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Conservatives seek to boycott WorldNetDaily supporters (like the RNC?)

August 31, 2009 2:55 pm ET by Terry Krepel

How far out there is right-wing website WorldNetDaily? So far out that most of its fellow conservatives are not only disassociating themselves from it as fast as it can, but are actively figuring out how to boycott it. From an Aug. 31 post by Jon Henke at The Next Right noting WND's embrace of the claim that the federal government is building concentration camps for U.S. political dissidents:

The Birthers are the Birchers of our time, and WorldNetDaily is their pamphlet. The Right has mostly ignored these embarrassing people and organizations, but some people and organizations inexplicably choose to support WND through advertising and email list rental or other collaboration. For instance, I have been told that F.I.R.E (The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) -- an otherwise respectable group that does important work -- uses the WND email list. They should stop.

No respectable organization should support the kind of fringe idiocy that WND peddles. Those who do are not respectable.

I think it's time to find out what conservative/libertarian organizations support WND through advertising, list rental or other commercial collaboration (email me if you know of any), and boycott any of those organizations that will not renounce any further support for WorldNetDaily.

Ouch. That's gonna leave a mark -- well, it would if Joseph Farah, Jerome Corsi and crew had any sense of shame.

Oh, and one of the organizations that has rented WND's mailing list is ... the Republican National Committee. Here's a screenshot from an RNC email sent out August 27 on the WND list:

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    • Author by Bad News (August 31, 2009 3:01 pm ET)
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      The "Right" awakend this Beast.
      A disassociation? Well that's the Least.
      A Big lie or a Small lie, they both have the same impact.
      Sometimes i feel like Its just Media-Matters & "Mr. News" trying to keep the truth intact.

      Speak truth to power.


      Mr. News
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      • Author by heru (August 31, 2009 9:53 pm ET)
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        How do you tell the difference between a birther protest and a birther funeral? There is one less drunk at the funeral.
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    • Author by DAWUSS (August 31, 2009 3:11 pm ET)
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      Does he have a mass following behind his WND boycott attempt or is he being chewed out by his fellow conservatives?
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (August 31, 2009 3:39 pm ET)
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        How loony does a person or organization have to be to have the mainstream GOP trying to distance itself? That's like getting fired from a brothel for being too promiscuous.
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        • Author by John Paradox (August 31, 2009 6:33 pm ET)
             
          Well, if they (the brothelians) don't charge (enough).....
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    • Author by Übermensch (August 31, 2009 3:56 pm ET)
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      The last paragraph is already being used by that jagoff starkcr31. Cut and Paste GOP dittoheads truly predictable



      The auto industry, health care, banks, etc. are also coming under government control.
      ~starkcr31
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      • Author by congero6189599 (August 31, 2009 4:11 pm ET)
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        I've been seeing and hearing that too almost ver batim.
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        • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (August 31, 2009 4:36 pm ET)
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          Well, I hate to tell you,

          World Nut Daily is just the tip of the iceberg in right-wing loon land.
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      • Author by bintx (August 31, 2009 4:35 pm ET)
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        starkcr31 wouldn't have anything to say if he/she didn't repeat talking points.
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      • Author by magnolialover (August 31, 2009 7:34 pm ET)
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        Of course, people like starkcr and others are ignoring the facts that, banks are paying back their loans, and won't be accountable to the govt for very long. Many of the banks have paid back in full, WITH interest, in other words, we made money on the money we loaned to them. And the govt was running day to day operations, or really, any operations of these banks.

        Same for the mortgage companies.

        Same for the car companies (ignoring that there are more than 2 car companies currently operating in the US as well).

        They make it appear as if the govt is running all of those industries, when they're not, not at all.
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    • Author by Doug-Life (August 31, 2009 4:26 pm ET)
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      except for the birther stuff, pretty good site.
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    • Author by shaggles (August 31, 2009 5:27 pm ET)
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      I thought boycotts were bad? That's what some of our regulars have been saying about the Beck/ColorofCHange thing.
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    • Author by tbone (August 31, 2009 6:13 pm ET)
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      Forget WND, look at the RNC site. Apparently they are aiming at the dunderhead 20% too.

      No analysis of the bill, no discussion of the cost, no quotations of troubling passages to identify loose commitments, no critical challenge of how to pay for it, etc.

      Just fear, fear, fear, and get thyself to a town hall and scream. "THEY'RE WRONG", because we say so. And nothing from RNC on "better" proposals.

      This simpleton bric-a-brac is highly depressing. America deserves better politicians and better solutions.
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