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posted at 10:30 pm on May 6, 2009 by Allahpundit

“Seeing as how Michelle is the greatest First Lady we’ve ever known, not to take anything away from the other First Ladies, but I think its so fantastic that she’s tonight’s guest and leads the pack of influentials,” Winfrey told the Daily News.

“I think that we see that Michelle is someone of multi-dimensions, and that you don’t have to be just one thing, you can be many things,” said Diane Sawyer. “In many ways were just getting to know all that she can and will do.”

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After three months, of all the First Ladies in US history, Oprah just happens to think that the first black First Lady is the best of them all!

Sarcasm aside, read here about our classy First Lady’s push to keep partial birth abortion legal.

Crusty on May 7, 2009 at 12:06 AM

It was an affirmative action campaign. It is an affirmative action presidency. Might as well extend the same standards to the first lady.

Worf hasn’t done anything a first lady before her hasn’t done. She’s black, hence she’s special.

Liberals are the racists. They can’t judge people of color in an objective manner.

Vast-Right Wing Conspirator on May 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM

The time difference makes it unlikely that I will ever get to post directly to him.

Cindy Munford on May 6, 2009 at 11:52 PM

If I’ve worked out the time zones correctly, he’s 8.5 hours ahead of Eastern Time. I just hope he stays safe, and doesn’t post if that would not be safe.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM

Canopfor,for your sake….

MB4 on May 6,2009 at 11:59PM.

MB4: Up close and personal,gack and hurl!Hehe:)

canopfor on May 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM

Good night everybody,

and HawkDriver,stay safe,and happy Rotoring!:):):):):

canopfor on May 7, 2009 at 12:10 AM

Oh, poor Elmo. I can’t tell which one is furrier. But I do know which one is the monster.

tcn on May 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Upstater85: That was a good one,but the gusher thingy,
for some reason Texas oil fields come to mind!!
Hehe:)

canopfor on May 7, 2009 at 12:04 AM

Ah… yeah…

So, you could call Obama a Big Oil man?

Vince the ShamWow guy will be all over this infomercial.

MarkABinVA on May 7, 2009 at 12:06 AM

Vince all of that leaves a horrible image in the head.

Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Good night everybody,

and HawkDriver,stay safe,and happy Rotoring!:):):):):

canopfor on May 7, 2009 at 12:10 AM

‘night

Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:12 AM

Dam, is that what Sham Wow is made from…

Who’d thunk it…

Romeo13 on May 7, 2009 at 12:10 AM

Where do you think they got the name Sham from?

The Obamas themselves.

Upstater85 on May 7, 2009 at 12:14 AM

MO is a despicable militant whitey hating racist. But that’s OK because her husband is too black to fail.

csdeven on May 7, 2009 at 12:15 AM

Winfrey is a racist.

echosyst on May 7, 2009 at 12:15 AM

This is year zero!

Uh Oh! Does this mean we have to do the whole “brother number one” rigmarole and wear red scarves? Because I have absolutely no interest in leaving the city to plant rice and subject myself to the vagaries of some prepubescent with a plastic bag and truncheon

moxie_neanderthal on May 7, 2009 at 12:17 AM

You know the way the liberal media is going out of their way to portray Michelle Obama as some sort of Style icon in the mould of Jackie Kennedy only better, makes me think that perhaps they see her as a bit of a week link in the administration. Someone that they believe needs to be constantly aggrandized and hyped in order to gloss over the rather negative aspects of her personality that were on full display during the campaign, quite often to the detriment of her husband regardless of the positive spin put on it by an adoring media.

Dreadnought223 on May 7, 2009 at 12:20 AM

Winfrey is a racist.

echosyst on May 7, 2009 at 12:15 AM

Naw!

She’s just afraid of white people.

Shy Guy on May 7, 2009 at 12:23 AM

Wow the only people up and a surly group you are tonight!

Hi Hawkdriver if you check in. You have supporters here in AZ.

petunia on May 7, 2009 at 12:23 AM

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM

I can’t imagine they would have the option of going on line if it were dangerous but I am not up on all of those things. I think it has helped deployed people keep in touch with their families a lot easier then in the past. A lot of people really seemed to appreciate you bookmarking the post. Very quick thinking. I have been thinking lately that I would like to start of file of stuff people say here. The site is such a wealth of information and comedy that it’s a shame for it to get lost in the sheer volume.

I really am going to sign off now. See ya, later.

Cindy Munford on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM

Cindy Munford on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM

Take good care of yourself and those whom you love.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Lt. Worf is a wonderful example of the fine and noble citizens of Kashykk a very strong and hardy people who have a lot of body hair and are prone to great feats of endurance and very overt displays of rage and affection….

*this post has been modified to meet AP approval.

sven10077 on May 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM

While I can’t stand either one of them, I don’t like the vicious name calling of Michelle. That said however, that was damn funny sven.

macblanegirl on May 7, 2009 at 12:59 AM

Can’t wait to see how she decorates the White House for Christmas! Remember the stories we heard about the Clintons! 10-1 Meechelle tops Hillary’s decor! Maybe there will be a Star Wars theme tree, or at the very least a Star Trek tree!

Who on this planet believes the woman actually created and planted that garden? I have my own tiller thank you, and I somehow do not see the woman having a clue as to how to start a garden! Now if I saw her behind a tiller and mixing in things like pooh into the dirt, that MIGHT qualify her to be “multi-dimensional”.

For those of us who are real women, we are beyond fed up with Oprah and the likes of the nonsense coming from the media as to what makes a truly great woman. The first component to a great woman is not wearing the cotton in the family. Ie. have some respect for the man of the house. Somehow I do not think Mr. Floofy Pants wears the cotton in this family! He cannot communicate without a teleprompter! Does he have an original thought ever? At least she speaks without a teleprompter present 24/7!

To all those in the military passing by HotAir, LOVE TO YAL!!!!!! Glad to see hawkdriver is well and unmolested! That was an ugly vision passing through my mind with that post of his. EW! Talk about vomit!

freeus on May 7, 2009 at 1:28 AM

but I think its so fantastic that she’s tonight’s guest

“In many ways were just getting to know all that she can and will do.”

Is our children learning?

Schadenfreude on May 7, 2009 at 1:33 AM

Michelle Obama is a fantasy construct~ like Barry the Childish~ for self-deluded suckers who need such tin idols… whom they can get down on their kneepads for, and to ladle their hysterical paens of fatuousity upon.

The woman has done nothing but marry a guy …who played on white guilt and black racism (and Bush’s calamitous failure to defend his sound policies with even a modicum of a spine) to win office… and honed her own shallow gripe-ology in tandem with his cunning egomania.

They are a perfect empty duo, and a magic lantern screen for the projections of gullible (or calculating) myth-makers.

I’m sure ten thousand poems of purulent pap were written by naive Chinese in honor of Madame Mao… before she and her Gang of Four ended up disgraced and in the dock.

Mrs. Obama is of that same leathery line.

Power is her driving opiate.

The masses, a means.

Oprah, a sap.

profitsbeard on May 7, 2009 at 1:38 AM

Hawkdriver! Take good care of yourself. Be safe.

And that goes for every person in your company and all members of the armed forces and intelligence services devoting themselves to our country’s defense. None of you are forgotten, and all of you are honored.

I am happy to inform you that we at Hot Air have resolved a major conflict between conservative atheists and theists, thanks to Carrie Prejean.

Through close and frequent examination of her photos, atheists have suddenly become believers. Yes, I’ve read many a comment along the lines of, “Oh, God!” And fundamentalists have finally accepted scientific proof of the Big Bang.

So, be safe, be smart, be effective, and return with your heads high. Best wishes.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 1:39 AM

Don’t gotta be smart or caring.

dcwvu on May 6, 2009 at 10:57 PM

Which school did you attend, if any?

Schadenfreude on May 7, 2009 at 1:43 AM

So I was watching the Jeopardy College Tourney today, and a clue comes up that says:

“In April 2009 this 82-year-old strayed from protocol when she briefly put her arm around Michelle Obama”

I could hear the cognitive dissonance in her voice as the contestant answered “Queen Elizabeth II,” knowing full well that it was Mr. T who broke protocol, not the Queen.

Brace yourself for a constant stream of propOganda to ooze from every media orifice.

TMK on May 7, 2009 at 1:45 AM

Oprah hates white people.

/Kanye West

omnipotent on May 7, 2009 at 2:14 AM

Maybe instead of planting token vegatable gardens (arugula and dijon mustard seed plants anyone?) Mrs. Obama should do something worthwhile like:

Become spokeswoman for a worth charity or cause (illiteracy, adoption, Meals on Wheels, etc.)

Help her feckless husband find a church in DC

Fix the hyperdrive

omnipotent on May 7, 2009 at 2:22 AM

Other than being black, what exactly has the Bitter Lady done? Then again, she didn’t even choose her race, so she can’t really take credit for that.

What has she done? Worn $500 seriously ugly-azz sneakers to a food bank perhaps?

First ladies don’t do much at all, yet in three months she is at the top of the list? Oh, that’s right. Her husband never did anything either.

cannonball on May 7, 2009 at 2:34 AM

I am left to assume that Oprah has only very recently discovered that she doesn’t hate this country after all?

Spiritk9 on May 7, 2009 at 3:06 AM

Oprah is about Oprah Inc. and no white person is gonna get in the way of that.

I know one thing. I don’t need one black person to tell me anything about racism. This last election showed me its alive and well from THEM. And diversity? ha! Show me one diversity film with a white guy in it.

johnnyU on May 7, 2009 at 4:50 AM

Was Oprah drunk or something when she said that?

Unbelievable! An anti-American the “greatest First Lady”?

Sickening, sickening, sickening!

mz.josephine on May 7, 2009 at 5:37 AM

Michelle Obama invited, Sarah Palin NOT INVITED…… Oprah is not a racist…is she?

afotia on May 7, 2009 at 5:38 AM

I think I threw up a little in my mouth.

5u93rm4n on May 7, 2009 at 6:05 AM

Speaking of Oprah, I saw this headline on Foxnews.com to the effect that there was rioting in NY after coupons on her website did not get people the free KFC meals they promised. No kidding.

Oprah offered them a free lunch and it did not materialize…is there something prescient in this?

Terrye on May 7, 2009 at 6:44 AM

Well you have to give Oprah credit – she makes money off of this herbal crap that helped her lose weight and SHE’S OBESE. So it just goes to show – some people believe anything she SAYS not what she DOES.

As for Michelle – well if she really wants to do something constructive why doesn’t she address the close to 50% drop out rate of most black high school students in our cities, the black gangs killing each other, the highest child birth out of wedlock rates and the “hoochy-Momma” culture that hip-hop and rap have produced??? Would I want a doctor dressed like a rap artists treating me??NO Would I want a pilot dressed that way flying te next plane I get on??? NO

She’s too busy growing an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn than explaining why urban students think the word “ASK” is pronounced “AX”. Really after 12 years of schooling (which costs more than private schools per student) – why can’t they speak ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE?

This woman is a farce. And Oprah will continue her “go girl” marketing campaign until we all throw up.

IlonaE on May 7, 2009 at 6:47 AM

Michelle Obama invited, Sarah Palin NOT INVITED…… Oprah is not a racist…is she?

afotia on May 7, 2009 at 5:38 AM

No, she’s sexist.

loudmouth883 on May 7, 2009 at 6:49 AM

Could they at least wait until she does SOMETHING!

faol on May 6, 2009 at 10:33 PM

They haven’t waited for Obama to do something

NoFanofLibs on May 7, 2009 at 7:04 AM

Can’t we mix, time bleach, president bleach and history bleach and just fix this all?

Alden Pyle on May 7, 2009 at 7:24 AM

“I think that we see that Michelle is someone of multi-dimensions, and that you don’t have to be just one thing, you can be many things,” said Diane Sawyer. “In many ways were just getting to know all that she can and will do.”

Dear goodness…wow…cause

Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Rachel Jackson, Hannah Van Buren, Anna Harrison, Letitia Tyler, Julia Tyler, Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, Harriet Lane , Mary Lincoln, Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes, Lucretia Garfield, Ellen Arthur, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Frances Cleveland, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Ellen Wilson, Edith Wilson, Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, Lou Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Claudia Johnson, Patricia Nixon, Elizabeth Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush

didn’t amount to much.

These people need to be put in padded cages.

Mommypundit on May 7, 2009 at 7:28 AM

(I didn’t read the comments so sorry if I am being redundant.)

Mommypundit on May 7, 2009 at 7:28 AM

I’ll be glad to give kudos to M.O. when and if she ever actually accomplishes anything as First Lady.

In other super-important news, what ever happened to the First Dog, Bo? It’s kind of creepy that he’s not been seen or heard from since his debut. Doesn’t anyone walk him? Are they keeping him locked in a crate in the basement? [Inquiring minds want to know...]

Logic on May 7, 2009 at 7:30 AM

I have been thinking lately that I would like to start of file of stuff people say here. The site is such a wealth of information and comedy that it’s a shame for it to get lost in the sheer volume.

I really am going to sign off now. See ya, later.

Cindy Munford on May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM

That’d be a good idea.

We can call it

Lorien and Bishop: A Symposia

blatantblue on May 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM

Peace, ya foolish suckaz!

I’m off to grovel at the feet of the First Lady!

blatantblue on May 7, 2009 at 7:36 AM

blatantblue on May 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM

Good morning. No updates about Carrie Prejean, yet. Sorry.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 7:38 AM

Specter finds the joke’s on him if Ridge runs

Rather than getting the last laugh, Sen. Arlen Specter has become the butt of Washington’s biggest joke.

…

First, he will lose out on millions — maybe billions — of appropriation dollars that he would otherwise have been sprinkling around the Keystone State like electoral pixie dust over the next 18 months.

Second, when the high-profile Supreme Court confirmation hearings are televised this summer, Specter will be craning his neck to get into the frame, not leading the interrogations for Republicans.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 7:42 AM

Some people like Michelle Obama, some people like other presidents’ wives.
Every time there’s a new president the media has a little love affair with the president’s wife. Whooooooooooooo gives a sh1t. But Hotair needs to have its daily crybaby parade.

Dave Rywall on May 7, 2009 at 7:43 AM

Feds to use land condemnation for 9/11 memorial

The National Park Service says it will begin taking land for the Flight 93 memorial in western Pennsylvania from property owners because negotiations have proven unsuccessful.

The service says it will condemn about 500 acres still needed for the memorial to be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 7:44 AM

If the ass smooching goes much further, Oprah and Diane will end up with brown lips.

RWLA on May 7, 2009 at 7:46 AM

She planted a garden, she did arm exercises, she wore false eyelashes and she mis-buttoned her cardigan in public. What am I missing?

Its a shame the media is building these two up so much, because when they fall they will fall very hard.

ctmom on May 7, 2009 at 7:46 AM

Some people like Michelle Obama, some people like other presidents’ wives.
Every time there’s a new president the media has a little love affair with the president’s wife. Whooooooooooooo gives a sh1t. But Hotair needs to have its daily crybaby parade.

Dave Rywall on May 7, 2009 at 7:43 AM

Drywall, I must have missed out on Ms. Sawyer orgasming over the Bush women or even her Majesty the Queen of Nueva Yiorqa….

go eat some backbacon eh….

sven10077 on May 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM

Michelle Malkin: Hawaii passes “Islam Day” law

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 7:50 AM

Drywall, I must have missed out on Ms. Sawyer orgasming over the Bush women or even her Majesty the Queen of Nueva Yiorqa….

go eat some backbacon eh….

sven10077 on May 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM
——
That you haven’t seen the predictable media gushing over each new first lady after each new president is elected isn’t my problem. That anybody cares about the president’s wife is beyond me.

Dave Rywall on May 7, 2009 at 7:53 AM

Report: Brisk activity at NKorea nuclear test site

South Korean officials have detected “brisk” activity at a North Korean nuclear test site, a news report said Thursday, days after the communist country threatened to conduct nuclear and missile tests.

Last week, the North said it would carry out a second nuclear test and test-launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, unless the U.N. Security Council apologizes for criticizing the country’s April 5 rocket launch.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM

Michelle Malkin: Hawaii passes “Islam Day” law

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 7:50 AM

Allahloha!

Shy Guy on May 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM

Allahloha!

Shy Guy on May 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM

Muumuuburkhas.

Loxodonta on May 7, 2009 at 8:02 AM

Sesame street = White House

So she didn’t travel to far. Elmo = BO, Big Bird = Robert Gibbs, Oscar = Rham, Cookie Monster = Axlerod

will sass u on May 7, 2009 at 8:35 AM

Lt. Warf hasnt done anything yet to even be considered as the “gggggrreatest First lady Evah”. It is amazing how the left try to shove her down the throats of the public and plaster her extremely ugly face on every magazine cover.
I partially blame Oprah for getting Odumbo elected too.

ObamatheMessiah on May 7, 2009 at 8:58 AM

This QOTD can only be attributed to breathtaking ignorance and a creepy personality cult.

Ted Torgerson on May 7, 2009 at 9:03 AM

blatantblue on May 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM

They would certainly be a large part, maybe their own “wing”. Put there are many worthy posters.

Cindy Munford on May 7, 2009 at 9:23 AM

Must these fools makes such public spectacle of their Obamagasms? All this progressive masturbatory excess is a sure sign of sickness.

RandyChandler on May 7, 2009 at 9:30 AM

Wait until Mother’s Day – none of us “common peasant moms” will even be in the same league as this dumb biatch. I wonder if she’s ever had an abortion, or two or three? That would explain why the first couple are so pro-murder?

Ris4victory on May 7, 2009 at 9:35 AM

Man, how soon they forget the smartest woman in the world…Hillary…

right2bright on May 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM

During the ~~Payola acquisition tour~~ Campaign, Hussein al-Chicago said his family is off limits. Now that the likes of the intellectually absent Joy Behar and the rest of the feminist fawners are raising Bridezilla to the same heights as her no-account husband, she’s fair game.

Hillary, the ‘Smartest Woman in the World’ wanted to scrap 1/3 of the entire American economy with Hillarycare. Now it’s time to truly examine Bridezilla.

Has she ever published any legal papers? Has anyone ever seen her college writings? Start digging to see if she’s qualified to be The One’s wife! Maybe, just maybe, this Clydesdale in drag has some hidden dirt that can be used to smear her hubby (not that he needs any help in that department)

SeniorD on May 7, 2009 at 9:44 AM

She could sell Dos Equis.

Because, She is

The.Most.Interesting.Woman.In.The.World.

juanito on May 7, 2009 at 10:00 AM

How exactly is MO the “greatest First Lady we’ve ever known”? What has she done in four short months to put her to the top of the list over all the others?

What rationale is Oprah using to make such a judgement?

Oh, wait…

catmman on May 7, 2009 at 10:12 AM

How can somebody that looks like Wayne Brady in drag, be the best first lady we’ve ever had? These sycophants in the media need straight jackets. Why don’t they just come out and say “fuck you Martha Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt … this new chick, who was never proud of her country, is fashion forward”

Stickeehands on May 7, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Dave Rywall,

It IS your problem, you made the equivalence claim and you got called on it. So unless you can find someone major in the media going on about one of the Bush first ladies being the “greatest eva’” your just the vacuous apologist we all know you to be.

You made the statement, now back it up, find us some media references to Lady Bird being the best first lady ever. Or heck, find us some about Jackie O being the best first lady ever. Something tells me you won’t back up your statements and I know you couldn’t even if you tried.

Jason Coleman on May 7, 2009 at 10:24 AM

“Seeing as how Michelle is the ~~greatest~~ first black First Lady we’ve ever known, not to take anything away from the other First Ladies, but I think its so fantastic that she’s tonight’s guest and leads the pack of influentials,” Winfrey told the Daily News.

Just what the hell has Michelle done that makes her the greatest First Lady?

la.rt.wngr on May 7, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Or heck, find us some about Jackie O being the best first lady ever.

Jason Coleman on May 7, 2009 at 10:24 AM

I agree with your assessment of the poster…however this is easy to confirm. She was treated as royalty, Jackie O was the closest we ever had to a “queen” as far as the MSM was concerned.

right2bright on May 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM

Lt. Worf is a wonderful example of the fine and noble citizens of Kashykk a very strong and hardy people who have a lot of body hair and are prone to great feats of endurance and very overt displays of rage and affection….

Sooo Wrong… and yet Soooo right!

HotAirExpert on May 7, 2009 at 10:43 AM

How can somebody that looks like Wayne Brady in drag, be the best first lady we’ve ever had? These sycophants in the media need straight jackets. Why don’t they just come out and say “fuck you Martha Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt … this new chick, who was never proud of her country, is fashion forward”

Stickeehands

OMGosh…. AHhhhhhh….. again so right and sooo wrong!

HotAirExpert on May 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Right2bright,

Ok then, find me some major media sources lauding Jackie O as a greater first lady than Elenor R., Martha W., Abigail A.

You simply won’t.

Yes, they treated Jackie like a fabulous fashion plate, as a great mom, but no one of substance or import was calling her the greatest first lady ever. They simply weren’t.

Jason Coleman on May 7, 2009 at 11:01 AM

“Seeing as how Michelle is the greatest First Lady we’ve ever known, not to take anything away from the other First Ladies, but I think its so fantastic that she’s tonight’s guest and leads the pack of influentials,” Winfrey told the Daily News.
“I think that we see that Michelle is someone of multi-dimensions, and that you don’t have to be just one thing, you can be many things,” said Diane Sawyer. “In many ways were just getting to know all that she can and will do.”

Laura Bush, a former teacher, was pushing education for her entire 8 years as First Lady.

Hillary Clinton tried to pass health-care legislation, was a Senator and is now Secretary of State.

Betty Ford led a crusade for more research against cancer.

And we’re supposed to believe that Michelle Obama is the greatest First Lady ever, after 100 days, and has so many dimensions? What has she ever done, besides complain about being black and the country being mean?

Steve Z on May 7, 2009 at 11:25 AM

Let’s see….Michelle created a program at the hospital she once worked at, that pretty much threw the poor, and down trodden out, because they were unseemly, yet she’s just thee bestest first lady ever?

pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

capejasmine on May 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM

Ya know, you can take the girl out the ghetto, but ya ain’t gonna get the ghetto out tha girl…….

UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on May 7, 2009 at 12:12 PM