Screengrab by the Washington Post
Posted on 06/09/2012 12:21:35 PM PDT by kristinn
US Weekly is the latest media outlet to withdraw an article about the Obamas. Friday evening, the celebrity gossip magazine posted an article online entitled Sasha Obama Hosts 11th Birthday Party at Red Robin.
The article has since been pulled, but the URL with the title remains in Google search: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sasha-obama-hosts-11th-birthday-party-at-red-robin-201286. Clicking through gives this message from US: "OOPS! The page you’re looking for isn’t here. But don’t give up!", followed by instructions to use their search engine.
The text of the pulled article read:
Sasha Obama is excited about turning 11 -- so much so that the First Daughter celebrated the occasion several days early at Red Robin in Dulles, Virginia!
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama's youngest daughter -- whose actual birthday is June 10 -- joined her mother, 48, older sister Malia, 13, and 10 friends for a low-key birthday bash last week, Us Weekly can confirm.
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The group dined on a variety of items, including chicken sandwiches, cheeseburgers with avocado and milkshakes. "Before leaving the restaurant, the First Lady left a generous tip for the server and tapped management on the shoulder to let them know 'everything was wonderful and the girls had a great time,'" a source adds.
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The girls' father, Barack, 50, was not in attendance -- not that he wasn't there in spirit. He's currently in the midst of a reelection campaign, and on June 7, the former Illinois senator met with 25 young Hollywood stars -- including Jessica Alba, 31, Zachary Quinto, 35, DiannaAgron, 26, Ian Somerhalder, 33, and Sophia Bush, 29 -- at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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"Just spent my morning with [POTUS] talking about green energy, a better America and being a young American," Vampire Diaries star Somerhalder tweeted. "Wow."
Read more: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sasha-obama-hosts-11th-birthday-party-at-red-robin-201286#ixzz1xK1aSyio
The article was picked up last night by Yahoo! Movies and was online there as of this writing.
The Obama administration has successfully cowed the media into disappearing articles about public travels by the Obama children this year. Articles about eldest daughter Malia's Mexico vacation with classmates from Sidwell Friends school were taken down under pressure for alleged security and privacy reasons. Last month articles and a photograph about Malia attending a One Direction concert in Fairfax, Virginia, were similarly pulled. Now this article about Sasha's birthday party at a public restaurant accompanied by her mother, the First Lady.
The Obamas pick and choose when they want their daughters in the spotlight. In February, the Obama reelection campaign started running Web ads featuring Sasha and Malia with their parents.
Screengrab by the Washington Post
The Obama campaign is selling campaign buttons and refrigerator magnets with the same photo of the Obama children with their parents. The image is a taxpayer funded photograph taken by official White House photographer Pete Souza.
As a private business “Us” magazine is free to cooperate with the Obamas, presumably in hopes of getting future access. Just as I am free not to purchase “Us” magazine.
While the name of the restaurant Red Robin may be innocuous to most Americans the song “Red Robin” has been commandeered by Obama and the Democratic Socialists.
In fact, the DSA have used the song “Red Robin” to incite revolution! Look at this WND article on the Democrats and their use of the song!
http://www.wnd.com/2010/08/190761/
“When the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there’ll be no more lootin’ when we start shootin’ that Wall Street throng. …”
Red Robin has deep Communist Overtones and the Obamas are using the Red Robin restaurant to send a message that they are in fact Communists!
Oh BS...
Maybe the White House wants the media to leave his kids alone. Maybe for their protection. Maybe for their privacy.
FR always screaming "leave the kids alone" and then you post this vanity about the media pulling stories about them.
Ah, but this is about spouses and kids: The Democrats had no problem going after Mrs. Romney, Governor Palin’s children (all the way down to her Down’s Syndrome infant) and hundreds of other GOP candidate’s spouses and children. You can’t fight a war with one hand tied behind your back! If the enemy has no scruples, then they’ve set up the ground rules, haven’t they?
‘campaign buttons and refrigerator magnets’ make great targets.
“Before leaving the restaurant, the First Lady left a generous tip for the server....”
Not just any tip. Shows how much she cares about the little people.
Maybe the article was pulled because of the politically very incorrect menu? Since Mechelle is so big on healthy eating and likes to tell us all that we should be chewing on carrots and celery sticks?
Lol, it could be appropriated and turned around pretty easily ... When the red, red noggins start bob-bob-bobbin’ along, along, there’ll be no more robbin’ and they’ll be sobbin’ a sweet, sweet song.
I have no problem with the MSM refusing to cover the activities and doings of the president’s minor children. I just wish they’d apply the rule to the minor children of all presidents.
I have no problem with the MSM refusing to cover the activities and doings of the president’s minor children. I just wish they’d apply the rule to the minor children of all presidents.
I also figured it was pulled because it makes Michelle’s “Move On” campaign look bad- cheese burgers and milkshakes. I’ve never eaten at Red Robin. I’ve seen their commercials though and know I couldn’t eat a whole burger and it would be a huge waste of money. I thought the burgers in their commercials just looked over-the-top for a meal for anyone, except maybe someone 300+ pounds, or in our family, split 3 ways.
I didn’t know Muslims celebrated bday’s, but the article still is on Yahoo here:
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/sasha-obama-hosts-11th-birthday-party-red-robin-223000075.html
I've been saying..."WATCH THEIR VACATIONS" if you want to know how the polls are REALLY going for them!!!
RED ROBIN brings a SMILE to my face becaue they are in DEEP TROUBLE!!However, when the polls show they can't win even with massive VOTE FRAUD, look for AIR FORCE ONE to be revved up for the USUAL trips!!
Well, notice that they didn’t celebrate it on her actual Birthday!!
Yet you use the name of one of Obama children in your vanity in breaking news.
You have made it about the children with this thread. We have plenty of issues about Obama that we can talk about without bringing his children into the discussion.
Leave kids alone!
The Obamas want it both ways, and the media complies. Use the kids as props for campaign ads and merchandise while declaring other mentions verbotten and duly censored.
Is Sasha old enough to get a summer job? Then again maybe they won’t allow her to have one because then she would have more experience in the private sector than her father...You know the guy hobnobbing with the stars and 1%.
The guy busy flushing our country into the toilet.
What’s this got to do with Red Robin..nothing. Who cares?
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