We’ve caught CNSNews.com seemingly lifting story ideas from WorldNetDaily twice in the past couple months. Why wouldn’t it also lift a couple of its columnists and authors as well?
A Jan. 27 post by CNS managing editor Michael W. Chapman touted Jesse Lee Peterson’s ridiculous portrayal of Donald Trump as the “white savior” for black America during an appearance on Newsmax TV. That gives us an unusual intersection of three main ConWeb components.
A few days later, CNS republished Peterson’s WND column on the subject, — albeit changing the headline from WND’s statement of fact “Trump: White Savior to Black America”) to a question (“Is President Trump the White Savior to Black America?”) –including the even more ridiculous assertion that black men “believed in God and took care of themselves and their families” until they got civil rights and “Democrats seduced blacks away from God and the Republican Party.”
(We noted Peterson’s meshing with WND’s interest in depicting Trump as a messianic figure.)
Then, in a Feb. 2 post, Chapman nicked another WND favorite, birther pastor Carl Gallups. Chapman didn’t mention the birther stuff, of course, despite devoting two paragraphs to Gallups’ bio; he was too excited to be quoting Gallups trashing the idea of evolution, which somehow morphs into claiming that immigration to America is a “judgment from God”:
Evangelical pastor and best selling author Carl Gallups said the United States has violated so many of God’s moral borders in relation to sexuality, family, marriage, gender, and even the teaching of atheistic evolution that it affects our geographical borders, such that enemies enter and chaos erupts in society. This is both spiritual and physical warfare, he added, stressing that the current political attempt to bring law, order, and borders back to the nation — to right the ship of state — is facing opposition from the left and its “counterpart in the demonic realm.”
“Here’s what I have been saying for years,” said Pastor Gallups during a Jan. 30 interview on the Rob Schilling Show (Newsradio WINA). “Look, we have violated the borders of our children’s minds. For 100 years we have told them that they come from monkeys and that there is no God. We have violated the borders of their souls and their spirits.”“We have violated the borders of the womb in America and have destroyed 60 million children,” said Gallups. “We have violated the borders of sexuality. We have violated the borders of family. We have violated the borders of marriage. We have violated the borders of gender.”
“And now,” he said, “as a judgment from God or as discipline from God, our own geographical borders are now being violated.”
And, thus, the WND-ization of the Media Research Center is continuing apace.