Conservatives seek to boycott WorldNetDaily: GOP rents WND's mailing list

babylonsister

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:02 PM
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Conservatives seek to boycott WorldNetDaily: GOP rents WND's mailing list

Edited on Mon Aug-31-09 05:18 PM by babylonsister

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908310018

Conservatives seek to boycott WorldNetDaily

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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Taverner

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:05 PM
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1. Wow - someone out there isn't an idiot

OF COURSE WND MAKES US ALL LAUGH AT YOU GUYS!!!!!

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babylonsister

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:08 PM
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3. Love that picture, especially after hearing the story. Thanks. nt

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Taverner

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:09 PM
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4. Me too - I was bawling during that part

As a dad it just hit me

THWAK!

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SalmonChantedEvening

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:08 PM
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2. No Longer Useful Idiots n/t

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DCKit

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:15 PM
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5. Loyalty is a one-way street with that bunch. n/t

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:19 PM
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6. Uh, someone needs to tell the RNC that

a lot of the banks that were bailed out are turning a profit and paying the money back.

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