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Call the Hypocrisy Police: Michelle Obama Praises Free Speech on China Trip That Banned Journalists
IJReview.com ^ | 3/23/14 | Michael Hausam

Posted on 03/23/2014 9:42:04 AM PDT by absentee

The White House banned journalists from accompanying Michelle Obama on her trip to China and explained that it was because the purpose of her trip is not political. Some news outlets even repeated the White House’s assertion of the non-political nature of the visit without mentioning that the press was not allowed to accompany them.

But in a speech that sounded at times to be extremely political, she also said the following:

“And that’s why it’s so important for information and ideas to flow freely over the internet and through the media; because that’s how we discover the truth.”
So Michelle Obama lectures a communist police state about free speech standards, while the White House is spying on journalists and restricting access to information in the U.S.. Double-standard much?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; michelle; obama; speech
The hypocrisy of the Obama White House knows no bounds and has no shame.
1 posted on 03/23/2014 9:42:04 AM PDT by absentee
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To: absentee

Can’t make it up.


2 posted on 03/23/2014 9:43:49 AM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: absentee

Shame is nonexistent in a world where morals are a fungible commodity.


3 posted on 03/23/2014 9:43:57 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: absentee
"The hypocrisy of the Obama White House knows no bounds and has no shame."

As Ann Coulter noted about liberals, "as we know their evil is incalculable... Nothing too extreme can be said about liberals, because it's all true." (How to talk to a liberal (if you must), 2004, p. 12)

4 posted on 03/23/2014 9:47:00 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: absentee
...because the purpose of her trip is not political..

That's right. It's yet another vacation on the taxpayer dime. Why? Because she's exhausted from coming back from her last vacation so she needed another vacation which no doubt will exhaust her. But hey, that's why need vacations!

5 posted on 03/23/2014 9:49:07 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: absentee
100%!!! i wondered how long before this would be mentioned in the press...
6 posted on 03/23/2014 9:58:06 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: COBOL2Java

Considering that the Chicago Bears defensive linebacker is the CENTER of the world, then morality is whatever she defines it to be. For her, speech was always free, and since it does not concern the Chinese authorities, they have no reason or compelling justification to in any way limit whatever comes spilling out of her mouth.

Of course, she was already programmed to spew just the right mixture of social justice and blame for America to satisfy the controllers in Beijing.

It is not a matter of having shame for such a blatant hypocrisy. She simply does not KNOW that she is violating basic human decency and historical standards.


7 posted on 03/23/2014 10:26:18 AM PDT by alloysteel (Obamacare - Death and Taxes now available online. One-stop shopping at its best!)
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To: absentee

I don’t like her.


8 posted on 03/23/2014 10:28:11 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Don't tell me, I'll tell you.)
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To: absentee
The hypocrisy of the Obama White House knows no bounds and has no shame.

I'm fairly sure she doesn't see any contradiction at all.

9 posted on 03/23/2014 10:41:21 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: absentee

Leftists do not believe in free speech


10 posted on 03/23/2014 10:50:14 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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Thanks absentee.

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11 posted on 03/23/2014 11:06:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: absentee

No, no, no; she means free “approved” speech.


12 posted on 03/23/2014 11:25:04 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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