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For Michelle Obama, the Oscars
were an unbecoming frivolity

Washington Post, by Courtland Milloy

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Posted By:drive, 2/27/2013 8:54:59 AM

It’s time for first lady Michelle Obama to raise her game. Nothing wrong with telling kids to eat their peas or showing them how to Hula-Hoop. But after four years of focusing on the body, she’d do well to spend these next four on building strong minds. Especially girls’. “If I had the first lady’s ear, I’d say talk more about the kind of education that women and girls — girls of color, in particular — will need to make it in a global economy,” said Avis Jones-DeWeever,

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: grampagasman, 2/27/2013 9:09:32 AM     (No. 9198632)

Moochelle is an "Unbecoming Frivolity". Gaacckkk!


Reply 2 - Posted by: Jebediah, 2/27/2013 9:11:43 AM     (No. 9198639)

This assumes there was "an intellectually superior Princeton graduate" rather than a woman whose grades have not been published, whose thesis held spelling errors etc. and who gave back her law certification for........? We will never know about this, nor about Obama´s doing the same.......only Bill Clinton had his yanked and they both ducked out prior to being yanked themselves.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: alpha91c, 2/27/2013 9:23:46 AM     (No. 9198671)

But that is not who she is. Intellectually she is very shallow. She is much better smoozing and dancing her way through the day shows like ´The View´.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Muncssister, 2/27/2013 9:31:20 AM     (No. 9198681)

As a product of the "take your daughter to work" 90´s and mother to a little girl, I´m sick of the focus on educating girls. Enough already. Now if you want to focus on the girls who actally need help, like say, the ones oppressed by Muslim men, then by all means, have at it.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Udanja99, 2/27/2013 9:40:31 AM     (No. 9198705)

The focus should be on educating black male children - to get over the "acting white" nonsense, to get a good education and work ethic and to learn how to be responsible fathers.


Reply 6 - Posted by: RightShoe, 2/27/2013 9:54:07 AM     (No. 9198730)

"Unbecoming Frivolity" LOL

Nicki Minaj can say this so much more succinctly.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Rather Read, 2/27/2013 10:06:40 AM     (No. 9198750)

If only the president and Mrs. O would focus on the sad plight of the black male student. So often he is the prey of gangs and of his peers who tell him to succeed is to act white. It´s enough to break my heart. There may be many Dr. Ben Carsons out there, but they get sucked into the thug life.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 2/27/2013 10:06:47 AM     (No. 9198751)

She and her brother had to sleep in the living room! Horrors! Well, I guess that is one thing she can proudly tell us whe has overcome.

I saw a photo of Michelle in her high school prom gown. The gown was appropriate for a movie star attending some red carpet affair. It´s long skirt had a slit almost to her crouch and a very shaply leg was in view. She looked great but not in good taste.


Reply 9 - Posted by: horacer, 2/27/2013 10:07:32 AM     (No. 9198754)

Man is Courtland blind. Mooch doesn´t want to be some heroic figure aiding the unfortunate. She wants all she can get for herself. Peasants are there to worship her. She´s part of American royalty, like ValJar.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Woodabela, 2/27/2013 10:20:29 AM     (No. 9198778)

After reading this adulatory article (seriously, Supreme Court nominee?)- and the fact that every time I turn around she´s on TV or a magazine cover - I´m beginning to wonder if Mooch isn´t gearing up a presidential campaign of her own for 2016.


Reply 11 - Posted by: St. Pitbull, 2/27/2013 10:26:35 AM     (No. 9198795)

Women with such a hideous assortment of wigs, boob belts and dresses signed to show her "guns" have no game and never will have. I´ve seen livestock with better game.


Reply 12 - Posted by: NYBruin, 2/27/2013 10:30:04 AM     (No. 9198802)

So Michelle speaks French?? Never heard that before.

Jackie Kennedy spoke French and demonstrated her linguistic fluency (I believe she spoke Spanish as well) on a number of occasions. I suspect if Michelle really did speak a foreign language passably, we´d have heard it by now.

More media nonsense. . .


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: jerseytomato, 2/27/2013 10:34:29 AM     (No. 9198819)

#11 - luuuuuuve the post!


Reply 14 - Posted by: sliver of truth, 2/27/2013 10:35:03 AM     (No. 9198820)

To say this woman has taken on softball issues while First Lady is putting it lightly. While promoting healthy eating and the value of exercise is all well and good, it´s also very easy and non-controversial. If she really cared-or for that matter, if any liberal really cared-she would be wading hip-deep into the problems of the inner city and the black community, focusing on personal responsibility, the value of self-reliance, intact families with fathers present and accounted for, and education. I don´t hold out much hope, because it sure is easier to hula hoop and hand out Oscars than it is to get your hands dirty in the trenches of real life.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Gloating, 2/27/2013 10:53:37 AM     (No. 9198866)

#11 nails it.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Analyn, 2/27/2013 11:03:20 AM     (No. 9198905)

Wonder why her parents never thought of braces.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Pros7767, 2/27/2013 11:10:06 AM     (No. 9198932)

#2 nails it. A product of affirmative action who has risen to the level of First Lady by virtue of AA and marriage to the first AA candidate.

She is incredibly shallow. Hardly a role model for any serious woman or girl.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: pineledger, 2/27/2013 11:19:29 AM     (No. 9198961)

Can we think of any act since she moved into the WH that has been truly becoming of a First Lady?

These Obamas have set out to break the mold, just as they want to "fundamentally transform" this country.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Aubreyesque, 2/27/2013 11:27:01 AM     (No. 9198985)

Uh-uh NO NO NO NO. These people don´t get to complain. They bought it, they have to live with it. Lick it up, leftards. NO BACKSIES. This is what you put out for, this is your reward.


Reply 20 - Posted by: TrueBlueWfan, 2/27/2013 11:52:52 AM     (No. 9199054)

#14 is right. If she really wanted to make a difference, she would tell these young black girls to stop having sex before marriage. But then that would eliminate the need for the entitlement society she and her other half so depend on.


Reply 21 - Posted by: shepsmum, 2/27/2013 12:07:23 PM     (No. 9199087)

#12 -- Yes! Thank you. No way in the world she spoke French by the 6th grade. How? Wasn´t she in public school? I speak Spanish fluently, but it took years of studying, living overseas and a lot of work (plus a knack for it, and desire) to be able to be fluent. It ticks me off when people make it sound like it´s easy to learn another language.

Thank you, L-Dot family, I´m now done with my rant.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Newtsche, 2/27/2013 12:16:59 PM     (No. 9199106)

"Where is that intellectually gifted Princeton graduate, the Harvard-educated lawyer and mentor to the man who would become the first African American president of the United States?"

In your mind, Courtland, keeping company with all the other myths and lies people like you need to get out of bed every day.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: hot coffee, 2/27/2013 12:24:37 PM     (No. 9199117)

Shamelessly stolen from Iowahawk: "Michelle Obama should have announced the Oscar winner while waterskiing in a leather jacket."


Reply 24 - Posted by: thethirdruffian, 2/27/2013 1:03:00 PM     (No. 9199195)

I thought she was there to accept her award for those Jack Link´s Beef Jerky commercials she stars in.


Reply 25 - Posted by: jackburton, 2/27/2013 1:07:43 PM     (No. 9199204)

You evil conservatives.

You would deprive the Mooch of her ´Marie Antoinette´ moment.


Reply 26 - Posted by: dbdiva, 2/27/2013 1:48:29 PM     (No. 9199277)

intellectually gifted???? Wow Courtland... I think you missed your niche in life. Ever think of doing ´standup´? That sentence was a real HOWLER.


Reply 27 - Posted by: dolphin, 2/27/2013 1:59:52 PM     (No. 9199289)

Even being First Lady is not enough for her. She doesn’t know what it means really to achieve anything. She is someone who wants to BE somebody, not DO something.

That hairstyle MO is sporting is the same one I had for my very blonde hair when I was a child. I believe she thinks my life was somehow better than hers. I, too, slept on the couch and was very smart. But nobody ever paid for me to go to Princeton or Harvard.


Reply 28 - Posted by: belwhatter, 2/27/2013 2:25:02 PM     (No. 9199343)

# 5´s point of working with misguided and fatherless black male children would have been a far better and bigger contribution from a flotus- alas, hedonism is her most obvious passion.


Reply 29 - Posted by: billa, 2/27/2013 3:48:13 PM     (No. 9199482)

When you blame whites for everything, sit in a church for decades blaming whites, and obtain everything through affirmative action, why should you take responsibility, have accountability or actually do something worthwhile. It is so much easier to wear jewels and gowns paid by the taxpayers or "donated" by designers, fly on jets all over the world with mom and pals, go on TV everyday, and tell every one else how to live and eat. The Oscars are nothing...as the gravy train starts to get closer to the station in 2014/15, she will be on an upwhirl climb of securing TV and radio gigs, political, social and cultural appointments, books, speaking gigs, designer, perfume, jewelry, make up and wig endorsements, commerical diet food/programs and so forth.

The only thing holding MO back is the security issues surrounding the WH. Once no longer in office, she will be an absolute daily fixture in all aspects of media, and be paid handsomely by the DNC, Hollywood, black groups and other insane liberal groups.


Reply 30 - Posted by: M2, 2/27/2013 4:21:32 PM     (No. 9199536)

With few exceptions, there´s an awful lot of meowing about Miz Michelle, "intellectually gifted" mentor of the Man Who Never Was.

The problem is that her Oscar appearance isn´t a danger to the country; her ideology that she shares with her husband is the real danger.

What with Michelle, Barack, Valerie, Van, Anita, Cass and others colluding on how best to take America down, we have more important things to concern ourselves with, Mr. Milloy.


Reply 31 - Posted by: gesundheit, 2/27/2013 5:40:12 PM     (No. 9199644)

If the producers of The Oscars had believed Michelle Obama´s appearance would be a crowd pleaser, they would have announced her appearance days before the show in order to increase their audience.

Does anyone doubt that a pre-Oscar-night announcement of FLOTUS´s appearance would have hurt the show, causing groans and eye-rolling throughout the fruited plain, followed by the worst Oscar ratings in history?

If Michelle Obama were popular in America, she would have been able to attract more than the minuscule ´´crowds´´ who came to see her at her campaign appearances last year, even in solidly Democratic areas.

It´s clear that Michelle Obama is running for something; that she wants maximum public exposure; and that she prevailed on the Oscar producers to include her in their show. And what could the producers do but say yes if they didn´t want their tax returns audited?


Reply 32 - Posted by: noddy, 2/27/2013 6:37:35 PM     (No. 9199711)

As I read this I am also watching Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News. He said the First Lady´s dress for the oscars cost $9,000.


Reply 33 - Posted by: kayworthy, 2/27/2013 6:51:27 PM     (No. 9199726)

She has fallen in love with her own reflection.


Reply 34 - Posted by: lakerman1, 2/27/2013 7:29:18 PM     (No. 9199776)

There used to be tv show called Soul Train.
The dance participants, all black, would dance to the latest songs.
And at one point in the program, each couple would dance in peculiar ways, showing off really hideous dance steps, in a showing off contest.
Michelle belonged on that show.


Reply 35 - Posted by: TigerLilly, 2/27/2013 8:04:00 PM     (No. 9199815)

Isn´t there a picture floating out there on the internet of the house that Michelle and her brother grew up in? I think it was an older bungalow style home in Chicago. Maybe she just doesn´t remember her roots.


Reply 36 - Posted by: M Stuart, 2/27/2013 8:41:25 PM     (No. 9199852)

Good point #31.

But I think most of the celebrity-struck, LoFo people out there just think she is "cool".

If taste mattered, she would never have done the things she´s done. And if they weren´t Democrats, the LSM would have crucified them for their massive overspending. I´m so sick of paying for their preening and vacations!


Reply 37 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 2/27/2013 9:06:52 PM     (No. 9199885)

FTA: "She ought to be under consideration for a seat on the Supreme Court, not recruited as a presenter in some Hollywood movie contest."

This about a woman who we are constantly told (even in this article) about her intellectual giftedness, her Princeton and Harvard education, her work as an intellectual property lawyer (which she ditched because it was boring, and the law license which she gave up, but no one knows why).

What a load of malarkey.



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