WorldNetDaily has had something of an columnist exodus in recent months, with Craige McMillan, Michael Brown and Scott Lively all bidding at least a temporary farewell. Add another one to the list — Michael Master. A lot of we caught Master doing over the years has been right-wing hackery, but he also demanded more white babies and fewer from “lower-intelligent and poorer populations” (read: people who aren’t white).
In his final column on Feb. 20, Master served up more right-wing claptrap, plus added attacks on the media:
Let me encourage everyone to read and listen to more sources than those pundits who protect the establishment class, to more sources than mainstream media and supposed experts. Over the last 25 years, mainstream media and establishment pundits deliberately misled all of us to protect the nation’s oligarchs, globalists and the deep state.
As a product of the 1960s, my advice is to listen to all opinions, not just those who are deemed to be experts by the establishment, not just to those who say what you want to hear. The establishment and their minions lied to us often as with the JFK assassination, the Bay of Pigs, the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam. Then more recently, they lied about Jan. 6, the Russia Hoax, COVID, tariffs on China, the Hunter laptop, the Bidens and Burisma, vaccines, causes of climate change, fact checking, ABC debate moderators, CBS editing and hundreds of other examples.
Master is clearly not going to call out the many, many lies WND has been caught spreading over the years. In a fitting bookend to one early column in which he complained that people likened Trump to a mob boss, Master closed his column with one final bit of Trump-fluffing:
Trump morphed like a caterpillar into a butterfly, like a cub into a lion, like Saul into Paul. He became a populist Republican. He stood up for average working Americans and meant it. The elite abandoned him. Establishment folks feared him. Evangelicals welcomed him home like the prodigal son. In God we trust.
Even though Master has claimed to observe Trump’s career, he should know there’s no reason to believe Trump means anything he says — he’s interested only in getting attention. Right-wingers like Master have proven to be an audience so loyal to Trump that they will ignore the fact that he is an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.