The latest bit of right wing idiocy is a full scale freakout over Michelle Obama insulting the flag. Watch this Youtube video and tell me what you see:
If you’re a wingnut, you probably think she said “All this for a damn flag.” Media Matters has links to all the right wing bloggers and “journalists” who are claiming that. Unreconstructed lunatic Debbie Schlussel is my favorite. She says she can’t be sure that’s what Obama said, but that’s okay because she must have been thinking it anyway:
I can’t really tell for sure, but a number of people are abuzz about this video of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Hussein Obama Idi Amin Dada. The consensus seems to be that the First Ms. Thang is saying to hubby Barack, “All of this for a damn flag.” (She said this about the American flag–you know the one brave men died for.) Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what she said because we know she hates America and previously said she wasn’t proud of our country until Obama had a chance to become Prez. Looks like that’s what she said, but I can’t tell for sure. I would need a deaf person or other expert lip reader to confirm. Watch and see if you agree (like I said, even if she didn’t say exactly that, we know she’s thinkin’ it). . .
If you’re deaf and an accomplished lip reader, on the other hand, she said pretty much the exact opposite.
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Randomfactor
September 16, 2011 at 1:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Such awful disrespect for our national symbol:
Brett McCoy
September 16, 2011 at 1:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I can’t tell everything she says but it’s obvious she says something that ends with “fold that flag”. Going to the lipreaders site confirms that.
raymoscow
September 16, 2011 at 1:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Even worse, she apparently gave a guitar to — you guessed it — France!
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-t-enfreint-loi-carla-143003095.html
(translate with Google if your French is a bad as mine)
Bronze Dog
September 16, 2011 at 2:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m still annoyed with flag idolators trying to destroy America’s values like freedom of expression (by way of stepping on a flag as an example for a class), so I have a hard time caring what Michelle said.
Jason Thibeault
September 16, 2011 at 2:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
randomfactor@1: it’s okay if you’re a Republican, though. They even have an acronym for that fact, you should remember it by now!
robb
September 16, 2011 at 2:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
to me, it looks like she said
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
386sx
September 16, 2011 at 2:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You don’t have to be a lip reader to see she isn’t saying what they pretend like she’s saying. They know they’re pretending too because it’s too obvious. It’s play-pretend day in wingnutville land again.
nemothederv
September 16, 2011 at 2:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My niece, who is deaf, thinks that Michelle is saying,
“It’s amazing how they fold that flag”
I’m sure fox will be disgusted that she would be amazed at this.
Randomfactor
September 16, 2011 at 2:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Are they sure she didn’t say “It’s amazing how whitey folds that flag?”
teawithbertrand
September 16, 2011 at 2:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@7
Isn’t EVERYDAY play-pretend day for these idiots?
jamessweet
September 16, 2011 at 2:22 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hmmm, I thought they were dying for our country and for our freedoms, not for the flag. They died for the flag? That seems pointless and stupid… Just buy a new one!
Mr Ed
September 16, 2011 at 2:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
More right wing demagoguery. I think it is kind of liberating, once you accept that nothing you do will calm the lunatic fringe your free to ignore them.
bigjohn756
September 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Why would she say anything derogatory knowing that she is almost certainly on camera. Do these people think that she’s a stupid as W?
nemothederv
September 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If wonder if the realize that the “founding fathers” didnt even want there to be a flag.
Flags were heralds of royalty in those days. They made their feelings very clear concerning royalty.
After all, what is the Declaration of Independence if not a big “fuck you” letter to King George?
Improbable Joe
September 16, 2011 at 2:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
ZOMG! Anti-American right-wingers make shit up!
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
September 16, 2011 at 2:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
But Tea Partiers aren’t even the slightest bit racist. No sirree Bob.
John Hinkle
September 16, 2011 at 3:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
One of the lip readers claims this is what Michelle said:
Aquaria
September 16, 2011 at 3:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
(She said this about the American flag–you know the one brave men died for.)
I guess the women who have died serving this country don’t count to this scumbag?
By the way, where’s you DD-214, Deb? Oh. Of course you don’t have one, you cowardly fuckface, so just who the fuck are you to worry about who died for their country or didn’t, when you couldn’t be fucked to try to do the same?
What a bag of slime.
Francisco Bacopa
September 16, 2011 at 3:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s amazing how they fold their brains.
Susannah
September 16, 2011 at 4:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I can’t see the first bit of her sentence, but it clearly ends with “fold the flag”. You don’t even need a lip-reading expert for that much. “…damn flag” just doesn’t look at all like what she said.
jimmiraybob
September 16, 2011 at 4:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Debbie Schlussel? Debbie Schlussel the genocidal lunatic?
That Debbie Schlussel?
Do we listen to advocates of genocide?
jimmiraybob
September 16, 2011 at 4:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
nemothederv@14 –
A credit application to France?
DaveL
September 16, 2011 at 6:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Let me get this straight – all these people are freaking out over something they can’t hear Michelle Obama saying on this video, but which they’re pretty sure she must have said because they can kinda sorta read lips, but not really?
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
September 16, 2011 at 6:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Actually stuff like this can happen on both sides. I remember a full thermonuclear freakout a few years ago over at Americablog when John posted a video that purported to show W flipping off a bunch of reporters. If you looked closely, you could see he was actually giving them a thumbs-up, but most of the commenters over there were having none of it. Anyone arguing against the consensus was accused of having a right-wing agenda.
I wouldn’t even think of denying, though, that it seems to happen a lot more on the right than on the left.
Pinky
September 16, 2011 at 7:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
An now a word from Bertrand Russell:
ambulocetacean
September 16, 2011 at 9:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Jimmiraybob #22. LOL. =)
Lord Shplanington, Not A Frenchman
September 16, 2011 at 10:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Honestly, I wish she HAD said that. I’d have gained a ton of respect for her, and would have had to acknowledge that good ol’ Barack at least has good taste in relationships.
Chiroptera
September 16, 2011 at 10:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think Michelle is saying, “Thank God we’re in public in full view of everyone. There’s no way anyone can make a sordid accusation out of this!”
Modusoperandi
September 17, 2011 at 1:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hold on. There’s something wrong with this story. While I find it plausible that the Real Patriotic Americans®, so outraged over this typical Liberal-Socio-Islamist disregard for America and Freedom and America, can read lips, I find it hard to believe that they understand Muslim.