Posted on 08/07/2010 2:29:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Democratic Party front group Media Matters for America has been loyally defending First Lady Michelle Obama's luxurious Spanish vacation this week even as other liberals concede the Obama administration made a politically insensitive call in signing off on the trip.
Today, Media Matters attacked Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit/Pajamas Media for his critique of Michelle Obama's trip. The headline of the attack piece: Michelle Obama derangement syndrome: Instapundit posts pic of First Lady as Marie Antoinette
Not only does the headline reinforce the growing meme that Michelle Obama is acting like a rich pig, but upon opening the article one is confronted with a huge graphic posted by Media Matters of Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette with her muscular hand set on a globe captioned Choosing the next Vacation that is four times the size of the brief two paragraph attack article:
The illustration is from the Glenn Reynolds piece which itself is a short excerpt of a Roger L. Simon article asserting that Michelle's extravagant trip is one more indication that Barack Obama has a psychological disorder and doesn't really want to be president anymore.
The illustration is grounded in truth, which gives it a credibility that Media Matters, which is suffering from its own version of Obama Derangement Syndrome, can't see because of its blind loyalty to the First Couple.
Since becoming First Lady nineteen months ago, Michelle Obama has vacationed overseas in Paris, London, Copenhagen and Marbella. She still has a family vacation booked to Indonesia and Australia that has been twice postponed this year because of her husband's incompetence and rudeness. She also vacationed in Los Angeles this year, sans her husband, sitting in a luxury box for an NBA championship game and visiting a private beach owned by a billionaire.
Barack and Michelle Obama have also vacationed across America from Hawaii to Maine, with stays at a $4,000 rental home in Hawaii, Martha's Vineyard (with a second trip there later this month) taken over 300 rooms at a Montana resort, traveled through Western National Parks, two Chicago vacation weekends, one weekend vacation each in North Carolina and Maine (with a Florida weekend planned next week) and the infamous date night in New York City.
When the Obamas don't feel like traveling the world, they bring the world to them at taxpayer expense, including a pizza chef from St. Louis and all kinds of performers for their White House parties.
The Marie Antoinette meme is sticking to Michelle Obama, and by extension her husband, because more and more people are seeing the First Couple for what they are. Now more liberal reporters will see them that way, too, thanks to the blind loyalty of Media Matters.
Love it
Are you being plagiarized?
Look, we have to be more understanding. The Great Depression generation had upbeat Hollywood musicals to help them through hard times. They could escape for an hour or so. But what about today?
The Obamas life-style is America's Hollywood-musical escape.
The Obamas yielding to a higher purpose endure these things to lift the spirits of the American people. It helps the masses through the ravages left by eight years of Bush.
This is a hugh and series sacrifice that they make -- and all for the American people.
“Are you being plagiarized?”
LOL! I doubt it. There are very few original ideas in life. That’s why the Constitution is so important.
Michelle Antoinette is a pretty easy connection - and image - to make for anyone with even minimal imagination and photoshop chops.
***The Marie Antoinette meme is sticking to Michelle Obama, and by extension her husband, because more and more people are seeing the First Couple for what they are. ***
Kind of like the last years of Bill Clinton. He traveled the world with his family for no real diplomatic purpose, just sight seeing, at taxpayer’s expense.
Don’t forget the British Press nailed her w/that handle first. They are far better at covering America than Big Media. This may signal daddy $oro$ isn’t happy?
Pray for America
“”Both are unbalanced mentally””
I think that’s what hate and anger do to a person and they have it in “spades” - no pun intended.......
Well done, precognitive one.
“”shows the drive would have taken at least 20 minutes, but the Helicopter trip took just eight.””
That’s all the time he could spare - he had to get right back to work on the next boondoggle he has to throw at us on Monday morning. He’s transparent all right!!!
it’s very nice indeed.
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Seems Michelle is as important as her husband.
On this on, I’m kinda with Obama. A presidential motorcade across DC is a nightmare! DC police are out at every intersection the motorcade will cross for 20 minutes before they pass (and on so short a trip, they’d soon be returning). Same for every overpass/bridge along the route Traffic gets snarled the whole time. The bottom line is, it’s probably cheaper and less disruptive overall going on Marine One.
I see a fat hand set on a globe.
Fat as in "Michele is fat."
I suppose I can understand why the typical liberal confuses fat with muscular, not having any personal acquaintance with the latter condition.
Michelle RuPaul Antoinette Obama is signaling that she knows that they aren’t going to be there past 2012, if that long.
Like some elitist Welfare Queen of the entitlement class, she’ll take everything she can get while they’re there ‘cuz she deserves it. After all, she’s only doing it as reparations on behalf of her people kept down all those years by Whitey. You see, she is being selflessly symbolic for the downtrodden. You go girl (or guy)!
It's probably cheaper and less intrusive to just give his short stupid damn speech from the White House lawn.
Simply superb.
That's ridiculous. The only reason I believe she's over there meeting foreign dignitaries is because Europe and by extension Saudi Arabia dislikes Obama about as much as we do here and her standing in the world is twice as high as his. They say The Rookie appears weak in the world in contrast to thugs like Ahmadinejad in Iran who also says Obama is weak.
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