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Wonkette photo operative “Jamie” sends this scan of your friendly neighborhood WaPo. “Spectators at a morning flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing shout slogans in praise of China, whose residents are reveling in national pride,” reads the caption. So what’s up with the gal in the middle there? Was she kidnapped from Ted Stevens’ press conference? [Washington Post]

So apparently clever, funny, sarcastic, straight-talking Michelle Obama is now some sort of America-hater and a public embarrassment to her husband. At a political rally yesterday she said “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” And America wept with chagrin that Mrs. Obama wasn’t proud when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, or when Kerri Strug singlehandedly won the Olympics, or when that one Space Shuttle launched and didn’t even blow up. MORE »