CBS’s Schieffer Hails First Lady Frolic on White House Lawn

CBS’s Schieffer Hails First Lady Frolic on White House Lawn

By Kyle Drennen (Bio | Archive)
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:45 ET

Showing that the media sees every act by the Obamas as an historic achievement, at the end of Sunday’s Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer was amazed by the romping of First Lady Michelle Obama: “Michelle Obama took it to another level as she set records as the first First Lady to run barefoot across the White House lawn. She also became the first to jump rope there.”

Schieffer began his pointless rambling by looking at how past first ladies, all wives of Democratic presidents, shaped the position:

There was a time when presidential wives were seen on occasion but almost never heard and that’s too bad, some of them had a lot to say. But along came Eleanor Roosevelt and she changed the job description. She was heard a lot and created her own following. Jackie Kennedy brought some glamor to the job. And Hillary Clinton, well, the Clintons used to talk about two for the price of one and people are still talking about whether that was such a good idea.

After explaining how Mrs. Obama “took it to another level,” Schieffer praised her efforts as example to the rest of us: “But whatever her skills at jumping rope, she performed a mean hula hoop. And the kids loved it and it was just a reminder to all us grown-ups that whatever our jobs, it never hurts every once in a while to kick off your shoes and just have a little fun.”

—Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.

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hold on

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:48 ET by jacktheripper

I'm gonna puke

"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can
bribe the people with their own money." – Alexis de Tocqueville

I beat ya to it!

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:50 ET by MightyMouth

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

http://www.freerepub... _____

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:41 ET by notonmywatch

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Already a member...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:43 ET by MightyMouth

but some scumbag freeper already took my name so I had to make something up...

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

I am too late

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:52 ET by StarAZ

You beat me to it! Good God--who cares what she does. She has a huge expensive staff, wears weird little cardigans and S-M belts, and eats $100 a lb beef. Drat--made her sound interesting! For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed at my trivial news media. Well, actually not the first time...

Uhhh... First Lady,

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:58 ET by bse5150

Uhhh... First Lady, Unnnggghh.... Lawn! My name is Bob... Ungghhhh... Democrats, news - Obama.... Wonderful.... unnngghhh... Michelle! Jackie Kennedy, Bush is Bad! Ungh. My diaper is full! Unnngghhh....

I do think the dirty old

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:06 ET by bassndude

I do think the dirty old man has a "thing" for the woman...Thats gotta be it.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!

this gets old real fast

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:55 ET by jon_torlin

What's next, musical farts?

-Jon

Played to the tune of The

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:58 ET by Dan The Man 2

Played to the tune of The Fatherland

Finally! Something I can

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:25 ET by dvdaughtry

Finally! Something I can compete in!

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

YOU GUYS ARE KILLIN' ME!

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:36 ET by MightyMouth

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

I'd be a bit offended

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:59 ET by The_Pumpcrop

The way the media fawns over them, it's like someone fawning over a mentally/physically challenged kid. "Oh, look. She can jump rope. Wow. We're so proud of you, Michelle." "Oh look. Obama can speak clearly, not like a street thug." And no one sees this as racist or condescending? Actually it cracks me up.

I've made the same point

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 18:31 ET by Chris Norman

I've made the same point before. It's so condescendingly racist - yet not many seem to pick up on it.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

First Chris tingles down his leg...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:00 ET by CO2Maker

Now this. And Rachel making madcow eyes at them, accompanied by Keith the Sports Boy's heavy breathing ...

Get a room!

Oh come on! First of

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:05 ET by Insane Chipmunk

Oh come on!

First of all this isnt news to begin with.

Second, who wants to bet that some early 19th Century First Lady once frolicked barefoot on the lawn. Back then there was a lot more frolicking and a lot less shoes.

Hula-Hoop

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:06 ET by slickwillie2001

Coincidentally, this was the topic of WB's weekend caption contest:

Weekend Caption Contest Winners: http://wizbangblog.com

Michelle's The Best"

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:12 ET by mad53PA

Thank God she's not breastfeeding!!

Can you imagine Schieffer then!!

The television tells me that pig is

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:17 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

"the other white meat", then the television proves itsself wrong.

This bimbo has no class, no culture, and no intelligence worth discussing in mixed company.

The msm will "WORSHIP" anything, no matter how useless or trivial.

http://gjresult.com

~

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:21 ET by choselife3x

Are you calling Michelle Obama a pig?

Now that would be rude wouldn't it?

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:33 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

http://gjresult.com

~It would be

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:40 ET by choselife3x

Very Liberal of you. In the Kossack sense of the word.

It would also be a vulgar

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:46 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

SLAM against those cutesie little barnyard creatures.

Born and raised on a farm, and I do get homesick when I hear a Jackass bray. (do ya suppose the media mouthpieces will get the implications?)

http://gjresult.com

Schieffer get a grip on yourself

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:21 ET by larry on LI

your talking like she ran bare assed across the white house lawn.

I think he does...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:25 ET by CO2Maker

when he sees Michelle frolicking.

I am all for a first lady

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:38 ET by Tomorama

I am all for a first lady who can teach kids that exercise is good and show another side of being a first lady, NO PROBLEM.

But the fn MSM talks about everything she does as the greatest bleeping thing in the history of the world and they need to do this type of fluff bullshit as there "aint" much else.

Now if someone showed some fortitude and asked "why can we not see either of their college thesis's"?

I'd like to see them just for the sheer brilliance and insight that I AM SURE BOTH wil have.

Why not share the brilliance of this great orator that can bury the "j" and this finely arm toned jump roper.......

A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.

I got a C on my college thesis...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:40 ET by MightyMouth

which is why I don't want anyone to see it either!

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

I don't want anyone to see

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:54 ET by dvdaughtry

I don't want anyone to see mine...

...becuase I ain't got none!

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

Well, you can see mine

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:05 ET by StarAZ

My thesis was on the navy's use of man undersea--submersibles and so on. Maybe the president could use some of the info.

My thesis was on the

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 18:06 ET by Dan The Man 2

My thesis was on the consumption of mass quantities of beer and the chasing of females. I made an interesting coorealtion between the amount consumed and the speed of the females I was chasing. There was also some interesting data on the beauty of the females I was chasing and beer consumption. My thesis was a great smash among my peers or was it I was smashed among my peers?

If They Were to Release Them...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:03 ET by Corny_McPoo

...to the public, they would MOST CERTAINLY not be the ones they actually turned in, but rather edited versions created to put the first couple into a more positive light.

Signed, Corny McPoo

Do Something Amazing!

The slobber globber press

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:37 ET by holeinthehull

Holeinthehull

The press looks and sounds like the fools they are. (Dinner time in Obama residence above the store)

Potus.."Boy, does the press slobber over us or what?"

Flotus.. "so much so that 2 of them got my skirt wet today just walking by and saying hello your majesty."

Potus.."that's nothing, Matthews and Olbermann were fighting today at the golf course over who was going to be my caddy"

Flotus.."what happened?"

Potus..."I let Olbermann wash my golf balls and Matthews volunteered to lay down on the ground and allow his lips to be a tee to hold my golf ball."

Flotus..(giggling)"How did it work out?"( still giggling)

Potus.."Not too good, (starting to laugh) Olbermann wound up getting choked on one of the golf balls and they had to rush Matthews to the hospital to reattach his chin and bottom lip"

Flotus.."You gotta hate that" (laughing out loud)

Potus..."Got that right, pass me some more pork roast Olbermann and fill up everybody's glasses."

Olbermann "yes sir, thank you sir!"

balls

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:36 ET by Mike76

Potus..."I let Olbermann wash my golf balls and Matthews volunteered to lay down on the ground and allow his lips to be a tee to hold my golf ball."

Obama's golf balls aren't the balls Olbermann would volunteer to wash.

Teabags, anyone?

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 00:46 ET by CO2Maker

So, POTUS is from Chicago, home of kielbasa, braunschweiger, and lately even chorizos. I guess Keith the Sports Boy can say that when he carried POTUS's sausage, Obama was the ...

wait for it

... the "Wurst Person in the World!"

He must think Americans find this charming

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:47 ET by Calypso Jones

in another day and age, she'd have the guys in white coats running after her.....and really that doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Surely the millions of

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:23 ET by RR GOP

Surely the millions of unemployed and those with children fighting overseas and/or working two or more minimum wage jobs got thrills up their legs when they heard about this.

Sickening.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

→ Back on topic

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:44 ET by Cool Arrow

The story isn't that the First Lady went barefootin' on the WH lawn. Who wouldn't? I certainly would.

The story is that Schieffer thinks it's some sort of accomplishment. That's something I'll toss over into the "Soft bigotry of low expectations" basket.

Schieffer is a condescending liberal tool, building up as monumental, a simple pursuit, as though it were a major step in alleviating world hunger.

Michele, I'm sorry Bob Schieffer thinks walking barefoot is a major advancement for you.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Ya know CA, maybe it's OUR perspective?

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:50 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

Maybe walking barefoot IS a major accomplishment for mush hell...

http://gjresult.com

If it had been Laura...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:37 ET by retrocon

Schieffer would have said:

"Laura Bush took it to another level today, as she embarrassed the nation as the
first First Lady to run barefoot across the White House lawn. In a spectacle obviously designed to make people think that she is 'normal folk,' she also
became the first to jump rope there."

"But whatever her skills at jumping rope, she looked rediculous attempting to hula hoop. And though her spoiled rich white kids probably loved it, it was just a
reminder to all us grown-ups that you have to be able to see through the orchestrated antics of the current administration. "

"it never hurts every once

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:46 ET by kg

"it never hurts every once in a while to kick off your shoes and just have a little fun.”

He's kidding right? That's all they know how to do! Parties, concerts, dates, golf, vacations. They do it all several times a week. Obama barely has enough time between campaign stops to fit all the fun things in much time to make decisions. Good grief!

"DumbAssity of Dope"

The Press

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:50 ET by HoosierEm

The press wants to make FLOTUS this century's Princess Diana. In looking at some of the activities the first family takes part in, they act like they are this country's version of a royal family.

More hypocrisy...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:44 ET by shooter

The fawning continues. Can you imagine if they said something similar about the Bushes? First, they'd never say it. Secondly, if they did, they'd be branded "...as bad as FOX News!..."

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Oh my gawd...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:51 ET by PrairieSky

Now the press is getting in a froth about how great a hula-hooper Michelle Obama is? This must be a sign of the coming apocalypse...This is what these people think is worthy to put on the air? (let alone to actually say out loud??)

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

...and to think Bob's got a

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 16:58 ET by bigtimer

...and to think Bob's got a brother running for Gov. I think it is in Texas.

Spooky eh?

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

Are you serious? I hadn't...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 18:11 ET by PrairieSky

heard that...I'll have to look that up...Ugh. Spooky is right...

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

First lady is the best.

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 17:18 ET by Kansasgirl

The adulation this couple is receiving has become embarrassing.

Oy

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 19:18 ET by ParalegalGoddess

This is the epiotome of slow news day/what can we report so no one notices these A$$holes haven't accomplished one damn thing since January 20.

I am sure back in a simpler time without 24 hours in which to fill airtime with mindless drivel there was a First Lady who did the same thing. Lucky for chewbacca she has five (count em) five news networks to broadcast her every move.

P.S. if she's so damn physically fit, why is she still carrying around that junk in her trunk?