An Aug. 13 WorldNetDaily article by Cheryl Chumley promotes WND’s favorite conspiracy theory — that President Obama is the Antichrist — by altering it a bit. It’s now citing random evangelists who say “President Obama isn’t the Antichrist – but he sure is ‘paving the way’ for him.”
Note this bit of slippery wording from Chumley on the part of WND author Carl Gallups:
As Carl Gallups, author of the newly released “Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation,” and co-author with Charl Van Wyk of the upcoming “Be Thou Prepared: Equipping the Church for the Persecution and Times of Trouble,” told Fox News Radio host Alan Colmes in a past interview: An antichrist spirit can be present in many.
He told Colmes: “I have never claimed to believe that Obama is the antichrist. However, I have said that Obama certainly displays an alarmingly powerful antichrist spirit.”
But in the December 2013 interview with Colmes in which Gallups made that claim, he was more emphatic, asserting that “I have never proclaimed that Obama’s the antichrist.” And that is simply a lie.
A July 2009 WND article by Joe Kovacs promoted a YouTube video by someone using the name “ppsimmons” who claimed that an interpretation of various Bible verses by plucking out words and translating back into Hebrew indicates that Obama is the Antichrist.
As we now know, “ppsimmons” is a pseudonym for Gallups, though he was anonymous in that WND article. In it, the then-anonymous Gallups tried to create some plausible deniability for being linked to the video: “I’m not proclaiming he is the antichrist, or that I’m some kind of a Hebrew expert, but the word associations are indisputable. The Hebrew word for lightning is ‘Baraq’ and the word for heights or high places is ‘Bamah.’”
Well, actually, by making the video, Mr. Gallups, you are in fact proclaiming that Obama is the antichrist.
In his Colmes interview, Gallups tried to distance himself further from that video he made, declaring that “All I did was made the video presentation of that linguistic presentation that other people had discovered because it’s thought-provoking, that’s all.” When Colmes called Gallups out on spreading the idea of Obama as the Antichrist, Gallups again insisted that he never claimed Obama is the Antichrist, only an antichrist, and he again refused to apologize for making the video.
Given that Gallups is also a birther and buddy of cold case posse chief Mike Zullo, it’s in his interest to denigrate the president at every opportunity.
Gallups is a dishonest man who has no problem deceiving and lying to promote his particular brand of hate. No wonder WND loves him.