Michelle Obama Watch

As you know last month, CNN hired comedically challenged (yes, I made that up) and illiterate Black-woman-hating entertainer, DL Hughley for the sole purpose of being able to tell offensive racist jokes about Barack Obama without CNN being labeled racist. Yes, the age of the professional racist Black straw man is upon us. The powers that be will use Black faces to do what political correctness will not permit White people to do. You can read my views about the ... Read More

by Rhonda (h/t pop+politics) Over at Salon a couple of weeks ago, writer Erin Aubrey Kaplan, responding to all the "makeover" talk wrote an essay exploring the complexities and contradictions that have arisen in the mainstream conversation about Michelle Obama. Among the points she makes, she notes that while she anticipated the attacks on Barack Obama, she should have known Michelle was quickly coming into focus as a target: It was established early that while Barack was striving for the middle ground, trying to strike a ... Read More