Michelle Obama didn’t read that new book about her and the President, but she does have something to say about the tales therein. In an interview airing on CBS’s “This Morning” Wednesday (here’s a preview), the First Lady says, among other things, that she’s sick of being portrayed as “some kind of angry black woman.” “I guess it’s just more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here,” she adds. EXCUSE ME, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO SELL A BOOK HERE, FLOBAMA.
The book, as our latest FLOTUS column explains, contains a lot of drama about Michelle’s alleged clashings with, in particular, former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and former press secretary and Obama confidant Robert Gibbs. For an indication of what that might entail, BuzzFeed Politics made this cartoon of exasperated White House employees attempting to communicate with each other. Among Gibbs’ most offending comments toward Michelle:
Then fuck her, too!
Fascinating. But there is some kind of appeal to people huffing around the White House swearing at each other, no? Perhaps it is how they show us they care procrastinate.
In her interview, conducted by Gayle King (yes, Oprah’s BFF), Michelle also has this to say:
I love this job. It has been a privilege from day one. Now there are challenges. If there’s any anxiety that I feel, it’s because I want to make sure that my girls (Malia and Sasha) come out of this on the other end whole. … I do care deeply about my husband. I am one of his biggest allies. I am one of his biggest confidants.
But she wanted to dispel “this notion that I sit in meetings.” If she doesn’t actually, then fine. But SO WHAT IF SHE DID! After all, MOBama is pretty much the only person who has held her tenure in this White House as long as the President. She has experience now. She has on-the-job training. She probably doesn’t hate everybody like everybody hates everybody else including her. She’s smarter than her husband, etc.
But seriously, these guys really need Toby from HR. [Washington Times]
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Wow, she sure sounds angry. Liberals are all angry, right?
Especially those who are not members of the "productive class" — for example, former workers at companies bought by Bain Capital.
Unlike those cool, calm conservatives such as Ann Falter, Michelle Malkin, The Silly Savage, Boss BlunderRush, Off-the-Mark Levin, and their ilk.
Well, see, that's just because liberals are so angry.
God it really is easy to just shut your brain down and get into the teatard mindset…it's like a form of meditation…
And racists, too!
Yeah, but especially the blah ones.
Gayle King? Isn't that Oprah's vagatarian best friend?
yes and NOTED. thanks Barb.
Wouldn't it be great if we could get jobs just by mimicking our best friends? "I'm Oprah's bitch and I should get on TV." I'm going to start paying better attention to what my best friends say so that I can determine what they do for a living and just start doing it.
She used to be a much-beloved news anchor in CT, actually. When she left, her cohort anchorman cried. She was pretty good and did some decent reporting.
That's nice.
You're doing my job very well. In fact, you do it better than I do. My job consists of complaining at a fairly good billable hour rate and rounding out the hours reading Wonkette.
That's the best job ever! Thanks!
Also, thanks for getting my JOKE and realizing that it is a JOKE.
You rock!
Why so defensive, hmmmm? Obviously she's an angry, librul woman. (what's the code again for 'uppity'?)
ni**er
Arrogant is the new uppity I think.
The King of the GOP, Limbaugh, is just cold using 'uppity'. Code words no longer required.
But how dare anyone ever call Rush a racist!
Or a junkie. What's the code word for that nowadays?
"Uppity" WAS a code, but the intent is so obvious, it ain't no more.
Urban?
Blah?
Can't we all just get a bong?
Look at the guns on Mich- OMG, she's got guns, run!
She does not let sleeves slow her down.
This is the first time ever that people with high profile jobs in a large organization, people work under pressure for ungodly hours every day, have disagreed with each other.
Shocking, is it not?
BUT SHE IS BLACK.
And uppity. And spent $200M just to vacay in India. Of our dollars!!! Easily the Queen of the Welfare Queens. What next – spinners on the FLOTUS limo?!!!
The Big Lie was that she spent $200M per day. Ludicrous on its face, the claim was sourced to an 'anonymous Indian official' in a Weekly World News level tabloid.
But it made the rounds of every right wing yapper and Fox News, so now it's a Conservative Fact.
I think you meant "Conservatard Fact:.
Maybe it was 200M rupees.
I don't get this. On the FLOTUS Seething Hostility Scale with a Laura 'Xanax Smile' Bush a 1 and Barbara 'Side Eye' Bush a 10, Mrs. Obama is maybe, maybe a 3.
No, she is angry. This is because "angry black woman" is a stereotype, and in the racist wingnut minds Michelle must conform to all their stereotypes about black women; it's how they manage to make jokes about her being fat despite, well, look at her.
Right? And it's always the lardass, fake-titted mob that's the most shrill. (talking about Rush and his anal cyst, obvsly)
So true. She's in great shape, she's beautiful and she's intelligent. And OH NOES she happens to be black. No teatarder in a Jazzy can stand it.
She's black! It's true, unrequited lust can make you color blind.
I read that as "Xanax Senile" at first.
Same thing, I guess.
Callista Gingrich is at 11.
The author also decided to play up the "Michelle hates white people" bullshit meme by implying that she had something against Irish Catholics; she quotes how Michelle was annoyed by how a few families controlled politics in Illinois for multiple generations, and throws in that that those families were Irish Catholics even though it has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Gah.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201100011
Hate Whitey Day is Monday. That meme is part of the traditional celebration.
But Ron Paul is not a racist, because shut up that's why.
And February is Black History Month, which is always accompanied by the resulting cries of "Why is there no White History Month?".
Yeah, we've never had enough White history taught, have we?
And it isn't even true (shock). Yeah, the Daley's are Potato Eater scum, but the Polack scum (which includes all people from East of Prussia), Wop scum, Jew scum and Black scum have all had their beaks wet forever in different wards. Not to mention the WASPS who live in enclaves throughout the city and act like they are above politics.
I heard this writer on NPR – the impression I got was of the classic "Oh, I don't know what the controversy is about" insincere bullshit that tells me she knows full well she was making crap up.
HAHAHA I heard her too–with her annoying rich white girl whine she totally sounded like a fucking lying sack of crap trying really really hard to sell it.
She sounded like some asshat from TMZ.
I heard her, too, and she sounded like a 16-year-old, bubble-headed prom queen (with apologies to all the prom queens who frequent Wonkette).
Apology accepted. Okay, I was only prom queen in my own mind, but still…
To be fair, Rahm Emanuel pisses everybody off. I bet he even pisses himself off.
He even pissed his finger off.
He must have one hell of a stream!
His brothers Ari (Hollywood super-agent) and Zeke (high-falutin' medical ethicist) are pissed off because he's the most useless of the three of them. Any moron can raise taxes in Chicago, look at Richie Daley!
A friend who's known him a long, long time and worked with him says the following. "He's actually a pretty funny guy but when he gets mad, be somewhere else".
She's angry because she's blah.
I have a good relationship with the blahs.
Some of my best friends are blahs.
"Blah people do it like this, and why people do it like that.
Once you go blah you never go bah.
Remember that book that came out right before Dubya's re-election detailing all the juicy gossip of expensive parties, choking and demanding hit 'n run wives? Me neither.
That's because Dubya produced so much fodder for the gossip grist mill that potential book writers didn't have to resort to smearing his wife.
She has every right to be angry. Go Michelle!
I consider Michelle to be the sassy neighbor who always, quote, "told me so."
I really wouldn't blame Michelle for being angry that Obama has failed to bring about hope and change. If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention. It is a little awkward when you are married to the guy.
Obama didn't fail to bring hope. Actually, he brought hope, then the obstructionist Republicans kicked that hope right in the nuts, and gave it a Columbian Necktie.
There's a hallelujah chorus singing right behind you, Baldar.
Right on. This needs to be out there in the "narrative". The fucking "narrative".
The hope would have survived a little longer if Prez O had not *chosen* shits like Larry Summers and Tim Geithner for his money guys. I mean, honestly.
And reappointed fail-meister Bernanke at the Fed.
Can we all please agree that we want Obama reelected without having to polish his halo and fluff his wingfeathers?
What is that thing you are holding in your avatar picture!?!?!
Oh that. It's an invasive species of didemnum or "sea snot," representing the current politco-cultural scene.
I love this job. It has been a privilege from day one.
Oh my goodness — that just seethes with anger, doesn't it?
Sounds pretty lavish and extravagant to me.
Day one, you say? We're paying for that, you know! Shouldn't have become a privilege until at least day 90.
BFD. I say that to my boss every day. And I still have my job!
But it's not so much the words, SIWW, it was her body language when she said it. You know. She looked relaxed. Comfortable. Confident. So the only logical conclusion is that SHE IS REALLY FREAKIN GOOD AT MASKING HER ANGER! The woman is ready to do a Cheney and take her banker friends hunting, no doubt about it.
The I-hate-whitey tape is going to surface any day now!
"Michelle Obama Loves Privilege"
If someone wrote a book about everyone that was the subject of PsycWench's profanity, it would have to be printed in two volumes.
Mine's in its 6th edition.
PsycWench Profanita Britannica
Mine's like a Who's Who, gets updated on an annual basis.
I'm starting a small library, myself…
My standard line at work when a female co-worker (and we're talking graduate-level folks here) lets rip with a line like, "Can you fucking believe this bullshit?" is:
"You know, I pay good money to have women talk to me like that."
Is a whip involved too? Oh please.
And you haven't had a talking-to by HR? What's it like, working in 1979?
The trick is to know your audience. In my experience, the majority of women that I've worked with is as fed up with P.C. HR bullshit as the rest of us.
OT, but it's amusing that I can't tell if your avatar is Jed Clampett or Fred Sanford until I roll over and magnify it.
This is true. Besides, after letting rip with that kind of language, it would be hard to complain about anything I said. And these are women I've worked with for years, so if I was going to misbehave I would have done so a very long time ago.
I wouldn't mess with Michelle. I'm thinking if anyone ever wags a finger in her face, it's going to get snapped right off.
So, that's how Rahm lost his finger!
Ugh…the only thing worse than the Washington Post is the Washington Times.
There is a bottom. Let's not forget The Washington Examiner.
Sitting in meetings? No, but I'd wager the book has several descriptions of her slowly walking around the table during meetings, smoking a cigarillo and running her straight razor gently across the back of everyone's neck. I'm told that is how all blah gangster molls conduct their affairs.
That's what I do in all of my classes right before evaluation forms are distributed. Then I drink a mug of Red Zinger tea and tell them it's made from the blood of students who gave me bad evaluations last semester.
I think I had you as teacher once. I still wake up with the sweats now and then.
My work was not in vain, then.
Me too, but for different reasons, I think.
She wouldn't fit in at those meetings, right? It's not like she has a degree from Princeton or a law degree from Harvard or anything.
You mean it's not like she has a real degree. To the Limbaugh crowd, they just give those away to people with dark skin.
Then there's Obama who became President of the United States. They think he isn't smart enough for Harvard either. Of course, Newt Gingrich — who probably got "an 'A' for a lay" while his future ex-wife was still his high school geometry teacher — is considered the smart one among Go-Pee'ers.
Any black or brown person, along with all women, with a great education obviously only got it because of affirmative action and wasn't really qualified in wingnut land. Just ignore the whole editor-of-the-law-revue thing.
There is a type of affirmative action at schools like that, but it's affirmative action for rich, connected people (you know, the ones who need it most). How else would George W. Bush get a Bachelor's from Yale and an MBA from Harvard?
From the first sentence, I thought you were making some kind of fat joke. "Not enough room for her at the table", if ya know what I mean…
Never in a million years would I confuse our FLOTUS with Chris Christie.
That's the problem. You shouldn't rely on fancy stuff like education. You need to go with your gut feeling…and the preferences of your corporate donors.
I heard that this interview cost taxpayers $6 billion and tied up the entire 6th Fleet and half the Air Force.
…per day.
Oh that is such a WIN to me!!
Well I want to know is what happened to Angryblackman?
He went off for over 40 on the Phoenix Suns last night.
*Looks around, makes sure, reads all the posts*
She is History's Greatest Monster.
I'd hit that.
Toby's moved to Costa Rica, so the White House will have to see if the new chief of staff solves all their problems.
I'd still on hit that gorgeous woman. I mean, wouldn't you?
(Been a long time!)
Ya know, I would be happy with a hug and a kind word from her. After all I couldn't compete with the President, he has armed drones.
Angry is not a word that comes to mind when I think about Michelle Obama.
Here are some of the words that do come to mind: gorgeous, intelligent, killer body.
She bet not be SITTING in on meetings, since those coffees the important men ordered ain't gonna bring themselves. Sheesh.
Michelle was a good part of why I voted for O in the first place. I get the impression she keeps O real (even as I wish she would keep him realer sometimes).
there is some kind of appeal to people huffing around the White House swearing at each other, no?
Well, it's a start. Now, if we can get them to swear at Boneheader and Co., that would be a big fucking deal…
Even with Wonkette's top-shelf snark, this story is boring.
It's not my thing either…being kicked around a little is part of the job…that's why she gets paid the big bucks.
Well, actually, no. Per Wikipedia: "The position of the first lady is not an elected one, carries no official duties, and receives no salary."
Maybe THAT's why she seems so pissed off.
I know, I thought that's why we called is snark…but I could be wrong…I didn't look "snark" up in Wikipedia.
Hey, my friend. No offense intended.
I was kind of thinking along a similar line: this one one boring story. But adding: the only thing more boring would be a story about an attractive girl raised by two loving hard working middle class parents, who makes it to Princeton and Harvard, gets great job, meets Mr Right and lives happily ever after. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Someone once allegedly saying "fuck her, too" really doesn't add much zing to any version of her life.
This story needs Sarah Palin's lipstick.
Ya know, I think I'll write a book about people, but without actually talking and/or spending any time with those people whatsoever.
Take some publicly available info, talk with a few folks with questionable motives and low levels of trustworthiness, throw in some dog whistles to rile up the people who are supposed to hate the subjects of said book, leak a few passages to the media right before release, and **BLAMMO** I got me an NYT bestseller, bitches!
All I need now is to lack a soul and not possess even a shred of ethics …
Or, you could take this as an object lesson in the pluck and determination it takes to make lemonade out of lemons! Why are you trying to destroy a struggling young journalist's spirit?!
Soon to be a major motion picture, "Michelle and Me," starring Sarah Silverman as Jodi Kantor and Meryl Streep as Michelle Obama.
Yeah, that Nancy Reagan was a sweet, kind, lovable first lady.
She said, “I'm not some kind of angry black woman.”
Then she hit Fred Sanford with her purse.
Watch it, sucka…
I'd rather she hit John Boener, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell…wait I'm going to run out of space.
Let's see . . . Birthers still contending Obama was born in Kenya. Teatards waiving Obama as Hitler signs. Republitards routinely depicting you and your husband as monkeys. The New Yorker featuring your husband on their cover as a Bin Ladin sympathizer. Sure, Michelle. Of course you are not angry. Because what could you possibly be angry about?
The stifling of FLOBAMA really bothers me. If she indicates displeasure with anything or offers helpful suggestions, she is accused of being snooty and being a Snack Nazi. I know I wouldn't have the patience to rise above this shit.
Jarrett: And then Gibbs said "fuck her too!"
Michelle: OH NO HE DI-IN'T!!!
**takes off earrings**
After watching In the Loop and The Thick of It, I think America needs more angry, sweary people in politics, not less.
More Malcolm Tucker!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjAyazqtQj8
More Scots !
Needs moar "geez a gobble and get tae fuck, ya bampots! "
Michelle is so gorgeous when she's angry.
Meh. Needs moar weave ripping, pump flinging, and nail removing. Also much, much more "Oh bitch, please."
Who cares about all of this?!
I'm just waiting for the new book set to be released next week, "The Bidens," by Bob Bernstein.
Here's a passage from "The Bidens," from Political Press, D.C., set to be released on Tuesday, Jan. 17:
"Honey, where's the mustard? I'm making you a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch, today!" said Jill, as she merrily made Joe's lunch in the kitchen of the Vice President's House in Northwest D.C. "Also, did you want a pear or an apple with the sandwich, dear?"
"Thanks, Jill! I love you!" Joe called back from the downstairs den, where he was watching the early news on CNN before he headed off to his office at the Old Executive Office Building, which he still liked to call it, next to the White House. He loved to tell Jill how he could look out of his office with binoculars and spy on Obama in the Oval Office–but Obama knew this, of course. "The mustand's in the jar!!"
But in the Obama's case it's Dijon. Hence; uppity.
You know, that dialogue makes me wonder if June Cleaver swallowed or not.
Only when Ward was rough on the beaver.
And Joe laughed heartily at his polite domestic joke. Jill just smiled and shrugged.
It turned out that the mustard was in the refrigerator, on the second shelf, instead of its usual home on the first shelf.
I saw her on Hardecore Pawn the other night,and lets just say,"Mama wasn't happy".
More exciting exerpts from "The Bidens" tomorrow and on Friday!
"The Bidens," by Bob Bernstein, tells the dramatic political story on Joe and Jill Biden, from their early careers operating beach umbrella stands in Rehoboth Beach, Del., to Joe's brief career as a stand-up comedian and Jill's brief career as a model for J.C. Penney's, Montgomery Ward and Sear's catalogues, to their eventual career switch to politics. "The Bidens" is published by Political Press, Washington, D.C. Foreward by Rahm Emanuel. 496 pages. $29.95, hardcover.
I really don't like that hairstyle. Let your freak flag fly, first lady!!
"Uppity" is the word you're looking for, not "angry".
She's not angry, she just has the blahs.
There go the Camelot myths.
She's the Johnny Rotten of the West Wing.
Paging Angryblakguy!
Where in the hay-yull have YOU been?! Speaking of *paging* our missing partners-in-snark..
Up a pig's ass looking for a ham sandwich?
Speaking of Rahm and the understandable hatred of him… I found a twitter account today called @RepublicanDalek who says stuff like "EXTERMINATING WITH THE POWER OF THE FREE MARKET!!" and twitter said that Rahm's twitter account was similar to the Dalek's :)
I won't know what to think until jfruh has analyzed the comic.
I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you! The First Lady feuding with the President's staff? Does she think she's Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Edith Wilson, or Mary Lincoln? Unheard of!
What? No Betty Ford? Or was she unable to argue with the staff, passed out on the couch like that?
She was a damn good First Lady, drugged and liquored up or no.
Supported the ERA and reproductive rights, revolutionized the way people deal with breast cancer, and, yes, substance abuse.
I'll bet her husband's staffers just loved her outspokenness.
Our forefathers fought tirelessly to bring her people out of deepest darkest savagery and this ungrateful woman acts like she's all five fifths of human in America's face. That's an angry black woman for you.
OMG, adults said "fuck you" to and about each other in the workplace!! You're giving my cartoon bluebirds a sadz!!
I'm enjoying the image of you surrounded by cartoon bluebirds. I hope they cheer up soon.
You never know, that image may just be the repressed memory of an ill-conceived Cosby cartoon project from the '70s!
True story:
In response to an IT system crisis I was responsible for, I said: "What the fuck is going on, here?" Note that the comment was not even directed at a person.
A day later, I was called into the CIO's office and told that I needed to "be more sensitive to others."
Sometimes adults can be pretty fucking childish.
Guess that's why I am no longer working there, eh?
What kind of office is filled with Victorian prudes like that? Fuck I'm pretty sure I've heard every single one of my co-workers say fuck on multiple occasions.
Jiminy Crickets!
Obviously this wasn't Apple HQ, where you were working.
Fersure!
Man, if I got called in every time I cussed
A. I would get nothing done.
2. I wouldn't be here for more than 12 minutes a day.
and C. I wouldn't be here.
Fuck!
Yeah. I had a customer service rep sitting in my office one day when I was talking to a customer on the phone about an IT related issue. When I got off the phone, I exclaimed "What an asshole!" right about the time the customer service manager walked by outside my door. Within a few minutes, I was called to the bosses office to explain why I called a customer an asshole on the phone. Fortunately, the customer service rep that was in my office confirmed that I had not called the customer an asshole, but he was indeed, an asshole.
I hate office assholes.
And HatRabbit. And badonkadonkette (I think I spelled that right)?
To Wingtard Amurkians, all negros are angry, all chinee are bad drivers and all Mehicans are lazy.
Is everyone else hung over from New Hampshire last night? Not only have there been few posts from the editors, the comments are a lot lighter than usual.
…the comments are a lot lighter than usual.
Nah, nevermind……….
Michelle Obama : Ready on day one!
Honestly, how else can a blah person be portrayed? As successful? As articulate? As a loving wife and mother? As intelligent? There IS only one honest portrayal of all blah people: ANGRY!
"she’s sick of being portrayed as “some kind of angry black woman."
A quick search for "condi rice angry" reveals dozens of videos of Rice ACTUALLY being angry!!!
Yet, a similar search for "michelle obama angry" only produces videos of FOX NEWS claiming she was "angry".
FUCKING GOP PROPAGANDA–IT'S OK IF YOU ARE AN ANGRY BLACK REPUBLICAN WOMAN…
When she said, after her husband's election, "For the FIRST time, I'm proud of my country," well, that was almost as bad as when Romney said, "I like being able to fire people."
And McCain's top campaign advisor calling America "a nation of whiners" garnered zero outrage.
IOKIYAR. It never fails.
I wonder if the FLOTUS was close enough to Gayle to smell Oprah's pussy on her breath?
I'm so glad Michelle Robinson is in the White House. In 2013, we're getting our public option.
maybe about time there's some kind of angry black in the White House …
Casting Pam Grier as Michelle in the movie adaptation is not helping.
And none taken, I just wanted you to know it was meant as snark.
I mean, there she is raising a family in the goldfish bowl that is the whitehouse…hell people making note of what she eats for shits sake and she married to a guy that's probably busy and distracted sometimes. Maybe she should be paid, but it won't happen.
But still not the most interesting thing I've read lately….best to you, my friend.
Even that is giving it too much credence. Why would some nameless, random bureaucrat in India have any knowledge of the US budget for the trip. And, of course, it wasn't a vacation, it was a state visit.
It's just one of hundreds of fabricated outrages the right wing lie machine has ginned up since January, 2009.
Rats – another failed attempt at humor!
And used to administer a world-class ass whoopin.
No, AP, the failure was mine. Sorry!
Too serious this morning. I'll try to get over it.
Blah don't crah.
Ain't no thang, RR!
I love the things I learn on Wonkette, and your visual metaphor is well chosen.
Say it now, I'm blah and I'm proud!
You all are killin' it!
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