Salon Publishes Piece About Michelle Obama's Butt

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I guess if you live long enough, you'll see everything, for this morning the e-zine known as Salon actually published an article about Michelle Obama's butt.

No, sadly, I'm not kidding.

Entitled "First Lady Got Back," the piece actually praised, and discussed in great detail, Mrs. Obama's posterior.

As some readers might find this subject a tad offensive, the lowlights are conspicuously placed below the fold (emphasis added throughout, h/t Ed Morrissey):

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But what really thrills me, what really feels liberating in a very personal way, is the official new prominence of Michelle Obama. Barack's better half not only has stature but is statuesque. She has corruscating intelligence, beauty, style and -- drumroll, please -- a butt. (Yes, you read that right: I'm going to talk about the first lady's butt.) [...]

As I gradually relaxed, as Michelle strode onto more stages and people started focusing on her clothes and presence instead of her patriotism, it dawned on me -- good God, she has a butt! "Obama’s baby (mama) got back," wrote one feminist blogger. "OMG, her butt is humongous!" went a typical comment on one African-American online forum, and while it isn't humongous, per se, it is a solid, round, black, class-A boo-tay. Try as Michelle might to cover it with those Mamie Eisenhower skirts and sheath dresses meant to reassure mainstream voters, the butt would not be denied.

The author, one Erin Aubry Kaplan who besides being a Salon contributor is also contributing editor to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times, then moved into the totally absurd:

Lord knows, it's time the butt got some respect. Ever since slavery, it's been both vilified and fetishized as the most singular of all black female features, more unsettling than dark skin and full lips, the thing that marked black women as uncouth and not quite ready for civilization (of course, it also made them mighty attractive to white men, which further stoked fears of miscegenation that lay at the heart of legal and social segregation). In modern times, the butt has demarcated class and stature among black society itself. Emphasizing it or not separates dignified black women from ho's, party girls from professionals, hip-hop from serious. 

What? Did you get that? But there's more, for Kaplan next bashed prominent white women in our nation for...well, you probably see where this is going:

Many comparisons have already been made between Michelle and Jackie Kennedy. While I appreciate the spirit, I beg to differ. To put it bluntly, Jackie had no back. Same can be said for gaunt Cindy McCain and the short-lived Republican sexpot Sarah Palin. Jackie was trim and perfect, an inoffensive figure who bucked the curviness of the '50s and put American femininity on the treacherous path of smaller-is-better. 

At this point, I checked to make sure this was Salon and not National Lampoon. If you need to as well, I understand. 

In the end (pun intended), you've likely gathered that Kaplan is quite obsessed with black, female rear ends. 

What can you expect from a woman who self-described her LA Weekly article "The Butt" as "One of her most-remembered pieces?"

I'll let the reader decide if Kaplan was speaking literarily or anatomically.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.


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I'm glad Salon got to the

I'm glad Salon got to the bottom of that story. 

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

Agreed. Every new moon you

Agreed. Every new moon you see ridiculous stories like this... it's shameful. ;)

Tempting to say but ....

have they not gone to the "dark side of the moon" in this article? Oops did I just say something racist, I didn't mean to.

From now on if refferring

o woman's derriere use the code word 'pink floyd' 

"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox

Like she has a nice 'pink

Like she has a nice 'pink floyd'? Or 'man she has a big pink floyd!' LOL 

watch out

that saucer is full of more than secrets .... 

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy

Since they brought up looks

I still think she looks like James Brown.

Truly journalism is

Truly journalism is dead. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Is that

Is that what you hear when you play the CD backwards? (If you could.)

Mrs. Obama

I don't like Obama's politics, and I'm not looking forward to his presidency ... but she's his wife, and discussing her figure is completely inappropriate.

So, not only is journalism dead, so is editing.

KC

I think that's why deep down I am having fun with playing on words over saying anything REALLY directly about her figure. I think it's rediculous and shallow to gossip about anyones body.

Agreed

I know, FOTR ... I just can't believe that a professional editor would let this nonsense out in public. Wasn't anyone at that paper paying attention?

WTF!!!

 This idiot is talking about our next first lady, not Beyonce!  Also, to degredate an AK governor, a former first-lady, and a philantropist shows how the MSM has become very tacky.  SHOW SOME RESPECT Kaplan!!!

Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration

http://www.despair.com/government.html

Salon is not MSM

The Salon cannot be considered MSM.....The article is tacky, yes, but Salon is just a leftist waste of ink.

Throw all the RINOs OUT!

PALIN/Jindal '12

Salon?

I think this e-rag was once titled "Saloon" and graded bar maids on the number of drinks that could be carried by caboose.  Is that racist?

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy

Hmmmmmm

Ya know what?   I don't really care about her butt - her head is screwed up and she is only NOW proud to be an American.  If she didn't like it before - she is only lying about it now.  This woman is the nastiest tart that has ever been in the White House and that is saying a lot.  After all Hill was there for 8 years and it must have been sheer hell for all around her.  When she threw stuff at slick it must have been a Kodak moment?????

Like Omarosa on Trump show

Omarosa was not nice and VERY annoying.  Now her 'twin' is our first lady... great :*(    Hope she loves the USA now... and that it is not an 'act.'   As for the Clintons and MSM, acting is the 'truth,' as good as reality for them!

M-B

Journalism

Typical "liberal" immaturity that passes for "journalism" today. The libs are a classless bunch.

BTW, the "intelligence" of Michelle Obama is another "liberal" lie which, if told long and loud enough, becomes fact. The woman is below average, in brainpower as well as looks and class. Comparing her to Laura Bush or Jacqueline Kennedy is ridiculous. Just as her husband, she's a Chicago street thug with a chip on her shoulder.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Do you think she'll get

Do you think she'll get any comparisons to Winnie Mandela?  I think her temperment may lie more in that direction.  Maybe we'll find out if Goodyear or Firestone makes a better necklace. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

congratulations, you win the stupid comparison award

winnie mandela was a brute who orchestrated beatings and murders. 

"Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, = we shall liberate this country ..."

i won't suggest you are like hitler (white male with an extreme political opinion), so let's not assume because someone is black, female and involved in politics, that they are a murderous thug.  

Illogical

It sounds like abeautifulperson is the one making illogical assumptions about the logical conclusions about Michelle Obama.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

 

ABP is making illogical

ABP is making illogical conclusions? Hmmm, that's strange.  

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

It's too easy

I'll refrain from making the obvious Bill Clinton jokes.

Actually I was thinking of Hillary, dbo

A big butt is just fine, according to Salon.

But you can't have a big white butt and piano legs and extra wide hips and cram it all into an ugly pants suit and get the approval of the big black butt worshippers at Salon.

I mean, ugh, it doesn't work on so many levels.

 

Mikey Moore feeling sexy today?

Imagine if Rush said this on the radio? The libs would call it hate speech and racist and an assault on all black women and another reason for the renewal of the Fairness Doctrine.

Big Butts are IN!

Michael Moore must feel very sexy today.

It's just like racial epithets

It's just like certain racial or sexual epithets. Some people get a pass and can say anything, appropriate or not, and it's fine, even applauded. I don't care for Michelle's opinions but to make these women objects is totally uncalled for.

Rush will mention

Rush will mention this

and THEN they will unload on his sexist butt - dammit

it's barack the magic negro all over again:) 

Dominate education now 

Who knew?

Furthermore, who cares?

 

Blonde

"and the short-lived Republican sexpot Sarah Palin."

I think it's just the job for Mr. Shy to do some vigorous google investigating and get to the bottom (sorry) of this Erin person's (male or female?) claim that Sarah has no back. I get the feeling, quite the contrary.

Of course, it's all reverse-racism, that caucasian women are back-less.

Free, do I get your approval for me to look into this?

:) 

You're the next contestant on...
THE MESSIAH IS... LEFT !!

 

Go for it Shy

We must have definitive research on the topic.  That ought to keep you busy for a while, and I'm quite certain you will come up with a bootiful analysis.

That's it.  I'm through.

 

As we are in the new Camel

As we are in the new Camel Lot, can I be the first to call the new Mrs President, Blackeline Kennedy?

If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same...
Yours is the earth and all that's in it...

Well, if we were searching for a woman with some backbone..

 ...then Palin got back!

Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration

http://www.despair.com/government.html

Childhood Obesity

NOW we know where all those fat kids ended up.  And the media said she worked out ?  Where ?  Dunkin Donuts ?

I'm sure it is a lot of work

supporting her husband's massive ego.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

so this is where ...

So this is where she's been hiding since the "1st time I've been proud" comment?  Wonder who else is in there? 

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy

Lyrics "Baby Got

Lyrics "Baby Got Back"

Tell 'em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)
Shake that healthy butt!
Baby got back!

 

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

"Typical" Liberal Magazine...

You would see the storm on the weather channel if Rush, Sean or Laura said this... Butt maybe I'm over reacting.

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

Maybe I’ve misread Mrs.

Maybe I’ve misread Mrs. O, but she doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who shrugs off being the butt of jokes.

All joking aside...

It really is time to put this subject behind us.

Salon? Reads more like a

Salon? Reads more like a Jerry Springer transcript, maybe Gerald-doh can get a reload for his cheeks.

The cost of living's going up, and the chance of livin's going down. - Flip Wilson

I thought I had seen and read........

just about everything in my lifetime...........but this??????  Is this what journalsim has sunk to???  This is the First Lady of the US......not some hip hop bimbo......  I cant stand the woman but, come on!!!!!  Whats next....a "G" ride parked in the White House driveway???

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

I thought objectifying women's body's was dead...

Oh wait, it's ok if you assess a liberal, colored woman that way and degrade the white, conservatieve women.

I remember college when I had to sit through classes of feminist ____ theory and they would write about how "men" would degrade them by writing this way only to write this way about "their own", but it was complimentary.

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ~ Winston Churchill

I guess it takes one to know one...

... for this woman is a big ass.

 

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

I guess this is all part of "change"

Forget that "freedom" and self-determination are lost concepts in today's America.  Never mind that the federal government is about to take over the decisions for every aspect of your life, want it or not.  Forget about the fact that we're all about to become indentured servants to the state.

Let's focus on what's really important: Finally, we have a first lady with a great ass.

I'd really like to see an

I'd really like to see an article about her teeth. I mean if we are going to be completely ridiculous about it, what do her teeth reveal about her? I'm sure that Mrs. McCain's teeth are infinitely more pearly white than Michelle's. Certainly much less...um... serrated.

"Ever since slavery, it's

"Ever since slavery, it's been both vilified and fetishized as the most singular of all black female features, more unsettling than dark skin and full lips, the thing that marked black women as uncouth and not quite ready for civilization (of course, it also made them mighty attractive to white men, which further stoked fears of miscegenation that lay at the heart of legal and social segregation). In modern times, the butt has demarcated class and stature among black society itself."

Mythology, plain and simple.  Is this the prologue to some sort of paranormal-romance novel?

"short-lived Republican sexpot Sarah Palin"

"Short-lived Republican sexpot"?  Last I knew, she was still the reigning, popular, attactive Republican Governor of Alaska.  What planet is this envious dingbat Erin Aubry from?

 

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

There's always a but monkey

I'm just praying that the size of Michelle's butt isn't linked, in some hideous karmic way, to the ever expanding size of the bailout

If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same...
Yours is the earth and all that's in it...

The missing link

I hear Salon and MSNB are offering highly collectible MOB "Butt Prints" on real parchment.  There is a limited run of them at $19.95 and, if you hurry, they'll throw in a picture of Nancy Pelosi kissing Barney Frank's butt too.

 

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy

I guess we'll be seeing more

I guess we'll be seeing more crap like this...from these white guilt ridden, liberal,  jack a$$es, it's "Camelot in the 'Hood".  As a woman, I find this so stupid.

Missing the Point

This is a stupid article.  But now that the guy's been elected, we should at least show some respect for the President and his family, even if we disagree utterly and completely with his policies.  To not do so only demeans America in the eyes of the world, and makes it easier for Democrats to brush off any criticisms we may have of the President and his proposed policies.  Journalists will continue to print this garbage about the Obama family as long as its popular, because its helping them make money.  Now that the election is over, we should no longer be displeased with articles like this only because they endorse the President, but because they only add to the current superficiality of the American political process and take the focus away from the careful examination of actions and policies that the media should be focusing on.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future.
Its advances consist of finding out where it has been wrong.  -F.A. Hayek

much like the 8yrs of

much like the 8yrs of respect the bushes got. Not a minute amount of respect was given then, but for the lepper messiah we now need to honnor the office and family of the president. Sorry but not! the bar was raised under bush and its only fair for obama

Actually...

     The bar for respect was lowered because of how the liberals treated Bush.  We're better than that and shouldn't use the deplorable behavior of the left as an excuse to be disrespectful to our President elect and his family.

Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration

http://www.despair.com/government.html

Karma comearound

is a good thing. I just don't feel that charitable towards the new pres and besides every time we take the high ground or pull punches they knock the stuffing out of us. We should learn a little from the masters (of deceit) and take some plays from their playbook. 

"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox

Just because they are very loud and vocal...

 ...doesn't mean they are successful.  All they do is confirm that they annoy the silent majority.  The fact is, I couldn't stand how the left degraded our president and the world saw that there was no unity behind our leader.  We don't need to show that face to the world again...especially the party who complained of the unfair treatment of Bush.

Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration

http://www.despair.com/government.html

Their Tactics Destroyed

Their loud, vile, annoying, lying tactics with overwhelming media support destroyed President Bush's Presidency. He was unable to govern as everything he did or said was ridiculed or worse. In the world of REAL POLITICK their campaign was successful because they have the presidency and both houses of congress but we have our manners and our pride. Unless this guy royally, and I mean royally, screws up, he is in for 8 years guaranteed. I am not holding my breath. I am near 60 and I don't believe we will see another Republican (or conservative for that matter) president in my lifetime. The GOP has to get with it play hardball and use the slick marketing tactics of the left. I live in Maryland we have had 2 Republican governor's in 60 years and have, to my knowledge, never had a republican majority in the state assembly so I am used to being marginalised.

"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox

exactly my point if we go

exactly my point if we go alone with no distane the left will call obama a great unifire and hell reign for eight years

RIP

RIP real journalism. Hello half ass reports and glitter/glamour stories about nothing. The future of journalism looks bleak. 

Kind of reminds me of the feel good stories the nazi's published on Aryan looks.

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Most Interesting Ass..et

This very well could be her only contribution to the post.  I don't find her racial anger and self-pitying disposition very interesting or attractive.  She should be thankful for the affirmative action that allowed her to attend an ivy league school without meeting the standards to do so.  She is very ungrateful for a person who has been handed things because of her race that she would have otherwise been denied and then vents this racial discrimination crap.  Her posterior might not only be her best asset but also the origins of most of her thoughts.  

 

Winston Churchill ~ "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."

Not to be gross, but could

Not to be gross, but could they talk about her small tits next time?

TOO FUNNY

My thoughts exactly.  For a black chick, they're mighty tiny.  Whats up with that ?

Geez guys.........

LMAO!!!!!!

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

Well, frankly,

she has no figure to speak of...I guess that is why the left raves about her "sense of style and dress". Could not agree more with Bigspoon also.

Well, now that the Obama's have "moved on up".....

...to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, maybe Barry can afford to pop for the necessary surgical procedure.

:-)

-Dave

Did this country just elect Obama/Biden, or was it Soros/Ayers?

Guess she'll be the butt of

Guess she'll be the butt of jokes in the White House. Michelle "kaboose" Obama

Barry's very own "da junk in

Barry's very own "da junk in the trunk"

From the 'ahem' tolerant libs...

You remember the libs? The ones that asked if Obama was "black enough". The ones who couldn't call Hillary 'b!tch' enough. The ones who called Sarah Palin a VPILF and the 'c' word. Yes, them.

It's so nice to know that they are an equal opportunity offenders.

Heck, I'm not pleased that The One is going to be president, but I would never denigrate the future first lady of these United States.

Once again, it goes to show that the libs have no decency. Stick to the issues...isn't that what they said?

www.ArmchairEnergist...

Must've got the idea for the article...

...from the Chicago Tribune.  After all, they've been kissing her butt since 11/5.  And meanwhile, "Obamamania", brought to you courtesy of the Chicago media, rolls on non-stop. I can't get over how they're treating him like he's some native son, yet he's only been an elected Illinois politician for barely a decade, with a pretty blank track record at that; his local pedigree is quite modest at best.  Meanwhile, print media coverage has gotten so ridiculous that the Tribune and the Sun-Times are ruthlessly trying to outdo each other to see who can come up with the most fluff pieces about the first family to be; and frankly, this rampant, incessant adulation has now gotten fully intolerable, I just can't buy the paper anymore.   Thank god for the internet... 

A MIGHTY DERRIERE

I FIRST NOTICED MICHELLE'S BACKGROUND WHEN

SHE WALKED ALONGSIDE LAURA INTO THE

WHITE HOUSE. WOW, I EXCLAIMED, SHE'S ALREADY

BROADENED HER HORIZONS AND BORACK HASN'T

EVEN BEEN SWORN IN.

WHAT WILL THE REAR VIEW LOOK LIKE AFTER ONE

OR TWO TERMS IN OFFICE?

"NOBODY PUTS ONE OVER ON FRED C DOBBS"

B.TRAVEN

we already new shes an ass a

we already new shes an ass a big ass from her comments about her pride in her country. I wonder if she`ll pay off those student loans now!

The Movie 'Idiocracy'

has become reality. A true to life documentary.

"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox

I'm shocked

at myself for actually reading this posting - it reminds me of those moments when I scan the national enquirer while waiting in the check out line - does this make me a bottom feeder :-)

I can't believe...

...that I've read all of these and no one has stated the obvious.

That Fat Bottomed Girls Make the Rockin' World Go Round!

Nobody call me a Queen... I ain't no Queen... :)

 

I'm done talkin'.

 

 

Save me from the good people!

Ms Kaplan...

should expand her research.

This recent event seems to contradict her opinion.

I imagine many agree.

Nevertheless, perhaps she might encourage The First Lady Elect to compete next year.

Leave it up to me ;-)

"...who bucked the curviness of the '50s..."

as someone who grew up in the 50s when CURVACEOUS figures such as those of Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth were appreciated, I would have to assume that the (higher paid than me) journalist/blogger/whatever did not!  Is there even such a word as "curviness"???????????????????????

Otherwise, I agree - subject matter is distasteful to say the least.  Is this the beginning of the "new era of change" in that all civility will be dispensed with and we will descend into the language of 'the hood"????

I think the hep phrase is

I think the hep phrase is Curvizzle, Cape Conservatizzle...

The cost of living's going up, and the chance of livin's going down. - Flip Wilson

All of this piece of

All of this piece of so-called journalism is absolutely disgusting... in fact...butt-ugly.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Climate

Off topic, butt (hehe) you might bew interested in the findings of the recent EPICA Conference. Review of a new and deeper ice core showing climate's been hotter recently (geologiocally) and colder more recently.

Check out Omniclimate for the story.

Funny, I haven't seen ANY news on this conference in the MSM.

CJW

I believe Michelle Obama

I believe Michelle Obama doesn't like America very much, (probably from her 20 years attending church with Rev Wright) she didn't attend the anniversary of 9/11!

Funny thing is, now she will have to attend tons of American ceremonies.