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This has turned out to be a rather interesting story. It starts a few days ago, over the weekend when we were in Reno. Blogger friend Gerard, like many others, posted this photo:
…and we followed suit. Well, the photo turned out to be doctored. Since then, we’ve been going back & forth on whether we should post some kind of retraction, and if so, what kind. A number of readers have posted comments there, here, wherever else the picture appears that it is, to use disgraced newsman Dan Rather’s words, “fake but accurate.” That seemed a silly thing to say while we were on the road…at which time we were ready to ‘fess up and say “Well, we were blogging from the Droid! It’s really, really hard! That’s our lame excuse and we’re sticking to it!”
But the fake-but-accurate people are closest to the truth.
Consider what is revealed to us by this hacked-up photo:
1. Michelle Obama has a wide load and she walks like a fucking bricklayer.
2. She possesses all the fashion sense of a kindergartner.
It adds up to an indictment against our nation’s First Lady, that she does not make a very good one.
Now, it turns out #2 is falsified by the revelation of how the photo was faked, whereas #1 is not. Michelle herself is not photoshopped in any way, other than her bricklayer-walkin’ bod is imposed into a fake location. And it is fair to compare the crappy posture with the walking style of other female dignitaries, in this case France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Spain’s Princess Letizia. So if the photo raised your cackles about our poor representation at such occasions, this is not a false concern. Our country was supposed to start looking all smart and sophisticated starting January 20, 2009, and there are more than a few places where it just isn’t happening.
Whoever put the picture together, however, for some reason went to the trouble to make it appear this is all the same time & place.
Snookered is snookered, so I think I should say something. But, speaking for myself, I don’t care that much about #2. Maybe there’s gender involved in that; I’m a dude. But I already know Michelle Obama has handicaps in the fashion department. It comes as news to me, on the other hand, to see how pitifully she stacks up compared to other females around the world who are high profile, who carry the privilege and obligation to represent.
This part of it is accurate. I cannot speak for the person who doctored the photo and fiddled around with the staircase being ascended; I don’t know why you’d do that.
Maybe it would be fair to put it up like this:
There. Un-photoshopped.
Talk show hostess Tammy Bruce, who also got snookered, put it this way:
The same point could/would be made by literally placing the pics side by side. I think the comparison of First Ladies is an appropriate one, and that’s what we have here–essentially the First Lady of Spain with Princess Letizia, and the literal First Lady of France, Bruni-Sarkozy. Here we have MObama with her signature issue being how American kids are fat and unhealthy. I do think making a comparison of the woman who points a finger at our kids, of all people, and during the campaign complaining she had never been proud of *us* presenting herself in this fashion on the international stage is fair *especially* with the theme of our First Couple being that Americans (other than them of course) are bitter, clingy, fat and irrelevant. When it comes to mean, I think she has set the tone. In my humble opinion.
Not just her opinion, though. She speaks for me.
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There is another photo from a year ago–the French and American first ladies seated next to each other at a dinner. Michelle is looking at Carla Bruni in a muted horror of hatred and resentment. I do not have a high regard for the French first lady, or her husband, but neither defines themselves by the world around them. Michelle clearly cannot escape that.
- jamzw | 08/18/2010 @ 10:28I need to review more photos of euro first lady hotness to be completely sure.
Say, do you remember when GWB gave Laura a slap on her ass as he was approaching a podium at the end of her speech? And she laughed? If Barry did that to Michelle, she would not only shoot death beams out of her eyes and burn him down to a smoking cinder, but that thing wouldn’t stop wobbling for a month.
The biggest problem I have with Mrs. Imam Hussien is that she’s always pissed off! Sheesh, who want’s to come home to that? Couple that with the entitled mentality, and you have one nasty bitch. I almost feel sorry for Barry.
OK, not really. I still want to see him in the fetal position, crying in a corner.
- HoundOfDoom | 08/18/2010 @ 12:47Eh. C’mon. Michelle’s not a bad lookin’ lady, really. Politics aside and all. When you can get a smile out of her. Plus as much as I appreciate the Bush girls’ fashion sense, looks like they could both use a samrich with lots of meat, cheese, and mayo if this picture has anything to say about it.
And there’s no denying that when King O turns on the charm, if you didn’t know him otherwise you really COULD see yourself having a beer with him. With an arugula salad on the side, of course.
Ok, you know what? I admit, I like arugula, too. It’s like lettuce that tastes like radishes. It’s awesome. But of course, my everyday salads are romaine.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie …. romaine….
- philmon | 08/19/2010 @ 07:58Barack Insane Obama, Ummm, Ummm, Umfp! GAG!@
- Kini | 08/20/2010 @ 02:11