Posted on 02/12/2014 2:41:24 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Last night the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the Obamas and 350 of their closest friends dined on caviar and quail eggs, dry-aged rib-eye steak served with blue cheese, charred shallots, oyster mushrooms, and braised chard. They dined in the gigantic tent lavishly decorated to replicate a Monet painting of spring in sunny France. Outside the tent, 17 degrees.
For dessert, they enjoyed cake made with chocolate from Hawaii, Florida tangerines, and cotton candy dusted with orange zest. Michelle Obama wore a designer dress estimated to have cost $12,000, designed by Carolina Herrera. Today, President Obama will give another speech about the horrors of income inequality. Well, that's a transition after all of that excess. By the way... (interruption) Yeah, $12,000 for a dress. (interruption)
Well, they didn't say. That $12,000 is a guesstimate from the social doyenne of Washington, DC, Sally Quinn. I mean, no, they didn't announce it's $12,000. Sally Quinn's out there guessing, and being that she's the social doyenne, if she says it's 12 grand, that's what it's gonna be. It's designed by Carolina Herrera. I've got a picture of it here. In fact, I want to show you this. Let just turn the Dittocam off. I'm gonna zoom in on this.
For those of you that are members of Rush 24/7, you'll be able to see this. For those of you who are not, please bear with me 'cause it's worth it for those who are. Let me get a little closer here. All right, here we go. I'm turning the Dittocam on. There you have it. There is Michelle Obama and the $12,000 gown by Carolina Herrera, and the French president Hollande is in the middle, and there's Obama.
You'll notice that this dress is bigger than the president of France. Here, let me make one more adjustment here and I'll show you this again. Take a look at that picture. The little guy in the middle is the socialist dictator -- well, not dictator. He's the socialist president of France. On the left, that's not Oprah. Don't confuse that. That's Michelle Obama. I saw a picture of this from the rear. That's why I thought it was Oprah.
I did. People looking at this, imagine that from... Anyway, you see that dress is bigger than the president of France. (interruption) Marie Antoinette dress. Exactly right. Anyway, that's how it looked last night as they headed into the tent for the exciting state dinner. In the meantime, President Obama today is going to give another speech about the horrors of income inequality. Just amazing.
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RUSH: I reported it to you, and you can trust me, but let's do the sound bites. In fact, let's start with Sally Quinn. We opened the program talking about Moochelle Obama's dress that was the talk of the state dinner last night for Francois Hollande.
Of course, the only observation worth making is that dress -- honestly, folks -- is bigger than Francois Hollande. The dress is bigger than the president of France, and of course the female members of the press corps were abuzz trying to figure out how much it cost. So they went to the social doyenne in Washington, Sally Quinn. Last night she was on Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN. Burnett said, "What about the cost of the overall dinner? They said the first dinner with India could be $600,000. Where do you think tonight's dinner will rank?"
CNN: Michelle Obama's State Dinner Dress Cost Up To $12,000
QUINN: I think that dress probably cost around $12,000. But that's just my guess.
BURNETT: I think that's an informed guess, but okay!
QUINN: No, no. I mean -- (laughing)
BURNETT: Thank you for throwing it out there. (laughing)
RUSH: So there you have it. That means the dress cost $12,000. If Sally Quinn said the dress cost $12,000, then it did.
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RUSH: Bck to Sally Quinn on Erin Burnett OutFront. After saying that she thought the first lady's dress cost $12,000, she then said this...
QUINN: The Obamas have entertained less, had fewer state dinners than most presidents because they don't particularly like to entertain. They keep to themselves a lot, but also because of the economy. I mean, you know, they... When people are starving and don't have jobs, it doesn't look good to spend too much money, but I think that the economy is up enough now and it's important for us to entertain the French. So I think this is... It's worth every penny.
RUSH: That is absolute gobbledygook. Every syllable of that is literal lunacy. In the first place, the Obamas have not cut back on entertaining. They're just not doing official state dinners. They've got concerts and all kinds of stuff going on in the White House. There's all kinds of parties down going on in there. It's constant. The press just doesn't report on all of it. This is the most ostentatiously living first couple I can recall.
Here's Sally Quinn, "Well, you know, people are starving." Really? And the economy being bad? You know, you can't spend a lot conspicuously. It just doesn't look good and so forth. People starving? This bunch has taken airplanes left and right separately on vacations all over the world. They're dropping money like it doesn't cost anything. To say that these people are dialing it back for appearances sake?
They're living like royalty! And they're doing so on purpose, and they're flaunting it, and then this silly notion that the economy is up enough now, and it's "important for us to entertain the French." Why? Why is it important for us to entertain the French, and on whose evidence is the economy up? Oh, yeah, but, you know, that was smoke and mirrors, too. Moochelle had this thing on Saturday night about a month ago.
Oh, yeah, it was Moochelle's 50th birthday, and they told everybody, "Eat before you come." That was to make it look like they were cutting back, solidarity with the starving. They were serving food at the thing. There were little finger sandwiches, all kinds of hors d'oeuvres. It was out of their personal account. Supposedly it was out of their personal budget.
That was the excuse given for why they were dialing it back, but it was heavy hors d'oeuvres. Have you ever been to a heavy hors d'oeuvres party? You don't eat dinner after a heavy hors d'oeuvre cocktail party, by definition. So they were serving food at the thing. Now, if it had been a bring your own booze or Doobies, that would have been something entirely different, but bring your own food? Eat before you come?
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Moochelle: Does this dress make my ass look humongous?
What? No squab? Escargot?
How far they have fallen.
“S’OK. Obama knows his constituents are too stupid to figure the game out.”
Including so-called reporters...
Shawna Thomas @ShawnaNBCNews
HOLY CRAP LOOK AT THE FIRST LADY’S DRESS. #BOWDOWN
6:09 PM - 11 Feb 2014
NBC White House Producer: #BOWDOWN to Michelle O!
“Sharp editorial judgment, keen eye for nuance, and straightforward likeability...”
On Tuesday, NBC News’ Shawna Thomas, observing First Lady Michelle Obama’s dress at a state dinner, tweeted out her worship for her idol:
Thomas is NBC News’ White House producer; she moved into that role in July 2011. Before assuming that role, she was a reporter on the hill, covering the House of Representatives. NBC News Bureau Chief Antoine Sanfuentes celebrated her elevation, writing, “On a personal note, I know that her sharp editorial judgment, keen eye for nuance, and straightforward likeability will make her a great success in this new role, so please join me in congratulating Shawna on this exciting next step!”
The Michelle Obama dress is a Carolina Herrera gown worn in honor of the state dinner for French president Francois Hollande.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/nbc-white-house-producer-bowdown-michelle-o
Sally Quinn: Dumbass or propagandist?
Both...
When Obama turns down all perks and salary and agrees to one bowl of rice a day with a fish head in it, I’ll listen to him on the subject of “ some people make more money than others.”
I should have read the article first, not realizing she was wearing the tent that everybody would be dining under.
This is overt behavior, because no one is this stupid. You see, most conservatives think as white people, so we just don’t get it. But he knows his people love every minute of having a black emperor force whitey to support and pay for their black leaders extravagant lifestyle. He is their royalty and retribution. They have watched for years white presidents dance and dine in tuxedos, now it is their turn. For the people who are outraged with his excess.......we are being conditioned and all the while he is laughing his racist ass off.
BTTT
They have watched for years white presidents dance and dine in tuxedos, now it is their turn.
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Plenty of presidents have been far less extravagant. Carter, Nixon, Ford, Bush, and their wives ...all behaved and dressed modestly. Only Reagan put on a bit of glitz but nothing to this magnitude.
In fact, when I think back, it has been the Democratic presidents — starting with Kennedy and Jackie O who have started this Presidents Must Act like Royalty crap ...
The dress is a disaster. Is Carolina Herrera a Republican?
Hey,Frankie,I’m jealous of althat blonde tang you’ve been getting!
HAHAHA!
Perfect!
Be assured, there has not been one Republican president that the blacks have considered their President, pretty much beginning with JFK. Obamas extravagant living is an unspoken knowledge between him and the majority of blacks. Our WH, our AF1, our parties and our power. Every time he craps on the constitution, it is a gift to his people and all around the country a collective “you go dude” is being said.
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