[Raebie]

Yes, it was.

“Another staged moment in the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama just had to get out to Target to do a little shopping last week. But, before the shopping run the White House tipped off AP photographer Charles Dharapak so that he would be at the store to memorialize the moment.”

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/figures-white-house-tipped-off-ap-reporter-ahead-of-michelle-obamas-target-photo-op/

[az_gila]

Perhaps the AP photog also didn't know that you are meant to put your bags of groceries IN the shopping cart as you take them out to your limo...:^)

[American Constitutionalist]

“Another staged moment in the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama just had to get out to Target to do a little shopping last week. But, before the shopping run the White House tipped off AP photographer Charles Dharapak so that he would be at the store to memorialize the moment.”

My oh my, what a happenstance happy coincidence.

That AP photographer so happen to be at the same Target store as Moose was.
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