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Media Matters Palace Guard Defense of Michelle Obama Backfires - Big Time
Saturday, August 7, 2010 | Kristinn

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.


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To: Anti-Bubba182

Love it


41 posted on 08/07/2010 3:33:09 PM PDT by Tonopah2
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To: paulycy

Are you being plagiarized?


42 posted on 08/07/2010 3:35:20 PM PDT by miele man
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To: kristinn
The smatterings at media smatters has really got the Obama worshipers a dithering. Let me try to help. The vacation-a-month, the six-figure White House shindigs, the golf outings, hundred-dollar-a-pound beef.. all of it -- it's all to lift the people's spirits through these Bush-orchestrated times of sorry and misery.

Look, we have to be more understanding. The Great Depression generation had upbeat Hollywood musicals to help them through hard times. They could escape for an hour or so. But what about today?

The Obamas life-style is America's Hollywood-musical escape.

The Obamas yielding to a higher purpose endure these things to lift the spirits of the American people. It helps the masses through the ravages left by eight years of Bush.

This is a hugh and series sacrifice that they make -- and all for the American people.

43 posted on 08/07/2010 3:41:45 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: miele man

“Are you being plagiarized?”

LOL! I doubt it. There are very few original ideas in life. That’s why the Constitution is so important.

Michelle Antoinette is a pretty easy connection - and image - to make for anyone with even minimal imagination and photoshop chops.


44 posted on 08/07/2010 3:42:37 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Marxism is Evil.)
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To: kristinn

***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. ***

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.


45 posted on 08/07/2010 4:00:32 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Viva los SB 1070)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Michelle is right out of GWTW, wearing miz Scarlette’s Looted gowns. As I said Neuveau Riche, or a similar expression. I hope her lottery winnings run out soon.
barbra ann
46 posted on 08/07/2010 4:02:23 PM PDT by barb-tex (Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears: Let the weak say I am strong.)
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To: kristinn

Don’t forget the British Press nailed her w/that handle first. They are far better at covering America than Big Media. This may signal daddy $oro$ isn’t happy?

Pray for America


47 posted on 08/07/2010 4:10:56 PM PDT by bray (Did Rush say Absolute Failure?)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

“”Both are unbalanced mentally””

I think that’s what hate and anger do to a person and they have it in “spades” - no pun intended.......


48 posted on 08/07/2010 4:21:16 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: paulycy

Well done, precognitive one.


49 posted on 08/07/2010 4:22:48 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: PLD

“”shows the drive would have taken at least 20 minutes, but the Helicopter trip took just eight.””

That’s all the time he could spare - he had to get right back to work on the next boondoggle he has to throw at us on Monday morning. He’s transparent all right!!!


50 posted on 08/07/2010 4:24:26 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: paulycy

it’s very nice indeed.


51 posted on 08/07/2010 4:31:24 PM PDT by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: EDINVA; bboop

:0)


52 posted on 08/07/2010 4:37:43 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Marxism is Evil.)
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To: PLD
Let's not forget we have to endure the cost of Secret Service Double Duty protection service.

Seems Michelle is as important as her husband.

53 posted on 08/07/2010 4:38:23 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: PLD

On this on, I’m kinda with Obama. A presidential motorcade across DC is a nightmare! DC police are out at every intersection the motorcade will cross for 20 minutes before they pass (and on so short a trip, they’d soon be returning). Same for every overpass/bridge along the route Traffic gets snarled the whole time. The bottom line is, it’s probably cheaper and less disruptive overall going on Marine One.


54 posted on 08/07/2010 4:53:01 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: CARTOUCHE
"...really was smokin’ something other than Newports?"

I've always heard that smoking is a sign of an oral fixation...
55 posted on 08/07/2010 4:53:05 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot ( Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: kristinn
"...with her muscular hand set on a globe..."

I see a fat hand set on a globe.

Fat as in "Michele is fat."

I suppose I can understand why the typical liberal confuses fat with muscular, not having any personal acquaintance with the latter condition.

56 posted on 08/07/2010 5:00:28 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: kristinn

Michelle RuPaul Antoinette Obama is signaling that she knows that they aren’t going to be there past 2012, if that long.

Like some elitist Welfare Queen of the entitlement class, she’ll take everything she can get while they’re there ‘cuz she deserves it. After all, she’s only doing it as reparations on behalf of her people kept down all those years by Whitey. You see, she is being selflessly symbolic for the downtrodden. You go girl (or guy)!


57 posted on 08/07/2010 5:01:54 PM PDT by Dr. Free Market (Do the right thing, and let the chips fall where they may.)
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To: EDINVA
The bottom line is, it’s probably cheaper and less disruptive overall going on Marine One.

It's probably cheaper and less intrusive to just give his short stupid damn speech from the White House lawn.

58 posted on 08/07/2010 5:29:31 PM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Marie Antoinette with all her faults was legitimate nobility with a long history and tradition. This creature is an historical accident thrown up by some sort of electoral spasm of a dying Republic.

Simply superb.

59 posted on 08/07/2010 5:38:22 PM PDT by Eroteme
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To: CARTOUCHE
At the risk of being labeled a homophobe. BWAHAHAH. May I suggest that the vacation from the stinky one was in retaliation for finding-out that her husband really was smokin’ something other than Newports?

That's ridiculous.  The only reason I believe she's over there meeting foreign dignitaries is because Europe and by extension Saudi Arabia dislikes Obama about as much as we do here and her standing in the world is twice as high as his. They say The Rookie appears weak in the world in contrast to thugs like Ahmadinejad in Iran who also says Obama is weak.

60 posted on 08/07/2010 5:56:37 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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