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Time strains to push Obama vacation story

August 09, 2010 11:20 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Behold the caption to a the opening of a long Time photo spread about the right-wing sponsored "controversy" about the First Lady's private vacation in Spain. It will really will make your head hurt watching supposedly serious, mainstream news outlets parrot Obama-hating attacks like this, and straining mightily to prop them up. 

The Time caption [emphasis added]: 

Michelle Obama's Spain Vacation: The First Lady, youngest daughter Sasah, and friend (and Secret Service agents) are in Marabell. But it's not exactly a low-cost trip

That's right, the hard-hitting newsmen and women at Time are here to inform you that the Obama's private vacation to Spain was definitely not a "low-cost trip." 

Good grief.

Who ever said it was? More importantly, when have members of the First Family ever taken "low-cost" trips, and why is the Beltway press so purposefully playing dumb on this topic? 

(h/t BagNewsNotes) 

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    • Author by shaggles (August 09, 2010 11:25 am ET)
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      The right (and apparently the MSM) will continue to push this even though the Obamas are paying for the trip themselves. They'll talk about the cost of the security detail. Never mind that the cost is probably about the same as the security detail that follows them everywhere anyway. I wonder if they're this concerned about the security details assigned to the Bush family?
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      • Author by nerzog (August 09, 2010 11:32 am ET)
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        Especially when the Secret Service chased the Bush twins around on their bar-hopping adventures. Yeah... that was taxpayer money well spent.
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      • Author by DellDolly (August 09, 2010 12:24 pm ET)
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        The cost is going to be more because the round the clock shifts of Secret Service agents based in DC are getting their hotel rooms paid for, and it's a pretty snazzy place, and they're getting a per diem that they wouldn't get if they were in DC.

        But that's the price we pay for living in the world we're in. There have been crazies in this world willing to harm the President and/or his family for many decades, and it'd be unfair to make them prisoners in the White House, and so when they take a trip, they travel via secure transportation and they get the necessary Secret Service protection.

        Last week, Limbaugh suggested that the new Chevy Volt wouldn't be a car that the Secret Service would allow the President to ride in, as though that meant something about how the average Joe should feel about the Volt!

        The President and his family get treated differently than the average Joe, and for good reason!
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    • Author by mk3872 (August 09, 2010 11:34 am ET)
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      Isn't this just the MSM following-up with their promise of closer tracking of right-wing freakouts?

      Hail the MSM!
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    • Author by progressivevoicedaily (August 09, 2010 11:43 am ET)
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      The right wing doesn't feel a black president should be spending that much money. Their racist, whether it's subconciously or on display for everyone to see. The right has adopted a fringe mentality, and will pay dearly in November. Thank you Jesus!!!!
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    • Author by okiepoli (August 09, 2010 12:29 pm ET)
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      More importantly, when have members of the First Family ever taken "low-cost" trips, and why is the Beltway press so purposefully playing dumb on this topic?

      Gee, weren't Abe and Mary out for a double date to take in a play?
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