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Conservative Columnist Irrationally Hates Michelle Obama. More at 11.

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts, Assweasels, Michelle Obama, Racism, Sexism on Mar 24, 2009, 2:30pm | 7 comments

Bish plz.  Via Barack_Obama @ Flickr.

Bish? plz. Via Barack_Obama @ Flickr.

The What About Our Daughters blog tipped me off to this juicy bit of racialized sexism (or sexualized racism) towards Michelle Obama at Clown Hall.

In a stream-of-conscious screed against universal health care, the Taliban, and Hollywood liberals, Burt Prelutsky wonders: if the Obama family dog is female, will she be the first or second bitch of the house? Hah hah! Get it? Michelle Obama is a bitch. Apparently she’s a bitch because she hates America, despite

the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary.

Nothing more aggravating than a black woman who went to a better school than you and earns more money, huh, old white guy? Better bring her down a peg with gendered slurs and the insinuation that she can’t possibly be as smart as her education and career credentials imply. Then call her ugly.

the left-wing media is now trying to convince us that this James Brown-look-alike has all the allure, glamour and fashion sense of Jackie Kennedy.

I thought she looked like Stokely Carmichael. Oh, I suppose any black man will do! Prelutsky also makes fun of Barack Obama’s ears. Damn, this guy does not like it when allegedly ugly folks garner adoration.

I’m getting sick of clicking on the “assweasels” tag.

7 Responses to “Conservative Columnist Irrationally Hates Michelle Obama. More at 11.”

  1. Khrushchev says:
    March 24, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Yowza. I have no idea what this article is supposed to be about, but he does give my boy Nikita a shout-out on the second page. He also ends with “Amen,” even though I don’t think he was praying.

  2. Pilgrim Soul says:
    March 24, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    It’d be self-defeating but I wonder if we would not be largely better off without the internet.

  3. funnyface says:
    March 24, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    Even more interesting, on a post I read about this at HuffPo, they mentioned that townhall.com is owned by a CHRISTIAN radio network. Baby Jesus would not like the ‘bitch’ jokes, surely.

  4. sarah.of.a.lesser.god says:
    March 24, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    I don’t like it when actually stupid/vitriolic people garner adoration. I think I have a better case than Prelutsky.

  5. bluebears says:
    March 24, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    So yesterday I commented that I read The Corner on NRO from time to time? Yeah, I try to never EVER read anything published on TownHall. It is all hands down vile.

  6. mkp-hearts-nyc says:
    March 24, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    Why is there this “sudden” (she says, pretending much of the election coverage wasn’t equally as offensive if slightly submerged) vitriol against Ms. Obama?! Trashy and bitchy? She’s not even railing against the damn patriarchy! She’s just minding her own business and putting her life on hold to be First Lady for 4(+) years.

    I hate everyone today.

  7. DangerMouse says:
    March 24, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Holy. Crap.

    It is not just unjustifiably vitriolic, it’s… nonsensical. Cannot compute.

    I mean, she didn’t run. Why are they even paying this much attention to her? I like her and all, but Laura Bush got left alone.

    Also… “the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree….” Um, maybe affirmative action could hypothetically get someone in the door. But affirmative action doesn’t mean that person graduates. I mean, this being beside the point that it is a complete load of BS anyway. Sometimes I think people just tell themselves that affirmative action is the reason they *didn’t* get something because they’d rather believe that than that they didn’t get in because they are idiotic asshole blowhards. And, you know, it’s not like they benefit from racism every damn day without even thinking about it or trying.

    Look, I’m raging without PMS. Take that, stupid ass PMS tracker website.

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