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FLOTUS FILES

March 7, 2011

Michelle Obama Beats Sarah Palin On Food Thermometer Test

by Blair Burke  

That's MRS. Flotus to you...Michelle Obama will not be pleased until every fat person in America rises up against her, which is why her anti-obesity campaign, also known as “Let’s Move!” has now mobilized on Twitter. Although Twitter was once a joke website where friendless losers could share real-time updates about their sad lives, it is now mostly an online sign-up sheet for people who want to overthrow a government somewhere. Now that our FLOTUS’ healthy eating campaign is on Twitter, it’s only a matter of time before President Obama gets kicked out off the White House and is replaced with a salad bar. Most Americans probably won’t mind, though, because of all politicians, Michelle Obama’s body temperature most closely resembles that of a human. What?

Polls are an important way of explaining information to people who would otherwise be lost and confused about most things. Recently, Quinnipiac University decided to take a poll that dared to ask, “who ranks the ‘warmest’ and ‘coldest’ on a ‘feelings thermometer?’”

The winner when it comes to warmest? First lady Michelle Obama, with former President Bill Clinton close behind. The coldest? Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi.

The way Quinnipiac did this poll, which was conducted among registered voters Feb. 21-28, was to ask those surveyed to “choose any number between 0 and 100. The higher the number, the warmer or more favorable you feel toward that person, the lower the number, the colder or less favorable.” The pollster then calculated a mean score for each.

Our FLOTUS ranked first at a whopping 60.1 degrees, whatever that means. Chris Christie came in at third, probably because of all his insulation, but also 55% of people didn’t really know who he was. Michelle Obama is clearly winning this brutal War on Twinkies, so there will probably be a Twitter revolution any minute. Until then, our FLOTUS will continue to indoctrinate America’s children with fables of balanced diets and a time before diabetes. Here she is, performing said indoctrination on Read Across America Day! At least Green Eggs and Ham are FLOTUS-endorsed:

Blair Burke (blairelinor@gmail.com) obsessively follows Michelle Obama’s every move for “The FLOTUS Files,” which appears every Monday here at your Wonkette.

{ 104 comments }

PublicLuxury March 7, 2011 at 8:30 pm

Sarah has a low body temperature? You know who else has a low body temperature?

EdFlintstone March 7, 2011 at 8:37 pm

Walt Disney?

el_chupacabra March 7, 2011 at 8:39 pm

dead Hitler. That's who

KenLayIsAlive March 7, 2011 at 10:52 pm

Dead Hitler is the most popular flavor of Hitler. Next, but way behind, is Chili Cheese.

Gleem_McShineys March 8, 2011 at 1:43 pm

Hot Pocket Hitler?

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:47 am

I think his proper post-mortem honorific is "Zombie Führer."

nounverb911 March 7, 2011 at 8:43 pm

Ted Williams head?

not that Dewey March 7, 2011 at 8:56 pm

Timothy Leary's head?

chascates March 7, 2011 at 9:08 pm

No, no, no, no. He's outside, looking in.

not that Dewey March 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm

jeje

iburl March 7, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Johnny Winter?

El Pinche March 7, 2011 at 8:55 pm

Ronald Reagan? …cuz that mutherfucker is dead as fuck.

not that Dewey March 7, 2011 at 8:56 pm

Reptiles?

PsycWench March 7, 2011 at 10:35 pm

Amphibians?

not that Dewey March 7, 2011 at 10:56 pm

Green Eggs and Hamphibians?

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:48 am

Green Eggs and Hambiscuits, FTW!

EdFlintstone March 7, 2011 at 9:04 pm

Christine O'Donnell's tit?

keepem_sikanpor March 7, 2011 at 11:19 pm

Christine O'Donnell's pubes?

PublicLuxury March 7, 2011 at 9:11 pm

Newt Gingrich?

deanbooth March 7, 2011 at 9:15 pm

Mr. Freeze?

Fred_Wertham_Jr March 7, 2011 at 9:25 pm

Lizard People.

andrewdrinker March 8, 2011 at 11:47 am

Sarah Palin, Lizard People, tomato, tomahto.

Gleem_McShineys March 8, 2011 at 1:46 pm

You mispilt tamato dummy!

NO CAKES WE LIKE FOR YOU!

andrewdrinker March 8, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Gah! At least let me have some cedar cheese.

LionelHutzEsq March 7, 2011 at 9:34 pm

Jesus?

VinnyThePooh March 7, 2011 at 10:17 pm

Cally.

mookwrthwilson March 7, 2011 at 10:51 pm

Cuntbag McGee?

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:46 am

Cancer?

Nicole Kidman?

trampndirtdown March 8, 2011 at 1:14 am

Francisco Franco?

LowProfileinGA May 12, 2011 at 6:32 am

Osama Bin Laden?

Blendergoathead March 7, 2011 at 8:32 pm

That's it, I'm re-naming my penis my "feelings thermometer."

"Mister Leaky" was getting sort of old, anyway.

PublicLuxury March 7, 2011 at 8:41 pm

Your feelings thermometer will be in danger of exploding if it gets too hot. You'll spary deadly mercury all over. Be careful!

KenLayIsAlive March 7, 2011 at 10:56 pm

Whether you're taking people's temperatures orally or "the old fashioned way", you're guaranteed a good time.

andrewdrinker March 8, 2011 at 11:47 am

Get away from my armpit!

memzilla March 7, 2011 at 8:33 pm

Sorry, Mrs. The Sheriff Is Near, if bacon was made from carrots, I'd eat more vegetables.

And if Mooselini was not a fame-whoring self-absorbed snowbilly grifter, she'd be Mother Teresa with a lost Walmart shopping list.

PublicLuxury March 7, 2011 at 8:33 pm

Our FLOTUS is sooooooo hawt. She's hot too. I can see why Barry likes to play bury the Salami.

DrunkIrishman March 7, 2011 at 8:33 pm

Sarah Palin is about as warm as a Eskimo's tit.

Barbara_i March 7, 2011 at 8:33 pm

Now Sarah Palin will have to show up to a Wasilla School and read "Guns is Funz" and ""Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose Is Shot From a Helicopter"

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:51 am

I could go packing in a shop
I could go packing along with pop
I would go packing here-and-there
Hell, I'd go packing heat most anywhere!

I will not 'llow my rights infringed
I will go on a shooting binge!

Barbara_i March 8, 2011 at 8:21 am

Thanks for the morning smile after I just burned my tongue on my coffee.

genxr March 8, 2011 at 9:31 am

Will you shoot an arctic fox?
Will you shoot it in a box?
Will you carry on a train?
Conceal carry on a plane?

102415 March 8, 2011 at 1:31 pm

You are an excellent poet!

genxr March 8, 2011 at 9:29 am

Thomas the Tank Engine loses his government rail funding. Hooray! And we all drive gas guzzling cars forever without consequence or high gas prices. The end.

EdFlintstone March 7, 2011 at 8:34 pm

Sarah's on the cold side? No wonder Tahd has to go the massage parlor for the full release package. I'll bet half of Christie's vote was from people who think he's a chick.

PublicLuxury March 7, 2011 at 8:42 pm

Yeah. That model what's her name? Christie somethin'? You betcha. She's hawt. I vote for her.

DrunkIrishman March 7, 2011 at 8:35 pm

Sarah Palin is about as warm as an Eskimo's tit.

Steverino247 March 7, 2011 at 8:45 pm

Uh, that's HALF as warm as an Eskimo's tit.

keepem_sikanpor March 7, 2011 at 11:24 pm

Half tit. The rest is silicone.
Half wit. The rest is twat.

DaSandman March 7, 2011 at 8:40 pm

I dunno. FLOTUS, 2 hard working, normal, achieving young women daughters.

Palin: Daughter slut whores. Just like five college Mama. The Precious Bristol and who the fuck knows what sort of criminal Willow will turn out to be…

Wow, these choices are pretty hard…I gotta think about it.

Oh and for my fans in the Tea Party: The President is a Negro! Really no shit!

GeneralLerong March 7, 2011 at 9:10 pm

"Oh and for my fans in the Tea Party: The President is a Negro! Really no shit!"
[I'd try for HTML italics but I type with my toes and HTML is The Enemy]]

How 'bout we all just cut and paste that line and start every message with it when spastic repetitive-motion-is-fun troll arrives?

KenLayIsAlive March 7, 2011 at 11:00 pm

I love how he says "liberals are intolerant" and then comes through and downfists every comment without reading them.

chascates March 7, 2011 at 8:41 pm

Good thing Sarah is so big on guns. No more friends than she has she had better carry one.

nounverb911 March 7, 2011 at 8:44 pm

Sarah's cold? Her reptilian side must be showing.

Steverino247 March 7, 2011 at 8:44 pm

The President's being replaced by a salad bar? Why the hell didn't somebody have that idea when W was in office? (And what kind of veggies do they eat in Kenya, anyway?)

nounverb911 March 7, 2011 at 8:46 pm

Wasn't Reagan the first presidential vegetable?

PublicLuxury March 7, 2011 at 9:10 pm

I think that was ketchup. It is easy to mix-up the two.

SayItWithWookies March 7, 2011 at 10:04 pm

During the last administration Dubya was the sneezeguard over Cheney's salad bar of poisonous and horrific vegetables, where you could get a spring mix of datura, madrake, monkshood and belladonna with a cup of destroying angel soup and ergot-infected breadsticks for about $30 billion a pound. And for happy hour you got to beat a naked Iraqi who was wearing a hood that smelled like pee. So yeah — just a regular salad bar would've been awesome.

Mumbletypeg March 8, 2011 at 2:21 am

Dubya the Sneezeguard.. I am enjoying and will continue to enjoy that one, surely.

PublicLuxury March 7, 2011 at 8:51 pm

A fuck face is a foot. AKA Troll alert. Too bad the troll doesn't participate in fiery debate. Chickenshit!!!!!

Tommmcatt March 7, 2011 at 10:01 pm

Yeah, he knows how weak and uninformed his arguments are, so he just follows you with an unfunny nym and hides like the little bitch he is.

PsycWench March 7, 2011 at 10:34 pm

And then goes running back to his friends at Breitbart giggling about how he played a dumb joke on the popular kids.

KenLayIsAlive March 7, 2011 at 11:01 pm

We're popular?

Angry_Marmot March 8, 2011 at 12:28 am

You know who else was popular?

DemmeFatale March 7, 2011 at 8:55 pm

OT:
Remember cut-nut, downfisting bitches?

iburl March 7, 2011 at 8:57 pm

Does hot vomit in my mouth count? If so, I have warm feelings for S___h P___n.

Steverino247 March 7, 2011 at 8:59 pm

Remember the good old days, when trolls lived under bridges? With our crumbling infrastructure resulting from years of neglect in pursuit of Libertarian fantasies, they've had to move.

nounverb911 March 7, 2011 at 9:07 pm

There's a big troll living in Seattle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Troll

chascates March 7, 2011 at 9:13 pm

For just the shits and giggles you can watch the Iowa GOP thingie on Cspan:
http://cspan.org/Events/Iowa-Conservatives-Host-G...
Man-on-dog Santorum is up next

Texan_Bulldog March 7, 2011 at 9:17 pm

Wish Wonkette would live blog that but guess Ken/Jack can only type "gubbmint the problem", "Jesus", "more tax cuts", "Socialists" and "Muslin" so many times before insanity or carpal tunnel sets in.

chascates March 7, 2011 at 9:28 pm

Santorum said he thinks he deserves a special place in heaven because he stood next to Barbara Boxer and debated her (for years!). Large applause.

Texan_Bulldog March 7, 2011 at 9:32 pm

Hope poor Barbara didn't get any Santorum on her.

chascates March 7, 2011 at 9:32 pm

Now Rick's comparing entitlements to drugs. Once you get 'em (Social Security, Medicare, Veterans' Benefits) you can't give 'em up. Lots of stories about his partial-birth abortion work. (He wrote the welfare-ending part of the Contract On America!)

Texan_Bulldog March 7, 2011 at 9:37 pm

Rick is so fucking stupid. Doesn't he know the beneficiaries of those programs are his BASE?!

FlownOver March 7, 2011 at 9:33 pm

As long as he heads out for that special place ASAP.

Hatrabbit March 7, 2011 at 9:37 pm

The President will be replaced by a salad bar?

I'm thinking Republican Freedom salad with Huckabee as a vibrating cucumber, Pawlenty one of those offensive white beans you always push away with a fork, Mitt Romney a limp lettuce leaf, and good ole' Sarah as the crowning glory: a dead fish vinaigrette.

Newt, of course, is the Salmonella.

Tommmcatt March 7, 2011 at 10:07 pm

I do not like them in the House,
The have the morals of a louse,
I do not like them making laws,
The thought of it just gives me pause,
Their view of life is simply sick,
Republicans can SUCK MY….

Guppy06 March 7, 2011 at 10:11 pm

0 to 100? That sounds like that communist metric "Celsius" nonsense!

trampndirtdown March 8, 2011 at 1:22 am

Lolz Amurka is inching it's way towards the metric system.

VinnyThePooh March 7, 2011 at 10:12 pm

Sarah Palin can measure her oral and rectal temperatures simultaneously with the same probe.

KenLayIsAlive March 8, 2011 at 12:45 am

Wow, she can do an act like that and Todd is still running around with a masseuse? Unbelievable.

andrewdrinker March 8, 2011 at 12:08 pm

Sorry!!!! I hit downfist instead of upfist….I'll upfist your other comments. :-(

undeterredbyreality March 7, 2011 at 10:21 pm

I luvs me ma Michelle. She's a 99 on my thermometer (cuz 100 would be sick!).

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:54 am

He's hear all night, y'all! Try the veal.

SorosBot March 7, 2011 at 10:45 pm

If Christie came in third in a "warmest politicians" poll, people must have taken the question literally, and based their choice on all that excess insulation he's carrying.

not that Dewey March 7, 2011 at 10:58 pm

That suggests that they've either been engulfed or ingested by him. Blech.

LionHeartSoyDog March 8, 2011 at 1:35 am

To take Chris Christie's temperature, you'd have to roll him in flour and look for the wet spot.

SayItWithWookies March 7, 2011 at 11:04 pm

Feelings thermometer? Really? Are we so emotionally retarded as a society that we're now using babytalk to describe our reactions to things now? Later can we make cupcakes expressing our reaction to the record bonuses of the bailed-out banks while we nurse our rotting behemoths to our jobs where we work twice as hard for the same amount of money we made five years ago? After that I'd like to make a picture using elbow noodles about my feelings about a motherfucker who cavalierly starts two wars without any idea of what the fuck he's doing and then leaves all that shit for his successor to clean up. And the best thing about it is I'd have cupcakes and noodles.
And apparently it's bitch-thirty on my pissed-offedness clock.

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:55 am

You should just be glad that they didn't do a "hot-or-not" type poll on facebook or something, or ask about a figures' fuckability rating.

not that Dewey March 8, 2011 at 7:14 am
Moonbat March 8, 2011 at 10:02 am

I cannot upfist this enough. Well ranted!

KenLayIsAlive March 7, 2011 at 11:06 pm

I'm guessing Chris Chrisite's thighs rubbing against each other as he walks produces quite a bit of heat, but I don't think that's what they meant by "warm".

imissopus March 7, 2011 at 11:36 pm

Chris Christie came in at third, probably because of all his insulation,

Blair, I hope you're not in the NJ Teachers' Union: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/84706/the-...

V572625694 March 8, 2011 at 12:09 am

This "Quinnipiac University" thing: does it do anything but take polls? How's their medical school? Are they NCAA Division I in Field Hockey?

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:44 am

That's right. Us Skinny-Americans will finally rise up and eat our Obese-American oppressors and use their excess mass as biofuel! Two (Angry) Birds/One Stone 2012! Vive le portion control!

Negropolis March 8, 2011 at 12:58 am

As for the imminent take-over by the salad bar, I for one welcome our cold, leafy green overlord.

horsedreamer_1 March 8, 2011 at 8:27 am

Michelle Obama placed first, with former President Bill Clinton close behind…

I bet Bill would love to make a Chocolate-Vanilla Love-Sandwich.

jus_wonderin March 8, 2011 at 9:56 am

TIGER BLOOD.

MinAgain March 8, 2011 at 10:51 am

Is Mercury in retrograde or something?

ttommyunger March 8, 2011 at 11:55 am

Rightard women hate Michelle because they suspect she is getting a huge high-hard one attached to an athletic body whenever she wants it. Rightard men hate Barry because they suspect he has a huge high hard one attached to an athletic body.

KenLayIsAlive March 8, 2011 at 12:41 am

That band "the crash test dummies"?

not that Dewey March 8, 2011 at 7:15 am

Dammit!

andrewdrinker March 8, 2011 at 11:46 am

Oh Lindsey! You have a warm temperature because you're always sizzin'!!!!!

horsedreamer_1 March 8, 2011 at 8:26 am

Hmm…

Moonbat March 8, 2011 at 9:35 am

Hell, his base doesn't know they're the beneficiaries of those programs. They're just hardworkin' Real Americans getting their due, not like those shiftless lazy … well, you know, THEM.

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