Chuck Norris has a long history of using his WorldNetDaily column to plug his commercial projects and even the companies who hire him as a spokesman — and WND has a history of helping him plug himself. Thus, we have this fawning June 15 article by Bob Unruh that was dedicated to promoting Norris’ latest film project:
One of those famed “Chuck Norris facts” about the television and movie star and longtime WND columnist explains he doesn’t wear a watch.
Why not? Because he decides what time it is, of course.
There may be more truth in that than many would admit, as now he appears to let his years of work, which started back in 1968 with “The Wrecking Crew” followed shortly after by his role as Colt in “Way of the Dragon,” impact him not at all, as at age 84 he’s appearing in a new sci-fi action movie, Agent Recon.
After a lengthy rehash of Norris’ career, Unruh touted one of its lowlights as somehow a good thing:
WND reported when, in 2022, Norris volunteered to work with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for “that better future.”
Norris’ comment came then in response to Orban’s message to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas that America needs now “more Chuck Norris.”
Orban, a firebrand who frequently has triggered liberals and progressives over and over with his comments, got a hero’s welcome at the CPAC events and pleaded with his audience not to pull punches in a culture war – going on globally – with liberals.
In America, under Joe Biden, that fight has erupted over and over with the president’s blatant promotion of abortion, the LGBT ideology, progressive government priorities like massive spending and more.
Orban explained that Hungarian state institutions define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and he said Americans in the fight need to trust their Judeo-Christian tradition.
“We have to be brave enough to address even the most sensitive questions, migration, gender and the clash of civilizations,” he said.
“Politics, my friends, is not enough,” he said. “This war is a culture war.”
He said what is needed now is “more Chuck Norris.”
Norris, to WND, at the time issued a statement that, “In 2018, my wife Gena and I were invited by Hungarian Baptist Aid to visit Budapest. We love the Hungarian people and were honored to spend time with Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
“We heard he fired up conservative Texans at CPAC in Dallas this week by saying America needs ‘more Chuck Norris.’ I’m humbled and honored to fight with Orban and all conservatives to rebuild America (presently and in 2024 with a new president) from the depression (in economy and spirit) too many Americans are experiencing right now. Let’s pray and fight for that better future! We’ve done it before, and we can do it again!”
As we pointed out at the time, it’s not a good look for Norris to be palling around with an authoritarian, xenophobic leader who rigged elections to make sure his side won, however much he and the rest of WND are big fans of his culture-war stylings. Still, Unruh gushed that “Norris has been writing a weekly column exclusively for WND since October 2006.”
As if on cue, Norris plugged his new film in his June 17 column, and despite “Agent Recon” being described as a sci-fi movie, he sought to liken its plot — centered around, according to the IMDb description Norris lazily copied-and-pasted, “an unknown being of not only extraordinary strength and speed, but the ability to control mindless warriors, the trio must fight through unstoppable hordes” — to right-wing narratives about illegal immigration:
As I read that headline, I thought, there’s one real-life alien invasion I truly wish I could protect our country from: the crime and criminals among the millions and millions of immigrants the Biden administration has encouraged and allowed to cross into the U.S. illegally from our southern border.
Anyone who knows me knows I respect all law-abiding people. I’m all for legal immigration, but I know for a fact that too much crime and criminals pass through the dark shadows of the massive illegal invasion going on since Biden took office.
Did you hear that a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) force just arrested eight illegals with ties to ISIS?!
[…]Knowing the exhaustive list of heinous criminalities described above, I can’t imagine how any politician on the left or right – let alone any American – could justify being an advocate of open borders without law and order.
I plea with my fellow Americans to fight every day to stop the alien invasion and illegalities at all ports of entry into the U.S., and particularly at our southern borders:
- WRITE your representatives and the White House today and demand they: STOP THE INVASION NOW! Make America SAFE and SECURE AGAIN!
- In order to help your individual state, because every state is now a border state, check out the resources and educational tour at Border911.com coming soon to a city near you!
Why is Norris denying the humanity of migrants and falsely portraying every single one of them as murderous criminals?