DK: I was a classical violinist and teacher for many years, and also spent a few years in the building trades. As I became more politically aware I transitioned to journalism in the early 1980s and have been a writer and editor for most of the last three decades. Since 1999 I've been managing editor of WorldNetDaily.com and I also run Whistleblower magazine.

 

 

DK: I knew Joseph Farah from back in the days when he ran the Sacramento Union, and he and I also had worked together on a magazine project. So when it was time, years later, for WND to split off from the Western Journalism Center to become an independent, for-profit news outfit, he called me and asked if I was interested in taking on the position of managing editor to help him build the organization. I went down to see him, we talked for 3-4 hours and then shook hands on it—and that's what I've been doing ever since.

 

PM: The Marketing of Evil and How Evil Works discuss both current issues in our culture, and biblical concepts. How do you balance your faith with your journalistic duties?

 

DK: Most of the problems we have in our culture and our country today are because we have ignored or rebelled against common-sense biblical principles. So for me, reporting on these problems naturally highlights and brings to the surface the core principles we're missing. In other words, the news presents the problem, and Christian principles provide the solution, so the one naturally leads to the other. Also, journalists are supposed to be professional truth-tellers, so there's a natural crossover between conscientious journalism and living an upright life of faith, which should involve telling the truth regardless of whether it makes you popular or not.

 

 

DK: Both sides of my family lost many members to the Armenian genocide, and I share some breathtaking vignettes in both of my books. I think being the offspring of genocide survivors, and having heard and read all the stories of horror and nobility that every genocide brings, just highlights one's understanding and awareness of the extremes we humans are capable of—the best and worst of human nature.

 

 

DK: As a relatively small organization compared with some of the giant news outfits, all of us work long hours and wear many hats. So on any particular day, I might spend some time working on the next issue of Whistleblower, our monthly print magazine which is basically my project; then I would strategize on future stories we want to cover on WND, interact with our reporters, assign stories or commission freelance articles, and proofread and correct stories; I might write our latest petition, or a promotional story for Whistleblower or some other product; I might meet with our WND Books team to strategize the titling or marketing of a new book we're doing; I'd perhaps do a radio interview or two; answer a multitude of emails; evaluate the latest lawsuit threat against WND and decide whether it needs to go to our lawyer; read the latest ridiculous smears of WND from Media Matters and determine whether a response is justified (usually, NO); and deal with whatever other problems or issues come across my desk from a dozen different directions. And since I work in a home office, I'd also spend time talking to my wife, hang out with my son when he gets home, play ball with the dog—and maybe even go out for a walk.  

 

 

DK: I'm more hopeful today than I've been in a while. After two or three generations of Americans being brainwashed by atheistic government schools (which we euphemistically call "public" schools), absurdly leftist colleges, a treacherously biased news establishment and a toxic and hyper-sexualized popular culture, millions of Americans have become confused and corrupted and totally lost sight of the core Judeo-Christian values that made America great. Only after being thus indoctrinated and thoroughly confused could 69 million voters—53 percent of the electorate—possibly have elected a president like Barack Obama, someone who doesn't even like America, and is steeped in an alien ideology and dedicated to dismantling everything that made this country great.

 

Despite the good midterm election result on Nov. 2, the cultural, moral and political war will rage for a long time. People sometimes ask me if I think the good guys can win, and I tell them yes, I think so, though one thing is for sure: If we don't try, we will lose for sure.

 

 

DK: We frogs have been slowing boiling for a long, long time. The atheist "progressive" infiltration and subversion of America has been going on for a century. In fact, the "public" schools were taken over more than 100 years ago by secular (de facto atheistic) progressives. Our banking and monetary system was unconstitutionally subverted in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve. Various leftist foundations and philanthropies have formed over the decades, mostly unknown to Americans, to advance and fund alien agendas—just as George Soros is doing today. In the '40s and '50s, Alfred Kinsey infected America with his fraudulent sex research for the sole purpose of overturning traditional biblical morals and laws. Then came the '60s when all the subversion of the radical left burst out in the streets for all to see. But we didn't comprehend that a full-scale moral assault on the foundations of America was occurring. Supreme Court decisions outlawing prayer and Bible reading in school, and later legalizing abortion, further degraded American life, while the sexual liberation, gay liberation, radical feminist and other sixties movements gradually metastasized throughout American culture and life.

 

Ronald Reagan's presidency was a gift from God—a temporary reprieve—but we've fallen very far and very fast. After all, it's been just over two decades since he was president.

 

 

DK: Yes. Human beings have a very large capacity for deception, including self-deception. Even child molesters convince themselves and each other that they are actually "loving" the children they are destroying! So yes, those who dumbed-down American education really thought they were enlightened and serving humanity, just as Obama and all his wacko socialist and environmentalist advisers think they are making America a better place. This is not meant as a compliment or justification, but rather, a testimony to the depth of their self-deception. After all, even Hitler believed he was making the world a better place by exterminating millions of Jews. 

 

 

DK: Mostly people want their kids to be able to grow up in a country as free and strong and prosperous and wonderful as the America they were blessed to grow up in. People are simply horrified at the socialist coup d'etat Obama and company have launched and they want to stop it. They want their country back.

 

 

DK: I'd probably be doing the same thing I'm doing now—using whatever insight the Good Lord provides me with to help awaken and reason with as many people as possible in this nation I love, in hopes that together we can keep it intact for my children and your children.