Posted on 08/07/2010 2:29:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Democratic Party front group Media Matters for America has been loyally defending First Lady Michelle Obama's luxurious Spanish vacation this week even as other liberals concede the Obama administration made a politically insensitive call in signing off on the trip.
Today, Media Matters attacked Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit/Pajamas Media for his critique of Michelle Obama's trip. The headline of the attack piece: Michelle Obama derangement syndrome: Instapundit posts pic of First Lady as Marie Antoinette
Not only does the headline reinforce the growing meme that Michelle Obama is acting like a rich pig, but upon opening the article one is confronted with a huge graphic posted by Media Matters of Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette with her muscular hand set on a globe captioned Choosing the next Vacation that is four times the size of the brief two paragraph attack article:
The illustration is from the Glenn Reynolds piece which itself is a short excerpt of a Roger L. Simon article asserting that Michelle's extravagant trip is one more indication that Barack Obama has a psychological disorder and doesn't really want to be president anymore.
The illustration is grounded in truth, which gives it a credibility that Media Matters, which is suffering from its own version of Obama Derangement Syndrome, can't see because of its blind loyalty to the First Couple.
Since becoming First Lady nineteen months ago, Michelle Obama has vacationed overseas in Paris, London, Copenhagen and Marbella. She still has a family vacation booked to Indonesia and Australia that has been twice postponed this year because of her husband's incompetence and rudeness. She also vacationed in Los Angeles this year, sans her husband, sitting in a luxury box for an NBA championship game and visiting a private beach owned by a billionaire.
Barack and Michelle Obama have also vacationed across America from Hawaii to Maine, with stays at a $4,000 rental home in Hawaii, Martha's Vineyard (with a second trip there later this month) taken over 300 rooms at a Montana resort, traveled through Western National Parks, two Chicago vacation weekends, one weekend vacation each in North Carolina and Maine (with a Florida weekend planned next week) and the infamous date night in New York City.
When the Obamas don't feel like traveling the world, they bring the world to them at taxpayer expense, including a pizza chef from St. Louis and all kinds of performers for their White House parties.
The Marie Antoinette meme is sticking to Michelle Obama, and by extension her husband, because more and more people are seeing the First Couple for what they are. Now more liberal reporters will see them that way, too, thanks to the blind loyalty of Media Matters.
Do you have a direct link to the article you are talking about?
Thanks, Lorena.
It says, that it's going to be a meeting between Michelle Obama and prince Salman bin Abdelaziz, governor of Riyadh and brother of the deceased Rey Fahd of Saudi Arabia; whereas there would be another meeting of the first lady with the owner of the Malaga CF, businessman multimillionaire, son of the Secretary of the Interior of Qatar and member of the real family qatarí, Abdullah Al Thani.
Yikes!
What is going on? Wow, this is big.
Excellant work! Send it to FOXnews.com or Me@glennbeck.com either will pass it on.
Picking up pay to play for funding the NOv election is another possibility.
MO is the only one he could trust to get “whatever the job was” done....Probably the only one customs wouldn’t queston.
Yikes, indeed!
She has no business meeting with those people. She is the surrogate for the Marxist!
This is huge and our damn media are NOT reporting a word about it!
Thank you so very much, Victoria!
Yikes is right! Now, I wonder if it would be possible to find out if prince Salman and Abdullah Al Thani really are there right now for them to meet with Michelle or not. If a picture shows up of one or the other in Riyadh or somewhere else, then we’d know this report is not true.
Thanks to you and aruanan for your translations! Most helpful.
CUSTOMS! Bingo! And she has been accepting all of those “gifts” so she could hide money or papers or bank drafts or whatever in amongst the dresses and giftware and stuff.
Now, I think we need jveritas to check the Arab papers for any news of the “meeting” or “party/festivities.”
bttt
AF2 or whatever “her” plane is called, flies unsearched right into Andrews AFB, right?
Can you change the headline (or have the mods do it) to reflect the extra information in this thread? I think it’s really important that a lot of people read this article in El Mundo.
That is correct. With a NORMAL president, there would be no need to worry.
And I will bet she is carrying one of her trademark giant purses when she gets off the plane.
Excellent idea, Miss Marple. This is now serious news.
I wonder if she is passing along a message from her husband to the Arabs. What are their plans, and are they aligned to put America in a weaker position vis a vis the Arab world?
I suspect that. Notice how the media has started to report on the "controversy" over her lavish trip? Nora O'Donnell on NBC yesterday morning did a job on Michelle.
That is exactly what the media did for Clinton. Yakked endlessly about Monica when the real story was illegal money from foreign nationals.
Or wearing one of those boob belts with God knows what taped to her body!
Her personal belongings would not be searched. BUT....
We used to have a local businessman who took planes full of people to south America...Asking each to carry the limit in cash. He would pay for their trip and give them spending money on a visa card once they arrived...The money he deposited off shore bank at their destination...in his own name of course......
SO are each of her guests also doing her financial favors?
FBI tip line anyone?
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