Posted on 04/03/2019 11:30:29 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
In the feverish heyday of the “birther movement,” conspiracy-hungry readers swarmed to a website called WorldNetDaily for the latest on the specious yet viral theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
The site’s founder, Joseph Farah — a former newspaperman with a dense, jet-black mustache and a cloak-and-dagger mystique — boasted in 2010 that he was well on the way to generating $10 million a year in revenue. His Northern Virginia-headquartered news site, known by the acronym WND, was having its moment by stoking rumors about Obama.
But Farah — a conservative Internet pioneer who’d once been labeled by the Clinton White House as part of a right-wing media conspiracy and was known to sport a pistol on his hip in the office—saw bigger things. Years earlier he’d launched one of the first large-scale digital newsgathering operations; now he wanted to be a player in Christian-themed movies and book publishing, churning out titles by big-name conservatives, such as anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly and future House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
He was building an empire.
A decade later, that realm is being sucked into a tornado of unpaid bills, pink-slipped employees, chaotic accounting, declining revenue and diminishing readership, according to interviews with more than 25 former employees, shareholders, company insiders and authors associated with the firm's flailing publishing units, as well as a review of hundreds of internal documents, including emails and financial statements obtained by The Washington Post.
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I found the nickname Wing Nut Daily to be appropriate.
Yeah.
They obviously had something waiting for such a circumstance.
The upshot of all this is that practically speaking anyone on earth who has attained the age of 35(well, that seems to hold still but who knows now?) is eligible to be President of the United States. Perhaps it is time for the UN to manage our elections and do them worldwide. A number of leftists have said that the whole world should vote for the American President as he becomes the most influential and powerful person in the world. We have taken a step in that direction with the acceptance of foreigners and near foreigners as candidate and president.
He calls out WND now after years to hateful lies from his paper and others? What was that Jesus said...
Matthew 7:3-4 3”Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
The one story I always remember from WND is the slow-motion icbm supposedly launched from a Chinese (?) sub off the coast of California. I think the helicopter pilot who recorded it said he filmed it for 20+ minutes or something. There was a huuuuge debate on FR about whether it was actually a missile launch that was extremely slow or just a jet contrail recorded head on for 20 minutes.
Freegards
Oh, I look forward to the day when the WaPo is gone. They really deserve to go out of business. 100% lies 24/7 for many many years.
I am also a wing nut. A certrtwingnut as my screen name is proud to show.
Trust the compost to schadenfreude all over the place....
“...the specious yet viral theory...” Not proved specious, but that would be too much for the washington pile of rotting food and plant matter.
“...and was known to sport a pistol on his hip in the office—...” Legal in Virginia, and an obvious pearl-clutch on the part of the fertilizer rag.
It may not have had legs and there may have been shenanigans (no inside info), but WND was part of a healthy breakfast including juice, toast, FNC, Drudge, Breitbart and Free Republic. Before that one relied on Little Green Footballs, PJM, and others.
Sorry the dream may not have come true. If wikipoopia states they were known for promoting falsehoods, the “what-I-Know-is(wiki) folks may be proving the negative (not to be trusted?).
KYPD
No. You and all the other Birthers are just wrong. Doesn't matter how many times you post this nonsense.
Wow.
What’s awesome about The Washingsnot Pest is that their paywall makes them a fifth wheel in today’s media market.
Fake News. Bezos runs it.
Bezos bought them to get and keep DC politicians under his thumb—it is just that simple.
WaPo reporters are so dumb they don’t realize they are just hookers with pulitzer prizes.
All of that may be true as regards Obama, but it is folly to apply such standards to otherwise viable conservatives like Don Jr. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. .
Joe Farah is a fearless journalist. If all journalists were as good as Farah, I doubt we would have today’s swamp. WND was the ONLY news organization that covered the significant developments in my federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit (1997-2004) regarding photographs taken in connection with the investigation of the death of Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster. Information about that lawsuit is here: http://www.allanfavish.com/index.php/vincent-foster
Thank you, Mr. Favish. I remember listening to you on the radio, but can’t remember if it was Ray Briem’s late night program or George Putnams show. Those guys were so good.
What other parts of the Constitution does your great mind think we can do without.....?
“You and all the other Birthers are just wrong.”
So, the Nairobi Kid’s father was an American citizen?
Who was it?
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