Posted on 02/05/2013 5:02:49 AM PST by chessplayer
The Washington Post is suggesting Tuesday that it's somehow national news that a high-school football coach in northern Alabama was caught on tape mocking Michelle Obama for having a "fat butt."
Post reporter Krissah Thompson used this mini-story -- football coach secretly recorded by students who apparently want him fired, and he's already been suspended -- to remind people that Rush Limbaugh and Rep. James Sensenbrenner have also mocked the First Lady's rear end, and this means our "country of white people" are "not showing adequate respect for and devaluing the bodies of black women." Unsurprisingly, then the Post connects this to "historical antecedents" in slave times:
Her presence as first lady challenges the historic view of a black woman’s place and notions of beauty, says Michaela Angela Davis, a fashion expert who has campaigned for more positive images of black women in the media. “Michelle is black from a distance. She’s a REAL black girl,” Davis says. “A lot of people have tried to make diversity into this weird beige thing. Her presence is just really powerful to interject into the global consciousness.”
The first lady’s critics “are reacting to the culture in which they’ve grown up or they are using it as a code to racialize Michelle Obama and remind people that she’s black,” says Andra Gillespie, an associate professor of political science at Emory University. “It is unreasonable to expect a nearly 50-year-old woman to have the body of a 25-year-old.
Oh the irony. This was the Democratic Party's official and non-official national campaign slogan from the 1860s through the 1950s.
It sure does! Point it at the scowl she wears so often.
LOL
I have NEVER heard Rush refer to Obama’s fat ass wife as Michelle ‘My Butt” Obama. He calls her Michelle “My Belle” Obama which can actually be a term of endearment. The Washington Post and / or it’s author should be royally sued by Rush.
“Yes, but you’d look fat in any dress. You’re fat.”
FACT: Fat people have big butts.
FACT: A moment on the lips, forever on the hips (and butt)
(Been there, took care of the problem)
Answer to the second question is “No”...
(it’s not the dress that’s making you look fat)
And she wants Americans to oon a diet while she has a butt that weighs 50 lbs on it’s own...lol
And she wants Americans to go on a diet while she has a butt that weighs 50 lbs on it’s own. I don think she’s on a diet from the looks of ir...lol
And she wants Americans to go on a diet while she has a butt that weighs 50 lbs on it’s own. I don think she’s on a diet from the looks of it....lol
Now there's a name to aspire to...
To sort borrow a principle from Freud:
Sometimes a fat ass is just a fat ass.
They ought to come here occasionally. I’ve seen a few comments about the size of Hillary Clinton’s posterior, which I’m reasonably sure is pretty much not black.
If one were so bold as to lift up that skirt, you would find 50 pounds of crack!
Illegal in all 57 states and DC.
Hey, Chewie, if it can turn the head of a Clydesdale .... it's a big ass.
Turning every little thing into a “racial incident”. It’s ridiculous.
Amen and halleluiah. This bulbous and rather porcine loud mouth has been telling us for quite some time that our kids are too fat . . . obviously none of the 42 people that have to decorate the queen each day are not allowed to tell her that she has a fat ass, thick thighs, and Hillary-cankles.
Incredible . . . if this were Mrs. Bush, the late nite comedians would have had a 4 year field day!
Regarding Moochelle’s diet crusade, I will say only this: You don’t get an ass like that from eating salads.
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