It is worthwhile to access the January 26th column in the NY Times by media correspondent, Michael Grynbaum @grynbaum. TruNews is a news outlet by 21st century standards, which seems intent on taking down the long professed standards and scholarship necessary to provide worthy news and editorial coverage. TruNews and it’s founder Rick Wiles (a pastor!), recently described Mr. Trumps impeachment as a “Jew Coup” planned by a “Jewish Cabal”. Wiles is full of conspiracy theories and likes to proclaim an imminent apocalypse.
This obnoxious piece of the media landscape received press credentials from the White House and ended up in Davos as a bona fide news outlet. First amendment rights? Certainly I don’t have the right not to be insulted by such speech, but making this swill purveyor more credible through the White House staff granting legitimacy? Spare me!
In an online video by Wiles, he goes on to say in respect to the impeachment, “That’s the way the Jews work. They are deceivers. they plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda. ” Pure and simple, this guy is an anti-semite and while practicing his disgusting opinions, he also smears Christianity downward to a dark place, far from the main stream of religious and political thought…at last I hope that’s still true!
Rep. Ted Deutch, Florida, tweeted, “I can’t believe the day I attend an event at Yad Vashem marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, anti-Semites were given WH credentials to broadcast from European soil”
Anti-semitism continues to ramp up and we all need to respond to individuals and the new media portraying such opinions for what it really is: Hatred to those they fear.