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.
Leni
Michelle Malkin posted about “let them eat cake,” Michelle Thurs. Note this comment with similar info:
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Marbella Remember[s] King Fahd.
Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud. 1923 – August 1, 2005. He was the king and prime minister of Saudi Arabia and leader of the House of Saud.
Everyone has a favourite Fahd story. Mine was that day he cast a glance eye over Marbella’s Hotel Don Pepe. He sent a secretary to enquire how much would the owners want for the hotel.
The answerable was politely told the hotel was not for sale. The secretary replied: “Everyone has a price when in comes to the king”. But not that time.
It was one of the very few occasions that Fahd was rejected. But his love affair with Marbella was not dimmed. He told a local journalist that he liked the town “because it is part of a land blessed by Allah”, referring to the time when the area had been occupied by the Arabs from the 8th to the 13th century.
King Fahd’s Palace.
From the hotel Incosol just outside Marbella, Fahd directed the construction of his Marbella property, Mar Mar Palace, modelled on the White House…
What significance do you think Muslims see in the Obama’s visit to Marbella?
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/05/welcome-obama-family-thank-you-for-choosing-marbella/
Well, well well, that’s pretty damn interesting, to say the least. WTF?
Kind of like the last years of Bill Clinton. He traveled the world with his family for no real diplomatic purpose, just sight seeing, at taxpayer’s expense.
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I remember that well and it infuriated me at the time. Then to make matters worse, they stole things from the WH when they left. Pigs, all of them. Low class dirt bags.
More popcorn?
She’s got arms like Mike Tyson!
True and an interesting analogy, but, ultimately, their behavior turns out to be what counts, which is how it should be, especially in America.
Gibbs wouldn't lie to the American people, would he?
-PJ
A trip to a sign factory? That must be where they make those $3,000 Obama Stimulus Signs that we see popping up all over the place.
Most excellent find, great investigative thread and fantastic freeping by you and the others.
Obviously, the hoopla over the trip is the distraction. This new, important info MUST be followed through.
No, they have versions of it for those too.
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I looked at Le Monde and could not find anything about this.
Article and # 14.
[Thanks maggief. - Jesse Jackson, Jr.? Are he and Marie Antoinette Michelle 0bama not related?]
The Google translation is not faulty. The word "habra" means "will be", not "there might be". Now, why would she be meeting with the Governor of Riyadh? Don't we have a Secretary of State, and a State Department, chock full of diplomatic types, for this sort of thing?
the infowarrior
Classic. Thanks for the chuckle!
Can you imagine the look on Hillary’s face when she reads this thread.
The look on her face could only be possibly described mathematically... Something along the lines of (sour cubed x (outraged + envious)nth)...
the infowarrior
Good job, but way too much boob. She’s seriously flat chested.
It was a joke. This whole administration is a joke, The idea that Michelle is on a diplomatic vacation is also a joke. Those ‘guys’ don’t like talking to a woman whether she is BO’s wife or someone else’s.
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