Despite the fact that his recent forays into right-wing politics have not gone well, Chuck Norris is taking the next logical step: promoting films laden with false claims and conspiracy theories. Norris began his Dec. 5 WorldNetDaily column by touting:
Candace Owens is an amazing and insightful African American commentator on culture and politics. In 2020, she won Salem Media Group’s prestigious national “Culture Warrior of the Year” Award.
In her recent documentary, “The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of the BLM,” she begins by quoting Malcolm X: “The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent.”
That’s the truth. But it’s only the initial descent down the rabbit hole of how Americans are being cheated, hoodwinked and controlled to believe what influential liberal powers in mainstream media and among the social elite want them to believe.
“The Greatest Lie Ever Sold” is about 80 minutes long and was released on Oct. 12. It has been hailed by many as “the best documentary of 2022.” I highly recommend everyone watch it and make up your own mind about the evidence Candace and firsthand eyewitnesses reported. Watch just this official trailer and you’ll wonder, “Was I duped, too?”
Meanwhile, actual film reviewers have a less generous view of Owen’s screed:
Coming in at around 1 hour and 20 minutes, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold spends 40 of those minutes with Candace Owens attacking George Floyd’s character and repeating Conservative talking points about the man dying of Fentanyl poisoning and not Chauvin’s knee cutting off his air supply.
She then goes out of her way to paint Chauvin as this “good decent man who loved his mommy” and implies (heavily) that he’s an innocent man being sacrificed on the cross by “the system.” She talks to his mother, his co-workers, and friends, and literally does everything aside from showing him walking old ladies across the street and praying over homeless people. Meanwhile, she details Floyd’s life like he was a monster who needed to be put down.
And another reviewer noted:
Like most political propaganda, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold builds its case through lies by omission. Conspiracy theories that are able to take hold rest on small kernels of truth; facts that are exploited and decontextualized.
[…]What seems to eat at Owens the most is that so many people across the country had compassion. She genuinely can’t believe that so many took to the streets on behalf of a flawed human being, a stranger. This solidarity—fighting for someone you don’t know—seems foreign to her. It can only be explained by manipulation.
[…]In the end, Candace Owens is doing exactly what she thinks she’s exposing: lying to profit off a Black man’s untimely death.
In other words, hardly a fair and balanced portrayal. Yet Norris’ levels of gush over the film got embarrassingly high: “When my wife, Gena, and I viewed the documentary film, our jaws dropped, our heads spun, and our hearts were inspired to tell others about this insightful exposé.” Needless to say, there was no mention of Owen’s palling around with anti-Semite Kanye West or her attempt to unload failing social media site Parler (run by her husband, George Farmer) onto Ye, which was abandoned after he went full anti-Semite.
If Norris proved himself to be a right-wing mark for gushing over Owen’s film, he proved to be absolutely gullible in his praise for another film:
The second documentary film I encourage everyone to watch and investigate for themselves is “Died Suddenly,” which was released on Nov. 21 and is produced by the Stew Peters Network, the same award-winning team that brought us “Watch The Water” and “These Little Ones.”
Stew Peters is a former bounty hunter turned American media personality. His radio show is simply called the “Stew Peters Show,” which airs weekdays.
The core of “Died Suddenly,” a one-hour engaging documentary, is this: 68.5% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. 13.01 billion doses have been administered globally, and 2.37 million are now administered each day. At least 262,908,216 Americans, or 79% of the U.S. population, have received at least one dose, according to USA Facts.
The crazy thing is this, and it’s a global phenomenon: Healthy adults are dropping dead everywhere. There has been a rise in “sudden deaths” around the world, both in younger and older people, and vaccines might be largely to blame.
Actually, that’s not happening. “Died Suddenly,” meanwhile, is a discredited rehash of anti-vaxx conspiracy theories, featuring footage of people who didn’t die but merely fainted and footage of people taken before the COVID pandemic started, and Stew Peters is a guy who loves to spew conspiracy theories.
Before vouching for the film, though, Norris attempted a disclaimer of sorts:
Please don’t misunderstand. I know there are a lot of polarities regarding vaccines, and I respect those on each side of the debate. But I truly believe this information I share here is critical for those on both the right and the left in making medical decisions for themselves and their loved ones. Please hear out what I say and Stew Peter’s film conveys before making a judgment.
But Norris simply recited claims from the film and censored any of the criticism of bogus fottage and bogus claims. Rather than tell his readers the truth, Norris concluded with more gushing:
One could rightfully say, if Candace Owen’s documentary is about “The Greatest Lie Ever Told,” Stew Peter’s film might just be about “The Second Greatest Lie Ever Told.”
The fact is, especially when it comes to the bias teamwork of mainstream media and government officials, we need to do what the Bible says: “Test all things and hold fast to that which is good.”
Don’t believe something just because one so-called “government expert” said it. Don’t let politicians or pundits sway your opinion. Do your own homework, and don’t rely on biased algorithms to yield your searches. Weigh the pros vs. the cons. Don’t be medically forced to make decisions by peer or social pressure. Most of all, don’t check your will and brain in at the door, especially when so many people are mysteriously dying around the world.
Listen also to the firsthand testimonies and experts from many fields in the film, “Died Suddenly”; then make up your mind about yours and your loved ones’ health.
No rational human being would subject themselves to such dishonesty. But Norris chose to go down that conspiracy rabbit hole — and now he demands that you do as well. No wonder he’s stuck writing columns for WND.