You really have to hand it to the dolts and halfwits at Breitbart.com. When they’re looking for something to act outraged at the Obamas over, they leave no stone unturned in the effort to make themselves look ridiculous. And William Bigelow has found a very serious problem to get upset over:
But it is not only the frequency of Michelle Obama’s appearances that are unusual — it is the manner in which she uses her position to diminish the respect for the White House itself. Appearing on “The Biggest Loser,” Obama used the historic East Room of the White House to videotape an exercise segment with sweaty bodies sprawled all over the floor. For a bit of historical perspective, the East Room was the site of such events as the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, the signing of the Civil Rights Act, presidential press conferences, and presidential awards of military and civilian honors…
The Obamas might do well to remember a warning from Aesop’s fables: familiarity breeds contempt. With their own contempt for the sanctity of the White House, they deserve no less from us.
What an outrage. I think he should start a letter-writing campaign immediately.
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Bronze Dog
April 30, 2012 at 10:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This are serious business.
wheatdogg
April 30, 2012 at 10:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Don’t tell anyone, but I think the Obamas might actually use the toilets in the White House, too. Shocka!
anandine
April 30, 2012 at 10:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think he should start a letter-writing campaign immediately
Let’s see, 26 letters in the alphabet, one letter per second, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 265 days till the inauguration, means … he could write all 26 letters about 5200 times before Obama is re-inaugurated.
Doubting Thomas
April 30, 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dear Ms Obama,
You go girl!
Mr Ed
April 30, 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I guess I should plan on voting for Obama if the worst thing happening in the world is a first lady fighting obesity.
Dr X
April 30, 2012 at 10:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The White House is almost a sacred as our genitals.
Dr X
April 30, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
genitalia
kevinbeck
April 30, 2012 at 11:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The real travesty is that Michelle Obama is evidently forcing people to not only turn on their TVs but tune them into channels on which she appears. Heaven forbid anyone averse to watching the First Lady in action seek out programming more intellectually appropriate for Breitbart acolytes, such as “Beavis and Butthead” or “Romper Room.”
eric
April 30, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Don’t tell anyone, but I think the Obamas might actually use the toilets in the White House, too. Shocka!
Yeah, the implied racism was the first thing I thought about too. As in: Bigelow would be fine with the Obamas exercising in the WH – the servants quarters, that is (if they still existed).
Ellie
April 30, 2012 at 11:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For a bit of historical perspective: the East Room is where Abigail Adams hung laundry, where Tad Lincoln hitched goats to a chair and took a ride, where Teddy Roosevelt watched wrestling competitions and took lessons in jujitsu, where his children roller skated, where Amy Carter also roller skated. But of course, this is Breitbart.com where nobody needs to know any real history.
Modusoperandi
April 30, 2012 at 11:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hah! So did Kennedy!
Raging Bee
April 30, 2012 at 11:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
…the East Room was the site of such events as the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, the signing of the Civil Rights Act, presidential press conferences, and presidential awards of military and civilian honors…
…and I’m sure it’s been the site of more frivolous events as well. That’s why it’s on the other side of the White House from the West Wing, innit?
Besides, if these dimwits think exercising in the East Room is frivolous, they should see what the Obama girls are doing in the Residence when they’re not in school! Children acting like children totally ruins the dignity of the White House…is no one thinking of the (overgrown) children?
Also, notice how these excitable sods get all hot and botehred about “sweaty bodies sprawled all over the floor?” Just more symptoms of unhealthy obsessions from the good Christian pearl-clutchers…
Michael Heath
April 30, 2012 at 11:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
How again did the revered Indian killer and populist Andrew Jackson treat the White House?
D. C. Sessions
April 30, 2012 at 12:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Perhaps we should insist that the President be a virgin i addition to being descended from a long line of Presidents.
d cwilson
April 30, 2012 at 12:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And George H. W. Bush rented out the Lincoln Bedroom to his donors (as did Clinton).
Taz
April 30, 2012 at 2:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That makes her a slut, right?
d cwilson
April 30, 2012 at 2:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The way things are going, I would not be the least bit surprised if the next republican president ordered every toilet seat in the White House removed and burned.
frog
April 30, 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And I’m sure the dog gets to piddle on the lawn. The WHITE HOUSE LAWN, that sacrosanct tract of greensward!
Let’s not even discuss whether various presidents have sex there.
timgueguen
April 30, 2012 at 6:37 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Someone should tell the crank squad that Mrs. Obama was on an episode of the popular Nickelodeon TV series iCarly, so they can freak out about her warping the precious bodily fluids of the innocent childrenz.