Oh Brother… Media Tries to Rescue Michelle O From Spanish Escapade; Insists She Was Mourning With a Friend
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 8:06 AM
Honestly, is there nothing these corrupt cranks in the media will not do to bail out the radical Pelosi-Obama regime from disaster after disaster?
Last week the nation was outraged after it was revealed that Michelle Obama was spending over $300,000 of taxpayer money on her extravagant Spanish vacation.
After a few days of plotting and planning the state-run media finally settled on an excuse. Now the media spin is that Queen Michelle really traveled to Spain to mourn the loss of a parent with a friend.
Really?
Here’s Michelle mourning with the Spanish King Juan Carlos.
(Reuters)
Here’s Michelle mourning while sight seeing in Ronda.
(AP)
Michelle O even mourned during her shopping excursions.
(AP)
Poor Michelle even had to mourn with her friends down at the beach.
(AFP)
It was a very somber trip for the First Lady…
At least that’s what the journolist state-run media wants you to believe.
Unreal.
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Granny commented:
And do not forget, they CLOSED that beach so Michelle could mourn with her friend on the beach in private, so all those folks watching the volleyball game are Michelle’s entourage – and friends!
mcnorman commented:
But of course there was a rational explanation for all of this. I’m confused though, what were all the tagalongs about?
seven commented:
Michelle is ignorant. How would she have mourned with friend if Obama had been defeated?
jainphx commented:
Everyone with any sense at all knows that the only place mourning is allowed is Spain. It is against the law to mourn anywhere else. Everyone mourns with a game of volleyball, there just is no other acceptable way, so Moochelle is off the hook for spending MILLIONS of our dollars on her self.
TXPatriot commented:
But I thought she went to take Sasha because Sasha wanted to go to Spain. That’s what they said two days ago. And who takes 40 close friends to mourn the death of your friend’s parent?
Try again, MSM. Keep grasping for straws, you might get lucky.
Palinfan commented:
This is alarming because now that their backs are against the wall with all their policies having failed, I’m noticing that the Administration, the Media, and even the unions have gone to outright lying. For instance, we all know damned well there was no mourning and even the death is questionable. We all know the Media get updates via email from the White House to tell them what to say while they’re on the air (we’ve caught them several times), and they lie straight to our faces. And then there was that Union thug yesterday in the news, his name escapes me, telling us that hey, there really isn’t a deficit. This is a sign of desperation. And it should be responded to. Kudos to Gateway Pundit.
neomom commented:
Don’t cry for me Amer-ic-a, the truth is I never left you, all through my wild days, my mad existence, I kept my promise, now keep your distance……
Palinfan commented:
What else is rather disturbing is that there are people in the White House who are feeding us absolute bulls**t stories like this ‘Michelle mourning’ thing and really thinking we’re going to fall for it. Even the Left have got to be laughing at this one.
Palinfan commented:
Oh, and in every picture, um, where’s the ‘friend’?
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
Hey, who here hasn’t gone on a multi-thousand dollar vacation after losing a loved one while claiming to be hurting like the rest of the country during a recession.
The recession has probably closed her favorite JCrew store where she used to shop while her hubby was campaigning.
Miss Thang has to fill in the gap somehow.
Granny commented:
Palinfan, you haven’t seen anything yet. Drudge has a headline 4 inches high. That teacher union bailout they passed & signed yesterday? It was paid for by cutting the food stamp program. You already have to be virtually indigent to get food stamps and I don’t know about groceries in your area, but here prices are heading towards the moon at an ever increasing clip. Local corn – $6.50 a dozen (in a pig’s eye – I’ll never eat corn again first), a tiny bottle of almond flavoring – $5, “cheap” hamburg nearly $4 a pound. Teachers already make more than the average salary of the communities they teach in. Let them take pay cuts along with everyone else.
Palinfan commented:
Granny, you mean to tell me you aren’t eating Wagyu beef like Queen ME-Chelle, who as we’re told, isn’t that far removed from the rest of us?
ahem commented:
In terms of hypocrisy, that’s right up there with Clinton’s skylarking at Ron Brown’s funeral (caught on tape).
Palinfan commented:
The BIG question about this trip is:
What exactly is ME-Chelle doing in Spain on our dime? Nothing with the Obamas happens by accident. We’re all getting screwed somewhere down the road as a result of this trip.
Oh, and on another note, where are all the Liberal trolls today to defend their queen?
The Elector of Saxony commented:
Well, now let’s not be too hasty, here. I find it very difficult to mourn outside of a luxury resort setting. If there isn’t a waiter in a tuxedo bathing suit nearby, how will I get the hand-shaken margarita that will sooth my inner hurt? Hello, I can’t play beach volleyball to distract from my suffering unless I’m at the beach!!
Am I supposed to just sit in my house, in my own stupid lousy country while I mourn my parents? That’s like flying commercial, for crying out loud, or eating beef that isn’t Wagyu! Everyone with any sense knows that flying halfway around the world to eat foreign luxury resort arugula is the only proper balm for a grieving soul.
You can quote me on that, Couric!
Palinfan commented:
I remember that convenient ‘accident’ Brown was in, right before he was about to be investigated. Like other Clinton friends who died mysterious deaths.
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
In terms of hypocrisy, that’s right up there with Clinton’s skylarking at Ron Brown’s funeral (caught on tape).
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We were told that the Reagan years were the Decade of Greed; yet, we have the Obamas vacationing every two weeks, the Clintons having a “royal” wedding, and Jengis John avoiding taxes on his yacht. We were told that the Bushes were elitist for having a home in Kennebunkport, and, that W and Laura werer rubes for having a ranch in a one-horse town in Texas.
My, how attitudes change when the greedy have a (D) behind their names!
Palinfan commented:
Am I supposed to just sit in my house, in my own stupid lousy country while I mourn my parents?
Saxony, a country you weren’t even PROUD of until just recently?
Chisum commented:
Now now, the Obama family will be spending one whole day on the Gulf!
So, according to Shep Smith, it’s time to Shut Up about this Spain trip!
Haters!
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Palinfan commented:
Sen Fuller, don’t forget Rangle’s multiple condos and Gore’s mansions, houseboat, and mistresses!
Palinfan commented:
C’mon, Lib trolls! Where are you to defend this trip? You were all over us yesterday at the mere mention of Palin’s name. Maybe if I say ‘Palin’ three times,
Palin!
Palin!
Palin!
Joanne commented:
You mean like she mourned the loss of Barack Obama’s grandmother who raised him…..you mean like that. Didn’t she jump up into Barack’s arms in glee after they dumped Barack’s grandmother’s ashes into the air? I mean, the dead can’t talk – Michelle couldn’t contain herself with all the mourning she was doing.
Darwin Akbar commented:
Fear not, fellow peons. This weekend, Good King Barack the Spender and Her Royal Bitterness will be taking a break from his grueling Official Birthday Week schedule of golf, basketball and fundraising, and her deep sorrow to spend a few days at the Gulf Coast of Florida. We, the humble peasants, should appreciate what they’ve done for us, and understand that this is the first vacation they will have had in over a week.
Joanne commented:
Biden was on The View lately, and when he was asked about all the taxes and how the government was spending the tax dollars collected, he went straight to talking about how when they took over they inherited a 1.3 trillion debt. How about, you have had two years to add a little of the hope and change, and only put another couple more trillion on the debt – how about that! The democrats have nothing – blame Bush and racism.
donh commented:
Michelle Obama’s Gynochologist friend is Anita Blanchard. She works at the University of Chicago Medical Center which performs abortions at its Ryan center… http://www.chicagofamilyplanning.org/theryancenter/index.asp… The fact somebody tied to the abortion business is living it up in luxury on the tax payer dime is an abomination.
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
Sen Fuller, don’t forget Rangle’s multiple condos and Gore’s mansions, houseboat, and mistresses!
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Remember, when Palin was crucified for wearing clothes paid for by the RNC?
Palinfan commented:
Correct, the Liberals went INSANE with fury when it was found out that Palin was in expensive clothes. Nevermind how hot she looked. But dress this miserable snarling Marie-Antoinette wannabe in sneakers that cost several hundred dollars – Sneakers, mind you, and the same Media are falling over themselves with joy and sighs. No wonder they’re losing viewers. They can dress ME-Chelle in all the expensive clothes they want but they can’t seem to get that snarl we see in so may pictures off her face, can they?
jainphx commented:
Mourning is a funny thing, some don’t bother to accompany one’s husband to his grandmothers funeral, and some go to Spain. Oh wait I’m talking about the same person here. We peons have no room to be critical of our anointed leaders, just be quite and eat our daily bread, while our betters dine on the best that the world has to offer. Waygu beef. caviar, and lots of ice cream. Moochelle is just doing what all g-d like people were born to do. PARTY.
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
they can’t seem to get that snarl we see in so may pictures off her face, can they?
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At least she doesn’t roll her eyes!
Kevin P commented:
What ever happened to sending flowers? I can’t even afford to send $25 bouquet to a friend’s father’s funeral.
I guess I’m too stupid – I should have gotten a job with the govt.
mrt commented:
“Here’s Michelle mourning with the Spanish King Juan Carlos.”
Nice pic, but you forgot one.
Here’s Michelle mourning with Spanish
Crown Princess Letizia:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DawJTCHuL3c/TF_9HyDvndI/AAAAAAAAGcY/1icOKH2qKF4/butt%20out_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800
Kevin P commented:
mrt #31
Looks like the backside of a Mrs. Butterworth bottle.
Elly commented:
Mourning – riggghhhhhht. As if she’s capable. Send her back to regular-land and maybe we’ll see a tear.
And I don’t care if the food stamp cut is scheduled for 2 years from now or noon today, it’s low. More and more “middle-class” people are relying on them to make ends meet.
Just more underhanded tricks to reduce us all to Stalin’s “working class” and “peasants”….
Corruptsocialist commented:
The trolls are absent
i cannot wait for them to tell us how opposing obamas government run everything mantra is socialism?
panut commented:
Hey, I thought on TV when news of the trip was breaking, I saw Robert Gibbs give some explanation to the Press Corpse that the trip to Spain was planned a year in advance (unless that was the Maine trip he was referring to). Would be great for someone to dig up and squash the spin of the friends supposed father passing that no one can find. Or did they confirm it already?
TXBitty commented:
donh #25
March 2, 2009
http://www.americanthinker.com/…/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html -
bg commented:
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again..
ht squeaky
English version
[The first lady could also see another American politician, known for Obama, who is staying these days in a private house in Marbella: Jesse Louis Jackson Jr., Democrat member of House of Representatives of the United States, son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson and also the national coordinator of the presidential campaign
of Barack Obama.
Several Arab royal Their Families Also spend summers in Marbella for many years. Thus, there will be a meeting between Michelle Obama and Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, governor of Riyadh and brother of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, while another meeting is shuffled from the first lady with the owner of Málaga CF, billionaire businessman, son of Qatar's Interior Minister and member of the Qatari royal family, Abdullah Al Thani.]
apparently Michelle‘s trip was part of
Baracks “outreach” program as well..
and again, crickets..
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daryl commented:
Kevin P
August 11th, 2010 | 9:40 am | #33
mrt #31
“Looks like the backside of a Mrs. Butterworth bottle.”
Or two twenty pound shoats trying to get out of a toesack (burlap bag to everyone north of the Mason Dixon line).
Alana commented:
mrt #31
“Looks like the backside of a Mrs. Butterworth bottle.”
OK, this is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time!
(Except I don’t think Mrs. Butterworth has the cafeteria worker hairnet hairdo.)
Sojourner commented:
panut
August 11th, 2010 | 10:15 am | #36
re: Would be great for someone to dig up and squash the spin of the friends supposed father passing that no one can find.
..social security death index, panut, shows somebody by that {uncommon} name as having died a short while ago:
BLANCHARD, OVELTON W 20 Nov 1933
24 Jun 2010 (V) 76 (Chicago, Cook, IL)
..she’s still playing us like a fine Spanish violin, though:
“Michelle’s trip was an endorsement of the Cordoba Initiative. And to that audience, her trip was Pitch-Perfect.”
http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/michelle-obamas-trip-to-spain-was-not-%E2%80%9Ctone-deaf%E2%80%9D-it-was-pitch-perfect/
newton commented:
I thought funeral homes and cemeteries were meant for mourning, not Costa del Sol…
wow commented:
SojournerNo Gravatar
August 11th, 2010 | 1:10 pm | #42
That last link was excellent. I was familiar with some of the history (what I remember-need a refresher), but the connection made with the Córdoba Initiative and Islam is very interesting
bg commented:
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Sojourner @ 1:10 pm #42
thank you, visa your link..
We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is
meant to be a deliberate provocation 8/09/10
By Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah
[New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques so it's not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshippers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith and in Islamic parlance, such an act is referred to as "Fitna," meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.
The Koran commands Muslims to, "Be considerate when you debate with the People of the Book" -- i.e., Jews and Christians. Building an exclusive place of worship for Muslims at the place where Muslims killed thousands of New Yorkers is not being considerate or sensitive, it is undoubtedly an act of "fitna"
So what gives Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the "Cordoba Initiative" and his cohorts the misplaced idea that they will increase tolerance for Muslims by brazenly displaying their own intolerance in this case?
Do they not understand that building a mosque at Ground Zero is equivalent to permitting a Serbian Orthodox church near the killing fields of Srebrenica where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered?
There are many questions that we would like to ask. Questions about where the funding is coming from? If this mosque is being funded by Saudi sources, then it is an even bigger slap in the face of Americans, as nine of the jihadis in the Twin Tower calamity were Saudis.
If Rauf is serious about building bridges, then he could have dedicated space in this so-called community centre to a church and synagogue, but he did not. We passed on this message to him through a mutual Saudi friend, but received no answer. He could have proposed a memorial to the 9/11 dead with a denouncement of the doctrine of armed jihad, but he chose not to.
It's a repugnant thought that $100 million would be brought into the United States rather than be directed at dying and needy Muslims in Darfur or Pakistan.
Let's not forget that a mosque is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and not an inviting community centre. Most Americans are wary of mosques due to the hard core rhetoric that is used in pulpits. And rightly so. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain.
The Koran implores Muslims to speak the truth, even if it hurts the one who utters the truth. Today we speak the truth, knowing very well Muslims have forgotten this crucial injunction from Allah.
If this mosque does get built, it will forever be a lightning rod for those who have little room for Muslims or Islam in the U.S. We simply cannot understand why on Earth the traditional leadership of America's Muslims would not realize their folly and back out in an act of goodwill.
As for those teary-eyed, bleeding-heart liberals such as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and much of the media, who are blind to the Islamist agenda in North America, we understand their goodwill.
Unfortunately for us, their stand is based on ignorance and guilt, and they will never in their lives have to face the tyranny of Islamism that targets, kills and maims Muslims worldwide, and is using liberalism itself to destroy liberal secular democratic societies from within.]
again, just a sample of many more Muslims (anti-Islamists) expressing the reasons for their opposition to the Cordoba Mosque (by any other name) you will never hear about via the MSM or talking heads..
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AuntieMadder commented:
From an article in a Spanish newspaper:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/08/06/andalucia_malaga/1281082124.html
“Several Arab royal families also spend their summers in Marbella for many years. Thus, there will be a meeting between Michelle Obama and Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, governor of Riyadh and brother of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, while another meeting is shuffled from the first lady with the owner of Málaga CF, billionaire businessman, son of Qatar’s Interior Minister and member of the Qatari royal family, Abdullah Al Thani”.
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To translate, paste the text of the article into Google Translate. http://translate.google.com/#
TheTaR(and feather)Czar commented:
eh the beard left so Obama could have Larry Sinclair jump out of his birthday cake.
Sojourner commented:
wow
August 11th, 2010 | 2:38 pm | #45
most welcome..as expected, flotus’ getaway was about much more than grief para-sailing with an old friend.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2010/07/qa-with-sharif-el-gamal-about.html
TheScribbler commented:
Dear Michelle,
I would be honored if you would mourn the recent passing of my husband. A hard working family man who provided for his family his whole life. A man that died at the age of 47, in the arms of his son. Please Michelle, mourn with me as I sit at Social Services begging for $200 worth of food stamps, while I try and cope with a mortgage company that will not talk to me about my mortgage because I am not listed as a borrower on the loan. Mourn with me as time ticks away and foreclosure looms closer and closer. Mourn with me Michelle as I lose everything because I don’t qualify to receive my husband’s social security.
Yes Michelle, mourn with me, I don’t need a trip to Spain. I don’t need fancy food and coats made from the finest silk. Mourn with me Michelle and show how much you care…..save my home, give me a job…because I can’t grieve the loss of the love of my life with your help.
TheScribbler
PS….The cost of ‘mourning’ with me Michelle would be substantially less than your trip to Spain or the cost of one of your many other ‘vacations’.
Sojourner commented:
bg
August 11th, 2010 | 5:12 pm | #47
..re: There are many questions that we would like to ask. Questions about where the funding is coming from?
in recent interview with Sharif el-Gamal about Park51, NYC:
Q:Will you pledge make all funding sources fully transparent? What are your criteria for accepting funding from a foreign source, to assuage concerns about extremist influences?
A:We have not yet launched our fundraising campaign. Park51 will incorporate as a non-profit and seek federal tax-exempt status. We are pledging to pursue this fundraising campaign in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. We have hired legal counsel and top-notch auditors to oversee this process from start to finish.
We will hire security consultants to assist us in the process of reviewing potential financiers and philanthropists as we begin to establish our fundraising strategy. We will refuse assistance, financial or otherwise, from any persons or institutions who are flagged by our security consultants or any government agencies.
{Who is doing the vetting of those that will be scrutinizing these financial backers..the same that scrutinized oBama’s donor list?}
http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2010/07/qa-with-sharif-el-gamal-about.html
Sojourner commented:
The Scribbler
August 11th, 2010 | 7:35 pm | #51
Prayers going up..bless.
bg commented:
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Sojourner @ 8:18 pm #52
re: Sharif El-Gamal
Sharif El-Gamal and SOHO Properties Lied They Do Not Own 49-51 Park Place, They Own 45-47 Park Place, Both Are Needed To Build 9/11 Mosque, What Else Are They Hiding.
more here..
[a side note.. one of the links i posted exposing SOHO on August
9, 2010, has already been deleted from the net, go (fitb) figure..]
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bg commented:
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TheScribbler @ 7:35 pm #51
so sorry to hear about your loss..
my deepest sympathies & prayers going out to you & yours..
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