Food TV Host Marvels: Michelle Obama's the 'Most Humanistic, Charismatic, Caring' Person
Michelle Obama’s showing up on yet another cable reality show, and once again TV Guide is kissing her ring. The new June 11-17 issue carries the headline “A First-class First Lady.” Reporter Oriana Schwindt said the Food Network’s “Restaurant Impossible” will make a new dining room, kitchen and garden for the charity Horton’s Kids in the poor Anacostia neighborhood in Washington, DC, and Michelle came for a few hours to supervise and make her latest cameo.
“I’ve worked for different presidents,” said the program’s host Robert Irvine, “but forget politics – this lady is one of the most humanistic, charismatic, caring people I’ve ever met.” TV Guide wasn’t done:
“She spoke to every child, every worker, every mother,” marvels Irvine, “and didn’t leave, even when she was being pulled left, right, and center by aides and Secret Service.”
If you believe Michelle Obama is just yanked around by the Secret Service like she’s a rag doll, you might also believe she’s one of the most magical people you could ever come across.
The First Lady has made more than 44 cameo TV appearances since moving to the White House. Her Food Network appearance premieres on June 13 at 10 pm/ 9 central.
PS: The Braiser blog says Irvine is not telling the truth when he says he's worked for presidents.
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Jeez
Submitted by Servo1969 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:02pm.
Jeez Irvine. Stick to cooking and restaurant management. Character judging isn't your bag.
This ain't po-tay-toe vs. po-tah-toe; this is absolute, ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:17pm.
unadulterated, purely partisan, ass kissing, nausea inducing bullshit.
MD
➚Humanistic?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:27pm.
I don't think that word means what he thinks it means, but I think he accidentally got it right.
Frightening Thought
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 12:00am.
Compared to the people Robert Irvine hangs out with, Moochelle may be all that and a bag of Lite-Baked chips.
I'm with you
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 12:24am.
Humane is a word of praise. Humanistic sounds like something Margaret Sanger would say. Of course concerning Michelle Obama, Sanger would use the word "inferior".
Robert Irvine just lost a fan and a frequent viewer
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:31pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave, I'm ticked off at the
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 7:33am.
Dave, I'm ticked off at the entire FN, not only for their sucking up to the WH, ...remember their "Iron Chef" challenge with vegetables from the White House garden??? (which, BTW, weren't really)..... but their whole politically correct "going green" crap.
They send a 15 contestants to Whole Foods (of course) and they all come out with a dozen each cloth grocery bags is Whole Foods giving them away now??? The whole point about the bags is to reuse them. Does anyone think FN is "reusing" them? But they sure look "correct."
The hosts now make a big deal about putting their peelings etc. in a "compost bin." The paper towels are all brown.
Give me a break! The only thing they're missing is a show about making meals cooked with solar power...you know, frying the egg on the sidewalk LOL.... to save energy
The entire FN is in the tank for the Obamas.
MotherB...
Submitted by retrocon on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 9:43am.
While i'm generally with ya on this, i'm a little confused by the whole foods comment "Whole Foods (of course)"... Have you read this Op-Ed by the co-founder, CEO, and former Chairman of WF? Op-Ed
I remember hearing that Mackey caught a lot of flak over that, but it reads like a conservative manifesto for healthcare (i.e., intelligent, well thought out, practical).
As he ends the editorial; "We are all responsible for our own lives and our own health. We should take that responsibility very seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will protect our health. Doing so will enrich our lives and will help create a vibrant and sustainable American society."
Mackey is a libertarian.
I think FN has some conservatives, as well, we only hear about the liberals, because they are the vocal butt-kissers. But they are a successful channel, capitalists at their best. They may compost and recycle, and stress healthy food at times, but really, i still see FAR more unhealthy food on the channel, after all, it's hard to make anything that tastes good without lots of salt and butter and rib-eye, IMHO ;-)
Anyway, just wanted to call out that Whole Foods isn't a bastion of liberal politicos trying to force Bloomberg style legislation nationally.
i don't know about Irvine... i'm surprised by the comment.
MB, you're forgetting Alton Brown
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 11:23am.
Cooking on Asphalt (j/k).
I am pretty much over FN. There's not much going on there that is interesting in any way, shape, or form.
And it's not just FN that is bowing down to the Democrats, I might add.
Last Season's Top Chef (Bravo) was in DC.....Nanny Pelosi showed up, and they did an episode with Panetta.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
This just ticks me off!
Submitted by Rukus on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 9:02am.
I always liked Robert and his show Dinner Impossible, he was "get it the hell done!" no matter what! I just can't understand sucking up to the wookie unless he was just "being polite/PC"... I don't know, he has become another celeb towing the messiah line. Rrrrrrrrrgh! And Food Network is about my favorite, or was. I'll stick with Alton Brown and Bobby Flay from now on (please don't let them go over to the dark side...)
Tah, tah. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:51pm.
. . . Robert. I USED to watch your show. . .
Robert Irvine
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:58pm.
Obviously doesn't get out much.
Hmm Robert embellishing again.
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 12:04am.
Wouldn't be the first time.
http://www.tvshark.com/read/?art=arc1538
Wow...
Submitted by retrocon on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 1:46pm.
did not see that coming.
Well, once a liar, always a lib, uh, liar.
blah...
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 12:18am.
As seen on the Tee-vee...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0UQBHWXpeY
I actually like Irvine, even
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 12:24am.
I actually like Irvine, even if he did embellish his resume (note that despite that, Food Network rehired him because he's that damn good). Then again, I suppose I should surprised that more celebrities aren't coming out to kiss Her Royal Highness' round backside and call it dark chocolate.
Robert Irvine is an inveterate liar
Submitted by markljackson on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 1:55am.
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/17/Southpinellas/TV_chef_spiced_up_his.shtml
He claims to be Knight, and have a castle. He has neither.
He claims to have worked at the White House. That’s not true either. He still claims to have trained Navy Chefs there. He won’t comment on what he did or did not do at the WH; because “it’s the White House."
He claims to have a degree from Leeds University. He doesn’t.
He claims to have worked on the cake for Diana and Charles wedding. Seems to be not true, as he admits to “picking fruits and things.” Earlier he claimed to have done the icing that showed the history of the Monarchy.
His “Five Star Diamond Award?” Bought and paid for; from himself.
It’s no wonder he is an Obama fan.
The first Wookie and her mate
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 2:15am.
The first Wookie and her mate are really narcissistic, I can't remember when any other President and their wives were so much on TV and in the news.
Speaking of, Dan
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:21am.
I've had in mind for a long time the idea to go through all the magazines published since Barack Obama entered the public eye in about 2006* and count the number of times he and/or Michelle have gotten a cover story. The only problem is, I'm a very busy man and and I can think of about a thousand ways I'd rather spend my time than wading through all that hollow glurge. Hitting myself in the family jewels with a tack hammer, for example.
I do wonder if anyone has already had this idea and taken it upon themselves to actually explore it. (The magazine thing, not the hammer to the manbits thing.)
* Though one supposes I could reduce the number by setting a cut-off point, maybe even restricting it to the period he's been in office, but I don't think it would help all that much.
Since motherbelt hasn't shown
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 2:36am.
Since motherbelt hasn't shown up on this thread, I'll fill in for her: oh BARF!!!!!
Thanks, killa, you got it
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 7:14am.
Thanks, killa, you got it just right!
Moochelle
Submitted by lilium479 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 2:37am.
Irvine must only meet real low life's.
I'll give Mr. Irvine the
Submitted by Semus on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 3:01am.
I'll give Mr. Irvine the benifit of the doubt. He is or was a British subject and therefore may have socialistic tendencies because that's all he knows. I also understand that all he knows or cares to know about the Obama's is the MSM filtered version and what his bosses at Food Network want him to know. They seem to have a close relationship with this adminstration. If Mr. Irvine believes what he's stated about Michelle he's not living in reality.
I wonder if Mr. Irvine is at all curious why Obama sent the bust of Churchill back to England? Then again maybe he doesn't think it's important. It's important and what's more what it symbolizes is more important. For one thing I don't think he had any right to send it back because It wasn't his to send back. Our President isn't one to let the rule of law get in his way. Another reason in short his disdain for England because of her history and where the Obama's loyalties really are. One last question why is Obama turning his back on all of our allies and embracing all of our enemies and Englands for that matter?
I suggest Irvine do a little or a lot of reading, read about what Mr. Obama has done both at home and abroad. There's no ambivalance his goals are clear all you have to do is look pay attention and remember. I believe there are reasons why the records are sealed. If Mr. Irvine doesn't care about things like this that's fine. If it's one thing this Administration likes is ignorant people or unscrupulous people. You've probably lost a lot of fans with your courageous statement but I'm certain of one.
Excuse me, Semus...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 3:33am.
Unless I overlooked it--and please correct me if I did--Irvine uttered not one single word about the President. Since when is it inappropriate, and apparently beyond the pale in this case, to say something complimentary about a First Lady?
Jer
Use your head
Submitted by Semus on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:33am.
Did I get carried away maybe, but I believe his poliices are her policies and she hates the country as much if not more that her husband. And Robert Irvine is at best either a completely incurious nincompoop, or an unscrupulous Useful Idiot. That's how I'd classify you too..
Jer does use his head, Semus, to continually think ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:41am.
of ways take up verbal arms in order to rail against anything "untoward" said about Obama, Obama's nasty-visaged wife, Obama's administration, Democrats, liberals or lefties.
Ol' Jer takes any post broadsides aimed at the Obama's as a personal insult to himself, cuz he is on their side of the political aisle.
Consistently.
Except, of course, for the times he is pointing out his constant effort to be consistent with consistently calling out the 'occasionally' imperfect Democrat, liberal,or lefty.
MD
Useful idiot? A bit of a coincidence...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 2:57pm.
given that I've always considered you to be a rather useless idiot, a characterization reaffirmed by yet another example of your tediously insipid commentary.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 3:15pm.
"given that I've always considered you to be a rather useless idiot"
That makes one of us with that opinion.
You're alone here, Jer, and yet you don't want to get used to that fact. Ya' just wanna keep hangin' out on a conservative site throwing up your daily liberal-defense nonsense, and then boring us with your feigned outrage to every poster that calls you out and tells you to shove it regarding your failed/flawed take on politics, policy and governing -- and, most glaring, your hideous judgment of character of politicians, most notably Obama & Co., among so many others wretched progressive Dems.
But you don't seem to have anything better to do.
- shy gets funky this fall
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
Thanks for your opinion, Shy...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 7:02pm.
And the occasion of my fifth anniversary at NewsBusters seems an appropriate time to note it is just as worthless today as it was when I arrived here.
Stick to singing--and bitching and moaning about your brothers. You're not too sharp as a political or psychological analyst.
Jer
Regardless, Jer, ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 7:20pm.
Shy's post , opinion or not, rings with more common sense than does your reply to him.
Whether you choose to admit it or not, your continual comments from the left side do not make you a purveyor of truth; they make you, on this site, the equivalent of a troll who shows up merely to antagonize conservatives.
Which you do; most handily.
As you are an intelligent person, I am starting to believe that your choosing to be a lefty - on the side of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and that bunch - is proof that liberalism is indeed a disease.
The Lib-Dims are truly @#^%* 'd up.
QED.
Congrats on surviving five years here.
MD
Matthew, I don't pretend to be a purveyor of "Truth".
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 8:10pm.
In fact, that has always been one of my major complaints with ideologues of the Left and the Right: Both sides believe they are uniquely invested with, and possess an exclusive license for the dissemination of, the Truth.
Now, a further note regarding Shy's whine about my "feigned outrage" at being called out, etc. It is neither "outrage" nor is it "feigned". The simple fact is this: I am not bal. I am not a turn-the-other-cheek lib. That is not a criticism of bal. I not only admire but actually envy his capacity to casually brush aside the shit that is continually dealt to him. Maybe it's just different wiring. But when someone--well, let's use the current Semus example--classifies me as a "completely incurious nincompoop or an unscrupulous Useful Idiot", I reserve and will often exercise the right to counterpunch.
Thanks for the congrats. It's been an interesting five years, to say the least.
Jer
I have said before, Jer, that I see you as a ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 8:45pm.
counter puncher; and know for a fact that you do not initiate nasty exchanges.
That said, you get shit from conservatives here for the very same reason bal catches shit - and it ain't because of the following:
"Both sides believe they are uniquely invested with, and possess an exclusive license for the dissemination of, the Truth."
That references ideology, and while ideology should not be discounted as often being a reasonable base of operations - to see the absolute nastiness evinced by the likes of Michelle Obama; the utterly undeserved and irredeemable arrogance coupled with asinine ineptness exhibited by the pos in the Oval Office - not only played down at a minimum or more often completely ignored by the media and the exact opposite trumpeted by ass-kising, fawning dolts, insults my intelligence.
I have no respect for anyone who buys into, supports, defends or is part of the herd led by these f**king worthless grifters - whether bound to them by ideology or stupidity..
They and their ilk are a goddamned cancer.
Period.
There is nothing good to be said about any of the aforementioned group.
MD
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 2:34am.
"The simple fact is this: I am not bal."
Funny you should rush to tell us, out of left field, that you're not bal. Funny cuz, well, it dawned on me as I was reading your reply and then MDs post, that...
The actual fact is: Jer is no different from Bal.
Setting aside your obvious superior eloquence and mastery of the English language, these are stark, unavoidable truths:
-- Bal has been here 5 years (roughly), and nothing's changed.
-- Jer has been here 5 years, and nothing's changed.
- funky shy
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
Whatever, Shy...I'm going to bed.
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 2:44am.
My 5 yr. NB anniversary is almost over anyway. It was wonderful.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 3:43pm.
Congrats on 5 years of antagonism!
:)
- shy ideology
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
Compliments are not the issue.
Submitted by Order270 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:08am.
The irony is how amazingly forbidden it is to criticize this Razor Jawbone without the Ivory Tower Brigade reining havoc about breaking imaginary rules.
i used to find this guy credible
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 3:13am.
now i see him as just another obama dweeb.
Role Models: Magic Africans
Submitted by mark trail on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:58am.
Haven't any of you discovered the new religion that will bring you to your knees is the African Mojingo Dingo Dong culture as preached by Rev Jeremiah Wright? Larry Sinclair worshiped at its source, and MagicAfricanism is here to stay. Black is the new White, and times they are a'changin. Hollywood is racist because it sells popcorn in its worship centers, but pass the salt anyway; this will be a good ol' fashion hoe-down. Ma & Pa Kettle, release your grip on reality and smell the bacon burnin. Swamp People, man your battle stations; Condition Pink is in effect.
Scripted
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 8:01am.
Does anyone believe that the commentary on the moocher isn't scripted in advance of the visit.
Scary stuff coming from these Maoist wannabes.
Food Network
Submitted by gwalt on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 8:38am.
Food Network, meet Mr. And Mrs. Boycott. Nor more Restauarant Impossible, Iron Chef or Triple D.
What were you thinking?
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Don't get between the Wookie and the Chicken Wings
Submitted by dmandmand on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 9:57am.
According to Paula Deen, The Foist Lady was astounding in her capacity to scarf down the specialty of the show for that episode. She said she had to make several batches because for a awhile they were being eaten quicker than the were being cooked and they had to have something to show the viewers as the result of their labors.
Oh,good
Submitted by ant on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 10:04am.
The children of Anacostia may have to spend their lives avoiding stray bullets, the temptation of drugs, rotten schools, one-parent households (if they're lucky) look at the prospect of living in poverty, joblessness, trapped in racial hatred and the blame-game, and depending on government, but at least they'll now have Mooch-approved fruits and vegetables.
2nd most despicable person..
Submitted by bob_campbell on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 12:18pm.
I change the channel when I see Obama on the boob-tube. I throw up when I look at Moochelle.
Another show
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 12:28pm.
I used to tune into that show sometimes--never again.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 1:00pm.
What do you expect from the food channel, or whatever the hell it's called...
I have no doubt that she is
Submitted by mattm on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 1:31pm.
I have no doubt that she is 'humanistic.' The TV host probably meant 'humane,' but 'humanistic' is probably a better term, since humanism is a selfish philosophy based on the worship of Mankind - which all socialists believe in in one form or another. Hitler's brand of humanism led him to genocide...not much different from the social engineers on the Left who go about it more subtle ways...