Last week, 10 people were found guilty of cyber-bullying Bridget Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron. These 10 individuals had been accused of spreading faults rumors about Macron's gender and sexuality, essentially claiming she is a transsexual. Macron, if you are unaware, bore three children with her first husband. The presiding judge remarked that the eight women and two men intentionally sought to harm the French first lady.
Perpetuating Falsehoods Lessens Our Causes
How is this related to the U.S.? As we all know, the list of Democrat-generated hoaxes is virtually endless; hoaxes are their stock and trade, and frankly, their only viable strategy for maintaining (profoundly gullible) voters. Right now, regarding Minneapolis, Leftists are devising legions of despicable new hoaxes.
Concurrently, anyone in the Trump Administration, Republican voters, and Conservatives in general need to avoid initiating or perpetuating hoaxes, and instead call out when our side is committing a falsehood. Why? For many reasons.
We do not want to engage in the same behavior and tactics of those on the Left, who gleefully launch and tout hoaxes. When we perpetuate falsehoods, we are no better than they are. Our focus should be to remain rational and objective, to proceed based on common sense, and to employ sound approaches to prevailing issues.
One particular hoax, which is trivial in the grand scheme of things, but supported by too many people on the Right, is about Michelle Obama. On her podcasts, she is actively carving out a niche as a compulsive complainer. Many of us cannot stand her, but that is no reason to perpetuate lies about her; the truth about her is sufficiently damning.
A Hoax that Needs to Die
You might have encountered Conservative and right-leaning websites that refer to Michelle Obama as “Big Mike.” The implication is that Michelle Obama was born a male and sometime thereafter had a trans-sexual operation. This notion is complete and utter nonsense.
To be clear, the Obamas are not among my favorite couples on earth. Indeed, I rate them at the very bottom. Obama’s eight years in office were devastating for the U.S. and the disastrous effects are still being felt. Then Obama enjoyed a third term by becoming a major puppet master of Joe Biden and wreaking even greater damage.
Like the Clintons, the Obamas simply won't go away. Barack campaigned heavily for Democrats in this most recent election season. Michelle, via her aforementioned podcast and media appearances, basically never shuts up. To the issue, however, was Michelle Obama was ever a male? The definitive answer requires less than five seconds.
Visit your favorite search engine and type in “Michelle Obama as a child” or “young Michelle Obama.” Then click on “images.” Instantly, you’ll encounter a preponderance of photos of young Michelle – so many that, quite simply, they dispel the erroneous assertion that she grew up as a male before having sex-change surgery. The same is true of Bridget Macron.
Why the Clamor on the Right?
Michelle Obama and Michelle Robinson were born female, grew up as females, and have always been female, independent of how they appear to some of their detractors.
Why do so many sites on the Right refer to her as “Big Mike” and imply that she is a transsexual? Likely, anything to bring down the Obamas. For one, if she were a transsexual, then the Obama daughters had a different birth mother.
Since Michelle Obama has always been a female, embrace it and turn to pressing issues. Do not let others besmirch our efforts to help restore America to her greatness, to perpetuate truth, and to support the second Trump Administration in its quest to administer justice, create economic opportunity for all, and improve our society in myriad ways.
Focus and Authenticity
Devoting even a nanosecond to the notion that Michelle Obama was originally male or to any other absurd notion dissipates our focus. Worse, it opens the door for those on the Left to make attacks on us and to weaken our effectiveness on vital issues that we staunchly support.
It’s bad enough that the fakestream press serves as a branch of the Democrat party. We don’t need to create unforced errors or to give them cannon fodder for their causes. Consider that when any voice of prominence on the Right, even Candace Owens, let alone elected officials, utters a lie, perpetuates a myth, or otherwise joins the tin foil hat society, we besmirch our otherwise valid arguments in the quest to improve our great nation.
Individually and collectively, we need to forsake dealing in myths and to uphold the truth to the best of our abilities.
Next week or next month, when you encounter another article by a Conservative author that implies that Michelle Obama was born a male, or offers any other lame assertion, let your voice be heard. Write to that entity and explain that this is not so. Emphasize that it is not helpful to perpetuate hoaxes and falsehoods -- as the Left does on an hourly basis.
Call Out the False Claims
Call out those who would weaken our authenticity when it comes to legitimate issues and virtuous points of view. To do less is to aid and abet fanatical Leftists in their bogus claims that we are the fanatics.
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