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.
Yes, lets’ start with that...Then we’ll transfer a couple of the comments and ping the people who were involved.
BTTT
OK - any ideas for a title?
Is Michelle’s Extravagant Vacation Actually a Cover for Meeting With Arabs?
We posted that likelihood a couple of weeks ago
when we found out about it and that the Saudis
are also there! Damn!
From MestaMachine - #45 and #50
And my post - #53
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2558986/posts?q=1&;page=41
WE READ THEM LIKE CHEAP PAMPHLETS!
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Here’s another translation for that I got from http://www.spanishdict.com/translation
Several Arab royal families also spend their summers in Marbella for many years.
Thus, there will be a meeting between Michelle Obama and Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, governor of Riyadh and brother of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, while another meeting is shuffled from the first lady with the owner of Málaga CF, billionaire businessman, son of Qatar’s Interior Minister and member of the Qatari royal family, Abdullah Al Thani.
http://www.spanishdict.com/translation
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I’m spitting ammonia-laced darts !!!!!!!
And here’s a good target
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MichelleAntoinette.jpg
And a good article about her imperial-ness
http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/08/07/michelle-the-media-and-the-costa-del-sol/
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Thanks for the pings, FRiends. What kind of messages
is she tasked with bringing to the musslim prince ???
yelp....OR what ever the spanish title was.
Onyx and I are working on posting a speerate thread with information on post 14 as basis...And ideas?
Well done, kristinn!
hoosiermama and I are about to post a new thread - you can add links once it’s posted. Thanks, dear STAR!
I am creating the post now with some links.
Or she got an advance peek at the cover page of Globe. Pheww!
But Jesse Jackson isn't. Plus, he always goes where the monetary shakedowns are.
Wonder what al-Qardawi’s been up to? Still in Qatar?
The White House party crashing couple are Palestinian IIRC and pretty good at getting into places they shouldn't be. This would be one heck of a party crashing event. :-)
Now, I think we need jveritas to check the Arab papers for any news of the “meeting” or “party/festivities.”
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And you can be sure she’ll be ‘gifted’ with baubles,
etc., etc., etc. .. the whole damn family will.
JV .. yes .. the Arab papers will be important to
scan ..;)
Bookmark
If you or someone else don't mind posting a new thread. I just came on again on my way to turn in for the night. Hope Drudge or someone has it in the AM.
I think Onyx is posting it....But I don’t know where she’s gone.
Read Starwise links? They were right on target.
Micheele could easily have an “arab” so-called “friend” among the guests with her, just for the meeting. A czar of sorts. Someone who actually works in the WH and who would be the wiser?
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As many musslims as he made sure were added
to his admin, I bet that’s the case.
This is pure evil .. and Qatar ? Our military
is heavily involved there.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/udeid.htm
Some nasty comments about her on what I think is a Spanish
site.... scroll down:
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_26914.shtml
Pray for us .. PRAY FOR ISRAEL
Ready to post - I gave credit to all
Let er happen captin
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