Embarrassing: WaPo's Dana Milbank Gives Michelle Obama a Tongue Bath

The death of journalism, Part 1,037. This is garbage that would be rejected by a junior high school paper.

For the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is really proud of her cauliflower.

She's also proud of her carrots, her chard, her collards, her cabbage, her chamomile, chervil and kohlrabi -- and everything else in her White House garden, which she planted Wednesday afternoon with a group of schoolchildren.

"Peas! We did some peas!" she told the kids, recounting the glories of last year's harvest. "We did some onions, and we did a bunch of herbs. Don't you remember? We did chives and garlic and rosemary and all that good stuff. We had blueberries and raspberries and blackberries. Mmmm."

"We harvested over 55 different kinds of healthy food -- 55!" the first lady reported. "One thousand pounds of food! Can you imagine that?"

Uh, no, I can't imagine that. Considering Washington, DC just dug out of record snowfall, how exactly did "one thousand pounds of food" get harvested by the first of April? Can anyone please explain this?

Also hard to imagine is that this is the same Michelle Obama so many feared when her husband ran for the presidency in 2008. Then, many predicted that she would be an angry and divisive presence in the White House, based largely on unfounded racial accusations on the Internet and her poorly worded boast during the primaries that "for the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of my country."

I guess this dunce missed the part about America being a downright mean country. But hey, let's talk about her cauliflower!

Compared with those expectations of a fiery first lady, Obama, beginning her second spring in the White House, has turned out to be Michelle Milquetoast. Her low profile has been one of the big surprises of the Obama presidency, even to officials in the West Wing, who have noted what they regard as her light schedule.

Considering her unpopular husband is in our faces 24/7, how could she possibly get any face time?

Now keep in mind this guy is supposedly an objective reporter.

The first lady of the United States, dirt on her knees, then taught the children how to do "the rhubarb dance," which consisted of wiggling fingers and casting a voodoo-like spell on the herb and chanting, "Grow, rhubarb, grow." She then marched them rhythmically around the plot. "You gotta shake it!" she instructed.

She returned to the White House, but not before leaving the photographers and reporters with a final admonition. "Stay out of trouble," she said. It's something Michelle Obama has done exceedingly well.

According to who?

The comments to this "news" story are justifiably merciless. Milbank should hang his head in shame. Here's a good one:

A Day in the life of the State Run Media: I can see the media lefties now sitting around their morning staff meetings with their soy lattes, discussing the day's agenda, fretting over the utter collapse in the numbers of their viewers and readers. They wring their neatly manicured, delicate and extremely small hands, simply mystified as to why with so many hard hitting journalistic pieces their numbers are bad. Little Dana Mountebank summons up all of his courage and hits them all with this - a piece about Michelle the Milquetoast in her garden with kids. The "awwwww" factor alone should guarantee at least a few more readers! After they read how gentle and motherly Michelle is, they will certainly abandon their torches and pitchforks and rally around the White House and their agenda! This will work! The lefties rally round delicate Dana, hoist him upon their shoulders and carry him victoriously over to the graven image of Obama that graces their "news"room, convinced that their lord will be most pleased with their offering. He is, they cheer and scurry back to their cubicles to see who will be the next to impress the master.