Posted on 02/25/2013 7:31:49 AM PST by LucianOfSamasota
OS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama made a surprise and unprecedented appearance on Sunday's Oscars telecast when she presented the award for Best Picture, the first time a president or first lady has ever presented an Academy Award.
Appearing live on screen from the White House in Washington, almost 3,000 miles from the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, Obama praised the work of the movie industry before announcing the Iran hostage drama "Argo" the Best Picture winner.
Wearing a silver evening dress, Obama said this year's nominated films had "made us laugh, made us weep and grip our armrests just a little bit tighter."
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Saw this on F&F. Doubly glad I did not watch, and have not watched the Oscars in probably ten years. Can’t stomach it.
I particularly liked her military retinue in the background.
She is about as classy and dignified as a window women in Amsterdam.
Any absolute disgrace that she is a First Lady. The video of her dancing the other day, her and her husbands constant appearances on TV entertainment shows is not only cringe worthy, but an insult to the office and the American people.
How on earth are they getting away with it?
a fake first lady shows up at the biggest fake there is Hollywood
An actress giving an award to other actors. Perfect.
One day you're working a $350k no-show patronage hospital job in Chicago, the next you're on the Oscar stage. #AStarisBorn
Perhaps “unprecedented” but certainly not a “surprise.” I mean, Stalin used to hand out “Hero of the Soviet Union” awards to his pet film makers. Yet another step on our road to voluntarily becoming a dictatorship.
How on earth are they getting away with it?
Tacky and gosh are in with the low informed people.
Another historic “first!” Will there be no end to their greatness?
I voted for Romney.
But its good to see that some of the normally non-political or even a few liberals commenting on the inappropriateness of Moochelle’s cameo.
when’s the next party they can crash?
She probably wanted to be there but the Red Carpet walkers wouldn’t stand for the security checks.
Wasn’t a surprise to me and my wife. We predicted at least one of them would either show up or have something to do with it.
The phoniness continues.
They are bound and determined to alienate half their potential audience.
Gave up on Hollywood years ago.
I’m telling ya. Its not going to be Hill or Cuomo in 2016. Put your money on the Mooch.
The real surprise was that she did not not announce her husband won for best actor. I mean that teardrop and getting choked up at the school massacre was a pretty fine example. I wonder how he managed to do it. I mean that I hope he really was sad over it, but his fascism-promoting response of gun-grabbing leads me to believe otherwise.
I am usually somewhat interested in the Academy Awards, but this year I could not think of a single movie that stood out in 2012 as worthy of an award except perhaps the movie Courageous which Hollywood would never acknowledge even exists.
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