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1. #1
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:29 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

   I like pie.

2. #2
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm, letget said:

   NO, a thousand times NO! This mao went, with numerous others, ate all the goodies you and I would never get to eat, met with a king and queen, had the beach closed(one could say for security), and also met with some rop types at a large amount at taxpayers expense. If any r FL had done this, while a vast number of American’s probably can’t afford a vacation this year, the msm would be screaming bloody murder! She is married to this bho and what mao does is fair game in how we view her action, IMO.
   L

3. #3
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm, chapoutier said:

   Lest the less pop culture saavy among you all think that the above video is an actual MO supporter, I think in full disclosue, it should be noted that it is in fact a parody of this. Note: NSFW language.

4. #4
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:32 pm, frostrt said:

   When she leaves me alone, then believe me, I’ll be more than happy to return the favor — in good times or in bad.
   —————————————

   Unlike President and First Lady Obama, when their turn in the White House is over (please let it be after 2012), I will not speak of them again, even to blame them for their most intrusive, expensive, or both policies. I’ll just worry about the new Pres cleaning up the mess. Moving on.

   It’s more than they’ve done regarding Bush, who I believe has yet to say anything (critical or otherwise) about his successor.

5. #5
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:32 pm, SHoward said:

   Somebody’s gotta say it:

   Had Laura Bush done the same thing, she would have been crucified in the press and Bush’s press sec. wouldn’t have heard the end of it in the press room. It would have led on every Katie Couric broadcast for a week, and been on the (large rear) view for months.

6. #6
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:33 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

   I will criticize whomever whenever I please.

   Kathleen, your column has failed.

7. #7
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pm, frostrt said:

   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm, chapoutier said:

   —————————————-

   Yes, I believe MM posted a picture of the “Leave Britney Alone” guy alongside this headline. The point is that this writer is throwing a tantrum much like the person in the Britney vid.

8. #8
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:36 pm, cicerokid said:

   $400k is chump change. Can I say “chump”?

9. #9
   On August 11th, 2010 at 3:37 pm, frostrt said:

   Okay, just to get technical, make that “below” this headline.

   

10. #10
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:37 pm, Mister P said:

    She is a public figure. She sets her self up as some supernanny. She is in your face. She prances around like some kind of royalty. She waste taxpayers moneys. Hell yes I will criticize her.

11. #11
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:40 pm, chapoutier said:

    Yes, I believe MM posted a picture of the “Leave Britney Alone” guy alongside this headline. The point is that this writer is throwing a tantrum much like the person in the Britney vid.

    I did get the point. Do you have any doubt, though, that a good number of posters would have 1) not had any idea about the Britney Spears guy and the many parodies it has inspired and 2) would therefore have assumed that the video was a real MO supporter?

12. #12
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:43 pm, Lindsay said:

    Kathleen Parker, faux conservative, is always a beat behind the rest on issues. She waits until she sees which way the wind blows, then delivers a trite column which, as in this case, misses the point. Laura Bush was part of a mission for women in Afghanistan. Michelle O. was on a mission for her own pleasure, and that of her friends and daughter, and to spend the money of taxpayers whom she is not proud of (remember, Kathleen? She was not proud of her country until Obammy gained the throne).

13. #13
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:45 pm, cicerokid said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:40 pm, chapoutier said:
    I did get the point.

    The point is on your head.

    A good number of posters are astute enough to have seen the woman stop crying and put fake tears in her eyes!

    doh!

14. #14
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:45 pm, taggart said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm, chapoutier said:
    Lest the less pop culture saavy among you all think that the above video is an actual MO supporter, I think in full disclosue, it should be noted that it is in fact a parody of this. Note: NSFW language.

    Duh, us knuckle-draggers don’t know nothin’ ’bout no pop culchure. Beans! I WANT MORE BEANS!!!

15. #15
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:46 pm, bjc said:

    *Kathleen Parker, not to be confused with Charles Krauthammer.
    *Moochelle Obama, a discredit to the position of FLOTUS.

16. #16
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:46 pm, John Deaux said:

    Unfortunately, it’s my job as a citizen to be critical of excessive and wasteful expenses of the taxpayer’s money.

    If MO or Kathleen Parker have a problem with that, then they obviously need remedial education about our government is supposed to function.

17. #17
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:47 pm, taggart said:

    By the way, that WAS a good parody above.

18. #18
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:48 pm, frostrt said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:40 pm, chapoutier said:

    I did get the point. Do you have any doubt, though, that a good number of posters would have 1) not had any idea about the Britney Spears guy and the many parodies it has inspired and 2) would therefore have assumed that the video was a real MO supporter?

    —————————————-

    You’re right that some people are less aware of pop culture and less attuned to parody when they see it than others.

    I find it (both videos) amusing and don’t believe that (most) Obama supporters would have that kind of hissy-fit (although I’ve seen some come close; a woman discussing the voter registration fraud issue and Acorn during ’08 election season comes to mind).

19. #19
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:48 pm, DBNinKY said:

    KP/WaPo
    

    On balance, the vacation was poorly conceived but hardly a crime befitting the condemnation.

    Wrong again, KP.

    Mrs. O had the choice of NOT going through with the trip – she and the WH “concievers” knew the visuals of an opulent vacation made during trying times would not go over well with taxpayers struggling to make ends meet, and they didn’t care.

    And that’s the part befitting condemnation.

20. #20
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:48 pm, 24Klady said:

    I know everytime I lose a close friend or relative the very first thing that comes to mind is to run off with a friend to frolic on an expensive beach somewhere. Especially when it’s my husband’s birthday and the trip also coincides with a promise made by one of the travelers to their daughter (another birthday celebrant) they’d go to Spain. To rest after my whirlwind trip to exotic places, think I’ll go with my family and enjoy one of the ritziest areas in the U.S. – again, with the American taxpayer coughing up more.

    I actually have no problem with any of that if you’re paying for it. But since the vast majority of monies spent is being footed by the American taxpayer….I have an enormous problem with it.

21. #21
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:50 pm, Ragspierre said:

    This a joke, right?

    Shellie takes a Versailles-level junket, and we can’t NOTICE? Or, having noticed, we can’t comment????

    Where was Kathleen when the left was digging back decades to find ANY salacious thing about Laura Booooosh…???

22. #22
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:51 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Michelle has imposed herself into my life; therefore, I may criticize her if I like. The Britney vid was stupid.

    Cicerokid: Hey, I think 400K is real money!!

23. #23
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:52 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Whatever else one thinks of Bush, he did have a sense of propriety in matters recreational, perhaps in part attributable to his life of privilege and attendant guilt.

    methinks miz parker doth project too much.

24. #24
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:52 pm, chapoutier said:

    Where was Kathleen when the left was digging back decades to find ANY salacious thing about Laura Booooosh…???

    Apparently, right there beside Laura.

    I traveled to the Middle East with Laura Bush in 2007 when she helped promote breast cancer awareness in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. We also visited troops in Kuwait, as well as a group of women who, recently granted the right to vote, had run for public office.

    The security around that trip was spectacular. Entire roadways were shut down for her passage; snipers were everywhere. Our own plane was loaded with enough artillery and shooters to take over a small country. Our hotels were palaces by America’s Holiday Inn standards. Because the media contingent was limited to three people — Greta Van Susteren, Robin Roberts and yours truly — we went everywhere the first lady went (at our own or our institution’s expense).

25. #25
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:53 pm, frostrt said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:48 pm, 24Klady said:

    Especially when it’s my husband’s birthday

    —————————————-

    It definitely did not escape me that Mrs. O and the two little girl O’s were gone on Dad’s birthday. If my Mom had ever deliberately planned for the two of us to be gone on my Dad’s birthday, I would have thought that rather odd.

26. #26
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:53 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Kathleen Parker. Another former Townhall.com star.

27. #27
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:55 pm, DBNinKY said:

    KP/WaPo
    

    First thought: Give the lady a break. She deserves a vacation. Who cares that she missed her husband’s birthday?…Of such are lasting marriages made.

    I don’t get it. Is KP being sarcastic or serious? In either case, I don’t think that last part is how “lasting marriages” are defined. Happy separations and divorces, yes; happy marriages, no.

28. #28
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:56 pm, Southpaw said:

    Many Americans haven’t had a paid vacation in over two years.
    S.T.F.U.

29. #29
    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:57 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm, chapoutier said:
    Lest the less pop culture saavy among you all think that the above video is an actual MO supporter, I think in full disclosue, it should be noted that it is in fact a parody of this. Note: NSFW language.

    Some people’s parody is other people’s reality. How do you know for fact that the person in that video is not an MO supporter? Why do you assume otherwise?

30. #30
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Good idea, Rogue! Let’s see how quickly we can derail this thread with obtuse nitpickery!

31. #31
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm, spaceycakes said:

    and BOOM! goes Southpaw

32. #32
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:01 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Money spent visiting the troops and to create/promote cancer awareness in third world countries, versus money spent to rub elbows with Spanish royalty – no contest.

33. #33
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:01 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    I’m sorry, but most of you don’t realize just how serious Michelle Obama’s trip was.

    “Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States,” the communist revolutionary and convert to Islam wrote in his book.

    Michelle met with Marxists and Islamists in Spain. It’s the very reason she went there.

    Please wake up and pay attention to what matters here, and not pay attention to the distractions.

    Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain was not “Tone Deaf”,
    it was Pitch-Perfect…

    … to Marxists and Islamists.

34. #34
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:02 pm, Lindsay said:

    DBNinKY, that was KP’s silly attempt at humor and a dinner at the WH.

    Her writing is lame these days, Pulitzer or not… never original and always full of hubris and cuteness.

    It is a shame that CNRO continues to link her crap on occasion. A parrot would squawk to have her column in it’s cage.

35. #35
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:06 pm, cicerokid said:

    Red Pill is right. Ma-bama had an agenda.

    Real mothers take their young daughters to the water park, not Spain.

36. #36
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:13 pm, DBNinKY said:

    …that was KP’s silly attempt at humor and a dinner at the WH.

    Thank you! Point noted – and I’m sure a dinner invitation to the WH is on the way for KP! Favors are always returned in the Chicago political system.

37. #37
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Mabelle went to Spain and met with Spanish royalty, Saudi royalty and some guys from Qatar — this info was seen briefly on NewsMax, but when I went back to check, I couldn’t find the link. I’d be interested to see if anyone here has seen anything on her visits while in Spain.

38. #38
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:24 pm, corkie said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:40 pm, chapoutier said:

    Do you have any doubt, though, that a good number of posters would have … therefore have assumed that the video was a real MO supporter?

    Um, the fact that the girl stopped to use saline to fake tears within the first 15 seconds gives me doubt.

39. #39
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:32 pm, Southpaw said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm, spaceycakes said:
    and BOOM! goes Southpaw

    I’m cool.

    Media elites (even conservative ones and “pretty girls”) ought to know their limits.

40. #40
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:43 pm, chapoutier said:

    Um, the fact that the girl stopped to use saline to fake tears within the first 15 seconds gives me doubt.

    You made it through 15 seconds?

41. #41
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:55 pm, Dave Turson said:

    This is a typical Parker column trying to strike a middle ground. Chap the Unbiased missed these sections:

    Perhaps if the looming economic disaster had been recognized at that point, Mrs. Bush would have faced similar criticism. As it was, the media hardly took notice of the trip, despite the excursion’s incalculable diplomatic value. …
    Perception is everything in politics. And though Mrs. Obama essentially caught some of August’s free-ranging flak, she also chose unwisely. …as a political move, it could not have been more out of step with most Americans’ reality. The obvious reasons include the stagnant job market, the depleted fortunes of the middle class, millions of lost homes and, for many, the prospect of an insecure financial future. …When many Americans are scraping together pennies to finance a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, the notion that a child must be treated to Spain’s beaches to celebrate her decade on the planet is a bitter pill to swallow.
    On balance, the vacation was poorly conceived but hardly a crime befitting the condemnation. Perhaps of more lasting concern is the missed opportunity for the first lady to set an example of restraint and even generosity. I hear the Gulf Coast beaches could use a cash infusion.

42. #42
    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:56 pm, GJCorby said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:32 pm, frostrt said:
    When she leaves me alone, then believe me, I’ll be more than happy to return the favor — in good times or in bad.
    —————————————

    Unlike President and First Lady Obama, when their turn in the White House is over (please let it be after 2012), I will not speak of them again, even to blame them for their most intrusive, expensive, or both policies. I’ll just worry about the new Pres cleaning up the mess. Moving on.

    It’s more than they’ve done regarding Bush, who I believe has yet to say anything (critical or otherwise) about his successor

    It is all Bush’s fault that Obama can’t shut up about Bush

43. #43
    On August 11th, 2010 at 5:03 pm, mattm said:

    If she makes herself such a public figure with her eat health program, etc. she and her whiny lib friend should Expect criticisms.

44. #44
    On August 11th, 2010 at 5:04 pm, chapoutier said:

    This is a typical Parker column trying to strike a middle ground. Chap the Unbiased missed these sections:

    I didn’t miss them at all. I basically agree with the article, except that it is news to me that the trip was all apparently done as an extravagent birthday gift to Sasha.

45. #45
    On August 11th, 2010 at 5:40 pm, Dave Turson said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 5:04 pm, chapoutier said:
    …it is news to me that the trip was all apparently done as an extravagent birthday gift to Sasha.

    From the AP:

    Longtime presidential friend Marty Nesbitt said in an interview that the idea for the trip originated with his wife, Anita Blanchard. Blanchard, a doctor who delivered both of the Obamas’ daughters, suggested that Mrs. Obama and Sasha accompany her and her daughters on a trip to Spain. Another Obama friend joined the two women, he said.
    Noting that his wife’s father had recently died, he said, “They’re good friends and that’s a tough time.” He added, “When someone delivers your children, that’s kind of an important bond, I think.”
    White House adviser David Axelrod said Monday on CNN, “Yes, she is the first lady of the United States. She’s also a mom. She wanted to take her daughter on a trip. They went with some friends of the family to celebrate another little girl’s birthday. …”

46. #46
    On August 11th, 2010 at 6:06 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    What is that, her eighth vacation this summer? Though as RedPill notes- it was probably a working vacation for the Marxist/Muslim We Hate America coalition.

    Interesting Jessie Jackson Junior was hovering nearby – it was Indian guys who wanted to buy Obama’s seat for him, and I wonder if they were there too?

47. #47
    On August 11th, 2010 at 6:09 pm, Ron said:

    Bloggers! Leave Michelle alone…After all, she’s just another brick in the (socialist) wall

48. #48
    On August 11th, 2010 at 6:28 pm, rambler said:

    Oh, that poor Mobama. When are lefties going to learn that words and actions have consequences. If they can’t take the criticism then don’t dish it out. What goes around comes around too. She was the one who thought we were a mean country and that she hadn’t been proud of it. Does she really think that she can say and do whatever she wants and not have someone criticize her? Well, she can dream on!

49. #49
    On August 11th, 2010 at 6:29 pm, Truesoldier said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:52 pm, chapoutier said:

    Where was Kathleen when the left was digging back decades to find ANY salacious thing about Laura Booooosh…???

    Apparently, right there beside Laura.

    I traveled to the Middle East with Laura Bush in 2007…

    And that may be exactly what this article is really about…KP is hoping to get invited on the next trip..

50. #50
    On August 11th, 2010 at 7:04 pm, harbormaster said:

    From the AP: “When someone delivers your children, that’s kind of an important bond, I think.”

    WTF?
    I don’t get birthday or Christmas cards from the doctor who delivered our kids, much less an invite for a trip to Spain.

    “She wanted to take her daughter on a trip. They went with some friends of the family to celebrate another little girl’s birthday. …”

    Ummm, next time do what we do: Take your friends on a trip to Culver’s to celebrate birthdays…

51. #51
    On August 11th, 2010 at 7:38 pm, Lindsay said:

    The only traffic KP’s columns receive is if she is controversial to conservatives, which has become as transparent as her Botox.

52. #52
    On August 11th, 2010 at 7:39 pm, corkie said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:43 pm, chapoutier said:

    You made it through 15 seconds?

    Your question implies that you didn’t watch the video before deciding that you were concerned that readers would believe that the girl in the video is an actual M.O. supporter.

53. #53
    On August 11th, 2010 at 7:49 pm, 24Klady said:

    harbormaster #51
    When my daughter was 8 or 10 she asked for nothing more on her b-day than a trip to Chucky Cheese and a handfull of tokens for she and her friends. Umm, we could have gone to Vegas cheaper

54. #54
    On August 11th, 2010 at 8:01 pm, dadinseattle said:

    Sure, let’s agree.

    The first lady is off-limits… as our tax money should be off-limits for her indulgences.

55. #55
    On August 11th, 2010 at 8:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm, spaceycakes said:
    Good idea, Rogue! Let’s see how quickly we can derail this thread with obtuse nitpickery!
    

    Comes from my boring childhood days where one pokes things with a stick for entertainment. Got badly stung by yellowjackets one time, wasn’t bored anymore that day.

56. #56
    On August 11th, 2010 at 8:56 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Kathleen Parker has a column in the Washington Post that calls for over-reactionary American critics of Hope & Change™ to leave Michelle Obama alone and cut her a break for the Spain trip and other extravagance during these tough economic times.

    Sidney Deane: Oh man shut your anorexic malnutrition tapeworm-having overdose on Dick Gregory Bahamian diet-drinking ass up!

57. #57
    On August 11th, 2010 at 10:16 pm, JConrad999 said:

    I’ll leave Michelle alone when she leaves our tax dollars alone. STOP SPENDING!!

58. #58
    On August 11th, 2010 at 10:25 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Mabelle went to Spain and met with Spanish royalty, Saudi royalty and some guys from Qatar — this info was seen briefly on NewsMax, but when I went back to check, I couldn’t find the link. I’d be interested to see if anyone here has seen anything on her visits while in Spain.

    Yes. Follow the link I provided above (ok, provided again here for convenience), and read not only the post but also the comments below it. There’s material from Spanish web sites, as well as analysis of what Michelle’s trip means from a Muslim perspective.

59. #59
    On August 12th, 2010 at 7:35 am, zoyclem said:

    Parker needs to quit whining. Michelle Obama is a public figure, living off the public’s dime.

60. #60
    On August 12th, 2010 at 7:37 am, jlhudg23 said:

    If Ms. Obama’s trip was for purely personal reasons, then the ONLY cost the American taxpayers should have been asked to pay was for whatever security detail normally follows the First Lady around. Other than that, it’s robbery.

    ‘Nuf said.

61. #61
    On August 12th, 2010 at 9:57 am, RedDog said:

    On August 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm, chapoutier said:
    Lest the less pop culture saavy among you all think that the above video is an actual MO supporter, I think in full disclosue, it should be noted that it is in fact a parody of this. Note: NSFW language.

    HAHAHA. Yeah Chap. “Fake-ass tears”. Hilarious. “I think she graduated from college or some sh*t.” “She in the Black House now.”

    LOL good stuff.

62. #62
    On August 12th, 2010 at 11:01 am, chapoutier said:

    Your question implies that you didn’t watch the video before deciding that you were concerned that readers would believe that the girl in the video is an actual M.O. supporter.

    I watched enough of it to confirm it was what I thought it was.

    But, considering how I have seen certain posters here get fooled by very obvious parodies before, one can never be too careful.

63. #63
    On August 12th, 2010 at 6:01 pm, corkie said:

    On August 12th, 2010 at 11:01 am, chapoutier said:

    I watched enough of it to confirm it was what I thought it was.

    But not enough to confirm that it was something that posters wouldn’t realize was parody.

64. #64
    On August 12th, 2010 at 6:33 pm, chapoutier said:

    But not enough to confirm that it was something that posters wouldn’t realize was parody.

    As I said, I think you put entirely too much faith in the posters here.

65. #65
    On August 14th, 2010 at 11:20 am, corkie said:

    On August 12th, 2010 at 6:33 pm, chapoutier said:

    As I said, I think you put entirely too much faith in the posters here.

    Well, now I’m convinced that you didn’t watch the first 15 seconds of the video.

    You made a snap judgment regarding the parody detectability of the video without watching it.

    Now, you’re trying to cover that by claiming that the posters on here are really, really stupid.