CNSNews.com does a lot of things wrong journalistically — specifically, its extreme pro-Trump bias — but it occasionally does the right thing, for which it deserves at least some credit. Managing editor Michael W. Chapman wrote in a Jan. 23 article:
The news outlet TruNews, whose host Rick Wiles describes Jews as “deceivers” who “plot” and “lie,” and who have orchestrated a “Jew coup” against President Donald Trump, was invited to cover the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland by the White House, according to Wiles.
“We just want to thank President Trump and the White House for extending the invitation to be here today and throughout the week,” Wiles stated in a Jan. 21 report from Davos. (The World Economic Forum runs Jan. 21-24.)
In addition, CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted on Wednesday, “The White House Correspondents’ Association (@WHCA), which does *NOT* make credentialing decisions, confirms to me that the White House credentialed the anti-Semitic TruNews. WHCA says it is raising this issue with the WH.”
Chapman even added at the end that “CNSNews.com contacted the White House press office by telephone, Twitter, and email and asked if it had given press credentials to TruNews. The White House did not respond before this story was published.”
Chapman, however, gets only partial credit here. Why? Because he has promoted interviews Wiles has conducted, since they share many of the same values, anti-Semitism aside:
- A June 2015 article by Chapman touted a Wiles interview with Billy Graham’s daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, who said that “God’s judgment on America is at the ‘tipping point’ because of our abandonment of Israel, the killing of 60 million babies by abortion, and the legal recognition of gay marriage.”
- In March 2016, Chapman cited how gun activist Larry Pratt said on Wiles’ show that then-Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland has consistently voted against “an individual right to keep and bear arms” and is a moderate only in the sense that the “Kremlin” has some “moderates.”
- In June 2016, Chapman promoted a Wiles interview with North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, who ranted that two prominent newspapers in the state are “are two of the most liberal rags in the country right now” because it criticized a new state law “that says men and women must use the bathroom and shower that matches their sex at birth.
- A September 2016 article by Chapman repeated a Wiles interview with former Republican Rep. Paul Broun declaring that the family is being destroyed through “political correctness and through the homosexual rights agenda.”
Chapman didn’t tell his readers that he has previously promoted Wiles’ interviews.