"Breitbart had to go. The moment he heard Arpaio’s evidence and affirmed it as convincing and valuable for the world to know.... he signed his own death warrant."
Breitbart spent all of 12 minutes on the phone with Arpaio. If Breitbart was so interested in Arpaio's evidence, why did he have no plans to attend Arpaio's news conference?
Just listen to Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro. He makes Grima Wormtongue look like a piker.
Because he works for “World NUT Daily” - few take the man seriously already and as long as HE is the one bringing it forward it’s easy for those in Obama’s camp to dismiss.
[PS - I don’t think I need to say this, but I don’t subscribe to the notion that WND and Joseph Farrah are “off their rocker”, but the “establishment” have succeeded in labeling him as such which is why it’s been so easy for the mainstream to dismiss, and even those on the “other side” who believe he’s ineligible to use WND as a respected resource. Breitbart didn’t HAVE those problems because he put up the proof alongside his words. Farrah and all at WND - despite my great respect for them, and my respect for all they have done, are working under a damaged “brand name”. THAT is why Farrah isn’t a threat - because he’s already (unfairly, IMHO) been discredited years before this as a pusher of “conspiracies”. The same as Alex Jones. They are the ones who history looks kindly upon, but people in their midst don’t understand. When one is sounding a bell that only few hear, others will readily accept the bell-ringer as someone crying wolf. The reason? Because those working on the “edges” of burgeoning issues are ALWAYS thought to be crazy because people fail to understand that just because someone is wrong on one thing, doesn’t mean they weren’t just missing the big picture, becoming misled, confused, or otherwise using misinformation given to them, which makes ALL they touch “contaminated” in the minds of the public.]
Offing Joe Farrah would be too obvious, because Farrah has made this his signature project.
So they’ve Alinsky-ed him instead. In order to mock the “birthers” they had to have somebody they could pin down on it, isolate the, mock them, etc as an example to everybody else. Farrah was their scapegoat, and it’s worked just as they planned. Soros couldn’t threaten everybody. He didn’t threaten the “conservative” blogs like Red State, Ace of Spades, etc. Those mid-level sources instead had to take their cues by seeing what happened to Farrah (for instance) and how the (threatened) bigger “conservatives” ridiculed them. Those trying to climb the ladder were scared by what happened to Farrah.
The same kind of thing happened with Hot Air, which was owned by Michelle Malkin. Malkin is a Fox contributor so she was threatened. I don’t know whether Malkin passed those threats on to Ed Morissey and Allahpundit, or whether they just copycatted the threatened “conservatives” because they didn’t want to go the way of Farrah. In any event, I never once found them willing to listen to facts, and that has turned me off from them on just about everything.
Free Republic has been a haven of sanity for me. But even here, there are people who are afraid of the “conspiracy theory looniness” (as they call it) here because they think it will get Free Republic ridiculed just like WND is ridiculed by “conservatives” (the threatened ones).
So it’s actually a massive experiment on the power of peer pressure. For bullies to get the popular wannabes to fall in line, they have to have somebody to ridicule so everybody else knows what will happen to them if they leave the reservation. That’s what Farrah has been. It was about all Soros could do anyway, because killing him outright would have been too obvious.
Joe Farrah has not the influence that Breitbart had and Farrah has not announced things much ahead of time. He puts out what he has when he has it. He has been sufficiently kookified by the media that what he has to say is not likely considered dangerous but the kenyan faction. Farrah has been scorned repeatedly by commenters on FR over the years.