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I've been 'Googlebombed': Joseph Farah on being selected as target for Internet political assault
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, February 21, 2005 | Joseph Farah

Posted on 02/21/2005 1:11:19 AM PST by JohnHuang2

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Have you ever been Googlebombed?

Would you know it if you had been?

I just found out that I was selected to be the first target of a political Googlebombing attack in 2005 – a distinction I wear as a badge of honor.

By now, most of you are wondering if Farah has flipped his lid. You're probably asking yourself: "What is he talking about? What does it mean to be Googlebombed?"

I'm glad you asked.

A Google bomb is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by the Google search engine.

One of the first Google bombs was discovered in 1999 when someone got the bright idea to search the phrase "more evil than Satan" and Microsoft's home page came up.

But term wasn't coined until two years later in 2001 by Adam Mathes.

Later, Internet users were stunned to find out that when you searched the terms "miserable failure," the first selections were for President Bush. The White House had been Googlebombed. During the 2004 presidential campaign, it was discovered that searching the term "waffles" brought you to the official John Kerry website. It still does. Kerry had been Googlebombed. (He'll probably claim a Purple Heart for this.)

Well, now it's my turn.

Introducing the Googlebombproject, an endeavor apparently launched last month, whose goal is "exposing the hard right through Googlebombing." And, as I mentioned, I was the first target, followed quickly thereafter by radio talker Tammy Bruce and then Karl Rove.

Don't worry, it doesn't hurt. I didn't feel a thing, in fact, until an e-mailer brought this to my attention.

The site, apparently organized by blogger Scoobie Davis (not to be confused with Scoobie Doo) did lead me to a host of inaccurate reports about me and those with whom I am accused of conspiring.

Scoobie announced breathlessly Jan. 6:

I finally started working on the Googlebomb Project site. My first target is Scaife monkey-boy and the head of WorldNetDaily, Joseph Farah. Googlebombing is a cheap, easy method of media hacking. Let's help Internet researchers with the truth about Farah.

But perhaps the most interesting aspect of this Googlebomb attack is not in the words used – but "the art."


Check out this massive acrylic-on-canvas mural painstakingly painted by Joel Pelletier on AmericanFundamentalists.com. It is 8 feet, 4 inches by 14 feet, 1.5 inches – a knockoff of an 1888 Ensor original.


Pelletier admits it took him six months to study and paint this band of conspirators, which includes yours truly, as well as George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch, Ann Coulter and close to 120 others.

Why?

Because "all Americans need to know what is going on – the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that Hillary Clinton warned about is real, they think they can do no wrong with God on their side, and they are here on this painting," the artist hyperventilates.

Yes, promoting this conspiracy is part of the Googlebomb attack on me. Now when people search my name, they will see me linked with other famous "fundamentalists" like Bill O'Reilly and Sun Myung Moon.

Scratch just under the surface of some of the other links used in this particular Googlebomb effort and you will see the dark underbelly of the impotent, extremist American Left – a sick and seething anti-Semitism so virulent it would make Josef Goebbels blush.

In an open letter written to me, one of the Googlebomb conspirators charges:

Jewish power is pushing us to the eve of destruction, and ... you are a liar and a hypocrite and just as unethical in your own way as the media you seek to supersede.

It just warms my heart that people like this detest me so that they would make me their No. 1 Googlebomb target in 2005.

I pledge to do my best this year and beyond to live up to and fulfill their worst nightmares.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: farah; google; googlebomb; influence; internet; web
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To: JohnHuang2

"Scoobie Davis" is a part of these KOOKS, Media Matters (admitted LIAR David Brock) Bob Somerby, CJR [Campaign Desk], Atrios.


21 posted on 02/21/2005 3:03:32 AM PST by kcvl
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To: GeronL
"Scobbie Davis" is a HUGE party INVADER...

Report: Men with bogus limo pass breach Oscar security

Published 12:20 a.m. PST Monday, March 25, 2002

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three men used a bogus limousine pass to breach tight Oscar security and get right up to the red carpet, KCBS-TV reported.

The men, who run a Los Angeles area cable-access show, videotaped themselves getting waved through security checkpoints by smiling officers.

KCBS aired some of the footage. The men said they got through three checkpoints with no difficulties. The men - two photographers identified as Frank Cromer and Scoobie Davis and a limo driver identified as Travis - used a limousine pass they said was made on a copy machine by an obliging limo driver they met at a copy shop.

22 posted on 02/21/2005 3:07:05 AM PST by kcvl
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Playing a fake movie star in a tuxedo, veteran party-crasher Scoobie Davis waved and screamed to the celebrity-starved crowd which went wild.
23 posted on 02/21/2005 3:08:18 AM PST by kcvl
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To: John Lenin
February 17, 2005

Davis' next move is to contact the local U.S. Attorney to have Horowitz indicted for violating the Espionage Act.

posted by Scoobie Davis / 5:56 AM

24 posted on 02/21/2005 3:11:11 AM PST by kcvl
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To: JohnHuang2
Scoobie Davis: I wanted to get a jump on reading the (Ann Coulter) book "I had a friend who has mainstream media ties obtain a review copy from the publisher." I also was curious about Coulter’s media itinerary and had my friend contact Coulter’s publicist. Ironically, they didn’t have the itinerary but they called him back and offered to let him do a phone interview with Coulter for radio. He didn’t want any part of it but I thought it would be cool to ask her about some of the misrepresentations and distortions in the book.

On July 11, 2002, I interviewed Ann Coulter. I had a blast. Actually, it was more of a media prank than an interview because I posed as someone else during most of the interview.

25 posted on 02/21/2005 3:19:46 AM PST by kcvl
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To: backhoe

Heh, I went and looked at the mural in Photoshop...

You know how the art of the Soviets and the PRC all had a certain "sameness" to it? They all looked they were done by the same people utilizing the same thought process.

That is the impression I got when I looked at this image. It uses the same themes I see in murals painted in Cambridge, MA.

These folks gotta grow up and get some originality. Oooooohhhh....shades of "Sargent Pepper"...


26 posted on 02/21/2005 3:26:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Teresa Heinz-Kerry, better known as Kerry's "Noisy Two Legged ATM")
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To: GeronL; All
This is so pathetically simple to fix, it's sad. Sad to discover that our opposition has stooped to such feeble little party tricks.

<a href="http://www.newsmax.com">The Googlebomb Project</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.anncoulter.com">The Googlebomb Project</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1347713/posts">The Googlebomb Project</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.cafepress.com/snafugear/330811">The Googlebomb Project</a>
<p>

You'll end up with this:

The Googlebomb Project

The Googlebomb Project

The Googlebomb Project

The Googlebomb Project

Stupid, lame ass liberals. The more they whine, the sadder their 'rebuttals' get.

27 posted on 02/21/2005 3:36:32 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
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To: JohnHuang2

Could you explain what is going on to a older less computer knowledgeable boomer?


28 posted on 02/21/2005 3:53:23 AM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: LibertarianInExile
Funnier still...I was just checking to see if their own site had been bombed yet, and discovered THIS site:

http://www.libertyroundtable.org/projects/googlebomb/verizon.html

Which is doing the same thing re:RKBA, but from a CONSERVATIVE viewpoint to demonstrate against companies that don't approve the RKBA on their property. For instance, Verizon wants helpless employees.

I still think it's lame, but whatever. I'm still making sure Michael Moore is a miserable failure, and Maureen Dowd's picture is well known, so maybe I shouldn't talk. 8^]

29 posted on 02/21/2005 3:57:26 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
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To: JohnHuang2

The mural is titled, "Christ's entry into Washington in 2008"

What an honor to be on that mural.


30 posted on 02/21/2005 4:07:58 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: John Lenin
Just type in your name and see what pops up. You might be surprised.

I Did! Boy was I ever surprised. You should see how much stuff is out there for John Smith.

-John Smith
31 posted on 02/21/2005 4:24:22 AM PST by Bear_Slayer
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To: JohnHuang2

Pro-lesbo Tammy Bruce? Hard right?? OMG.


32 posted on 02/21/2005 4:31:58 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: JohnHuang2
A google of "Joseph Farah" comes up with these results, among others, right on the first page of results:

Joseph Farah, Crusher of Dissent
Exhibit 24: Joseph Farah, Crusher of Dissent. By Terry Krepel Posted 9/8/2003. How can Joseph Farah top himself after advocating the murder of adulterers? ... conwebwatch.tripod.com/outthere/otfarah.html - 14k - Feb 19, 2005 -

Birdman Bryant: Joseph Farah: Unethical, Hypocritical Liar
Joseph Farah: Unethical, Hypocritical Liar. Who Avoids the Real Issue - Jews. By John "Birdman" Bryant. To: Joseph Farah, Editor, WorldNetDaily. ... www.thebirdman.org/Index/NetLoss/NetLoss-Farah.html - 13k -

American Fundamentalists by Joel Pelletier
... The Cast of Characters (return to cast list) Media: Joseph Farah Do you have bio material or quotes for this person? Please email it to me! ... www.americanfundamentalists.com/cast/farah.html - 24k -

33 posted on 02/21/2005 4:36:10 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: ViLaLuz
Forgot to mention...

Pro-lesbo, pro-abortion Tammy Bruce? Hard right?? OMG.

34 posted on 02/21/2005 4:36:55 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: JohnHuang2

Dang, that mural is ugly.


35 posted on 02/21/2005 7:55:33 AM PST by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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To: LibertarianInExile

Can you clue me in on the Dowd Joke re the Zeta-Jones pic? I keep seeing people post Zeta-Jones to Dowd threads but its going over my head.


36 posted on 02/21/2005 9:36:47 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: JohnHuang2
Googlebomb: Girlymen Impotence! (laughing)

(Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

37 posted on 02/21/2005 9:56:31 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: JohnHuang2
Check out this massive acrylic-on-canvas mural painstakingly painted by Joel Pelletier on AmericanFundamentalists.com

If I strapped a paint brush on my dog's tail, she could paint better than this...

38 posted on 02/21/2005 9:59:29 AM PST by Drango (NPR/PBS is the propaganda wing of the DNC.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
This is a public forum! DO NOT POST THE SECRET DECODER RING IN PUBLIC.

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39 posted on 02/21/2005 10:02:37 AM PST by Drango (NPR/PBS is the propaganda wing of the DNC.)
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To: Fenris6

I think there's a Michael Douglas connection. He dumped Dowd for CZJ.


40 posted on 02/21/2005 10:14:02 AM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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