They’re after me, again

What’s the old saying? You’re not paranoid if they really are after you.

Well, they’re after me, again.

Who?

How about the group that wins the award for having the most deceptive name, People for the American Way?

Not only is PAW monitoring my dangerous writings right here, as I have previously pointed out in this space, the group is also eavesdropping on my radio interviews.

Obviously, PAW trying very hard here to paint me with the broad brush of racism and intolerance.

There’s just one problem with this effort: It wasn’t me who came up with the idea of “A Day Without Latinos.” That was the brainchild of those I call “the professional Latinos” – the folks who make a living by taking grants from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations. I just about plotzed when I saw their plan!

We’ve kind of lost the meaning of the word “racism,” it seems to me. Aren’t those who are constantly race-conscious and ethno-centric the real racists? Or is it those who, like me, question their wisdom in doing so?

But it’s not just Norman Lear’s brown shirts after me. It’s also David Brock’s leather-clad storm troopers at Media Matters. These folks, too, aren’t content monitoring the 1,000-plus words I write daily here at WND. They listen in on radio interviews where, I guess, they figure they’ll hear the real stuff!

Media Matters goes on ad nauseam about my assertion, “without any evidence,” that there are 20 million to 30 million illegal aliens in this country rather than the official number of 12 million.

Heck, nobody asked me for any evidence, which I have provided countless times in writing at WND. Rep. Tom Tancredo, chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, agrees with my numbers. To my knowledge, it’s the government that hasn’t provided any evidence to support its official numbers. If someone can tell me how the government “counts” so-called “undocumented immigrants,” I’d really like to know. Given the fact that these people are, by definition, “undocumented,” I assume the government is guessing.

I’m guessing, too. But, while I have no vested interest in guessing high, the government most definitely has a vested interest in guessing low. So take your pick. Either way, it’s far too many.

By the way, it’s not just the extreme left that’s after me, it’s also the right – which, to me, indicates once again just how right I must be.

I don’t read Jonah Goldberg or National Review, but I have it on good authority that the former attacked me in the latter. This from an eyewitness:

“Hello, Joseph Farah. I was reading ‘The Corner’ at National Review and Jonah Goldberg had taken some pot shots at you (on immigration, of course!). I responded to his comments by questioning his moral position with regard to the manner in which he assailed your character,” he wrote.

In a response, Goldberg denied attacking me personally. But he insisted that I did not represent the majority position on immigration. “… [I]f 80 percent of Americans agree with you and Farah, how is it Farah’s side of the debate has been losing all these years?” he asked.

Now let me see here if I can address this question.

Did 80 percent of the people in the old Soviet Union opposed its police state tactics? I think so. So why did it last 75 years?

Do 80 percent of Americans oppose tax increases? I think so. So why do we keep getting them?

Do 80 percent of Americans oppose the ACLU? I think so. So why does it still exist?

I don’t think Goldberg has really thought this idea through.

But don’t get me wrong. Not everyone is attacking me. I received a nice letter from a source for one of my recent columns – Bob Carter, professor of marine geophysical sciences in Australia.

“I have just read your posting regarding the opinion piece on climate change that I published in the Sunday Telegraph last weekend. I both admire your succinct and pungent style, and also appreciate that you took the trouble to read, understand and accurately promulgate what I had written.”

So there, all you naysayers.

But let’s let one of them have the last word. I don’t know what I did or said to evoke this reaction from Matt Wurth. But, in the interest of equal time, the fairness doctrine, free and open debate, etc., etc., here it goes: “You are an idiot. You should kill yourself and do the world a favor.”