Posted on 02/28/2013 9:29:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
CHICAGO — Michelle Obama announced the name of the best picture via satellite for the Academy Awards ceremony in order to promote the arts among children, her principal constituency, she said in an interview on Thursday. And if people didn’t like it, she added, that doesn’t bother her.
“We’re going to be approaching those filmmakers to do some things in the White House with kids all over this country who, sometimes, that’s going to be their hook, watching that movie that inspires them,” she told a small group of reporters during a two-day, three-city trip to promote her anti-obesity campaign for children, including a new initiative to increase physical education in schools. “I want to connect with those people, and then I want to pull them in.”
She chalked up criticism of her Oscar cameo and other recent television appearances to the modern media era and the public’s fascination with her activities. “My bangs set off a national conversation,” she acknowledged.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with me,” she said. “Anyone in this position has a huge spotlight, and in modern-day media the spotlight just gets more intense. I don’t attribute this to me or Barack. The culture has just shifted.”
She elaborated on what being part of the first African-American couple in the White House — and one of the iPhone generation — had meant so far. “We’re a young couple, we have young kids, we grew up with limited means,” she said....
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The Wig Speaketh...
And why not? She has experience with forging Hawaiian documents.
Yeah, and she said that they would make sure that our lives would not remain the same as before.
Just who the hell do these people think they are?
The culture has shifted? What the hay is she on about? The MSM is merely repeating the tired, old Camelot playbook. Not that Michelle is any Jackie, but they can pretend. Moreso than with Hillary, anyway, who was treated like a man, except when PC could help.
In the old days this would properly be called propaganda.
Whats nex? Honey booboo episodes and shamwow commercials for this buffoon
Whats next? Honey booboo episodes and shamwow commercials for this buffoon
Forgers and other miscreants sometimes have to give up their licenses to practice law, ya know
Even in Illinois. Even if they spent over $100K to get an Ivy League law degree just to park it in limbo after a couple years
“We’re going to be approaching those filmmakers to do some things in the White House with kids...”
Filmmakers = Ministry of Propaganda.
Get ‘em while they’re young and indoctrinate ‘em in the Marxist/Leninist path.
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