Posted on 01/10/2012 11:48:30 AM PST by maggief
American First Lady Michelle Obama’s spontaneous jig at a Mumbai school when she accompanied President Barack Obama on his trip to India in 2010 was apparently ‘stage managed’ by the White House staff, with a view to sending a positive image throughout the world. This surprising claim has been made in an upcoming biography on the Obamas.
In her latest book ‘The Obamas,’ New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor wrote that while in Mumbai, when President Obama was busy discussing trade relations between India and US, his wife met up with a bunch of orphans and stowaways, removing her “shoes to play hopscotch with them, dancing and shimmying to the beat of a song from a Bollywood movie.”
Further according to Kantor, Michelle’s staff by now knew the magic formula and that was to put the First Lady in a roomful of kids particularly kids who were total outsiders and just let them connect with each other and this will undoubtedly end up in “a moment that generated warm, positive images and video,” wrote the NY Times journo.
The First Lady’s deputy chief of staff Melissa Winter was even quoted as saying in the book “All we had to do was set the stage.” However, this claim by Jodi Kantor in her book has been totally rejected by the White House. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has gone on to describe it as highly exaggerated.
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“American First Lady Michelle Obama’s spontaneous jig ... “
Hmmm... interesting wording.
I’m shocked...
Are there actually people out there who did NOT know this?
indeed
Surprising? I think not.
Everything is staged and choreographed to the nth degree with these two phony grifters, Moochie and BamBam.
The food Nazi is porkier than I thought. I’m surprised they used the picture.
Her hubby has been stage managed for years.
The food Nazi is porkier than I thought. I’m surprised they used the picture.
It’s kinda like a “duh”....
Michelle looks like she’s taking a dump...
Surprising? To what person, in which universe?
Quite frankly, she looks nasty and also awkward.
Probably the same people who still think she just spontaneously showed up at Target last year to buy Lysol, when a squadron of press photographers just happened to be there at the same time.
News at 11pm...
“This surprising claim has been made in an upcoming biography on the Obamas. “
Surprising? The obamas are phoney balonies from the get go and their careers have always been managed by someone else.
Who the h$ll dresses this woman?? n/s
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