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First Lady's Critics Have Much to Learn (You Freepers need to shut up alert)
Real Clear Politics ^ | May 12, 2015 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 05/12/2015 9:39:52 AM PDT by Zakeet

Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything. Last week, as if to validate my opinion of him, he went after Michelle Obama for playing the "race card" at the dedication of a museum in New York City. He described her as angry and complaining. The word he should have used was "right."

I would even have settled for "interesting." After all, when the first lady of the United States suggests that something's wrong when black and other minority children feel alienated from an institution like the Whitney Museum of American Art, maybe she has reason for saying so. In fact, she was talking out of experience.

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Limbaugh was hearing none of it. The way he looks at it, Obama is not entitled to her experiences, certainly not to talk about it. "I mean, even if you're a committed liberal, you don't want to hear this stuff all the time," he said. "You're here at a museum dedication and you want to hear an angry first lady stand up and start complaining about stuff like this?" Well, yes, Rush, I do.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberalism; michelleobama; racism
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You evil Freepers, and Rush Limbaugh, are the dumbest people in America for criticizing Aunt Esther for being angry after you provoked her with your racism!

1 posted on 05/12/2015 9:39:52 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

I am waiting for Rush to catch flak from yesterday’s tidbit about Moochelle not liking to be called a baby mama.


2 posted on 05/12/2015 9:42:11 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Zakeet

Hmmm. The ever affable “chip on my huge shoulders” moochie whining about how bad she had it or Denzel Washington at Dillard University in New Orleans.

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/denzel-washington-college-grads-put-god-first

Of course we know Mr. Washington has his faults, as we all do, but seems like he has some of his priorities right.


3 posted on 05/12/2015 9:43:42 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: Zakeet

this boo dagger frightens me!!!

I feel exceptionally microaggressed against


4 posted on 05/12/2015 9:44:26 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Zakeet

Just a bunch of ol’ fish-eyed heathens.


5 posted on 05/12/2015 9:44:46 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Zakeet

Who cares what RealQueerPolitics has to say.


6 posted on 05/12/2015 9:44:48 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Zakeet

She’s not angry. She was making faces and her face froze that way.


7 posted on 05/12/2015 9:45:26 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Zakeet

Life imitates art

8 posted on 05/12/2015 9:48:43 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Zakeet

“Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America.”

Rush should file a lawsuit.


9 posted on 05/12/2015 9:49:08 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: rktman

Race-bait....here fishy fishy....


10 posted on 05/12/2015 9:49:26 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: ETL

Richard Cohen is an angry little liberal with blue rinsed hair & wirerimmed specs who has lived inside the Beltway bubble for many decades.

El Rushbo lives rent free inside this little man’s brain.


11 posted on 05/12/2015 9:50:29 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a free man, O Muslim. There's nothing you can do about it.")
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To: bert
Here are two actual photos of Michelle Obama at two different G-20 Summit events.
The other is of her receiving long-needed lessons in etiquette from junkman Fred Sanford.

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"The First Lady slides into her spot alongside other G-20 spouses
before a group photo at the Royal Opera House [London, 2009]."

Source: Time Magazine (Time.com):

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1889051_1865162,00.html
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Michelle Obama at the 2009 G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, USA

Source:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mitchelles-gifts-to-g20-spouses-porcelain/521488/
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12 posted on 05/12/2015 9:53:51 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Zakeet
Sarah Palin did not like it when Obama celebrated her husband's early success in the 2008 primaries by saying, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." Sarah Palin, as far as I know, did not have a great-great grandfather who was a slave. It makes a difference.

Michelle Obama KNEW HER GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER THE SLAVE?? I have family from the 1800's who died in the Irish Potato famine..does that make me an expert on suffering, famines and potatoes??

13 posted on 05/12/2015 9:55:28 AM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: ETL

Grace and poise are racist.


14 posted on 05/12/2015 9:57:39 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

And elusive it would seem....;’)


15 posted on 05/12/2015 9:59:56 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Zakeet; SilvieWaldorfMD

Chris Plante skewered Cohen this morning on WMAL.


16 posted on 05/12/2015 10:13:08 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Zakeet
We get it Cohen. Because Michelle Obama is black and had slave ancestors, she can never be criticized for anything....ever!!! Even when she goes public and criticizes her own country after a lifetime of having everything handed to her.

Actually people like Cohen are the real racists. Because they treat black people as their personal pets. Cohen is the type of liberal who probably gets upset when white people criticize the loathsome Al Sharpton.

Rule no 1 of white libs: never criticize black people...unless they're conservatives, and then they're not really black.

17 posted on 05/12/2015 10:14:41 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Zakeet

Rush does not have contempt for his audience.
Michelle Obama on the other hand........


18 posted on 05/12/2015 10:15:38 AM PDT by right way right
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To: Zakeet

Boy, Cohen is not getting much love at the site for this one...


19 posted on 05/12/2015 10:16:12 AM PDT by Herosmith ("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
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To: Zakeet
"...maybe she has reason for saying so. In fact, she was talking out of experience."

Her experience? She had a soft, pampered middle class existence growing up, got an affirmative action pass to the Ivy Leagues and hit the jackpot when her husband got elected Senator and then President. She is your classic latte' liberal.

20 posted on 05/12/2015 10:25:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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