The conservatives behind some of the worst political smear campaigns have started a super PAC. Takeover Super PAC is backed by a team that includes Joseph Farah, founder of the fringe conspiracy cesspool rag WND; Jerome Corsi, a leading member of the Swift Boat and birther campaigns; and Floyd Brown, producer of the racist Willie Horton ads. The super PACs executive director and treasurer is Internet marketing and communications entrepreneur Thomas Freiling. He previously headed Patriot Super PAC. Joseph Farah is the Chairman of Takeovers Advisory Board. Under Farahs leadership, WND probably did more than any other outlet to popularize and promote conspiracies about President Obamas birth certificate (while simultaneously selling a variety of Wheres the birth certificate? swag). The site has also hosted columns alleging, among other things, that the Obama administration may have orchestrated the terror attacks in Benghazi; that the mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school may have been staged to help pass gun control legislation; and, from Farah himself, the suggestion that President Obama is hoping to foment armed rebellion.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:25:14 +0000