(originally posted by Bunk X)

While webmining this evening, and looking for something entirely unrelated, I found a post by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch from 2008, where he defended himself from irrational “guilt by association” attacks by Charles Johnson:

This whole thing is absurd: Johnson has made it his business to ferret out those who secretly, according to him, support such things, but back on Planet Earth I have repeatedly, and unequivocally, gone on record many times decrying genocide, ethnic supremacism, white nationalism, fascism, Nazism, racism, and, yes, the Aryan Nations. Search this site and you’ll see.

Once one starts dealing with secret allegiances and associations based on a social networking site, you might as well say that I secretly support a military coup that will install Bozo the Clown, or his intellectual peer Charles Johnson, as President-for-Life of the United States. But there is more serious business to attend to.

Robert Spencer was an innocent blogger who was sandbagged by someone he once considered a friend, and was forced to publicly defend himself against pure libel. (SOUND FAMILIAR, PAM?)

Read the whole thing here.

(originally posted by Bunk X)