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The MSM is at a loss to understand why Michelle Obama got tagged as an “angry black woman,” and is bending over backwards to disabuse working class men and woman - in particular - of this notion. Case in point, this fawning profile in The New York Times, which was unintentionally revealing in ways that support the lingering concerns some voters have about her takeaway message from 20 years of listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons. Here’s Michelle Obama in action as VP of Community Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2001: Hospital brass had gathered to...

James Taranto calls out Michelle Obama for appalling pandering to the lie that the government deliberately injected black men with syphilis in the notorious Tuskegee Study. Yesterday, a New York Times article about her noted that she had killed a research project on the human papillomavirus, because of sensitivity to the widespread mistaken belief in the black community that that such research abuses happen to blacks. "The Times's account suggests that girls in Chicago were denied potentially lifesaving vaccinations because Michelle Obama pandered to racial paranoia instead of standing up for the truth. Is that why they pay her the...