading Marburg, a form of hemorrhagic fever that “inflicts deadly internal bleeding” on its victims. Farah’s come-on teaser posted on the WorldNetDaily site reveals nothing about terrorists—beyond a screaming headline: Fear bio-terrorists may spread plague—and simply regurgitates information about a Marburg outbreak in Angola and the United Nations ceasing operations there. “The Marburg virus is believed to have originated in Africa’s monkey population, with the first known transmission to humans in 1967,” concludes the editor of WorldNetDaily, and then follows this with a subscription link to “Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.” If you want to know more about the terrorism angle and maybe how to protect yourself and your family, you’ll have to cough up nearly 200 bucks. I can’t help but think about David Horowitz when I read such nonsense. Far right-wingers such as Farah and Horowitz consider terrorism and anti-Americanism a nice way to scare up some extra change, sort of a 24/7 pledge drive to save America from the likes of Osama, Michael Moore, and small-time bloggers such as yours truly, who was actually taken to task recently on Horowitz’s blog for the sin of criticizing and parodying his absurd database, Discover the Network, a smear portal that attempts to make a connection between the likes of Barbara Streisand and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and also for supposedly expressing “sympathies for the enemy,” that is to say allowing an Italian website to re-post my blog entries. According to Horowitz and his nasty little Zionist scrivener, Steven Plaut, I am a fan of Saddam Hussein. In fact, as a fan of Ronald Reagan, Horowitz is closer to Saddam Hussein—who the Bedtime for Bonzo cum president shared a “close relationship” with—than I will ever be. I don’t know how much money Joseph Farah makes on his WolrdNetDaily and online newsletter operation, the former described by Farah as “the largest independent news site on the net.” For some reason Farah does not believe his site is “conservative,” even though it shamelessly shilled for Republicans and Bush during the last so-called “election.” So vehement was Farah and Crew to get Bush back in the White House, “WND columnist and author Bob Kohn fabricated evidence that Senator John Kerry was having an affair with a New York Times reporter,” according to Media Matters for America (see previous link). “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.” Such dirty tricks are common for “conservatives,” who are in fact Strausscon variants. (Note: I am not a fan of either Kerry or Soros, who I believe are the flip side of the neocon-neolib coin.) Incidentally, as if to make sure we understand Farah and Horowitz play by the same rules and are interested in raking in as much cash as possible on baseless and imaginary terrorist threats, Horowitz’s FrontPageMagazine carried Farah’s news-item-cum-advert yesterday. Note: an extensive search of Google’s news site returns absolutely zilch on this so-called story. In order to read more about this scary campfire story, you have to shell out almost $200 to Farah. kurtnimmo.com