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Via Hot Air. As if having The One in the White House is not enough, we now increasingly have the press act as if both Mr. and Mrs. Messiah live there. Oprah already pronounced Michelle Obama the greatest First Lady ever, after barely 100 days, to match the Lincolnesque stature the press and the rest of the O-bots bequeathed on The One even before his inauguration. Then there is the academic who published an article in Salon glorifying Michelle Obama’s booty as a liberating force of historic proportions (my characterization).
The sick sycophancy of the press plumbs new depths, as Sally Quinn at the Washington Post declares Michelle Obama’s arms to be “transformational.” She begins thus:
“‘May I change the subject,’ said a prominent Washington theologian at a recent dinner. The conversation had been high-minded — religion, philosophy, the nature of evil. ‘I’d like to talk about Michelle Obama’s arms,’ he said.
“He is a big fan of those arms. We then began a discussion about the significance of the first lady’s arms. Actually, it turned out to be equally serious. Michelle Obama’s arms, we determined, were transformational.”
Would such obsequious and addled blather even be conceivable for any Republican presidential wife or, for that matter, any Democratic presidential wife other than Hillary Clinton. And we have to endure these delerious effusions from the pseudo-intelligentsia for at least four more years. AARGH.
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