Joseph Farah ends his May 18 WorldNetDaily column by saying that “the SPLC doesn’t waste its ammunition on ineffective enemies.” Neither, of course, does WND (we can attest to that) — Farah’s column is a pre-emptive strike on the Southern Poverty Law Center in advance of an upcoming SPLC article on WND.
Farah dumps long paragraphs of previous SPLC work on WND, nitpicks minor factual inaccuracies, then bashes the SPLC for being nothing more than “a smarmy, money-driven pseudo-charity that leans to the left of the Communist Party USA whose specialty is attack pieces.”
Given how Farah is turning WND into a for-profit anti-Obama super PAC, his criticism of SPLC’s fundraising is laughable. His bashing SPLC for “attack pieces” is doubly so, since that’s pretty much WND’s stock in trade.
Farah goes on to grumble that SPLC leader Morris Dees “pays himself more than $280,000 a year,” but he’s silent about how much he pays himself as the head of WND.
Meanwhile, we’ll be looking forward to that SPLC profile. We’ll know it’s out when Farah has another freak-out over it.