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Not to go supernatural on you, but karma will kick you in the junk if you mess with it.

Former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach is being trashed by his former employer and taking a beating in the arena of public opinion, but he brought it all on himself.

His teams scored a lot and then ran up big scores when they could. He demeaned his players. He trashed other schools.

And now, karma is stomping a mudhole in him.

The same thing is happening to World Nut Daily founder Joseph Farah, whose lunatic fringe Web site is the one-stop shop of choice for conspiracy buffs and right wing fanatics. It’s also a source of endless laughs for schadenfreude addicts such as your truly.

Loon is as loon does
The lead story on WND, as of this writing, concerns Farrah whining about his Wikipedia entry.

The “story” says there’s a campaign by Farrah’s enemies to deface and

defile his Wikipedia entry. It goes into exhaustive detail about the

smears, in which Farrah is called a “Zionist Twit and Jew-Loving Pig”

among other things. His site is called a terrorist organization, and

its editorial agenda is referred to as “pro-white.”

Wait. Is this the first time that Wikipedia forgery and WND’s agenda have bumped into each other?

Why, no. It’s not. 

A brief history of fakery
Here’s what I wrote in March: More fringe hilarity: World Net Daily, which is Google for

the tin foil hat, black helicopter crowd,  trumpeted its

ground-breaking investigation that Barack Obama’s Wikipedia entries had

been doctored. The authenticity of Wikipedia is an old story, but this

implied a concerted effort to sanitize the entry. Then a funny thing

happened when bloggers began looking into the story. It turns out the

author of the piece told his paid researcher to stick bogus information

into Obama’s entry, watched it be deleted, and then wrote his expose.

In other words, he planted the story.”


you’ll remember, it was a Wikipedia page on the Birth Idiocy. WND

writer Aaron Klein’s researcher did the dirty work as a Wikipedia user

named “Jerusalem 21,” and then Klein wrote the story. (The Huffington Post broke the story of Klein’s scam and Gawker summarized it nicely.)

WND’s long-winded narrative of his Wikipedia entry, by the way, doesn’t mention Klein’s actions.


since Farrah’s organization has been guilty of fouling the waters of

Wikipedia, we shouldn’t feel too badly about him being muddied by the


That’s bad karma at work.

If Farrah was

minding his own business and not clowning with Wikipedia, most of us would support

his concerns about it being used to attack him.

But since his staff did the exact same thing to further his political agenda, we can just lean back and laugh about it.


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Roy Bragg

4 Responses

  1. steve says:

    I see reporters, commenters, columnists, etc use questionable, subjective websites, such as Wikipedia,,, etc as sources every day. Just because it’s printed on the web doesn’t mean it’s true. Every fact checking organization I have ever looked into myself always has a backer with an agenda. Just because you read it in the paper, hear it on the radio, see it on TV or see, hear, read it on line doesn’t necessarily make it true. Fact checking organizations have to have a source for their info, and the people who were a source for the fact checkers have to have their source. It’s like when you get ten people together to whisper a secret in each other’s ear. By the time it gets to the tenth person, the story has changed entirely. Due your due diligence. Subjective with an agenda is not objective.

  2. Duane says:

    You just used one of the most liberal partisan extremist websites (huffington post) to discredit another supposed conservative partisan extremist websites that was doing a story on the extremely left-leaning wikipedia website? This is the definition of irony. Did the Daily KOS (another liberal partisan extremist website) not have a reporter covering the story?