In their efforts to transform Michelle Obama into a more likable personality, her team is trying to spin her misspeak from February. Was she "proud" or "really proud" and does it really matter?
Yesterday on the View, MO and the giddy women of the View, tried to offer the real explanation for her lack of pride, or real pride, in the United States in her adult life.
For the first time, after months of scrutiny, they apparently figured out a way to try to justify her ridiculous statement: There was confusion about what she meant- she wasn't referring to her lack of pride in the U.S. No- she meant she had not been proud of the political process...
Thanks to a post on Youtube, we learned that there were actually two speeches on the same day- one in which she made the statement without the word "really" and the second with the word "really" inserted.
Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjR81pFJI4
The sham, or shame, is that she did make the first statement and no amount of replays changes that fact.
They are now trying to pretend that she was misquoted. There was no misquote- there was a redo with a wording change.
Some brilliant reporter ought to ask her "Why did you add the "really" in the second speech?" Was she advised to do it to make it play better? Did she realize she had added the word and if yes, why has it taken so long for her camp to try to explain the quote?
In the end- the Obamas are politicians like most of the others who have gone before them- they aren't about change- they are simply more of the same.
While no one should expect Joy Behar or Barbara Walters to ask a liberal a tough question, perhaps Elisabeth Hasselbeck could have done the women who watch the View a favor and asked MO about the two speeches-even if it might have made the guest host (MO) a little uncomfortable. If she is going to claim the conservative spot on the couch, she should make a better effort to be that voice. The View, and Hasselbeck, owes the viewers more...
The next few months will be critical to our country and women (and men) need to pay better attention to facts. The main stream media can not be expected to do its job- the bias is real and clear and political.
If there is no bias why has there been almost no discussion of this attempt to spin?
Yesterday on the View, MO and the giddy women of the View, tried to offer the real explanation for her lack of pride, or real pride, in the United States in her adult life.
For the first time, after months of scrutiny, they apparently figured out a way to try to justify her ridiculous statement: There was confusion about what she meant- she wasn't referring to her lack of pride in the U.S. No- she meant she had not been proud of the political process...
Thanks to a post on Youtube, we learned that there were actually two speeches on the same day- one in which she made the statement without the word "really" and the second with the word "really" inserted.
Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjR81pFJI4
The sham, or shame, is that she did make the first statement and no amount of replays changes that fact.
They are now trying to pretend that she was misquoted. There was no misquote- there was a redo with a wording change.
Some brilliant reporter ought to ask her "Why did you add the "really" in the second speech?" Was she advised to do it to make it play better? Did she realize she had added the word and if yes, why has it taken so long for her camp to try to explain the quote?
In the end- the Obamas are politicians like most of the others who have gone before them- they aren't about change- they are simply more of the same.
While no one should expect Joy Behar or Barbara Walters to ask a liberal a tough question, perhaps Elisabeth Hasselbeck could have done the women who watch the View a favor and asked MO about the two speeches-even if it might have made the guest host (MO) a little uncomfortable. If she is going to claim the conservative spot on the couch, she should make a better effort to be that voice. The View, and Hasselbeck, owes the viewers more...
The next few months will be critical to our country and women (and men) need to pay better attention to facts. The main stream media can not be expected to do its job- the bias is real and clear and political.
If there is no bias why has there been almost no discussion of this attempt to spin?
posted by Susan Shogren Smith at
6/19/2008 10:14:00 PM
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