Craig Bannister apparently thinks anything fringe-right actor Kevin Sorbo says is newsworthy, so we have this April 20 blog post:
Actor-Producer Kevin Sorbo is urging Americans to “Wake up” and see the dangers and hypocrisy of how “the State” is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to grab power and limit freedom.
In a series of Sunday tweets, Sorbo (@KSorbs) warns that “it’s not about your health,” when the government tells citizens they can go to the store to buy one thing, but not another – or actually does the very thing it’s prohibiting.
Likewise, Sorbo says, it’s not about your health when the State says it’s too dangerous for you to walk in the park with your child, then puts dangerous criminals back on the street – or, when it tells you it’s safe to go in-person to a grocery store, but not to a voting station:
Given that Bannister is trying normalize this kind of thinking, that summary doesn’t do justice to Sorbo’s fringe ranting. For example, he tweeted this: “When the State prevents you from buying cucumber seeds because it’s dangerous, but allows in person lottery ticket sales and When the State tells you it’s dangerous to go golf or fish alone but they can get make up and hair done for 5 TV appearances, it’s not about your health.” So “the State” is having makeup done for TV appearances? That doesn’t even make sense.
Sorbo concluded with the call of the conspiratorial ranter: “WAKE UP PEOPLE — If you think this is all about your health you’re mistaken! Please open your eyes! Stop being lead like blind sheep.”
The only reason Sorbo gets any press at all these days is because he played Hercules on TV, a past he has apparently renounced in order to appear in a series of Christian movies. Bannister won’t tell you how far to the fringe Sorbo has moved; another recent tweet, for example, promoted the film “Out of Shadows,” declaring in all caps, THIS ONE NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY ALL.” In fact, the film promotes the far-right Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories.
And yet, CNS loves him (and his wife, an anti-public school activist) and thinks he’s some kind of sage.