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NBC's Todd, Dee Dee Myers, Wash. Post's Henderson agree that portraying Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette is "ridiculous"

August 09, 2010 6:18 pm ET

From the August 9 edition of MSNBC's Hardball:

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Right-wing media absurdly compare Michelle Obama to Marie Antoinette

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    • Author by dogbreath (August 09, 2010 6:29 pm ET)
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      I saw a report yesterday on the NBC Nightly News breaking down the expenses of the trip Michelle Obama has taken to Spain. It costs her this much to fly in the plane and she has to have a 70 person secret service detail, yada, yada, yada. It really doesn't matter to me what the First Lady does. Whether she is traveling in an official capacity or not she is still representing our country. Personally, I think a bit more attention should be paid to how much money old Bohener raked in in campaign contributions on his 116 days out on the golf course last year. Working for a living really sucks.
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      • Author by bintx (August 09, 2010 6:38 pm ET)
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        Bush's 77 trips to "the Ranch" cost the taxpayers over $17 million. Didn't see anybody griping about that on Fox, did you?
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        • Author by Quicksilver M.S (August 09, 2010 8:03 pm ET)
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          Bush's 77 trips to "the Ranch" cost the taxpayers over $17 million.

          Ya... but Bush did it in America.. the 17 million was spent in America and not some forrrann countree !
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          • Author by Unreality (August 09, 2010 8:25 pm ET)
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            I thought Texas was a foreign country....but then I'm in California.
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    • Author by mustardman (August 09, 2010 6:30 pm ET)
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      Don't these talking meat puppets have anything better to talk about. There is a human tradegy going on in Pakistan right now for example!
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    • Author by Invent a Scandal (August 09, 2010 6:47 pm ET)
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      The fact that we're even discussing Michelle Obama being portrayed as Marie Antoinette shows how far our media has degraded.

      Any sort of right-wing lunacy is now discussed as "possible news." Amazing!!!!
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    • Author by voltaire (August 09, 2010 7:43 pm ET)
         
      Of course it's ridiculous. But the point is that, again, we are having a discussion over something that is patently ridiculous because the media feel compelled to bring up right wing narratives and talking points for "balance," even though time after time those narratives and talking points are senseless and without any foundation. As one egregious example, this weekend the LA Times had an article with headlines saying that Michelle Obama's trip was being criticized, using the proverbial "some say ..." However, there is not a single reference to any critic or criticism in the entire article, which therefore exists only to point out the talking point. Shameful.
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