Posted 1:48 AM by Scoobie Davis

This is a Trip

During the Clinton years, Joseph Farah ran the Western Journalism Center, a Scaife-funded front group that Farah portrayed as a think tank devoted to the betterment of journalism, but which, in fact, had the primary purpose of attempting to legitimize the shoddy reporting on the "mysterious death" of Clinton aide Vince Foster by Scaife-funded "journalist" Christopher Ruddy. Both Farah and Ruddy were funded by paranoid billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who was a believer in the "Clinton Body Count" urban legend (Scaife viewed Foster's death as "the Rosetta Stone to the whole Clinton Administration..."). When Farah was shilling for Ruddy, he made no disclosure that Scaife was bankrolling both Ruddy and the Western Journalism Center. Based on the code of ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), what Farah did was inexcusable. Even if the code didn't exist, it's clear that what Farah and Ruddy were doing stunk to high heaven.

In today's WorldNetDaily column, Farah calls for a code of ethics for entertainers, citing the SPJ's code for journalists.

NOTE: If you Google "Scaife+paranoid", the first four entries are written by me. I'm stoked.