As always, follow the money. Now these groups will get to claim to their followers that they were instrumental in "holding the President's feet to the fire" (to quote an old friend of ours)... that only through their intervention was decency upheld.
Their followers will see that that God has blessed them by providing these watchdogs to advance His holy interests. They will provide more funding.
As for WND, they've become as bad as that other "news" website that seems to specialize in reporting out of context what someone said on TV.
You must mean the "copy and pasting" Newsmax!
And "he" is most certainly NOT an "old friend" of ours........LOL.