WorldNetDaily was heavily into the alt-right-esque race-baiting thing for a while, spreading WND author Colin Flaherty’s fearmongering obsession with “black mob violence” (even when no actual black people could be blamed). After Google threatened to cut off the ad revenue from the spaces it manages on WND’s website, WND backed off, did its own pre-emptive ad-blocking so as not to jeopardize the ad revenue, and learned how to be a little more subtle about its race-baiting.
Perhaps unhappy that the alt-right is stealing its race-baiting thunder — and perhaps even more unhappy that nobody considers WND to be “alt-right” so its name doesn’t come up in discussions of the issue — WND has apparently decided to be a little more blatant again.
The headline on an unbylined Aug. 30 WND article shouts “Elderly woman beaten, set on fire in black-on-white attack.”
While the anonymously written article itself doesn’t mention the race of the suspects or the victim, the article includes pictures of the (white) victim and mugshots of the (black) suspects to hammer the point home. The article also includes a plug for Flaherty’s latest book, which wasn’t published by WND and isn’t available through WND’s online store (the link is to Amazon).
This was preceded by an Aug. 14 article by Joe Kovacs warning that “Crowds of ‘Black Lives Matter’ rioters chanted ‘black power’ as they targeted white individuals for violence in Milwaukee late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, according to video posted online in the aftermath of a police shooting.” Kovacs provided no evidence that the rioters had any formal link with Black Lives Matter.
But who needs facts when there’s some race-baiting to be done, right, WND?