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Charming Story Mrs. Obama Told Two Years Ago, She Now Casts as Racist Incident
rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 12-18-2014 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 12/18/2014 1:02:10 PM PST by servo1969

RUSH: Yesterday we made mention of the fact that Barack Obama was running around talking about the fact that one time, that time long ago, he was insulted that somebody thought he was a valet. Not when he was president. Over seven years ago, somebody thought he was a valet, and that meant the United States was racist.

That meant that he had a legitimate chip on his shoulder, and his wife was running around saying (summarized), "Yeah, I went into Target, and I was first lady. Now, I was in disguise, but I went into Target and somebody asked me to get something off the top shelf," and that was supposed to be racist because that meant that the person at Target thought that she was an employee, a grunt employee, and for only one reason: That she was black.

So that was used to tell us that our country is still racist when even the first lady and the president are insulted with racist comments. "Don't tell us that Barack's election means anything," was the point of that. So let me ask a question: If I call Michael Jordan and say, "Hey, man, can you show me how make a jump shot," am I racist? Is that racist, if I call M.J. and say I need some help with my jump shot? (interruption) It's not? It's not insulting him because he's black?

Well, I could just as easily call Kiki Vandeweghe and ask him, but no, I'm calling M.J. Is that not racist, if I want M.J. to show me how to make a jump shot? Well, then how come Obama gets away with saying it's racist when somebody thinks he's a valet? Anyway there's a little news here on the Mrs. Obama aspect of this, and it comes from our buddies at TruthRevolt.com.

"On Wednesday, People magazine released an interview with President Obama and Michelle Obama, in which the two discussed their harrowing experiences with racism. Among those experiences was a shocking incident during Michelle Obama’s undercover trip to a Target: 'I tell this story -- I mean, even as the first lady -- during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.

"'Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new.'" From that we're supposed to believe that America is so rotten discriminatory that asking a black woman in Target to help get you something off the shelf is racist, because it means that every American thinks that every black is nothing more than an average, minimum wage store clerk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMum2dInBdU

Okay, that's what Michelle Obama meant.

But do you know she told this same story two years ago in an entirely different way, on Letterman? Same story, same event. Here's how she described it on Letterman: "I thought I was undercover. I have to tell you something about this trip though. No one knew that was me because a woman actually walked up to me, right? I was in the detergent aisle, and she said -- I kid you not -- she said, 'Excuse me, I just have to ask you something,' and I thought, 'Oh, cover's blown.'

"She said, 'Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?' I kid you not ... And the only thing she said -- I reached up, 'cause she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down -- she said, 'Well, you didn't have to make it look so easy.' That was my interaction. I felt so good. ... She had no idea who I was. I thought, as soon as she walked up -- I was with my assistant, and I said, 'This is it, it’s over. We're going to have to leave.' She just needed the detergent."

So two years ago it was a charming and funny event where a woman needed the assistance of a tall person to reach something from a high shelf. But today, the same story's racism. This is another example of how it's done. This spreading of guilt, making things up, structuring them as you go to achieve the desired result that you want. It's just... I think it's obviously beneath these people to engage in this kind of thing.

But it illustrates for us who they are and what they're really intending to do and what their base manner of thinking is. I mean, to tell this story in a different way recently to People magazine, "Is the country still racist?" How does that advance anything? How does that help a thing, particularly when that was not her original interpretation of the event?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; racist; rush; target
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To: RetSignman

She probably could have gotten by with that disguise if she had been shopping Walmart.
Do you think the Hacking of credit cards at Target had anything to do with her being mistaken, on reflection of the Ferguson & Garner deaths, of being mistaken for an someone who works for a living?


41 posted on 12/18/2014 2:08:35 PM PST by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but the culture embraced that degrades.)
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To: servo1969
No way the SS let her wander down the aisles alone. In Target, the aisles are so high, you disappear from view if you step into one—even if you're a Wookie.

The anecdote was probably born as a lie her staff wrote into her scripted, off-the-cuff interview with Letterwimp. Let's just say in either use of the anecdote, it was too good to be true.

42 posted on 12/18/2014 2:09:27 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: servo1969

I’m a little over five feet, and even I’VE been asked to reach stuff, by people who are even shorter than I am! I was glad to do it. It usually results in a nice, friendly little exchange between two shoppers. Leave it to the WORST “Lady” to turn it into racism. Why not just be glad to do a bit of a favor for a fellow human being? She’s just too small and petty to think of it that way. Disgusting, classless creature!

This will backfire on the Obamas big time, as almost everyone has been asked to reach something in a store, or has asked someone else to do so, and never considered racism as having anything to do with it.

Sheesh...the sooner these two horrid people are out of OUR house, the better.


43 posted on 12/18/2014 2:15:55 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: hecticskeptic
I’m willing to bet a grand that the woman who asked her to reach to the higher shelf was NOT white.

You know, IF this incident even really happened, the woman who asked her to reach the higher shelf is somewhere. I hope she comes forward, or someone finds her. I'd love her to be black, or have her publicly respond to this vile accusation of racism. Moochelle is really insulting this woman, who almost certainly did not intend any "racism."

44 posted on 12/18/2014 2:22:21 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: servo1969

Heck, I’m a guy but have bad knees, so have needed help in the hardware store. Remind me never to ask an intended victim.


45 posted on 12/18/2014 2:23:48 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: servo1969
Handing Obama the keys to your car, is not racist. Assuming he wanted to steal your car, is racist.

When we assumed Obama would uphold the US constitution, we were not being racist. We were just actingly stupidly, apparently.

46 posted on 12/18/2014 2:25:55 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Nea Wood
...I hope she comes forward, or someone finds her.

You know, there's another possibility.... she doesn't exist and the whole anecdote was made up. Now that I think of the Moochelle body language, that too is a fit.

47 posted on 12/18/2014 2:27:29 PM PST by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: servo1969

I can hardly wait to listen to all the Late Night Comedians and SNL to make fun of what she has said. They do so like to make fun of Big Asses (little pun there) if they are White like Governor Christie (another pun).


48 posted on 12/18/2014 2:33:46 PM PST by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but the culture embraced that degrades.)
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To: RetSignman

Yeah, sure, she looks like a Target employee. /s

49 posted on 12/18/2014 2:36:11 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: hecticskeptic
You know, there's another possibility.... she doesn't exist and the whole anecdote was made up.

As my dearly departed ex-grandmother in law used to say: "you know how they lie".

50 posted on 12/18/2014 2:37:00 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: TigersEye

does she know she can actually put the bags in the cart?


51 posted on 12/18/2014 2:40:14 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: servo1969

Haven’t read the whole thread but this has probably been covered. As a taller than average person there’s hardly a couple of weeks that go by in my adult life where someone shorter than me doesn’t ask for help reaching a grocery item high up on a shelf.

I’m now trained to offer my service at the first sight of someone vertically challenged trying to grasp something out of reach.

I guess we are all racists.


52 posted on 12/18/2014 2:42:50 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: mountn man

That’s the whole problem. The “activists” (led by Obama) have made everybody - black and white - so nervous that they can’t just interreact like human beings anymore.


53 posted on 12/18/2014 2:55:10 PM PST by livius
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To: morphing libertarian
Apparently not. lol

Gotta wonder what she thinks the cart is for.

54 posted on 12/18/2014 2:55:39 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: TigersEye

homeless transportation


55 posted on 12/18/2014 3:00:30 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: morphing libertarian

She looks the part but even homeless people know that carts carry stuff.


56 posted on 12/18/2014 3:06:42 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: MeganC

Same here. I’m 5’9” and little old ladies are always attracted to me to help them. Maybe my platinum blonde hair makes me a target. Lol


57 posted on 12/18/2014 5:49:41 PM PST by sheana
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To: hecticskeptic

A woman has come forward claiming to be the sister of the woman who asked Michelle to reach for her. She’s defending her sister’s honor, says her sister is not racist, etc.


58 posted on 12/18/2014 8:22:43 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: servo1969

I’m 6’2” tall. I always have Little Old Ladies asking me to reach something on the top shelf. If I see someone having a difficult time trying to get to something, I volunteer.

My Mother always told me to be Polite.

The one thing us Tall people need to know is that you are expected to get an Item from the back of the Shelf, the one with the latest “buy” Date.

This really comes into play when reaching for a Carton of Milk. I automatically do it, rather than taking the first Item on the shelf. If I didn’t, I know the Little Old Lady will ask me to reach way back for the freshest Milk.

Now I am questioning their Motives. Maybe they look down(figuratively) on Tall Italian Men. They must think I’m either a Mafioso or Mussolini’s Grandson. That’s the ticket.

Do you think People Magazine will interview me?


59 posted on 12/18/2014 8:48:07 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If you thought the Mulatto Marxist was bad, wait until the Menopausal Marxist is Elected.)
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To: csmusaret

“Either way it probably has more to do with her being six feet tall than it does with her being black.”
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That’s a guaranteed certainty. I’m a six four white male and I couldn’t count the times someone in a store has asked me to reach something for them. I have never refused and never felt insulted.


60 posted on 12/19/2014 5:46:57 AM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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