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Mychal Massie, Depraved Liar

The president -- and, in particular, Michelle Obama -- sends the WorldNetDaily columnist into spasms of sputtering rage and venomous lies.

By Terry Krepel
Posted 8/21/2012


The ConWeb is filled with Obama-bashers, but for vitriolic rage and willingness to lie -- or for having Michelle Obama as a particular target of his hate -- it's hard to beat Mychal Massie, WorldNetDaily columnist and head of Project 21, a group of black conservatives promoted by the right-wing National Center for Public Policy Research.
Lies upon lies

Given that WND editor has admitted that his website publishes misinformation -- and, thus, essentially concedes that there's an institutional tolerance of such falsehoods, especially if they are about WND's political enemies, like President Obama -- it's not stretch to presume that some of its columnists apparently believe they can lie with impunity on WND's pages. One of those, it seems, is Massie.

One of the lies Massie loves to tell is that Michelle Obama -- whom Massie regularly calls "Buttzilla" -- is that she went shopping for expensive lingerie. Massie wrote in his Jan. 30 column that she was going on "$50,000 Madison Ave. spending sprees for undergarments just for her." In fact, not only the the White House call the claim "100% false," the British newspaper that made the claim retracted the story and deleted it from its website.

In that same column, Massie claimed that Obama has a "$15,000-per-day makeup person." In fact, nobody has claimed that makeup artist Derrick Rutledge charges Obama $15,000 a day, only that that's what he has charged others in the past.

Yet Massie repeated the claim as if it were true in his Feb. 27 column. In his June 11 column, he repeated it again, then added another lie -- that she was "fraudulently listing her daughters as 'senior advisers' so that American taxpayers (millions of whom are unemployed) would be responsible for footing the bill for them." In fact, the White House said that a listing for them as "senior staff" indicates only where they sat on the plane, and no "fraud" was committed. Massie also repeated the lie that she "spent $15,000 a day to use the same makeup man Oprah Winfrey uses."

(Massie, by the way, was spewing those lies while arguing that Michelle Obama was being held to a different standard than a white first lady would. Which raises the question of whether Massie would be allowed to continue as a WND columnist if he was a white man spewing the same unhinged hatred of a black president.)

In his July 16 column, Massie not only again repeated the lie about the nonexistent lingerie shopping spree, he added the discredited lie that President Obama targeted auto dealers for closure in the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler because they donated to conservatives.

As that indicates, Massie likes to lie about President Obama as well. Massie ranted in a July 22, 2011, TwitLonger post:

Permit me to point out what others are afraid to say. There's an entire town of people in Joplin, MO. who are suffering in the extreme weather temperatures. They don't have trailers; there's no news casts, there are no music groups holding "save Joplin" concerts. We don't see the naacp or the congressional black caucus calling obama a racist for ignoring them. Kanye west isn't saying obama hates white people as he claimed bush hated blacks. A couple things - one we need to not only remember these brave people in prayer, we need to do what we can for them as they are surviving the heat in tents, the other remember that obama has ignored them as he lies about the budget/debt ceiling. Finally, plz add the people across the nation who are w/out housing and comforts from the storms not long ago, who obama has spit on, to the list of things to make him and congress pay for November 2012.

Massie is lying here too. While some people in Joplin were living in tents following the tornado -- some of whom were actually volunteers helping to clean up the damage -- it's not because trailers aren't available and Obama had "ignored" them. Another article on a tent city in Joplin noted that "many flocked to shelters and placed in FEMA trailers." Indeed, FEMA began sending trailers to Joplin a couple weeks after the massive tornado that hit the city, and at the time Massie wrote his post, FEMA was nearing completion on two sites in Joplin where 350 trailers were to be set up.

If others were "afraid to say" what Massie's saying, it was because, unlike Massie, did their research and knew that Massie was lying.

Massie ranted in his June 18 column:

Forget for the moment Obama bypassed Congress to arbitrarily grant amnesty to illegal aliens vis-a-vis what amounts to the Dream Act. Forget for the moment that for years he has said that without congressional approval he didn’t have the authority to do precisely what he did today. Forget for the moment that college students and high school seniors have just graduated into an employment market that has lost millions of jobs. Forget for the moment that unemployment amongst legal American citizens is 10.4 percent, and forget that as legal Americans are searching for jobs and students are looking for summer employment, Obama has granted amnesty to 800,000 illegal aliens up to 30 years of age who are now cleared to compete for jobs that millions of citizens desperately need. And forget for the moment that in arbitrarily granting amnesty to these illegal aliens, he micturated on the Constitution of the United States.

In fact, Obama did not "grant amnesty" to anyone -- he permitted prosecutorial discretion in delaying legal action against certain undocumented immigrants. "Amnesty" has a specific definition, and this is not it.

Is Massie -- who loves to beat people over the head with his thesaurus -- really so ignorant of the correct definition of the word? Or is he simply so unhinged in his hatred of Obama that facts simply don't matter to him?

Massie's conspiracy-mongering

Massie also likes to peddle outlandish conspiracy theories about the Obamas. In his March 12 column, he wrote: "Do not the allegations of the late Larry Sinclair deserve the same investigative attention from the media that went into looking into President Bush’s past?" Given that Sinclair is a massively discredited convicted criminal whose claim that he had sex with Obama lacks any substantiation whatsoever, probably not. Also, Sinclair is not dead, which only further demonstrates the lack of interest Massie has in actual facts.

In that same column, Massie asked why reporters aren't looking into "the truth surrounding the Obamas’ surrendering their law licenses." Massie need only have consulted with the mythbusters at Snopes, which points out that both Barack and Michelle Obama placed their law licenses on inactive status because they didn't need them for the jobs they were performing at the time they surrendered them, not for any disciplinary action as Massie suggests.

Massie wrote in his May 31, 2011, column, carrying the spiteful headline "Michelle Obama: bitter harridan":

A tape that was reportedly filmed in 2004 during the Rainbow/Push Coalition Conference at Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church has mysteriously disappeared from public view. The tape allegedly showed Michelle Obama hysterically ranting about "Whiteys" and savagely attacking Bill Clinton as responsible for African genocide. The wife of Louis Farrakhan was one of the honored guests.

Massie seems not to have considered the possibility that the purported tape has “mysteriously disappeared” because it never existed in the first place. Obama’s campaign has stated that “No such tape exists. Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word.” Even conservative blogger Michelle Malkin noted that the purported tape was being hyped by “buffoons” whose claims about it were constantly shifting.

If Massie is going to embrace the idea of something that has shown no evidence of ever existing, he’s certainly not going to be too concerned about getting actual, provable facts straight.

Massie's angry, hateful insults

And then there's Massie's unhinged insult-hurling, in which he has likened Obama's parents to snakes and Obama himself to Caligula and Judas Iscariot -- and declared that he wants Obama to die like Osama bin Laden:

  • I don't blame Obama for being a corrupt, dishonest, congenital liar – looking at his gene pool and the associations he gravitated toward, it can be argued that little more can be expected of him. He is the spawn of elapids, so what else could he be? I blame the people who voted for him. They believed his poorly told lies and his vacuous promises have resulted in the epitome of the Feast of Barmecide. -- May 17, 2011 (Elapids are a class of venomous snakes.)
  • bho is dangerous as poisonous pit viper as corrupt and dishonest as judas iscariot himself - he is hateful he is common n he is determined 2 have his own way - he is also increasingly unstable - as I watch him come under the weight of his actions trying 2 force his agendas/policies thru it becomes increasingly apparent that he that we r looking at a man who is beyond redemption n worthy of rebuke - it is not just for the sake of the nation we must drive him out - it is for the sake of all we hold just -- July 7, 2011
  • Like Nero – who was only slightly less debaucherous than Caligula – with wine on his lips Obama treated "we the people" the way Caligula treated those over whom he lorded. -- Aug. 9, 2011
  • Obama has been an abject failure to all but Planned Parenthood, SEIU, NEA and Leninists. Sadly, many blacks did, do and will support him because of his melanin content, even though he’s not black – he’s Kenyan and communist. And unlike Bush, he is sans propriety and character. -- May 17, 2011
  • Words fail to express the contempt I have for Obama as the leader of our nation. He condemns the very thing that made America great - and specific to that point, America was great before there was an Obama. It should be a punishable offense to allow him to undermine that greatness. America is in denial to believe that he is not a communist doing everything in his power to forcibly and insidiously transform the nation into a communist state. It is misinformation for the media, political pundits and writers of opinion to report his actions in any other way. He is a manifestation of evil that threatens America in a way the KKK and al-Qaida could but hope to. -- Dec. 12, 2011
  • I submit that it is the blackness of Michelle Obama that gives credibility to the “blackness” of Obama. This is one of the dirty little secrets white people remain ignorant of, because to accept what I am saying as fact would require them to also acknowledge the depth of contempt many blacks harbor toward them. And it is that contempt the Obamas manipulate to control what is said of them and the extent of media criticism they receive. Michelle Obama is a world-class conductor of the race-mongers orchestra. And she conducts the symphony with the adroitness that even the most skilled race-monger can take lessons from. In 2000, Al Gore may have gotten little more than prayers and fried chicken, but in 2011-12, Obama – thanks to his wife has figured out how to get juice from that fruit. -- Jan. 2
  • One can argue that by keeping fuel prices artificially inflated, Obama can keep people dependent upon government for their subsistence. And they would be right, but it goes deeper than just to those communist proclivities alone. It goes to the core of his being. He doesn’t have a dream for America – he has a thirst for control/power that has been witnessed in the form of Chavez, Castro, Mao and Lenin. That said, I find it interesting that the mainstream media and others who applauded Obama’s aria of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” were applauding Obama for performing an act that mirrored Hugo Chavez singing in front of the United Nations – right before he ordered the people of Venezuela to stop singing in their showers as a means to save water and cut electricity use – but I digress. -- Jan. 23
  • Obama has called for blacks to rally in support of his re-election by launching “African-Americans for Obama.” ... Cries and assertions that this was an overt act of racism by an overtly racist president – whose wife is the equivalent of Black Panther socialist Angela Davis, only with a taxpayer-paid no-limit credit card – were swift and plentiful. But I see it a bit differently. I see it as emblematic of Obama’s grotesque narcissism and his eager willingness to elevate himself above God. -- March 5
  • Like a fly to fresh horse manure or his wife to a hot-buttered biscuit, Obama wasted no time injecting himself into the cruel tragedy of the Trayvon Martin shooting. -- March 26
  • Many say Barack Obama is the most divisive, egocentric megalomaniac ever to hold his office. Others say he is the most ruthless and defiantly determined Marxist-Leninist ever to become president. I say he is, by definition and actions, both. ... Obama is a hardcore Marxist-Leninist. He was one of Alinksy’s best disciples and, as Alinsky’s son proudly boasted, he learned his lessons well. We cannot give this Erebusic evil another term. -- April 9
  • Obama and his Justice Department were silent when 25-year-old James Cooper and 24-year-old James Kouzaris were brutally murdered by 17-year-old Shawn Tyson, a black thug, as they begged for their lives. They were white tourists who had been out drinking and stumbled into Tyson’s Sarasota, Fla., neighborhood. Tyson’s plan was to rob them, but finding they had no money, he murdered them. Referencing Martin, Obama said: “You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” I think it bears noting that if Obama had a son, he would also look like the boys who set Allen Coon on fire and Shawn Tyson. Don’t their families and the American people – whom Obama took an oath to represent – deserve the same concern he shows for black hoodlums? -- April 16
  • Even an honest, casual observer must admit the actions of the Obamas are at best arrogant and haughty – and Michelle Obama comports herself with an air of race-based entitlement. For her to use veiled supraliminal references to the Holy Scriptures is morally opprobrious, but obviously not out of character for her. It is, however, the very essence and definition of moral turpitude. -- April 23
  • This is the most important thing to be remembered: What [Obama] did last week is not even a breath of what he will do if he is re-elected without a Congress that will hold him in check. What he did will pale in comparison to the things he will feel empowered to do. He and his wife will drop the thinly veiled pretense of public servant and reveal themselves as the hardcore Marxist-Leninists and redistributionists they are. The Constitution will mean nothing to them. They will openly disdain and abuse it even more freely. She will vacation and spend like the taxpayer welfare queen she aspires to be, and he will drop all pretense of working with Congress. -- June 18
  • Everything you have said and done has told us a story – and it is a story with which we massively disagree. Yours is one continuing story of how to disparage America to foreign despots and how to reduce the White House to Cabrini Green on a hot weekend summer night. -- July 16
  • Obama is the most mendacious and pernicious, narcissistic megalomaniac ever to occupy elected office. He makes Hugo Chavez appear sane and coherent. -- July 30
  • I am now prepared to say that the photos of young Obama, appearing to be stoned out of his mind, the photos of him doing his best pimp look – wide-brimmed pimp hat cocked to the side with a cigarette in his hand – and the photos of him puffing on a cigarette as if it were a marijuana joint – speak to his commonality. The photos we see of him as a young man and a college student symbolize him as a pothead or trying to be ghetto-cool. -- Aug. 13

On top of all that, after the death last year of Osama bin Laden, Massie tweeted, "i hope it dsnt take 10 yrs 2 get bho 4 his attacks on US constitution." So Massie wants Obama to be shot to death by the U.S. military as it leads a tactical attack on the White House?

Massie once wrote a column headlined "More evidence Obama's a depraved liar." It's clear that the only depraved liar here is Massie.

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