Celebutard of the Week: Michelle Obama
by Andrea PeyserWhat’s the matter, Michelle? Did the White House food taster quit?
Michelle Obama really, really likes life in the White House, what with all the toadies and underlings scampering under foot. The mystery is how did she ever manage before life as Mrs. President?
Here’s what she said about her “current life’’ in the White House: “[It is] a very blessed situation, because I have what most families don’t have — tons of support all around, not just my mother, but staff and administration. I have a chief of staff and a personal assistant, and everyone needs that.’’
She could have stopped there…or not…
“Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants,” Mrs. O gushed.
But wait, there is a punchline:
These lines were spoken at a conference for “Corporate Voices for Working Families” in Washington. Working families who, presumably, don’t actually know what a chief of staff does.
This is why Michelle Obama is my Celebutard of the Week, such as those in my book, “Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who are Destroying America.”
Perhaps chiefs of staff for the spoiled First Lady in your life will inspire a new growth industry in a time of recession. Still, I have to wonder: Who does the laundry for the chief?
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I wonder if she will share her staff with my family we have real needs. Can't she understand this? I will even save her the expense of shipping her people to me. I just move into the White House and save money and she can share everything with me. I have real needs here…
Strange that someone would think that it's nice to have servants, especially servants that you don't have to pay.
They used to have a different name for that but the word eludes me.
Does someone tie those ugly designer tennies for her, too ?
Queen Michelle annoys me for some reason. Oh, I know what it is: ethics!
The mainstream media never investigated her massive wage increases when Obama climbed up Chicago’s greasy political ladder. Very concerning.
If this woman were white, she'd be called white trash. But because she's black, she's called 'a fashion icon'. I nearly lose my cookies when I read of them comparing her to Jackie O. My god, that's like comparing Jeanine Garrofalo to Simone de Bouvier (yo, man! they're both feminists!). Yet the media just slobbers over this woman and we have to keep our mouth shut because Michelle is black.
She's NOT a style icon, she's not smart (yes, I DID read her Princeton thesis and a sixth grader could have done better with crayons), and she certainly is not classy. On top of that, Michelle's mean enough to make me frightened of letting small puppies near her. I half expect her jaws to open like the alien and – whap! – little Fido is gone forever. But mostly – here it comes – this woman is black trash. She is not trash because she's black, she's trash because she's stupid and lazy and willfully ignorant and self-pitying. Michelle is out of her league. She has no business being in the White House. She is not class. Never was, never will be.
If you look at the picture of the shoes, they are fashionably untied.
Good one. Maybe this is a form of reparations.
C'mon Carolyn, tell us how you really feel…….
Where can one find the thesis. I would LOVE to see it.
PS-We can't find anything the Big Moca wrote. Apparently, he teleprompted his way through school.
Are you kidding me… She paid over 500$ for a pair of sneakers…….
OH MY GOSH…….
In the words of J Golden Kimble, when told the price he would have said:
J. Golden Kimble……."Where are the holes……?"
Salesperson..".What do you mean sir ?"
J. Golden Kimble……. "The holes for the Jacka**s that would pay $500 for a pair of tennis shoes"!!!!!
You mean slaves? Oh but the people that serve in the White House are paid. And it is the Baptist RW Religious devout that loved slavery the most Remember? Don't you feel foolish. Your posts sure make you appear to be foolish. H
Racist, elitest skank…
OMG- I just started reading MO's Princeton Thesis. Now, as a graduate of Penn, we always though we were better than the Tigers but her's is just plain awful, 10th grade stuff.
I guess African American studies has a low bar?
Itr's hard to play the angry radical when you're living high on the taxpayers' hog.
Everybody has wanted to say this. But it needed to come from a woman. Thank you very much!
Question? Doesn't she remind you of trailer trash that hit the lottery! They get the money and have no idea how to remain humble or show some class around people not as fortunate.
"Look at me! Look at me! I'm so great! Look at me damm you!"
Great Michelle when I can find some change in the cushions of my sofa I'll hire myself a freaking Chief of Staff. Is this her let them eat cake moment? Lets all say it together, LADY YOU ARE OUT OF TOUCH!
If we should all have an assistant, then stop taxing success and subsidizing failure so that I can afford it one day, you holier-than-thou ignoramus!
I agree with the first ladies statement that we should all have people that do tasks in our lives that we don't want to do. The next step in that line of reasoning is that I can do that, I just have to pay them to do that. The only way that I could pull off this grand wonderful world that the first lady is describing is by having it done but not at my expense. Continuing along this line of reasoning is that I would have to have someone else paying for this service (tax payer, rich friend) or they would have to work for free.
When Johnny Boy becomes Johnny Man you can come back and make comments, hopefully then they'll make more sense.
I'd give you 10 thumbs ups for that if I could. You hit the nail on the head.
Just wanted to congrat you guys. A troll trolled and was not engaged.
bruce – hope this link comes through.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.ht...
Well, it sounds like they have a wealth of support there in the White House. Wonder how willing they'd be to "Spread the wealth around" and go without that support for the remainder of this term? That's what everyone else is supposed to be happy to do, give away what they've earned. Shouldn't the Obama's try to set a good example? If it's good for the goose…….
She IS trailer trash that hit the lottery. The race lottery. It was the only card in her deck but she's played it all the way to the White House.
I guess all of that relaxer that she soaks her brillo pad in each day has done some real brain damage but I guess that's the price you pay to appear "white" and not frighten away the honkies.
The thought of this freedom and liberty hating skank inhabiting the White House makes me want to toss my cookies. However, I don't have any cookies anymore because under Barry Soetoro's fascist government he's determined that cookies are not healthy and anything deemed unhealthy is bad therefore illegal.
This may be the first time in my life I've actually been proud of my country
Methinks the obamas really like to rub it into the little peoples faces about their position in life. It's almost like they're INVITING envy. They don't even try to down play their positions at all.
Elitist snobs come to mind.
I'm sure that all of the ones followers are still believing that they're going to get a piece of that same pie.
“Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants.”
Be careful, people who actually work in the private sector–this may be the Dear Leader's next "stimulus plan".
Think about it: 539,000 people lost their jobs this past month. The Dear Leader thinks putting everyone on the government payroll, and thus making them beholden to Him, is the way to "re-make" America. The minority of Americans who actually work and generate income are to be taxed to the hilt to pay for all these government employees who will owe their job to the Dear Leader. What better way to win votes, punish success, and get more people on the government payroll than to raise taxes in order to provide low income households with their own government-funded chef and pair of personal assistants?
This puts new meaning in Movin On Up and WE THE PEEPS are Paying for It…… Lovely.
Hah! The little people. Let them all get…CHIEFS OF STAFF. Then, let them eat cake.
10th grade stuff is being generous. I teach at a state university (hardly Ivy League) and my undergraduate students would never get a passing grade on a paper written at this level. Even my ESL students are better at expressing themselves than what is demonstrated here. Seems you don't always get what you pay for when it comes to education. Oops, didn't she get a free ride to Princeton? Nice gig if you can get it.
How could everyone have their own chief of staff and a set of assistants? Wouldn't your chief of staff need his own chief of staff who in turn would need his own set of assistants who would each need their own chief of staff who would need a set of assistants? It's turtles all the way down:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_...
Carolyn, you've put it very well.
She reminds me of a black version of "Joy", from the comedy, "My name is Earl".
I believe the body count is: Laura Bush: 1, MIchelle Obama: sneakers.
I read it some time back, and we commented on it on this site as well. The work is appalling. It is filled with grammatical and syntactical errors, a complete lack of cohesive thought and logic. But since it inevitably concludes with white oppression as the cause of all black problems past, present and future, it became an instant success. She could just as easily have written "blame it on the white man," and it would have been simpler, more direct, and far more comprehensible. I know the old gray academy ain't what she used to be, but her paper wouldn't have passed muster as a high school student's essay on race relations and the role of women twenty or thirty years ago. This was supposed to be a learned thesis by an Ivy League university senior. Perhaps she had a staff even then. Her cook actually wrote the thesis.
just like barry, she "gets it".
Ah, you seem to have forgotten your meds. Take some and return soon.
This link will get you to the actual thesis, exactly as presented to the Princeton faculty. Be patient, it takes a little while to load, and you will get a grayish screen that looks like there's nothing on it. Use the down scroll arrow, and you will be able to read the entire mess.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2305083/PrincetonEducat...
So you're saying that she's qualified to fill Souter's seat on the Supreme Court?
Elitism…that is what I don't like about her. It's that "I'm-just-like-the-rest-of-you-peons" mentality I've seen my entire life that irks me. Let her keep making these statements, it will wear them with most "peons" soon enough.
She might not be proud of our nation but she is way too proud of herself.
Yeah, that used to be called "graft." But in this second gilded age in which we live, it's ignored.
Since the middle of Clinton's second term, politics has again become the path to extraordinary wealth. I don't know if you have this same problem down in your neck of the woods, but have you ever looked at how much each of our senators holds in personal wealth? It's stunning.
ANDREW: Your post did another disappearing act, but I got the ID e-mail.
Yes, her thesis would definitely qualify her to replace Souter on the Court. The beauty part is that she could write all the majority opinions. That way, nobody would have to abide by them since they wouldn't make any sense anyway.
And to follow her lead in the thesis, I want to thank you, my faculty advisor, my teachers, my mom and dad, the girl who sat three chairs behind me in sociology class, the Princeton Provost, Kellog's corn flakes, and anybody else who's going to read this crap and give me a good grade–not to mention my thanks to the gopher in the back yard.
I'm getting really sick of these things disappearing.
I can't wait until Obama gives me a staff.
And we are to believe that Laura and Barbara Bush resented all of the personal chefs and the huge staff of cleaning folks and their personal assistants?____WAKE UP AMERICA!____The issue isn't Michelle Obama's shoes or her delight in being pampered (as every other First Lady has been). There are important issues being discussed. Our government is too big. We spend too much money. The country is going bankrupt and eventually inflation will turn your retirement account into a loaf a broad.____Ignore the nonsense of Limbaugh and Drudge. Work on fixing what is really wrong with America.
Unlike Madame O, who seems to have written her thesis in stream of consciousness over a long angry weekend, the thesis I wrote to get an advanced degree (LLM) in government contracts involved changes to the government's rules regarding the accounting for pension costs by government contractors.
It's riveting. . . 200 pages of pure joy.
GO BACK TO SLEEP AMERICA! Nothing to see here.
Not all Baptists were even RW, I don't think everyone here is even Christian. BTW, the Baptists at the time that were for slavery were. . .erm, Democrats. . .so I don't know if you really want to call everyone here foolish.
*MissQuinn*
You mean the taxpayer's H1N1.
My M.A. in poli sci was a corker, too. "The Hypothetical Case of the Speluncean Explorers As It Has Affected Modern Political Thought and Legislation." A real page-turner. But I'm sure you can get it in pocket paperback at Borders since it was a mere 150 pages, more or less. After reading many other M.A. theses at Cal, I was genuinely terrified that I would make one mistake and end up having it rejected. Seventeen pages of end notes and four pages of source citations. Those profs were tough! Today, I would simply have to write "Those guys stuck in the cave had a real problem, and it had some kind of effect on government, you know. I asked several of my friends about the subject, and they thought the same thing." "Oh, and thank you to the faculty and review committee for treating poor little starving and oppressed me and my underprivileged family so well by giving me a good grade on this paper. I love you all." A+
I'm going to respond here so that your post remains visible — otherwise it will vanish. Arrrrgh.
Didn't they turn your M.A. into a movie? I swear I've seen that on TBS.
As for sourcing, you're probably right. Look at the reliance of our trolls on the wikipedia? I know some teachers who say that many kids these days (even at the college level) think that finding something on a website is good enough — apparently, they are unable to distinguish between valid sources and invalid sources.
But then, that's no surprise as they know nothing of logic either.
PS: I got my first introduction to the case when I took an upper division crossover course in constitutional history/political science as a junior. The instructor was a visiting professor from Columbia who had been one of the students who put Speluncean Explorers together for a Harvard Law Review article in 1949. Considering his alleged education, I wonder if Obama ever read it.
What the hell…?
Nice bio pic, Andrea. For a moment, one would think "Iggy Pop never looked better".
His rod and her staff, they comfort me. They prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the House of Obama forever.
Dare I say, that it may have whet his appetite if he had read it? buh dum dum
We never discussed that particular example in law school. My crim law professor used the example of British sailors being stuck on a raft. He had no sense of humor.
Personally, I would have used the example of the airplane that crashed in the Andes in 1972. I understand that for years afterwards, all pilots who flew over the Andes carried BBQ sauce. . . just in case.
Surprised you recognized it. Bill Moyers did the narrative, and got everything wrong. Starting with the fact that they moved the characters from a cave to Miami Beach. Sorta killed the mood. I forgot to get script approval.
Are you suggesting that Wikipedia is not a primary source? Omigod.
You are a sick sick man, Andrew Price.
Yeah, Miami Beach would kind of kill the mood. "The pizza delivery guy won't make it to the hotel before one of you starves to death, what do you do. . . what do you do?"
The Wikipedia is fine for serious work, but don't rely on it if you want to know the name of Britney's latest album.
I prefer the term "crackpot". . . sexy crackpot. . . sexy, smart crackpot. . . sexy, smart crackpot with a cool car.
Biden was one of the poorest. They kept making him an offer he couldn't understand.
At least you have a car.
Punt! Then call American Express.
Ok, I'll take that. I also would have accepted "hit the minibar."
Of course I do, I'm an American! ;-P
I'm not replying, I'm trying to manage space and time to create a little unison.
LADY YOU ARE OUT OF TOUCH !!
The extra exclamation point is because I can yell really loud….
But is the car?
That word would be "government union workers".
"The mainstream media never investigated her massive wage increases when Obama climbed up Chicago’s greasy political ladder. Very concerning."
Unfortunately, they were too busy trying to figure out if Sarah Palin's baby was really hers!
I would so buy that book with the title "The Hypothetical Case of the Speluncean Explorers As It Has Affected Modern Political Thought and Legislation." Seriously, I would.
Carolyn; Thank you so much for being brave enough to say what everybody else is thinking!
I'm not sure if this is thumbs up or thumbs down material, I'm not following the statement.
Perhaps there are a couple of other words that might be missing to better explain the statement?
It might be: I believe the first lady count is: Laura Bush 1, Michelle Obama sneakers.
Body count and first ladies is lost on me.
They still haven't scanned those years into the Bancroft Library website yet, and I haven't seen my only copy in many years. But if I can find it, I'll send you a copy. The chapter on speluncean sex is the best part. I'd just wander over to Berkeley to pick up a copy, but I think I've been banned.
Uhh . . . Johny Boy, all those Baptist RW Religious devout that loved slavery the most? They were Democrats. Remember? You ARE foolish.
Mdme. O is beginning to sound like Mdme. Antoinette. No?
http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com
Patient dumping, missing law degree, google it AP
Remember how Michelle O showed up for work in her new organic garden?
She did not even try to pretend to give a damn
All dressed up for work!
And which party do you vote for most of the time?
Wait a second! Is she proposing that? Everyone should have a personal assistant and a staff of toadies? Cool. I can't wait for the President to make it so. Now there's community organizing, I can believe in. Hey but wait a second. Do even the personal assistants and toadies get personal assistants and toadies? How's that going to work? This redistribution stuff gets complicated.
and can you imagine the reaction if Laura Bush had said the exact same thing? under any circumstances, let alone at this type of event?
Carolyn, are you Karl Rove's twin sister? How do you manage to look in the mirror and not lose your cookies?
This is just hatred of a very smart, principled person who is juggling so many balls –for our benefit!
No kidding. It seems the ticket to wealth is through public office. It appears as though politicians who aren't wealthy going in sure are going out. Makes one wonder about the role of information in today's economy and who has the best access to it? And that, further, makes one wonder if a bit of acting on insider information might not be going on among these "public servants." Just how did the Clintons become so wealthy?
Good one!
Slavery has been a constant throughout human history in all cultures AND religions. Christians led the fight to abolish slavery. The slave trade persists today in Darfur where Black Africans are being captured and enslaved by Arab Sudanese.
Thank you thank you thank you!
I have never been able to find the words to express that!
Laura Bush would never say such a thing.
By your rating it is obvious your a leftist troll…….
Go spew your nonsense somewhere else where it is appreciated…..
like say Venezuela, Cuba, Russia or even better, the Huffington Post !!!!
You just don't get it do you…its about her attitude….there is no humility at all and even an attempt to understand what "the peasants" live with every day.
Well, I do have a chief of staff, CFO, treasury secretary all rolled into one – it's my wife. As far as personal assistants, if you want anything done right, do it your self.
Your post followed mine but makes no sense. If you're talking about me, you're (not <your> sic) delusional.
It was a joke. You remember humor, you had some before you became a liberal.
You inadvertently hit the nail on the head: "delight." LB & BB more likely appreciated being pampered. There's a world of difference between those two.
Truly tone deaf.
I guess that's what an Ivy League education gets you. You hang around extremely priviledged and elite folks constantly and you think everyone else in the country is like that. We're not, we can't afford people to mow our lawns let alone employ a "staff".
Maybe that can be part of the dumba$$ stimulus bill – everyone gets a tax credit for hiring a chief of staff for their household. That would take care of all the unemployed chief of staffs out there.
surely you forgot the </sarc> tag
AGREE with you 110% Carolyn. I also read her Princeton thesis and was appalled and shocked at the immaturity of the writing. I could not believe what I was reading. Her thesis amounted to a racist rant. What thought I came away with after reading that garbage was "If this woman is intelligent, I must be a rocket scientist!"
Her comments about WH servants was low class, but then again this couple are very good at taking advantage of the vaulted position they find themselves in. It's like they know this is their one shot and they are taking full advantage of each and every perc so generously bestowed upon this undeserving couple by the clueless masses. I coudn't stomach the photo shoot of her lounging around the WH, trying to look sexy. Jackie Kennedy had class, this woman has NONE and is a true example of an elitist.
Heck, I want to know how much the First Creature (or her minions) paid to have that white bedspread that everyone raves about made into a dress.
I feel like a failure because I broke down and hired a cleaning lady to come in twice a month, because I can't keep up with everything with my work schedule. Yeah, I need a chief of staff.
Right a-holeIm sposed to ignore Rush & then listen to an idiot like u.Ok,dufus:u win.Im gonna let Obama & his libtards steal all they can & keep quiet.However,if a Repub does the same:Im gonna whine & cry like a bitch.Is that in line with your feeble thinking,douchetard?U & Obama r so typical of the lib mindset:stupid,hypocritical & cowardly.This idiot Obama & his ass of a wife have GOT to go!
except a whole lot LESS misunderstood.
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