This blog is about two angry women named Michelle.
First we have Michelle Obama who, during commencement ceremonies at The Tuskegee Institute, regaled her vastly Black audience with stories of how, as a Black woman, she is slighted and looked down on every day.
Do you find this a tad hard to take from the First Lady of the USA, who lives in a mansion, has servants doing her every bidding, and flies with her children on a private plane to places around the world….after living in a Chicago mansion when her husband was a U.S. Senator?
Me too.
But that was the essence of her sob story to Tuskegee graduates and their families….all of whom, I am sure, are thankful they don\’t live her stilted life.
Then we have writer and commentator Michelle Malkin. Ms. Malkin is less than taken with Ms. Obama\’s account of her travails, and says so – very bluntly – in her latest column.
Here are some excerpts (but by all means used the above link and read every word):
First lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address at Tuskegee University last weekend. She\’ll do it again at Ohio\’s Oberlin College — the UC Berkeley of the Midwest, Ground Zero for racial grievance-mongering and fake hate crimes — next week.
Obama\’s resurrected bitter half inspired the graduates by complaining about people complaining about her. She complained about the “sting” of “daily slights” throughout her life and her poor, beleaguered husband\’s. And then she complained. And complained. And complained some more.
“Even as the first lady,” she bemoaned, “not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me” at a Target store “was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.” Remember: ABC News reported that Mrs. Obama claimed such “incidents are \’the regular course of life\’ for African Americans and a \’challenge\’ for the country to overcome.”
The anecdote turned out to be a tall tale — with the emphasis on “tall.” The reason the 5-foot-11 first lady was asked to get detergent off the Target shelf was that her vertically challenged fellow shopper couldn\’t reach it. How do we know this? Because Mrs. Obama said so herself in a radically different version of the Target story she told David Letterman three years ago.
I don\’t care what color you are: This arrogant exercise of first lady privilege — invoking false stories to stoke racial hostility and score political points — is patently offensive.
It is especially irresponsible of Mrs. Obama to be spreading her cultural gasoline on college campuses, where the excesses of identity politics and multiculturalism continue to poison young minds.
Don\’t like suffering the “daily slights” of questions about your honesty? Stop lying.
To summarize:
-Michelle Obama is angry because she has invented a racially downtrodden life for herself which, as anyone with a scintilla of common sense must know, does not exist.
-Michelle Malkin is angry because Ms. Obama has invented this non-existent life and is lying to people about it.
Which of the two do you have more sympathy for? Which of the two should you pay more attention to?
Your call. I\’ve already made mine.
