{"id":138545,"date":"2019-04-03T18:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138545"},"modified":"2019-04-03T18:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:20:46","slug":"the-decline-and-fall-of-worldnutdaily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/the-decline-and-fall-of-worldnutdaily.html","title":{"rendered":"The decline and fall of “WorldNutDaily”"},"content":{"rendered":"

WorldNet<\/em>Daily, more properly, or WND<\/a>, but not-so-lovingly known by the other name due to their rabid right-wing conspiracy theories, usually directed toward Clintons and Obamas, often with an air of being the last, martyred bastion of Christianity about the whole thing. The focal point of the Obama birther craze during the 2008 election, they’ve moved on today Mueller Probe conspiracies and other Trump-echoing talking points.<\/p>\n

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Today’s WND front page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And now they — with their founder, Joseph Farah — seem to be spiraling down into insolvency, despite repeated drives for donations, largely due to bad business decisions, very poor control over expenses, and, honestly, no longer having quite the same unique niche they once had. Heck, half of their stories seem to be datelined from Fox News, albeit with some extra wobbling spin on the headlines, which raises the question of why people should bother going to WND in the first place.<\/p>\n

There’s no shortage of bizarro conspiracy sites remaining out there. Still, I’ll confess to some pleasure in seeing this one go the way of the we-don’t-completely-believe-in-them dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

Do you want to know more?<\/em> Inside the spectacular fall of WorldNetDaily, the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The zany birther WND “news” site is on the verge of shutting their doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[381,12],"tags":[1823],"class_list":["post-138545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-fourth-estate","tag-wnd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wnd-page.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13199,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/potpourri_mid_week.html","url_meta":{"origin":138545,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri mid-week","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jun-08 1:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"5 No BS Ways To Get Your Credit Score For Free [Equifax] Useful information for all. 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