Posted on 04/01/2009 4:40:12 PM PDT by 50mm
CNN correspondent Alina Cho loaded the regal language into her report on Wednesday’s American Morning about Europe’s “apparent love affair” with Michelle Obama. Besides the obligatory Jackie Kennedy references, Cho gave a preview of the first lady’s tea with Queen Elizabeth II: “On today’s schedule: tea with the queen, and insiders say the queen and America’s queen bee will be fast friends.” The correspondent even compared Mrs. Obama to Princess Diana. She also referred to the Obamas as the “royal family of the United States.”
Cho began her report by hyping the first lady’s popularity, how it apparently isn’t exclusive to the States, and how it could overshadow her husband the president: “Tina Brown, as you know, joked about an hour ago that Sara Brown is a beautiful girl but, you know, everybody sort of knows that right now, at least, she pales in comparison to Michelle Obama. Of course, the big question is, could she overshadow the president?...So, you know, there’s no denying that Michelle Obama is a rock star in America, but how is her style and personality playing abroad? Well, the early reviews are very good. The apparent love affair with the U.S. first lady is flourishing in Europe.”
After announcing that Mrs. Obama is a “brand new star” overseas, using glowing remarks from people on a British street to underscore her point, the correspondent made her “royal family” reference to the Obamas. Presidential historian Allan Lichtman (who was unidentified during the report) adopted this moniker in his first sound bite: “How the royal family, and not just a head of government, is received, is very important for perception back here at home.”
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I don't know. Somebody is going to have to turn on CNN to see, but it won't be me.
> I’m no fan of Jackie-Oh, but Michelle’s no Jackie-Oh.
Nope. If Michelle Obama is Jackie-O, then Rosie O Donnell is Playmate of the Year.
“Somebody is going to have to turn on CNN to see, but it won’t be me.”
Exactamundo!
Is it common to get an oil-change in the presence of Her Majesty these days? Or what?
Let’s face it. She is not an attractive woman and has a personality to match. All this fawning over her must be mass hypnosis or liberal white guilt being taken to an absurd level. Jackie O is gyroscoping in her grave — it’s like favorably comparing a mule to a thoroughbred.
Urkel Obama and his wife Chewbacca? Is that who they are talking about ?
And we just might have to fight another!
I get a general impression of the Obama’s not being fully aware and engaged as to who the Queen is, what she stands for, etc.... I think its beyond their grasp, historically speaking. They seem to be people of the moment and The Queen is “just another head of state or something or other”. To publicly present her Maj with an IPOD (imho) is not a cool move, perhaps they could have done that in private, you know, leave it on a dressing table with a card or something./s/
It just doesn’t seem dignified for one head of state to give Her Maj something Made in China .
It would have been a real hoot if the Othugo’s had given her the sheet music and lyrics to “The Star Spangled Banner”, now wouldn’t it?
This is a good example of the kind of people they are , lacking in depth,background and knowledge.
Big whoop. Bush descends from the Plantagenet dynasty (as do a lot of former presidents), and I’m his somethingth cousin on the same line.
Go to the link below to see the video of the Obama woman as she pushes past Prince Phillip and wedges herself next to the Queen.
The Queen's face - and lost for words is priceless.
No, he’s a superhero, not a royal.
Apparently, standards have “evolved”. ;-)
Spoken by one of the United States’s serfs.
Somehow or other, I just don't think that Queen Elizabeth and Princess Di got on all that well. I imagine that the relation beetween the Queen and the First Lady will be similarly cool.
I read the whole first page before posting, but I see that you beat me to it.
Technically, shouldn’t have MO been to the left (our left, viewing the video) and Phillip to the Queen’s right (our video right)?
There will be no creating another 'Camelot' by the lying media! There are other avenues to get information these days, MSM idiots!
Bottom line: technically, she shouldn’t have walked in front of the prince in order to place herself next to the queen in this photo op.
I think he should have left her a dvd with all the 1-800- Dentist commercials
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