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WGTC’s David James Celebrates Death, Broken Glass and Bigotry
We Got This Covered’s David James is a big fan of death—preferably by old age.
He treats it as the ultimate remedy for members of religions he despises.
James even fantasizes about the role death can play in eliminating one of his pet hates: Scientologists.
“We should be thankful that each year that passes… elderly members [of the Church of Scientology] die,” he actually wrote.
That’s especially rich coming from a site that publishes hate speech wishing death on Scientologists.
James’ preoccupation with the mortality of his targets gives us a clue as to where his true talents and proclivities lie—certainly not in the direction of reporting.
In fact, that’s what makes him the perfect match for his platform, WGTC.
Because what We’ve Got That Covered (WGTC) has really got covered is its hard-won notoriety as a bigot-friendly misinformation site.
As one pop culture journalist observed, the site has a reputation “for clickbait journalism [read: fake news]... a rep so well known that the admins of geek-centric groups on Facebook… have instituted bans on the sharing of articles published by the site.”
That would explain why WGTC’s managing editor was forced to publish this, without so much as a hint of irony: “We Got This Covered may have developed an unfortunate reputation for being a clickbait site in the past, but today it is a functioning newsroom that adheres to journalistic standards and operates at the highest possible level to provide quality content to its readership.”
Journalistic standards? The “highest possible level”? Quality content? That’s especially rich coming from a site that publishes hate speech wishing death on Scientologists.
James’ rhetoric lays bare a shocking worldview rooted in malice and contempt for his fellow human beings, without a hint of self-awareness. His own bio then supplies the rest: While waiting for good people to die, James’ idea of a good time, he says, is “crawling over broken glass” to cover subjects that excite him.
Well, if that’s what makes his heart sing, we encourage him to crawl over as much broken glass as he likes.
We’ll even remind him that a whole anniversary is devoted to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when bigots like James unleashed destruction across Nazi Germany. LOTS of broken glass that night—along with broken windows, destroyed homes and synagogues, and hundreds of innocent deaths over the few dark days that became a grim prelude to the Holocaust.
The sad, simple truth: David James’ favorite things are broken glass and death.
Along with bigotry, of course.
