Wonkette
WHY DOES MICHELLE OBAMA HATE OUR NATION’S PROVIDERS OF TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT? “She said that she had instituted what she called ‘Camp Obama’ at the White House, which means that the TV and computer stay off all day until after dinner and before bedtime, adding that bed time was early.” It is terribly unpatriotic to prevent one’s children from watching television 16 hours a day in the summer. How else are they going to learn English? [First Read]
Whatever. They speak Muslim at home anyways.
Won’t somebody please think of the children(s television executives)?
I’ll bet she doesn’t allow Captain Crunch or Frankenberry Cereal either.
Sasha and Malia’s mom is mean.
You know where else the teevee and bedtime policy is like this?? Prison.
I thought Teevee was God!? Why do the Obama’s hate God? Dammit, I’m having a crisis now.
TV? With their parents’ Poetry Slams, Beyonce Dance Parties and JoBro sleepovers, Sasha and Malia hardly have free time as it is.
Notice she mentioned tv and the computer but there was nothing about a Wii or Playstation. So, for all we know, Sasha and Malia are spending all their time in the White House playing AC/DC on Rock Band
It’s cause that ‘kill whitey’ tape is going to surface. Any day now…
She’s turning the whitehouse into a Madrassa! Jeebus save us!
But apparenly Rahm Emanuel is constantly posting comments at Wonkette!
I hope they announce that the girls are reading American children’s books, so that Pat Buchanan will have something new to worry about.
Just more proof that she hates America.
Geez check out some of the comments over there. I thought MSNBC was the libtard network?
magic titty: yeah they’re “closing Gitmo.” More like relocating it to the White House rumpus room.
“Camp Bush” was nearly as strict until Jenna figured out how to turn plain ol’ Jell-O into shooters.
She’s been talking to my mother, hasn’t she?
Without teevee in the summer as a kid I never would’ve seen classic shows like Gentle Ben, Gilligan’s Island, Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters and Batman (WHAM! POW!) M. O. Is a Muslin dictator mom. For shame, America.
Pssst! Sasha & Malia! Youtube on the I-pod under the covers! Use the ear buds!
“And if you get up extra early, you can have a second helping of gorp!”
nappyduggs: Being a child of the Obamas allows me to understand what it’s like to be be a member of the untouchable caste forced to live by sorting soiled rags on the streets of Calcutta.
Uncle Rahm makes sure the kids get to watch Ahmed and Salim cartoons to balance out Hamas Mouse, so it’s all good.
http://ahmedandsalim.com/
Between weeding the organic arugula, the Arabic lessons, flute practice, volunteering at the soup kitchen, tending to the honeybees, it’s amazing that they have any time to watch television at all. I’ll bet after dinner Michelle is all, “Girls if you haven’t memorized your hobbit taxonomies then you’re not going to be allowed to watch Frontline.”
And these will be the only normal-weight children left in America…
They’ll just learn English from the TelePrompTer.
You know who also banned teevee…the Taliban. OBAMA = OSAMA!
hobospacejunkie: I summered where there was no teevee signal, but we had a “HiFi.”
Consequently, my sisters and I know every song lyric to “Magical Mystery Tour” album, “The Who Sell Out,” some old Lennon Sisters’ album and pretty much every major Broadway show produced between 1945 and 1970.
My sisters totally rocked in their rendition of “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” from Fiddler on the Roof.
Lascauxcaveman: Is that like “Wifi”sezme: on reeferz?
sezme: They can at least blame that on being a third world country- oh, wait.
I was raised by a TeeVee and I turned out pretty good. I’ll be even better when the compact fluorescent lights quit telling me to shave my head. Gaaaaaaaaa!
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: The home of Morning Joe is for libtards?
They got two liberals and a poser. The rest of xxNBC has been hard right since the ’80s.
As a protest, the PUMA will force their kids watch marathons of Sex and the City.
Is it OK if the TV is pointed towards Mecca?
This is a dangerous path Michelle has set her children on.
Without TV to occupy their little minds, the kids will be forced to use their imaginations and create entertainment for themselves. They will have to learn to interact with other people and develop face-to-face social skills (unlike the Wonkette social skills needed to keep from being banned).
This will only lead to creativity and mischief. Once you give children this freedom, you can never really pull it back and God knows what these children might do with that freedom.
OMG, the comments. Are people really that indignant that these kids won’t get to find out about Jon and Kate Plus 8 in real time?
tunamelt: I’ll say - those commenters clearly think good parenting consists of forcing their children to watch basic cable while masturbating into Pop Tarts boxes.
However, they are allowed to watch and smirk mirthlessly at Senator Franken on SNL reruns. It unites America!
My no good ex-wife doesn’t have a TV. She hates America and me. Also.
I think it was one of Matt Groening’s creations, possibly Akbar who, many years ago, spoke the truest sentence ever uttered in the English language: TV is the best invention ever invented. As it was, so it shall remain.