Ya know, if Michelle had suggested telling children “if you eat all your broccoli, you’ll get a handgun” or “make like your favorite video game and run around pretending to shoot people,” the Rethuglicans wouldn’t have a gouty leg to stand on.

Conservatives invariably paint themselves into the corner of having to defend things like the “right to fail,” the “right to be an artificially-sustained cadaver on a feeding tube,” “the right to clean loaded handguns at the Christmas dinner table” and the “right to let my kids swim in a runoff reservoir full of mine tailings”...rather than take orders from Liberals and/or the Black help.

It’s pretty obvious MO practices what she preaches or she wouldn’t look as great as she does.  Actually I have heard that her secret is cilantro shakes every morning.

Uh oh. I went to the link to The Blaze and read the post and then the comments.

Now I’m filled with rage and should probably go run ten miles to burn off the negative energy.

Some of the comments (MOST of the comments) are blatant racism. One commenter actually called Mrs Obama one of “those chocolates”. OMFGWTF?

The piling-on there, if it is an indication of how some “people” in this country really feel, is scary beyond belief. They hate the President and First Lady with an irrational red-hot fury and they make no bones about it.

I half considered posting a snarky comment, but it’s too toxic and they would no doubt fall on me like starving jackals.

Standard contard reasoning - if you act in a way that contradicts our strawman version of your practice, the actual version of your practice is entirely invalidated.

Cf. Algore.

BUt I think Beck, Limbaugh, et al. are the perfect spokesmen for the rightie side of this - they’re championing a (not actually threatened) right to be fat.

The ability of right wingers to spite themselves is just astonishing. Heard an NPR interview yesterday with a (southern accented) woman who was buying flourescent bulbs because they save her money in the long run but is she ever pissed off because (she thinks, erroneously) the government is outlawing the incandescents she doesn’t want to buy—its a limitation on her freedom like everything else government does, you know?  Similarly, every time I make my family a lovely salad dinner that is refreshing, healthy, and seasonally appropriate I curse and spit on my voodoo image of Michelle Obama because damn it just knowing she thinks its a good idea is enough to poison the entire thing for me.

aimai

donnah, I felt the same way after reading the comments at Roy Edroso’s VV article. What a world, what a world…

@ Aimai, I was puzzled by all the light bulb hysteria since I hadn’t read anything in the paper about the feds kicking in doors and rounding up incandescent bulbs. But then I accidentally tuned into “Fox & Friends,” and now I get it. There is apparently no issue these assholes won’t fear-monger at every level.

A question about Lightbulbaggedon for the [ahem] more mature members of our little community:

Was there a similar hysteria when gas became unleaded only? I don’t remember anything except my mom swearing as it became harder and harder to find regular gas for the Ford Behemothmobile.

What about the ban on CFCs?

I’m guessing there were similar outcries, but that’s because I’m a misanthrope and think homo sapiens was released into the market a million years before all the bugs were worked out.

Except for you guys. You’re perfect. Really.

(Snort.)

Marindenver, that was my first thought too when I saw that picture.  MO is almost 50 and she looks wonderful.

All I ask (for now) is that these effusions by Rush, Beck, and the rest of the thought leaders, be so idiotic, so primitive, and so inconsistent, that it increasingly limits their own audience.  Isn’t that plausible?  The more irrational—ie, nutz—they are, the more they whittle their own audience down to the hard-core loons.  And how many of THEM can there be—!  Ha ha ha….

(looks around)

Why is nobody else laughing?

There was some pushback in both cases, although I don’t recall anything near the “Declaration of Incandescence” fervor over a fucking light bulb.

It’s pretty obvious MO practices what she preaches or she wouldn’t look as great as she does.  Actually I have heard that her secret is cilantro shakes every morning.

BETTY?!?!?!?!?!?! Clean up on aisle whateverthefuck!

Marindenver, you have heard only part of the story and even that you have all wrong. She quietly arranged to have the anus of herbs added to shakes at all D.C. area fast food places so she’d never be tempted to set foot in one of those shitholes again. Quit trying to claim that the greatest First Lady ever is a cilantroll.

That they’re reduced to counting her caloric intake is as hilarious as it is infuriating.

Nellcote - Without clicking on any links, I feel safe assuming the calorie count is as accurate as the one they came up with during RibGate.

the anus of herbs

What an offense to anuses everywhere…

Oooh!  Cilantro wars take over the actual posts themselves!  Michelle is way too classy to eat the c-herb.  And, I’m tired of this bullshit so I’m going to pretend it’s not happening.

Was there a similar hysteria when gas became unleaded only? I don’t remember anything except my mom swearing as it became harder and harder to find regular gas for the Ford Behemothmobile.

I was but a wee lad, but I remember how people complained that cars *need* lead and the gubbmint was trying to destroy the car they had worked hard for.

Never mind that the way it was rolled out was requiring new cars to do ok without lead and leaded gasoline was available for a decade afterwards.  And never mind that even those older cars seem to do ok even today with unleaded.

Gasoline originally had no lead in it. Then you had to pay a premium price to get gas with a lead additive. Then you had to pay even more money to get gas that had the added lead removed.

Ah, Capitalism.

and leaded gasoline was available for a decade afterwards.

Yeah well we DID have that car for a long-assed time.

And never mind that even those older cars seem to do ok even today with unleaded.

You gots to purchase an additive. I don’t know how other leaded gas cars deal with it but accidental feedings of unleaded made the Ford backfire like Jonah Goldberg at a refried bean eating contest.

Motorcycles manufactured pre-unleaded required additives also.  I still have some for the heap of nuts and bolts rusting in the side yard since I can no longer ride.

The “illegal incadescents” story is total bullshit in all dimensions; the new law called for them to meet a higher energy use standard, not that they all be lined up against the wall, given a last cigarette, and shot. 

There are incandescents out there now that meet the new standards, but you’d never get that out of Rushbo or Fox and Freaks.  Oh, and the attempt to repeal the law that caused this change failed in the house (I think it was) today, so Rushbo can get a refill on his angershake.