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The Van Jones resignation is being blamed on "right wing attacks," which must be French for "publicizing statements made by a Far Left loon." You're welcome. Many of those outlets that have recieved the most scorn in the last year - Glen Beck, right wing blogs, World Net Daily, Fox News - were also the only ones who did the basic level of research (on a man who was an avowed communist entrusted with advising the president on "green jobs") that is supposedly the preserve of the NY/DC media. Vox Day takes a moment to crow and to defend his employer: WND Column: Glorious Fall of a Red Czar

It is amusing that a few very silly people with dubious right-wing credentials have begun to call for a boycott of WND because they claim it to be a part of "the lunatic fringe." This call is particularly bizarre coming from Megan McArdle, a blogger for The Atlantic; how can anyone take seriously advice on ideologically policing the right from an ersatz libertarian who not only supported the banking bailouts but actually voted for Obama! Now there is your true lunatic fringe – Keynesian libertarians for Obama: total membership, one. Back on Earth, the resignation of Van Jones and the increasing interest in proof of Obama's eligibility for the presidency clearly demonstrates that WorldNetDaily is neither lunatic nor fringe.

WorldNetDaily's reporting has forced one communist out of the White House, which is a lot more than one can say for the Republican Party leadership , whose main accomplishment of late is forcing Republicans out of Congress.

"Keynsian libertarians for Obama: total membership one." Hee Hee. McArdle may be one of the most beloved bloggers on the Net, and a formidable voice on economic issues, but her advocacy for Obama last fall was embarrassing, especially as it obviously arose from her urban snobbery against Sarah Palin and her "thought" that it would be great for America to have a black president. For someone who prides herself on her rationality, McArdle "stepped in it" intellectually and it's about time someone called her out, even if it's unlikely that she even knows who Vox Day is.

As for WND, it's literally been years since I checked it out. Back when I first discovered the Net (ca. 2000), there weren't too many places to look. There was Drudge, a primitive version of Town Hall, Real Clear Politics (I think), and WND. I stopped reading WND after the blogosphere took off and there were a lot more outlets for cosnervative thought out there. Plus, WND had some flakey stuff (stories about UFO's, the Book of Revelations, etc) that I just couldn't take anymore. But, I didn't start telling people to boycott it. I just stopped reading it. But, who cares what I think? WND is obviously succeeding and doing important work (it started writing about Jones in April and broke a lot of Jones stories), that the mainstream media doesn't just ignore, but actively suppresses.

Maybe the fact that Jones was a communist who also expressed support for 9/11 conspiracy theories is a truth that "respectable" people in the media don't want to deal with; but it is a fact that a lot of people outside of the coasts would find interesting and very telling of the sort of people who are ascendant in the executive branch. WND provides an outlet for this sort of information, like it or not. OK, they also publish a lot of dubious stories on the Very Important Question of Obama's Birth Certificate, time that would be better spent researching Obama's college transcripts (undoubtedly filled with all sorts of Lunatic Nut Fringe Thought 101 type classes). But, hey, Farah paid for his microphone, so he can do whatever the hell he likes. Rather than calling for a boycott, his critics would do better asking WND for a job.