In 2013, WorldNetDaily was briefly obsessed with a minor incident in which President Obama dealt with a fly during an interview. An article by Aaron Klein claimed that “religious and other websites are using the headlines to point out that a biblical reference for Satan, the Semitic deity Beelzebub, literally translates from Hebrew into “Lord of the Flies,” adding how one blogger asserted that “I feel like I am watching a horror movie and the secret evil character is revealed by the evil signs around him.” (This is on-brand for WND, which regularly likened Obama to the Antichrist.) A 2015 article featured another fly incident, making sure to add that Obama “has had flies land on his face numerous times” and rehashing the Beelzebub stuff.
Craig Bannister seemed to have this in mind when he wrote an Aug. 8 article about another Democratic politician:
A fly apppeared to land on the face of former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday–as he accused President Donald Trump of “immorality” and “carnage,” according to video of the speech posted online by multiple news agencies.
First, the fly landed on Biden’s cheek, then it moved to his nose, as Biden said:
“Limited to four years, I believe – I really do believe – history will look back at this president as an aberrant moment in American history.”
Videos of the speech posted by MSNBC, CNN, NBC, C-SPAN, all show the fly engaging Biden’s face.
Just think of this article as another step in the creeping WND-ization of CNS.