I mean, if part of the premise of your story is to claim conservative bloggers were pushing the alleged Michelle Obama "whitey" tape, why even pretend you're an objective journalist?
Everyone with a clue knows leftwinger Larry Johnson was relentlessly pushing the story and it was repeated on the air by Geraldo Rivera and Bob Beckel, two more Democrats.
Sure, some conservative blogs mentioned it, but it was in the context of it building as a story while there were still primaries on.
Anyway, the media continues to carry water for their anointed candidate and they're also telling us how ugly treatment of Michelle Obama will be.
In other words, don't dare criticize someone who hates America.
Like Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton before her, Michelle Obama is becoming the would-be first lady conservatives love to hate.Well, if you make yoourself part of the campaign, you're fair game for criticism, especially when you say stupid things.
The conservative National Review recently showed a stern-faced Michelle Obama on its cover, under the headline, "Mrs. Grievance." The Tennessee Republican Party questioned her patriotism.
Michelle Obama has become a favorite target for critics, drawing many to compare her arrival on the national stage to Hillary Clinton's after she infuriated conservatives when she said, "I could have stayed home and baked cookies."
It's likely to get worse.
"It's going to be very ugly stuff," Democratic strategist Tad Devine said. "They're going to try to depict her as someone who is angry, outside the mainstream and not proud to be an American."
How did a 44-year-old Harvard Law School graduate become so demonized? One reason is the increasingly viral quality of the Internet.
"In an environment now that is increasingly polarizing and nasty, charges can be made, often unsubstantiated charges through the Web," said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report. "We're in an environment now where being a first lady is a lot tougher job than it used to be."
Google "Michelle Obama" and the term "whitey" and you'll find conservative bloggers claiming a video shows her using the racially tinged term at Trinity Church. No tape has ever surfaced. But the claim helped prompt the Obama campaign to launch its own Web site, FighttheSmears.com.
Much of the criticism stems from Michelle Obama's artless statement early in the campaign that, "For the first time in my adult lifetime I'm really proud of my country."
Memo to ABC: That's not hating anyone, it's called criticism.
Oh, and it's not as if president's wives were never subject to scrutiny and ridicule. The left demonized Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush has been slurred by countless leftwing blogs and I read plenty of crazy stuff about Cindy McCain. Is ABC going to do a story on how much hate liberals will pour on her?
Even more pitiful, the only other thing they mention is a month-old story about a Tennessee GOP ad.
This is ugly stuff?
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