Michelle Obama Watch

By Rhonda After watching Brave New Films' excellent video calling out Fox News' treatment of Michelle Obama (blogged about here by fellow Watcher AJ), I decided to browse YouTube for other videos, and found a few truly awful videos that show up as soon as page 2 of a search on YouTube using the keywords "michelle obama." The worst of the videos I saw has less than 10,000 hits at this point (in contrast to Brave New Films' video, which has over 300,000--which ... Read More

by Rhonda Last week,* conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza published a column entitled, "Michelle Obama's Inferiority Complex," in which he accuses Michelle Obama of having an “inferiority complex. In actuality, it's all a strawman premise to enable D'Souza to launch unwarranted, unsubstantiated attacks to undermine Michelle's accomplishments, as well as her character. For instance, D'Souza claims outright that Michelle Obama's scores "weren't high enough" for admission to Princeton University without affirmative action, while failing to provide one shred evidence to back it up. When assumptions ... Read More