Comparing Michelle Obama (original untouched photo) to a chimpanzee is an insult to all chimpanzees.

I’m horrified for the chimpanzees.

Please Michelle, don’t eat me!

Tennessean

The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau has decided to drop its contract with Walt Baker’s marketing firm over the hospitality executive’s email comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee.

“On behalf of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau, I want to publically apologize for the offensive email sent yesterday by Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker,” CVB President Butch Spyridon said in a statement this afternoon. “As a recipient of the email, I am embarrassed for both my organization and myself. The content is deeply hurtful to all in our city and beyond. The attitudes expressed in the email are both appalling and unacceptable, and are not shared or condoned in anyway by the NCVB or by me personally.

“Nashville’s hospitality industry has worked tirelessly to create a welcoming environment for our visitors and this behavior discredits the work done by so many. After serious consideration, the NCVB has made the decision to terminate its contract with Mr. Baker’s marketing agency, Mercatus Communications. I have communicated this action and my deep regrets about the email to the Mayor’s Office and other hospitality industry leaders.”

Baker is CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association. He apologized in an email to Metro Council members Saturday, suggesting that he had been misinterpreted:

“Thursday night I spontaneously forwarded – to a small group of people – an email that had been sent to me as political humor,” Baker wrote. “As I forwarded it, I did not think or consider its implications, other than that it was political humor. I am saddened that anyone misinterpreted the sentiments behind the email. I deeply apologize to anyone who is offended by this action. I hope that those who know me realize that the message was not intended to be malicious or hurtful in any way and can find it in their hearts to forgive me.”

Yeah sure Michelle, we all love ya. Please don’t eat us.

Absolute Propaganda

Michelle Obama wears blinders, of sorts. That helps her to see the real America. As the first lady put it in an interview Saturday, the people she’s met and the causes she’s taken up have put her in touch with a side of the country far removed from the tempest of attack politics and nasty commentary, which she tries her best to shut out.

“Most of America isn’t like that and they’re tired of that,” she said. “You know, they want folks to get stuff done. The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me.”

Her remark in the 2008 campaign that she was “really proud” of her country for the first time fed doubts in some quarters about whether she stood for mainstream values, to the point that she felt compelled to declare “I love this country” at the Democratic convention and emphasize her ordinary nature.

Those doubts about her appear to have subsided, she told host Mike Huckabee on Fox News, a network whose conservative commentators played no small part in raising questions about her patriotism in the campaign.

“I feel like the country has gotten to know me,” she said.

Polls suggest she is a more popular first lady than either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Laura Bush early in their husband’s administrations. Fully 71 percent expressed a favorable opinion of her in a Pew Research Center survey in November, while just 16 percent had an unfavorable view. Clinton’s negatives were almost twice as high early in her time as first lady.

Michelle Obama said she prefers to form impressions of what’s going on from her own experiences in and outside of Washington, and “I try to keep home kind of a news-free zone” apart from the newspaper clippings and headlines she sees.

That’s how she gets a different vantage point of America, she said. “It’s decent and it’s kind and it’s hopeful — and it’s critical and it’s demanding, but it’s courageous.”

And should there be any lingering question, she added: “I love my country. You can’t do this if you don’t.”

Relations between Fox and President Barack Obama’s White House have been frosty, but in Huckabee — a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 — she found a genial interviewer who heaped praise on her initiative to fight childhood obesity. Huckabee lost more than 100 pounds when he was Arkansas governor although he said it’s time to get back to work on his conditioning.

By Daily Mail Reporter

Michelle Obama started a campaign to tackle childhood obesity in the U.S. on a personal vein – with an admission that her own daughters were becoming overweight before a diet nipped the problem in the bud.

The First Lady said that she had been warned by the family paediatrician that ’something was getting out of balance’ with her two children Malia 11, and Sasha, 8.

‘In my eyes I thought my children were perfect – I didn’t see the changes,’ Mrs Obama said at an event organised by US health officials.

The girls then had to adhere to new ground rules – less burgers, low-fat milk, and fruits and water instead of sugary drinks; the change was significant, she said.

Mrs Obama was accompanied by Regina Benjamin, whose choice as US Surgeon General sparked nationwide debate about the appropriateness – or lack of it – of having an overweight person heading the country’s health department.

Fatass Benjamin with Marxist Manure Barack Hussein Obama

Ms Benjamin also invoked her own struggles with weight gain to enforce their message. 

The pair then unveiled the White House vegetable garden, taken care of by local schoolchildren in a bid to promote healthier eating.

U.S. president Barack Obama has also in the past publicly voiced concerns about the habits of their children, saying that Malia had become ‘a little chubby’.

Concerns over obesity has been growing in the U.S. where two thirds of adults and one in three children are overweight or obese, according to experts.

Kathleen Sebelius, US Health and Human Services Secretary, told yesterday’s launch that the US spends nearly $150 billion (£94 billion) a year fighting obesity – more than it spends on cancer and twice as much as it spent on obesity in 1998.

The campaign was launched to deter this problem, and the announcement that Michelle would head it was met with a standing ovation from congressmen and senators.

 Reuters

Michelle Hussein Obama, who plans to take on childhood obesity as a cause, headlined the launch on Thursday of Surgeon General Regina Benjamin’s blueprint for what can be done at home, school and work to reverse the epidemic.

In her first initiative since becoming "America’s doctor," Benjamin issued a report on the consequences of obesity to start a national dialogue on the subject.

"The number of Americans, like me, who are struggling with their weight and health conditions related to their weight remains much too high," she said.

Benjamin’s report lists recommendations for preventing obesity. They range from simply eating more fruit and vegetables to adding "high-quality physical education" in schools and bringing more supermarkets to low-income communities.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said at the launch that the Obama administration was investing $650 million in economic stimulus money in wellness and prevention programs aimed at obesity and stopping smoking.

She introduced the first lady as "everyone’s favorite vegetable gardener."

Obama, who created a White House garden with local school children, said the solution to the obesity epidemic cannot come from government alone. Everyone has to be willing to do their part to end the public health crisis.

"This will not be easy and it won’t happen overnight. And it won’t happen simply because the first lady has made it her priority," Obama told an audience of children’s advocates at a recreation center in Alexandria, outside Washington.

"It’s going to take all of us. Thank God it’s not going to be solely up to me."

Two-thirds of U.S. adults and nearly one in three children are overweight or obese — a condition that increases their risk for diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses.

The United States spends nearly $150 billion a year on obesity and related complications — twice what it cost in 1998 and more than every cancer cost put together, Sebelius said.

"The unhealthier we are as a nation, the more our health care costs will continue to rise and the less competitive we will be globally," she said.

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What a fuckin’ farce. Two fatasses dictating to America about healthy eating.

This is what happens when we allow affirmative action to trump someone with actual qualifications.

Uh Huh. When all else fails, rally ’round the troops. We’re talkin’ the Marxist Manure, the Obamas. They figure if they show support for the troops, you’ll show support for whatever absolute bullshit Obama comes out with for year two of his failed presidency.

WASHINGTON – First lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday the president’s 2011 budget will include a record $8.8 billion to support military families.

The largest sum, $1.9 billion, would be spent on counseling and other support services. An additional $1.3 billion would go for military child care.

President Barack Obama included another $439 million to build 10 Defense Department schools, the first step in a program to replace or renovate 103 such schools by 2015.

The budget also has $84 million for career development for military spouses, including tuition assistance and a federal internship program. It includes $14 million for Coast Guard housing and money for youth programs for military kids.

Mrs. Obama began focusing on the needs of military families during the 2008 presidential campaign as the country fought two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and service members and their loved ones endured multiple deployments to the combat zones.

Now in the White House, she has continued to visit military installations around the country and talk to military families about their needs and concerns. She has shared what she heard with her staff and other members of the administration.

White House aides described her role in the budget process as part of a broader administration effort.

Mrs. Obama made the announcement at a luncheon for military spouses at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington and sought no credit for the increased spending. Rather, she said, it was "the result of military families speaking up and being heard."

The announcement came as the president prepared to propose a three-year freeze in discretionary federal spending in his State of the Union address Wednesday night. Veterans and defense programs would be exempt.

Aides justified the spending on military families by saying their welfare is an important part of U.S. national security.

Obama is expected to send his budget blueprint to Congress on Feb. 1.

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The Obamas are vehemently anti-U.S military, but because Obama is sinking in his Marxist Manure, they are pulling the ace card for political expediency, The U.S. Military. For fucks sake, they are rabid Alinsky followers. Do not fall for their We Support the Troops hype.

 By Daily Mail Reporter

Happy Days actor Scott Baio has contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after being subjected to ‘death threats’ on Twitter.

The 48-year-old actor received a barrage of negative criticism when he posted an unflattering photo of America’s First Lady Michelle Obama with the tagline ‘Wow – he (Barack Obama) wakes up to this every morning.’

The Bugsy Malone star was stunned when some of his followers accused him of being racist, with one user threatening to ‘find your house’ and ‘finish you’.

The row started on Tuesday morning after Baio posted the picture, which showed Mrs Obama apparently shouting.

After receiving the initial criticism, Baio protested the photo was only a joke and appealed to his fellow Twitter users to have a ’sense of humour’.

He wrote: ‘I did not alter that picture. Stop bashing my charity just because I post an unflattering pic of a woman. Grow up people, have some humour.

‘One bad picture of a woman and everyone wants to bash me? If it had been of (Sarah) Palin people would have probably cheered. I am NOT making fun of anyone.

‘People need to relax and laugh a bit. Life is too short no matter what (political) party you are with. A joke is just that, a joke.’

However, one Twitter user in particular was particularly incensed and sent Baio some chilling threats, which the actor then posted on his own page, also known as ‘Re-Tweeting’.

The Twitter user wrote: ‘A grand wizard like you Scott Baio should be put down and someone will put you down. You, your wife and kid.

Unflattering: Baio posted this photo of the First Lady on his Twitter page

‘Easy to find your house Scotty boy and finish you. I am Republican and I love Mrs O.’

Baio then reported the user to Twitter bosses, writing: ‘This person is threatening my life and not f**king cool. Please report.’

The offending user’s profile has since been taken down.

Then, in a bid to prove he wasn’t racist, Baio posted a photo of himself with a black friend of his wife.

Worrying: Baio’s posted the threats on his Twitter page for all to see

He said: ‘I’m NOT racist for posting a pic of Michelle Obama. My wife’s best friend is black, hello.

‘If I’m racist, don’t think I would have directed shows like The Parkers and The Wayans Brothers or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on Diagnosis: Murder.’

After receiving more threats, Baio then contacted the FBI and informed everyone on his Twitter page.

He wrote: ‘Please note: The FBI has been contacted and we have a file number for the threats, along with twitter support.’

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Let’s be honest folks, Michelle is a physically unattractive woman. That of course is not her fault, that’s genetics working and people can and do tend to look past the physical unattractiveness of someone if that person has at least a modicum of morals and ethics. However, in Michelle’s case it’s impossible to look past her hideousness because she is an anti-American steaming pile of Marxist Manure!

Michelle Malkin

Hold on to your hoe. It turns out that the fruits and veggies used in a special edition of the popular Food Network TV show “Iron Chef America” featuring first lady Michelle Obama did not, in fact, come from the White House garden. Could there be a more deliciously fitting symbol of Obama White House fakery than Garden-Gate?

Some may shrug at this tempest in a colander. But as we approach the one-year anniversary of the Hope and Change inauguration, the first lady’s little horticultural hoax serves as a handy metaphor for a cornucopia of Obama fraud. They’ve stocked health care town halls with partisan goons and benefactors. They’ve provided lab coats to doctor donors to make their health care lobbying look more authentic. And they’ve treated soldiers, in President Obama’s own words, as “pretty good photo ops.”

Ringers are what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

East Wing apologists are whirling like KitchenAid salad spinners over the Iron Chef-fuffle: "Due to the production delay between the shoot at the White House and the shoot at Food Network, the produce used in Kitchen Stadium during the ‘Super Chef Battle’ was not actually from the White House garden," admitted a Food Network spokeswoman. But, they stress, the replacement produce consisted of the exact same types of sweet potatoes, tomatillos, broccoli and fennel purportedly picked from the White House garden.

It’s the haute cuisine version of disgraced CBS News fabricator Dan Rather’s fake-but-accurate card. But this is just the latest Potemkin produce from a Potemkin presidency.

To wit: White House number-crunchers and Democratic fuzzy mathematicians have been cooking the books on stimulus jobs numbers and government health care takeover costs. They desperately ditched the “jobs saved or created” recipe for a jobs-funded concoction to salvage the illusion of economic recovery. They’ve inflated deficit reduction estimates and downplayed doctor reimbursement cuts. And they’ve done so behind a locked kitchen door.

Candidate Obama whipped up a nutritious package of transparency pledges that has fallen flatter than a one-egg souffle. Open government, he told us, was good for Washington and good for America — and the president promised to give us heaping doses of it on C-SPAN. But not a camera was in sight for the past week’s backroom health care negotiations among the White House, Democratic leaders and left-wing special interests.

Now, President Obama is poised to deliver juicy tax exemptions for unions while squeezing middle-class taxpayers, employers, investors and drugmakers to subsidize expanded government health care.

The liberal press became unhinged when former President George W. Bush posed with an artificial turkey on a surprise Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad in 2003. But on Thursday, when Obama served up a fake populist turkey of a $90 billion bank tax — dubbed the “financial crisis responsibility fee” — much of the press corps dutifully chewed and swallowed. Feigning outrage at the very financial sector that loaded his campaign coffers and provided him with crony Treasury appointees, Obama demanded “our money” back.

But the tax will not apply to the Enron-rivaling financial black holes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (it would “not be productive,” says a White House filled with Fannie- and Freddie-enriched advisers). Or to the bailed-out auto companies. Or to the bevy of non-banks that have soaked up taxpayer bailout money. Gobble, gobble, gobble.

Nor will any of the incompetent or complicit financial regulators who practiced self-admittedly “inadequate” oversight before the meltdown and during the government bailout structuring be fined or penalized. (We’re looking at you, Tim Geithner).

With Year Two of the Obama administration barely under way, even its most loyal subjects are beginning to realize that Hope and Change were phony fruits. He promised new politics. We got the same old crony capitalism. He promised public accountability. We got the back of the hand. How ya like them rotten apples now?

By David Zurawik–Tribune Newspapers

President Barack Obama has grilled steaks with the Food Network’s Bobby Flay. He has filled out his NCAA basketball tournament picks with Andy Katz on ESPN. And he has appeared on Comedy Central, demanding that Stephen Colbert get a haircut during the comedian’s telecast from Iraq. Is there a talk show on any channel outside of Fox News on which the president has not appeared during his first year in office?

Michelle Obama, meanwhile, has shared the PBS stage with Elmo and Big Bird, traded quips with Jay Leno on his prime-time NBC show and waltzed Oprah Winfrey around the White House on ABC to oohs and ahhs at the Christmas decorations last month.

Team Obama often uses the word "unprecedented" to describe its actions. Here is one of its initiatives that really is historic: No first couple has spent as much time on television, and none has done it in so many nontraditional, non-news venues such as ESPN, Comedy Central and late-night talk shows. Brand Obama set a new record for presidential tube time in 2009 — and the beat continues into the new year.

Earlier this month, Michelle Obama added another TV credit to her video resume with a prime-time appearance on the Food Network’s "Iron Chef America."

The two-hour special, titled "Super Chef Battle," featured TV chefs Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali and Flay joined by Cristeta Comerford, White House executive chef.

"I certainly can’t think of another administration that comes close in terms of trying to use the medium of television in order to advance its message," said Ed Henry, senior White House correspondent for CNN.

Henry characterizes the Obama administration’s relationship to media in 2009 as "sort of a barrage, a full assault from the administration in using various media, but especially television."

"They’re not being hemmed in by traditional television, whether it be the Big Three networks or the cables. Whether it’s doing an interview on ESPN or some of the less traditional outlets for a president, they have made clear that they are willing to put him out there if it suits their interest. … They’re not afraid to try different approaches. … And they’ve been very aggressive about it."

LA Times

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals certainly meant it as a compliment when the group called First Lady Michelle Obama "Fur-Free and Fabulous" in its latest ad campaign. But the group’s intentions apparently don’t matter much to the White House, which says Mrs. Obama’s image was used by PETA without her permission. 

The ad, which features the first lady alongside Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks and Carrie Underwood — all famous women who have refused to wear real fur — was rolled out by PETA last week and can be seen, so far, at Washington, D.C.-area Metro stations and on the group’s website. 

"By rejecting fur, these style icons demonstrate to the world that fur is old-fashioned and cruel," PETA senior vice president Dan Mathews said by way of an introduction for the new ad campaign. PETA co-founder and president Ingrid Newkirk told the Associated Press that the group wouldn’t have attempted to get Mrs. Obama’s consent to use her image because it knows she would be unable to make such an endorsement.

PETA and its followers (including, notably and strangely, the singer Pink) have publicly lauded the first lady in the past for her anti-fur stance.  Mrs. Obama’s deputy press secretary confirmed to the Washington Times that the first lady was fur-free after French first lady Carla Bruni made a similar announcement last summer. 

The First Frump (far left) claps has her daughter Malaria stands on a surfboard. Just sayin’ is all.