Tag Archives: Michelle Obama

First Lady Visits Letterman Show

Her entrance music was Barry White’s You’re The First, My Last, My Everything. You can find the full appearance on YouTube.

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Tweet Of The Day

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First Lady Surprises WH Tour Visitors

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The First Lady Joins Twitter

50,000 followers in the first hour…

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Limbaugh: Michelle Obama Is Uppity

Well, that’s about as plain as racism gets.

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At The White House Bullying Conference

Can you imagine anything remotely like this taking place during a Republican administration?

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The Obamas Speak Out Against Bullying

In advance of an anti-bullying conference to be held at the White House tomorrow, the president and First Lady have posted the below message to the federal government’s official Stop Bullying page on Facebook.

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Gay Hero Daniel Hernandez To Attend State Of The Union With Michelle Obama

Openly gay Arizona shooting hero Daniel Hernandez and his father will be seated with the First Lady at Tuesday’s State Of The Union address. “I’m both honored and excited to have the opportunity to travel to our nation’s Capitol for a once in a lifetime event. Also the chance to bring my father along for his first trip to Washington, …

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Michelle Obama Talks Bullying With Ellen

The First Lady appears on today’s episode of Ellen, where the two discussed bullying. Mrs. Obama said young people need to know that they shouldn’t let the challenges they face in high school or college “eat them up.” “All of these young people regardless of their race, their sexual orientation, they are gifts to us,” she said. “They have so …

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Today In Journalistic Racism

The Awl reports that Long Island’s Smithtown Messenger has created a before-and-after photo essay to demonstrate how the stress of the presidency affects the faces of presidents and first ladies. The projected “after” photo of the Obamas is from Sanford & Son. Oh, but the paper has now issued an apology. So it’s OK!

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Photo Of The Day

The Clintons, the Dubyas, the Obamas, the Bidens, and the Carters sat together at today’s memorial for Sen. Ted Kennedy. The elder Bushes elected not to attend, which seems odd.

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Don’t Touch The Queen

Some Brits are miffed because the First Lady put her arm around Queen Elizabeth. Others point out that the Obamas are not royal subjects and therefore not bound by the protocols observed by heads of state from Australia, etc.

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White House Goes Green

It’s St. Patrick’s Day and White House fountains are flowing green for the first time, by order of the First Lady. Michelle Obama came up with the idea for the festive touch, said spokeswoman Katie McCormick Lelyveld. She was inspired by the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in her hometown of Chicago, where the city marks the holiday by dyeing the …

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The First Dance

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RuPaul As Both Obamas

RuPaul werks this holiday greeting card as both Obamas. Back when I had roommates and still bothered with a Christmas tree, we always had my RuPaul ornament near the top. (Via – Towleroad)

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Michelle Obama On Ellen

Michelle Obama appeared on the season debut of Ellen Denegeres yesterday where she congratulated Ellen on her recent “big move”. In the second clip Ellen mentions having been married 24 days and deftly segues the conversation to the Obama marriage. It was a nice move and Michelle returns with a comment on why she thinks Ellen’s marriage will do well. …

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Michelle Obama Speaks To LGBT Caucus

Yesterday Michelle Obama made a surprise unannounced appearance at the Democratic convention’s LGBT caucus.

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Michelle Obama At The DNC

Here’s Michelle Obama’s historic speech at the Democratic Convention last night. I pulled the C-SPAN version so you don’t have to endure the ridiculous CNN crap that I complained about last night.

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When Doves Cry

For the record, I really like Michelle Obama and thought her speech tonight was quite solid, if a little too slick and rehearsed. But what the heck was CNN doing with those relentless cutaways to sobbing women in the audience? “Oh mah Gawd, she loves her children JUST LIKE I LOVE MINE.” And when the Obamatots came out onstage for …

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Unshocking: 60% Of Christian Website Readers Believe New Yorker’s Obamas Cover Is “Dangerously Close To The Truth”

Via Queerty, here’s the latest result of today’s poll on World Net Daily, which ask readers to “sound off” on New Yorker’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. At the moment, 60% of their wingnut readers believe the cartoon is “isn’t too far from the dangerous truth about the Obama family.” Embiggen for the idiocy.

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