The lipstick-on-a-pig gambit is apparently failing at WorldNetDaily.
Over the past year, WND has redesigned its website, added some new columnists and writers and started a couple of podcasts, including one by Elizabeth Farah. But it appears that giving up even the pretense of a real “news” outlet in favor of being a full-throated, subservient member of the Trump Regime Media is not working out as planned: Web traffic has declined since the presidential election, it has reduced the number of columnists it publishes (for instance, Media Research Center-linked writers Tim Graham and Terry Jeffrey have been given the boot, presumably because they’re syndicated columnists who cost WND money to publish) and is updating its commentary section only three days a week.
This has now been followed by that longtime WND staple, the money beg. Joseph Farah wrote in a Feb. 20 letter to the WND mailing list that rehashes the usual right-wing tropes and conspiracy theories:
You’re no doubt overjoyed – as we are at WorldNetDaily along with millions of other Americans – at President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire rollout of his various agendas intended to “Make America Great Again.”
I agree, it’s awesome. But does Trump’s blitzkrieg-like efforts to reform the U.S. government and its policies mean the war for America is over?
Not a chance. For while a life-or-death battle was won on Election Day, the larger war waged by a determined foe continues on many fronts. In truth, most of the forces on the other side of this epic war over America’s future remain untouched by Trump’s presidency: Big Tech (with a few notable exceptions) is still in the hands of the censorship-addicted far Left. The so-called “mainstream media” still broadcasts leftwing propaganda from morning to night. More important, our nation’s entire education system, from preschool to grad school, is still filled with toxic Marxist ideology, sexual/gender insanity … and even “After School Satan Clubs.” (Yes, seriously – we now have satanic clubs for your children and grandchildren in some states’ public schools, sponsored by the Salem, Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple.)
I’m sure you get my point. There are more urgent battles to fight and win. Because, truth be told, despite all their outrageous pre-election “Trump is Hitler” rhetoric, our adversaries have never been at war only with Donald Trump, but with traditional, Bible-loving, Judeo-Christian America as well. That’s what Trump is talking about when he says, “In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you – and I’m just standing in their way.”
Keep in mind also, these people detest giving up power in any sphere, and will attempt to maintain or regain that power any way they can – legal or illegal, thinkable or unthinkable.
All of which is to say that a free, robust and courageous press that boldly publishes and broadcasts TRUTH from morning to night is still essential to fighting and winning the ongoing war to restore America to its biblical, constitutional and freedom-loving roots. It is needed now as much as ever.
Yes, America needs media outlets committed to “TRUTH from morning to night” — but WND has never been that outlet — it’s much better known for the lies and misinformation it publishes. And, of course, there was no mention of how WND loved to liken Barack Obama to Hitler and other assorted Nazis. then we get to the meat of the money beg:
Friends, ever since Big Tech started demonetizing, shadow-banning, defaming, deplatforming and censoring WorldNetDaily, at the same time destroying the traditional advertising-based business model that supported us for decades, YOU have kept WorldNetDaily alive with your financial support. For that reason, with great gratitude and respect, I urgently ask you to consider continuing your generous support for America’s genuinely free press. (As you may recall, our motto since our founding way back in 1997 has been “A FREE PRESS for a FREE PEOPLE.”)
Specifically, we have set a goal of at least $100,000 that we need to raise by the end of February in order to continue our ongoing program of expanding and amplifying our Christian news outreach in key ways.
Hopefully, you have experienced at least some the bold new features we introduced in WorldNetDaily during 2024: Our popular midday “WND Live” news analysis video show airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; my wife Elizabeth’s highly successful video interview program “The Elizabeth Farah Show” featuring top-tier guests – from Steve Bannon and Eric Metaxas to Dinesh D’Souza and David Friedman (Trump’s first term U.S. ambassador to Israel) and many others – all who help illuminate both America’s biggest challenges lying ahead, and the most inspired solutions.
Then there are the stunning recent editions of our Whistleblower Special Report, including the much- discussed “Kamala’s America” issue, which due to the urgency of the November election we chose to advertise on television and GIVE AWAY FREE to many thousands of American voters. Possibly the single most powerful, shocking, all-under-one-cover indictment of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz available anywhere (Tucker Carlson called it “awesome”), we pulled out all the stops and worked around the clock to get this amazing special report before as many voters as possible. So yes, we can hold our heads high and say we “went to war” and were, thank the Lord, on the winning side.
That “special report” was an in-kind contribution to Trump’s campaign, filled with misinformation and propaganda, and it’s an insult to real journalists for Farah to portray it as a work of journalism. Crowing that you’re on the “winning side” doesn’t mean you’re on the side of truth.
Farah closed with more propaganda:
One last and very important point: You know that WND is made up of veteran print and broadcast journalists who are also absolutely committed Christian believers. That unique combination, in turn, means we are absolutely dedicated to helping restore the REAL America – the one you and I grew up loving and cherishing and thanking God for. The fantastic new Trump administration kindles a hope in all of us that maybe our country actually can return to its former goodness and greatness! And that, friends, is ultimately that WorldNetDaily is all about. And that is exactly what we at WND are fervently working toward every day, from morning to night, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.
In closing, I hope and pray you’ll see fit to support of the 501(c)3 nonprofit WND News Center. Please help us reach our $100,000 goal before the end of February so that our strong Christian journalistic voice can continue to illuminate Truth and Light in a world where deception and darkness are forever trying to take total control.
Farah has apparently stopped to consider the possibility that WND’s deceitful and hate-filled journalism is actually on the side of deception and darkness and not “Truth and Light,” as he has deluded himself into believing.