Michelle Obama Watch

Is Michelle Obama channeling Jackie O? Lisa Nuss a WeNews commentator seems to think so. "During Barbara Walters' interview with Michelle Obama last month, I never heard Walters say why she chose the first lady as the most fascinating person of the year. I dug up the transcript, watched the video and confirmed that Walters never said why. Michelle Obama did a lot that was fascinating before 2009. After bootstrapping her way to an elite college and law school where she was outspoken about racism, ... Read More

Google has removed the racist image of First Lady Michelle Obama from their images search. Google employee Jem left this comment in the Google Web Search help forum... "If you recently used Google Images to search for the term [ Michelle Obama ], you may have seen results that were very disturbing. We assure you that the views expressed by the image in your results are not in any way endorsed by Google. As with Google Web Search, ranking in Google Images results relies heavily ... Read More

It has been 2 days since I began my countdown to how long it would take Google to FIX their image search result for Michelle Obama. Just in case you've never done a search I'll save you the time. This is what you will find... How disturbing is that?  What's even more disturbing is that one of the world's most powerful search engines, Google, has not officially responded nor have they taken the image down. A Google employee by the name of Jimmy Deheeger, title unknown, ... Read More

Hola! Happy Friday, this is your former blog editor, Gina aka "admin," checking in briefly to engage in a cyber side-eye. I'm not supposed to be blogging BTW, its I'm a participant in National Novel Writing Month :), but I was provoked! I am aware that many long-time readers balk anytime I mention the name Nia-Malika Henderson on this blog. I apologize in advance, but I am afraid it is necessary. Nia works for Politico, one of the top ten most valuable "blogs" ... Read More

Posted by Gina. Whew Chile! Bonnie Erbe is back on the march and this time she went IN! She went in all the way! In a post that is critical of President Obama's golfing and basketball activities that do not include women, Ms. Erbe compared Presiden Barack Obama to former NC Senator Jesse Helms and then tops off her criticism by calling Michelle Obama a "stepford wife" "Whether it was his treatment of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail (as in his condescending ... Read More

We don't do policy on this blog, but we do cover the media's coverage of First Lady Michelle Obama and there was PLENTY of coverage of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech about legislation related to health care. First, Matt Drudge, as is his frequent practice, made the First Lady's appearance the top story on his site with the following title "STRAPPED FIRST LADY SAYS WOMEN SUFFER UNDER HEALTH SYSTEM." Yes, he intentionally dabbled in the realm of  the misplaced  modifier or I'm giving ... Read More

So some of you are now discovering what I've known for a while, people on the internet can say some pretty mean and hateful things about Sasha and Malia Obama. Some of you have posted links to other sites in the comments section. I hope this post explains why those links haven't made any of our posts. The attacks on the weeMichelles will only continue over the course of the summer as they are seen out in public with their parents. In ... Read More

Will folks make up their minds about which smears they are going to lob at First Lady Michelle Obama. First, they trick to paint her as a fire breathing hot tempered radical. Now she's being labeled "cold and ungrateful" by a man who has a book to sale. I've got nothing against book by the way, I'm writing one about my other blog. Yesterday, the blogosphere was abuzz with news that at some point in 2000, the Obama marriage was "strained" Oh good ... Read More

I saw the title of this post and thought "Oh, they Michelle Obama and Sonia Sotomayor each other at Princeton, how neat." But they didn't! That didn't stop Politico.com from attempting to draw on some connection. It also gave Ben Smith a chance to bring up old charges from the Democratic primary: Foes of Michelle Obama (Princeton '85) sought to tie her most pointed recent comment on race - that her husband's campaign made her proud of her country "for the first time" ... Read More

I saw this over at Sandra Rose and I though that it has to be a  typo. Maybe there was something lost in translation: “Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty,” Iman tells Parade.com. “But she is so interesting looking and so bright. That will always take you farther.” “When you’re a great beauty, it’s always downhill for you,” she explains. “If you’re someone like Mrs. Obama, you just get better with age.” Sandra Rose via OK Magazine via PARADE And now let's bow our ... Read More