ABCNews.com: Michelle Obama More like Jackie O Than Kerry's Wife

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Michelle Obama in ABCNews.com screen cap | NewsBusters.orgPicking up on the media's meme that a vast right-wing hate machine is going at full-tilt against Michelle Obama, ABCNews.com wants readers to know that the Illinois senator's wife is "more Jackie O Than Teresa [Heinz Kerry]."

The story made the "top headlines" lineup for the afternoon of June 13, along with a headline tease for recent video from Fox News Channel where an onscreen graphic labeled the mother of two as Sen. Obama's "baby mama." Online slang lexicon urbandictionary.com defines a baby mama as "The mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom you are not currently involved."

The "Michelle Obama 2.0" article begins by regaling readers with a look at life in the Obama household as given by Barack and Michelle on a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio. The Illinois senator joked about his wife speaking more endearingly of him on the campaign trail than she does behind closed doors:

"She never says such nice things about me at home!" he smiles. "I really enjoy listening to her praise me like that because when I get home she'll remind me that I didn't make the bed."

The article then continued by contrasting the domestic bliss of the young Obamas with those mean ol' conservatives dead-set on stopping the presumptive Democratic nominee by gunning for Mrs. O.:

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This is the Michelle Obama that the Obama campaign wants Americans to get to know -- not the "Mrs. Grievance" depicted with an angry scowl on the cover of the conservative National Review, or "His Bitter Half," as conservative columnist Michelle Malkin called her.

Some of the conservative attacks are even less subtle. Fox News Channel depicted her loving fist-bump with her husband the night he clinched enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination as a "terrorist fist jab" and a chyron on Fox News identified Michelle Obama as "Obama's Baby Mama," urban slang for an ex-girlfriend with whom one has fathered an out-of-wedlock child.

The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune followed up with other stories probing why the woman once seen as a potential African-American Jackie Kennedy risks becoming more of a liability, a black Teresa Heinz Kerry.

At a posh fundraiser for the Democratic Party's White House Victory Fund last night Obama told supporters, that their opponents are "going to try to make me into a scary guy. They're even trying to make Michelle into a scary person."

As the general election kicks into gear, the Obama campaign wants Americans to instead meet the woman whom friends describe as clever and warm, who will pull up a sixth chair on "The View" next Wednesday to chat about "hot topics" and interview actor Matthew Broderick. (Michelle has been studying up on Broderick and his wife Sarah Jessica Parker in preparation.) She's been leading a number of public forums with military wives, which campaign aides say she finds rewarding and her husband sometimes refers to on the stump.

Oh really? The Obama camp wants Americans seeing Michelle Obama on "The View" alongside ultra-liberal co-host Joy Behar who:

...has spouted off many false remarks, putting her leftist ideology before the facts. [For example,] Joy fed her viewers false information about the vice president's record on the Marriage Amendment and falsely charged the Bush administration with airing the "swift boat" ads. Behar has also, without evidence, smeared Republican presidential candidates of ties with the Ku Klux Klan and accused Republicans of giving Senator Tim Johnson a stroke.

Sounds like a more Teresa Heinz Kerry-friendly venue than for a a modern day Jackie O.

—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters


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NOW we will see a total 180

NOW we will see a total 180 degree spin with Michelle H-word Obama.

 

she will be kissing babies, eating pork rinds, wearing jeans, to show that she never really said those things, they were just sound bytes taken out of context.

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

H-word

I like that.

Eventually we will have to refer to him as B-word, H-ord, O-word so no islamic insinuations are cast.

Or maybe we may be forced to refer to him as Barry Howard O' Bama.

Nah, we'll be rquired to

Nah, we'll be rquired to call him the Savior of the Free World.

Afterall, it's on a slight stretch from Leader of the Free World.

Mark Levin started to call

Mark Levin started to call him Barack Milhous Obama the same day I started H-word. 

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

That was great

 I especially liked the eating pork rinds part. That would for sure take away the elite image. I'm sure this is the change they are hoping we will believe in.

   You think I'm

 

 You think I'm kidding,

we have not heard a peep out of her recently, and maybe not pork rinds but it will not be too long untill we see a White Castle burger in her hand.  

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

I believe you I really do,

Whatever ,I'm not elite just common folk like you thing, they have her holding will be covered on all the news so we will be sure not to miss it.

And thank you for the Gerald Ford quote

   Aw man i had no

 

 Aw man i had no intention of coming off like an ass I am very sorry if i did.

 

i was just on a roll

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

enjoyed the roll

I did not take it negative at all

wish sometimes we could use the lame smile face

so people could know we are enjoying the conversation

  Gotcha : )    A

 

Gotcha : ) 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

Just wondering

When BHO became a Senator, Michelle's already hefty salary as a "Community Facilitator" or Community Diversity Outreach Manager" or whatever it was (title looking for a job?) for that Chicago hospital jumped by what 300%?

What has it gone up now that he's the heir apparent?

Gee, when he becomes President, she'll probably own a majority interest in that institution.

I knew it was only a matter

I knew it was only a matter of time before they started equating Michelle to Jackie, when I saw the "Vogue" layout with her in the black dress and pearls.

Can't you just hear Jackie K giving a speech, saying "Let me tell you who me and Jack are...."

   just wait for the

 

 just wait for the pink dress witha pill box hat. 

and she may not be allowed to talk in public ever again, or at least untill after the coranation in November, without Barack H-word Obama, or as she like to say he  baby daddy, at her side

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

red.... ...LOL...As long

red....

...LOL...As long as it isn't a blue dress....

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson

I have a strong feeling

I have a strong feeling that blue dress are not even allowed in Washington DC,

and

She will never wear a Blue dress.....as we ( conservitives) would have a field day editing the song  "devil with the blue dress on" in to ANY video clip of her with a blue dress on.....al least I am waiting to do that....anf there is not song "Devil with the blue pantsuit on"

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

  Laura Bush is the most

  Laura Bush is the most like Jackie-O.

More Jackie O' Like

Well, if the point is that Michelle Obama is more Jackie O' like than Theresa Heinz Kerry, then it's a legitimate point. But then if the the headline had been that Curly Howard from the three stooge's was more Jackie O'esque than mama T, that would have made sense as well. Hell, T.H. Kerry is as un Jackie O' like as you can get. She's closer to an over the hill Courtney Love.

I'ts all about Change

I guess they saw that the Hillary makeover worked for her.

At the end of her campaign she had morphed into a  whiskey drinking, Bible toting, gun loving, girl next door.

I always half expected Hillary to show up in a camouflage pantsuit.

Mrs. Obama, Change,  yes we can and yes she will.

Sorry Michelle

But everytime I see you on stage the song lyrics "back that thang up" enter my mind.

"I didn't make the bed".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In other words she's just another lazy woman who runs her mouth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

edit the white space please

it's a bit annoying to have all that white space in there and a tad unpolite

slick... You aren't so

slick...

You aren't so slick with these posts of yours...

Enough already.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson

Jackie was a lady

not some big mouthed feminazi bigot.

Class

Jackie had class and brains. Laura Bush has class and brains. Michelle Obama, not so much. In fact, not at all. Even the crafty MSM can't put this hoax over. Or can they?

 

Who is Barry Ostero?

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

   I call for the NB

 

 I call for the NB management BAN iveseenitall for the blanet racist remarks!!!!!  This is an outrage that such trash is allowed on this site.

"not so much class"

HOW DARE YOU SIR or MA'AM, have you no idea that Barack H-word Obama will save you, racist sins, and he will clean the racist genes from your body just let him lay his hand on you!!!!!

CAN I GET AN AMEN!!!!!!!!!!     YES WILL WILL "CHANGE" THE US OF KKKA IN TO THE UNION OF AMERICAN SOCILST REBUPLIC....AND "HOPE" THAT THE MEDIA IS TOO STUPID AND BLIND BY HIS GREATNESS TO NOTICE.........HOW 'BOUT ANOTHER AMEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

Amen

Amen! Forgive me. Next time, I'll lie instead.

 

Who is Barry Ostero?

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

 

   My Child i wish i

 

 My Child i wish i had the power to forgive, but alas i don't only a vote for Barack H-word Obama will absolve you

 

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Gerald Ford

class it is

When Laura Bush showed up it was such a refreshing change from Shrillary. You're right of course, it was all about Class. Shrillary, Terresa Heinz, Michelle are more likely to take a swing at you and go down pulling hair and biting than to drop a quiet verbal 'gotcha' and saunter off leaving the bad buy speachless. T.H. I can envision picking her nose in public, or going into a roadhouse and the sailors come running out.

This is an insult to Jackie

This is an insult to Jackie O. Jackie O. was gracious and respectful of her husband's duties.  Michele Obama is a loud-mouthed, uppity, troublemaker that forgets that SHE is not the candidate and NOBODY cares what she thinks.

Michelle...

...couldn't carry Jackie O's jock...!

Could be correct....

They could be correct if they are saying Kerry/Heinz is lower than the whale doo doo on the bottom of the ocean. Hussein's baby's momma could be a tad above that, not much, but a tad.

 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Fairy tale fantasy

Fairy tale fantasy. Like the old expression/idiom, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." The movie "Pretty Woman" comes to mind. Gere trying to transform Roberts into a lovely lady socialite.

IMO, Jackie didn't have that much class either, especially after she married into the Kennedy clan. Reminds me of Marilyn Monroe, speaking so softly, oh, so humble Marilyn Monroe, "Mr. Presssssident, 'boop-oop-a-doop."

Overrated. Just because a person has millions in the bank, doesn't automatically bestow class. i.g.

Barbra Streisand/Beyonce/Britney Spears/Cher/Courtney Love/Madonna/Oprah/Patty Hearst/Paris Hilton/Teresa Heinz 57 Kerry, etc...

Holy cow! What an insult to

Holy cow! What an insult to Jackie.

"Abstain from McCain"

Totally, Clear

I am shocked at the comparison.

A hairdo does not a similarity make.

It's just all part of the agenda to recreate "Camelot".

As you know, Jackie was fluent in French....and so, on her behalf, I shall say "que'lle crap". 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Blonde... My Mom once

Blonde...

My Mom once accidently spilled coffee on Jackie. Her secret service guys were not very pleased about it, but Jackie shooed them off and told me Mom it was no big deal and still made one of her bodyguards pay for the coffee.

This all happened at a fundraisng event for the Private School I was attending at the time. I even got to meet Caroline at this event when she was only 12 years old. We would have talked longer but her bodyguard chased me off.

Anyway, the comparison to Jackie is just absurd! 

"Abstain from McCain"

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Frankenstein's wife has more in common with Jackie KO than Tereza Kerry.  Hell, John Kerry may even have more in common.

But I was wondering if saying Michele Obama has more in common with Jackie means that she will one day end up marrying a fat greek guy?

Jeff Lebowski

www.angrywhitedude.c...

jeff... You mean a

jeff...

You mean a communist like Soros?

"Abstain from McCain"

Clear

that would be very fitting.  I can't think of two who deserve themselves more than Soros and Michelle.

Jeff Lebowski

www.angrywhitedude.c...

...That owns Islands no

...That owns Islands no less!

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson

Clear....that is a classic story

And you are correct, the comparison is absurdo reducto, or somesuch.

My mom is a lifelong (R).  Too bad for her, though, that the Kennedy's were elected when they were.  Her friends were unmerciful.

My name is Jacqueline.... and my little sister's name was Carolyn.  And of course....everyone believed we were named after the Kennedy's (actually not, we were named after my mum's best friends in grade school).

But my mom has been hot about this for about forty years. 

And a true story, my mom took me to see JFK in a "parade" as they used to do it in the open convertibles up in Palm Beach when I was about four years old.  She had me sitting on top of the car....a little toe-headed girl.  She said JFK looked over and saw me, got a huge grin on his face, and waved like mad! 

Of course, I don't remember it, but I know it's true.  

So it just infuriates me to see politicians invoke the Kennedy's, particularly the exquisite and private Jacqueline Kennedy, to further their political agendas.

Michelle Obama is about as far from Jackie (yes, that's the way she spelled her short name) Kennedy as a candle is to the space shuttle. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

I can still remember the

I can still remember the love affair my parents, and the rest of the country, had with the Kennedy's. As a kid I just naturally caught the fever from my parents, but was genuinely let down when I got old enough to learn the truth about the Kennedy presidency.

Funny how the Dems still think he was God-like. Kinda like Obama baby!

 "Abstain from McCain"

Clear

As I said, my mum is a life-long (R).

But she liked JFK....obviously...or she would not have taken me to see him in person.

I vaguely remember the assasination...I was in the first grade, it came over the intercom, my teacher, who was Catholic, said a prayer in latin.

Then our parents came and picked us up.  IIRC, it was wall-to-wall coverage on the black & white TV.  Every adult in my small little world was depressed beyond belief.  These are my impressions, anyway. 

Back then, people respected the office, regardless of politics.  It was a simpler time, I guess. 

And as much as I believe JFK was not a very good president at all (I lived through the Cuban missile crisis here in South Florida with my head tucked under my bum)....he WAS the President.  And worthy of respect.

The hate and spew that goes on lately is just insane.  I can't stand the Obama-phenoma....but I don't hate him.  I do despair, however.  I fear that all that is good and right in this country has been compromised by the leftists and their agenda.

Having said that, tho...I'm a glass half full type of woman.  Tomorrow's another day, Scarlette, and all that.

We will survive, and prevail!

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Since I was too young to

Since I was too young to live the JFK phenomenon, I can't say I was ever impressed with his accomplishments as president and least of all, with his family. That said, Jackie always struck me as a gracious, intelligent woman who maintained class amidst a great deal of turmoil.

Now we have Shelly O, the charming woman who makes Hillary look cuddly. Seriously, unless it's posed, do they have any pictures of this woman NOT scowling? And in the name of all that is good and decent, can we get over the Kennedys and the Camelot nonsense already?

And in the name of all that

And in the name of all that is good and decent, can we get over the Kennedys and the Camelot nonsense already?

Not until the talking heads say so CJK...

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson

The only ones that think

The only ones that think the Kennedy era was Camelot are Democrats. The rest of us know better.

"Abstain from McCain"

Maybe it's just me

Maybe it's just me but I think that if John F. Kennedy saw what the Democrats have turned into he would be rolling over in his grave. Jackie and Michele alike?? I don't remember Jackie going around telling everyone how mean America is.

So, Mrs. Obama takes comfort from talking to military wives? I wonder how many she has talked to.....5?? I know a lot of submariners wives who would LOVE to talk to her. Although I don't think she would take much comfort from it!