Farah’s Money Begs Ramp Up Again As WND’s ‘Existential Threat’ Grows

You can tell when Joseph Farah is running out of money to keep his WorldNetDaily alive — he ramps up the begging for money … and prayers. 

The latest round kicked off with a March 18 column asking for prayers and adding: 

Now let me be totally transparent with you. WND is on the edge. Yes, we’re doing somewhat better, but it’s not always easy to pay unexpected bills, often resulting from some new lawsuit or attack or other. And boy, do we have unexpected bills. I know everyone does – which makes it harder to ask for help.

But I don’t want to FAIL YOU, after so many years. I don’t want to FAIL AMERICA, in its most desperate hours.

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What did we do wrong? Well, in addition to upholding Christian moral values, the sanctity of human life and the Constitution at every turn, we also strongly supported Donald Trump for president in 2016. He was a total breath of fresh air, telling America exactly what he thought – unheard-of for a politician – and proclaiming a boldly pro-America agenda. And he won the election in 2016 over Hillary Clinton. What a relief!

However, Big Tech never forgave us for championing Trump; they throttled us in every possible way, eventually demonetizing us. And because of Google and Facebook, which together control the vast majority of online advertising – up to 99% – WND lost a huge amount of advertising revenue that had largely sustained us year after year.

Actually, what Farah did wrong is publish fake news and promote conspiracy theories, but he’ll never admit that, even as he went on to uniroinically complain about “this climate of wall-to-wall lies” (which he, in fact, helped to create).

In his March 21 column, Farah claimed to offer “my (and WND’s) official story – the good, the bad and the ugly” — though he didn’t mention his first marriage, out of which came his estranged eldest child, Alyssa. It unsurprisingly ended in his usual conspiracy theory about being a victim of “big tech” and, of course, a money beg: “If you love WND for what it does, there’s a way for anyone in these hard times, these increasingly evil times, to help us, even if you don’t have two plug nickels to rub together.”

Farah noted WND’s upcoming 25th anniversary in his March 29 column, adding, “So let me ask you, as we approach our 25th anniversary: If you appreciate what we have done and what we still do here at WND, would you please prayerfully consider helping us right now?” He also wrote: “If everyone who cares about WND’s continued existence and would like us to continue to report faithfully and TRUTHFULLY every single day – 7 days a week as we have for the last 25 years – if all of you could just do your part, some more, some less, I have no doubt we’ll make it. And hopefully make it for another 25 years!” Farah seems to have forgotten that we have the receipts for all the untruthful reporting WND has published.

The next day, however, Farah was sounding a little more dire — but not before laying out his old conspiracy theories first:

America invented freedom of the press, in case you didn’t know.

Now, the shock troops of Google and the rest of Big Tech are destroying it, brick by brick, with their “official news.” If your news presentation does not support Joe Biden and the DEEP STATE, you don’t make it into Big Tech’s news feeds, which is where so many tens of millions of people get their news.

Thus, for example, no dissent is tolerated with regard to the “pandemic.” No dissent is tolerated regarding the 2020 presidential election. No dissent is tolerated regarding LGBTQ issues. No dissent is tolerated. Period.

Thus, WND has been officially and permanently DEMONETIZED by Google – with the emphasis on DEMON.

As we documented, WND was demonetized by Google because it no longer wanted to do business with a website best known for publishing fake news and conspiracy theories. Then came the more specific money beg:

I’ll lay it out for you straight. Because of the costs involved in defending WND against a multitude or attacks and lawsuits and Big Tech cancellations, we need to raise a minimum of $100,000 over and above our normal expenses in the next three months – by June 30. We’ll keep you posted on our progress. We had to take out a loan this week just to pay our bills.

The deck is stacked against the independent press, and not just due to attacks and boycotts by the cultural elite and malicious lawsuits intended to silence us. The same forces that have been mobilized against Donald Trump have been directed also at WND, since our pro-American, pro-Constitution, pro-life and pro-biblical worldview is now considered so offensive as to merit being shut down.

I’m asking for the help of those who recognize the unique role WND plays in reaching the God-fearing American audience that, like us, supports limited government, national sovereignty and the traditional Judeo-Christian values that made America truly great.

Please, help us to weather this storm by giving as much as you can to support us in this critical hour.

In his April 15 column, Farah was playing victim again along with his favorite president (and he’s not referring to Joe Biden, who he is actively trying to sabotage):

When both the president of the United States and WND, a leader in the media for 25 years, can be so sabotaged in plain sight and without recourse, you know the First Amendment is in real danger.

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For 25 years next month, WND, or WorldNetDaily, has championed the cause of “a free press for a free people,” performing the vital job of fearlessly reporting the truth – something the “mainstream media” pretend to do, but, as is now painfully obvious to almost everyone, does not.

Even though Elon Musk may buy out Twitter, there’s no billionaire coming to rescue us.

There are no millionaires or billionaires supporting WND, as is the case with other top-tier alternative media organizations. We at WND have always earned our own way. The good side of that arrangement is, we’ve never been beholden to anyone other than the Good Lord and you.

I’m asking you to help us in this time of urgent need. It’s not easy to make a plea like this to you, our faithful readers, and I do so in all humility.

I’ll lay it out for you straight: To survive the many current attacks against WND that threaten to shut us down and – very frankly – make it almost impossible for us even to pay our dedicated journalists, we need to raise $100,000 as quickly as possible.

Farah drove the point home by putting “existential threat” in the headline.

Farah used his April 22 column to once again hype WND’s upcoming 25th anniversary — and, of course, beg for money. He included a picture of WND’s first headquarters, described only as being “on a ranch in Selma, Oregon”; as we’ve documented (but Farah doesn’t mention), that ranch was owned by accused cult leader Roy Masters and his Foundation of Human Understanding. Farah then listed what he claimed were some of WND’s accomplishments:

One of the proudest moments for me was our sustained coverage of the Terri Schiavo case. WND was the only news outlet that covered the saga of this young, disabled woman, who was eventually starved to death by court order, following it closely for two years before it became, for a short time, the biggest story in the world. I am convinced that without WND’s coverage, few would even know the name Terri Schiavo today.

In fact, WND falsely accused Terri’s husband and supporters of being murderers, refused to let them respond , fell for a false April Fool’s joke about him, and a book about the case by a WND reporter was even more biased.

Farah also referenced ” the killing of another innocent: Miriam Carey, a young black dental hygienist from Connecticut who was gunned down by Secret Service and Capitol Police on the streets of Washington for making a wrong turn near the White House.” In fact, it was clear from the outset that Carey’s death was a tragedy — she was driving suspiciously and erratically in a nervous Washington, D.C., just two weeks after a shooter killed 12 people at D.C.’s Navy Yard — and that she was merely a pawn in Farah’s failed war on President Obama. He also is exceedingly proud of this:

I can’t forget WND’s dogged pursuit of Barack Obama’s eligibility issue, culminating in its book “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” going to No. 1 at Amazon, forcing the White House to retrieve what it claimed was the legitimate document from Hawaii a day later. The pursuit of this story, it should be recalled, got Donald Trump involved in arguably his first major controversial political act. And who was dispatched to Hawaii to magically find the elusive “birth certificate” so easily when the governor said it couldn’t be found? The fixers at the Democratic Party’s favorite law firm, Perkins Coie.

This was a turning point for the nation!

The only turning point we’re aware of is that WND’s eight years of insisting that a clearly false story was true demonstrated once and for all that WND cared only about pushing conspiracy theories, not engaging in factual reporting. 

Then Trump became president and Farah was very happy. Until…

Then the unexpected happened to me. I had my first stroke – a minor one. Then, tragically, a devastating series of FOUR! I was left unable to speak or write. My wife stepped in as chief operating officer while I concentrated on healing. It was a long shot at best – and meanwhile, Google, Facebook and Amazon had their way with us. The toll? Over the next year, I watched from the sidelines as America stood at the brink, during what was literally the best of times and the worst of times. For the first time, I was reduced to spectator status.

I went through hell – as did the company, which over the last few years lost revenues at a record pace. We went from $15 million in annual revenues to about $1 million. We lost our book division, our film division and more as we teetered toward bankruptcy. But the first independent online news service survived and reinvented itself as best it could – adding a nonprofit component, the WND News Center, and tax-deductibility to sustain its unique journalistic niche.

Then there was another calamity – COVID-19. It may have been part of a diabolical attack on the world when it was unleashed by China. Or else it was an inconvenient accident of which Beijing took full advantage. Whatever it was, it left America reeling and the cabal of Tech Tyrants running things even more completely.

No mention, of course, of the allegations of financial shenanigans at WND reported by the Washington Post in 2019 that Farah and Co. have yet to publicly address (WND actually tried to distract from it by announcing that Farah had suffered a stroke, which it had kept secret for a few weeks). 

Farah was sounding a little desperate at the end of his column:

At almost 67, I’m not a kid anymore. But I’m giving WND my all for the time I have. Pray for us. Pray for Donald Trump, who has proven to be the only man capable of taking on the Tech Tyrants. Join with us. Support us. We’re not through. We’re still here. We plan on ushering in better times for America!

Make America Great Again, indeed – in the name of God!

And in the meantime, we do need money, because we’ve been permanently DEMONITIZED by Google and YouTube and suppressed, abused and defamed by the rest of Big Tech. So we have to hold out our hands to friends like you – people who appreciate us!

Just go to HELP WND to become one of the few, the proud, the supporters of WND! We are currently attempting to raise at least $100,000 by the end of June, so that we can continue to serve you for many more years. Thank you and God bless you. And please HELP WND.

The problem here is that Farah may be showing humility by begging for money, but he’s showing no remorse for his key role bringing WND to this point. His strategy of blaming everyone else but himself when everyone can see his editorial strategy of conspiracy theories and fake news drove away readers has failed is not the true humility people need to see from him, and the fact that the same failed editorial strategy is continuing today demonstrates he has yet to learn the lesson he needs to learn from this self-created crisis. 

The question is whether he will learn that lesson before it’s too late — for him and for WND.