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Wendy Williams defended First Lady Michelle Obama on her talk show last week, according to Black Voices.*
The talk show host said if you are going to call anyone an “angry black woman” don’t look at Obama, but someone like Nene Leakes.
“The Wendy Williams Show” (weekdays on Fox) doesn’t usually get political, but when Williams heard that Michelle Obama was defending herself against being described as “an angry black woman,” she sprang to the First Lady’s defense. “If you’re a black woman and you have something to say and you say it like you mean it, everybody portrays us … as an angry black woman,” Williams said.
Williams then pointed out that a somewhat similar critique was leveled at another smart, powerful First Lady, Hillary Clinton, who Williams remembered was called an “angry lesbian woman” by her detractors. “As soon as you get a little strong, then okay, you’re a lesbian,” Williams lamented.
SIDEBAR: What do you call a weak man a “pussy”?
First Lady Michelle Obama is coming to the Nickelodeon network. The First Lady will be appearing in the January 16th episode of iCarly.
The Chair of the Sumter South Carolina Tea Party posted — and then quickly pulled — a post on her Facebook page earlier this month that joked about throwing the Obamas out of a helicopter, reports TalkingPointsMemo.com. Shery Lanford Smith posted the joke on her Facebook page on August 11th. The page has since gone “private.” In the joke, the Obamas are on a helicopter talking about how they could make people happy if they threw money out the window. The pilot says: “I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!” Smith added: “If you’re one of 256 million, PASS IT ON.” Smith reportedly pulled the joke after the Sumter Item contacted her about it.
“It’s just a joke,” she told the Item. “I had no idea it would be an issue.” The Sumter SC Tea Party’s page is now also defunct
SIDEBAR: Bytch please you knew exactly what you where doing and who you wanted to see it. Joke or funny my azz that is straight up bullshyt. How would she feel or the Tea Party members started to come up missing, would you find that as Facebook humour. Oops forgot your educated folks that know what your doing at all times!
Mike Huckabee on Thursday criticized fellow Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck for calling the former governor and potential White House hopeful a “progressive” for supporting first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity efforts.
Beck on Tuesday referred to Huckabee as a “progressive,” a term that Huckabee said Beck has likened to cancer and Nazis. Beck singled out Huckabee’s support of the anti-obesity initiative.
“He is a progressive,” Beck said. “Look at his record, he’s a progressive”
Beck also called Huckabee someone who doesn’t want to “disrupt big government.”
“I think Mike Huckabee is a guy who’s had Michelle Obama on and said ‘you know what? I think your fat kid programs, they are great,’” Beck said.
Huckabee on Thursday pushed back against the comments, defending Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative to curb childhood obesity and painting Beck as trying to portray that program as a big-government conspiracy. Huckabee interviewed the first lady on his show last year about the program.
“I’m no fan of her husband’s policies for sure, but I have appreciated her efforts that Beck misrepresented — either out of ignorance or out of a deliberate attempt to distort them to create yet another ‘boogey man.’ The first lady’s approach is about personal responsibility, not the government literally taking candy from a baby’s mouth,” Huckabee said in a statement posted on his website Thursday morning. “He seems to fancy himself a prophet of sorts for his linking so many people and events together to describe a massive global conspiracy for pretty much everything.”
Huckabee hosts a weekly talk show on Fox News. Beck also has a show on the channel that is to end later this year. Beck declined to comment on Huckabee’s statement, a spokesman said.
Beck in a speech last year referred to progressivism as a “cancer in America,” and he’s also compared the tactics of progressives to Nazis.
Huckabee’s criticism of Beck is the second time he’s taken on fellow conservatives this week as he considers another run for the Republican presidential nomination. The winner of the 2008 Iowa caucuses, Huckabee has said he plans to decide later this summer whether to make another run.
Earlier this week, Huckabee defended fellow potential presidential candidate Donald Trump against criticism from the Club for Growth, an anti-tax group that criticized Huckabee for his support of some tax hikes when he was governor.
“I never understood when it became a mark of conservatism to run up debt on your children’s credit card instead of biting the bullet and paying your bills,” Huckabee said on his radio show. “Under their narrow criteria, the things that Ronald Reagan had to do as governor of California and as president probably would have made him a tax-loving Socialist unfit for the White House as well.”
Sarah Palin spoke Thursday at the Long Island Association, a business group in New York. The event was notable for the fact that Palin invited the press–something she does rarely. And it was newsworthy in that she gave another sign she might actually run for president: News reports say she hinted with a smile that someone who is good at multitasking (“a woman, a mom”), as well as someone who’s already run for something (“a vice-presidential candidate?”) would be most qualified for the job.
During the event, in which Palin was interviewed by the Long Island Association’s president, she sounded off about presidential things–the deficit, whether or not to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and President Obama’s health-care reform law. And she weighed in on the debate over Obama’s citizenship, reportedly saying it is “distracting. It gets annoying. Let’s stick to what really matters.”
But if that’s what she really wants people to do, why did she crack a joke about Michelle Obama’s campaign to make it easier for women to breastfeed? When the conversation turned to the escalating price of gas and groceries, Palin reportedly said, “It’s no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breastfeed your baby–yeah, you better–because the price of milk is so high right now!”
It may have just been an attempt to draw a laugh from the crowd over issues–childhood obesity and the medically proven benefits of breastfeeding–that are no laughing matter. But even though she followed up by saying “and may that not be the takeaway, please, of this speech,” it has become one of them. Headlines saying that Palin was mocking Michelle Obama’s attempt to make it easier for women to breastfeed have lead stories following the speech.
Who knows whether or not Palin will run for the nation’s highest office. But if she does, comments like this one do little to make her sound presidential. For one, even if it was a joke, Palin was making light of something that has to do with the future of this country–the health and well-being of its children. And even if Palin spent most of the talk discussing deficits, health-care reform and foreign affairs, it’s unnecessary side comments like these that will–whether she likes it or not–lead the news.
Sarah Palin took a shot at Michelle Obama during Sunday’s episode of her reality TV show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” alleging the first lady’s anti-obesity campaign attempts to deprive Americans of dessert.
While searching for s’mores ingredients on a family camping trip, Palin remarked: “Where are the s’mores ingredients? This is in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert.”
Mrs. Obama has been a key proponent of an initiative to improve children’s health by encouraging better diets and sufficient exercise. In May she announced her “Let’s Move” program, which promoted dessert alternatives, among other dietary suggestions.
One in 3 American children is overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other illnesses. Obesity is even more prevalent among black and Hispanic children. Some public health experts say today’s children are on track to live shorter lives than their parents.
But Palin has maintained that Obama’s effort to combat child obesity — which was recently aided by the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — is one that seeks to take away “God-given rights to make our own decisions.”
During an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio program last month, Palin complained: “Instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician’s wife priorities, just leave us alone, get off our back.”
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SIDEBAR – Listen here missy, gun toting Mama,wannabe politician,ego tripping gal. Slow your damn roll!
Today is a new day. You may or may-not like or agree with President Obama decisions, but you should
respect him as your “President”. After all we put up with your GED mentality, I want to see the paper
work Sarah because I don’t believe you. Believe this everything happens for the good “PERIOD”. It takes
a person that forgives there self everyday, a person that loves themselves everyday, and a person that
thanks God daily for all. For we are all one, there is no separation. Get a grip Palin!
It seems that Sarah Palin had some of the pages leaked from her new book, America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag. The pages that just so happened to be “leaked,” were those of a racial tone…against the President and the First Lady. In her new book, she calls herself taking a stab at Michelle Obama over an old beaten up remark that was taken out of context during the elections.
In one excerpt she talks of President Obama’s views of racial inequality in America. She said that he believes that America — at least America as it currently exists — is a fundamentally unjust and unequal country. But, she goes too far saying:“Certainly his wife expressed this view when she said during the 2008 campaign that she had never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections. In retrospect, I guess this shouldn’t surprise us, since both of them spent almost two decades in the pews of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church listening to his rants against America and white people.”
Whooooaaa!! You best pump your breaks now country girl. Everyone knows, after Michelle Obama took her time to set the record straight, that what she really said was that she was “for the first time in her adult life, really proud of America” wanting to change. She was really proud of the young voters showing up at the polls and all of the effort we were putting in to really change the landscape of America.
Sarah Palin will get her G.E.D. one day. Until that magical moment though, we wish her luck out there…NOT! She is beggin’ for it!
Racist Michelle Obama Email Costs Tenn. Exec Contract. A Tennessee tourism executive is feeling the wrath after forwarding an e-mail that likened Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee. Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker has apologized to “anyone who is offended by this action” and “the people of Tennessee, and to anybody that has either seen or been affected by this email.” The controversial e-mail, sent to Spyridon, Mayor Karl Dean’s legislative liaison, public relations executives and members of the Nashville media, compared Obama to Cheeta, the chimp sidekick in Tarzan movies. It opened with a quote attributed to comedian Larry the Cable Guy: “I don’t care who you are, this is funny…” and ended with a photo of Mrs. Obama, caught in an awkward moment with her lips pursed, and one of a chimpanzee. Baker also apologized in an e-mail to Nashville Metro Council members Saturday saying the message was not intended to be malicious but meant as “political humor.” The e-mail has already cost Baker’s a deal with the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau, reports the Tennessean. On Saturday, the venue said it would drop its contract with the marketing firm. “The attitudes expressed in the e-mail are both appalling and unacceptable,” the head of the NCVB told the Tennesseean, and the mayor called the message “extremely offensive.” Complicating the marketing expert’s PR fiasco is his initial reaction: “It was done in the spirit of having some fun with some close friends,” he told Nashville Scene.
First Lady Michelle Obama is coming to The Late Show With David Letterman. Mrs. Obama will be his guest on Monday, March 19th with Musical Guest Esperanza Spalding.