WorldNetDaily columnist Jerry Newcombe has tried to frame himself as a patriotic minister, framing his right-wing views in a form of nationalism. For example:
- Motivational quotes from the Founders for a better new year
- The most essential Founding Father? It’s not who you think
- ‘Common Sense’ at 250 years old
- Is it cool to be unpatriotic? Perhaps – but it’s also ungrateful
- Rethinking ‘Doubting Thomas’ Jefferson
- Historic town dismisses the Pledge of Allegiance
- Congress proclaims a Day of Prayer … 250 years ago
- The Founding Fathers’ belief in the Resurrection
- America needs the Bible
- 10 key things to know about America’s founding
Still, Newcombe is prone to misfires. He huffed in a Jan. 13 column:
One of the good guys in the battle for celebrating America at 250 is PragerU, founded by the Jewish scholar and author Dennis Prager.
But a state senator from Omaha, Nebraska, might not agree. Last week, Michaela Cavanaugh, upset at seeing historical displays outside her office at the State Capitol building in Lincoln, tore them down. She claims she tried not to destroy them as she yanked them off the walls.
Her rationale for removing these things is that, supposedly, nothing should adorn the walls outside of those offices. Although she has since apologized, thankfully, the incident still provides an important teaching moment.
As we noted, people are generally prohibited from attaching anything to the walls of the Capitol building — she was enforcing a state policy, not a personal one as Newcombe suggests — but it turned out that approval was quietly given for the display, so she returned some of the items.
Newcombe went on to suggest in a March 17 column that the Titanic was doomed because it allegedly wasn’t christened:
So, who was it that christened the Titanic? No one. It was never christened. It didn’t need to be. After all, it was unsinkable.
The father of our nation, George Washington, wrote his Circular to the States letter on June 8, 1783, in which he prays that Americans would practice the humility of Jesus – “the Divine Author of our blessed Religion.” And he adds that if we don’t humbly imitate Him, “we can never hope to be a happy Nation.”
We would do well to learn the lessons from the Titanic.
Newcombe also groused in an April 6 column:
There is a conflict between the elites and the people. Often, it’s a subtle conflict, but it is real nonetheless.
A couple of weeks ago, when the Senate voted to approve one of their own, Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., some commentators, such as Jimmy Kimmel, sneered that before he had become a senator, he had worked as a plumber. Good heavens. What is this country coming to?
I mentioned that to my wife, and she said, “Isn’t that a more noble profession than being a bartender?” She was referencing the media’s darling AOC, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
It wasn’t explained why, exactly, being a bartender was a less noble profession than a plumber — presumably so Newcombe and his fellow right-wingers can continue to mock Ocasio-Cortez over that occupation. Note that Newcombe wouldn’t say that his wife “sneered” at AOC’s former occupation.