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This one absolutely, positively fell short of altitude needed to register on my radar…as in, I watched the clip, and consciously decided there was nothing worth discussing here…until I saw the official explanation.
MediaMatters has weighed in, with a statement from the First Lady’s communications director:
Kristina Schake, communications director for First Lady Michelle Obama, made the following statement about these attacks:
The words, meaning and context in these claims are all wildly off the mark. The First Lady was commenting to the President on how moving and powerful it always is to watch all that America’s firefighters and police officers do to honor the flag. It was an emotional moment on a powerful day and she was awed by the ceremony and all that the flag symbolizes.
The First Lady was moved in a powerful way? She was emotionally awed by the ceremony? And she was commenting during this snippet to the President about it all? It seems to me that damage control is now in full swing.
You should’ve kept your mouth shut about it, Ms. Schake and MediaMatters. The explanation is worse than the incrimination.
Who, exactly, made the call that this was something that required comment? And did the person who concocted the excuse actually watch the video before concocting it?
It is barely plausible…only just barely. As in, you could believe the explanation if you fervently wanted to. And then, if you’re in that situation, everyone who sees it a different way is: (Yawn) (Deep breath) stupid unsophisticated evil twisted babykiller neocon dumb unprincipled lacking in nuance greedy selfish self-loathing blah blah blah…
I dunno. I’m still inclined to grant Michelle Obama the benefit of the doubt, I don’t really know what was said. But that is a really fishy explanation. It doesn’t gel; there’s more to explain after it’s offered, than before.
I’m going to file it away in my ever-thickening folder marked, “Flattering or exculpatory things I know about Obama only because lots of loud angry people are ready to say nasty things about me if I believe otherwise.” Obama’s a Christian, His birth certificate is genuine, He loves America, Bill Ayers was just a guy living in His neighborhood, He is wise and all-knowing, but had no idea all the nasty things Jeremiah Wright was saying before He quit that church…that’s the way these things usually go. There’s no proof of Obama wrongdoing, but no evidence that lets Him off the hook, either, lots of people are ready to fling insults at whoever doesn’t just drop it and let it go. So another item goes in the file.
After awhile, ya know what? The thickness of the file says something…something not said by any one among the items in it. When it seems every single open question about Obama comes back to that, it means something.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch…we’ve got half a billion (!) wasted on yet another failed solar power company, the Justice Dept. sending guns to Mexican drug cartels, staggering high unemployment remaining at a even more staggering number of consecutive months, the president wants to give ANOTHER 400 billion to his union cronies under the guise of “jobs”…Libya is turning into a Islamic state, Iran marches on toward their 13 Imam nuclear resurrection, all of Europe is about to become broke, Israel is struggling to keep their ‘Kill the Zionists” neighbors at the gates…
And I should be reading lips, analyzing the supposed meaning…when I’ve seen and heard plenty from Michelle Antoinette and Barry the Commie to now what these vermin are ALL about.
Have we all lost our bloody stupid minds!?!
Next slide…
- tim | 09/15/2011 @ 08:23I’m okay with the words being taken out of context, but the facial expressions–the scowl on Moo’s face and the smugness on Barry’s–that gives me all of the context that I need. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
- Jason | 09/15/2011 @ 08:31Excellent recap small-tee. You need to click through to those links though to see how important this stuff really is…don’t you know, a certain housewife from Alaska might have had sex with someone of a different race twenty years ago? Priorities!
- mkfreeberg | 09/15/2011 @ 09:23I was reduced to lip reading.
Something millions of people across the globe are reduced to.
While not, probably, a majority, lip reading still is a communication tool. Just as is a dismissive nod.
- TMI | 09/15/2011 @ 11:09.