Michelle Obama Makes Gabby Douglas Apologize for Celebrating Her Olympic Gold Medals with an Egg McMuffin

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.14.2012 11:38 AM

Watch in horror as First Lady and Food Cop in Chief Michelle Obama forces Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas—who, by the way, won two gold medals at the Olympics—to apologize for eating an Egg McMuffin after winning two gold medals at the Olympics.

I guess these are the kind of horrors that occur when you don't ban McDonald's from sponsoring the Games.

Transcript:

JAY LENO: You trained your whole life, you win. How did you celebrate? What did you do?

GABBY DOUGLAS: We didn't have time to celebrate. It was team finals and had to turn the page all-around finals and event finals after that. But, after the competition, I splurged on an Egg McMuffin at McDonald's.

LENO: Egg McMuffin.

[Laughter]

MICHELLE OBAMA: Yeah, Gabby, we don't, don't encourage him. [Laughter] I'm sure it was on…

DOUGLAS: A salad.

OBAMA: …a whole wheat McMuffin.

LENO: It was on a whole wheat bun.

OBAMA: Yeah.

LENO: So an Egg McMuffin. Very good.

[Light laughter]

OBAMA: You're setting me back, Gabby.

DOUGLAS: Sorry.

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The Late P Brooks 13 years ago

You're setting me back, Gabby.

It's a HATE CRIME.
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  Not if it's Black on Black.
Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago

"I ran a lot of miles training for that day...and I downed a lot of donuts. Yep, Little Chocolate Donuts have been on MY training table, since I was a kid."

Little Chocolate Donuts--The Breakfast of Champions.
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Belushi was surprisingly athletic in that.
  1. Spartacus 13 years ago
    
    I thought Belushi ate powdered donuts. That was why there was always this little white dusting around his nose.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      Sure, he would have had to participate in the all drugs olympics, but still.
      1. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        All Drug Olympics. Classic.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Thanks, I couldn't find it on youtube to link.
        
        Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        NBC is highly aggressive with its copyrights, so Hulu is the best place to go for SNL stuff.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        You'd think they want people to watch funny SNL so once a year or so they'd tune in to see if it was funny again.
Episiarch 13 years ago

Michelle Obama has to be the most repulsive first lady in the history of this country. What a fucking piece of shit. She can't let the kid enjoy her moment?
1. generic Brand 13 years ago
  
  As far as what she says, you're probably right. But repulsive in general? Have you seen pictures of Eleanor Roosevelt?
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    I think even Eleanor would have let the kid enjoy the moment. Michelle is really just awful.
    1. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      I think "bitch" is the word your looking for.
  2. Episiarch 13 years ago
    
    As for ugly, they're both contending hard for most repulsive. Let's call it a tie. But I was talking about her megalomania.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      I have always heard Elinore was a pretty nice person whatever he politics. I have never heard that about Michelle.
  3. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
    
    Eleanor would carry a pistol at demonstrations to defend blacks against the local cops.
2. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
  
  that's really the thing. she had to show up a 15-year-old? (16?)
  1. fried wylie 13 years ago
    
    don't knock it till you've tried it.
    
    I like to tutor kids in math, and then call them stupid whenever they can't solve something without my help.
    
    My Ego has never been healthier or more robust.
  2. Brandybuck 13 years ago
    
    The "you're setting my back" is the most telling phrase. To the first lady it's all about the first lady.
    1. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
      
      She's a perfect match to Barack in that way.
3. Joe R. 13 years ago
  
  She can't let the kid enjoy her moment?
  
  It's worse than that: in her mind, no, she can't. It wasn't harmless banter. She is legitimately concerned that Little League teams go to McDonald's after games, and was afraid Douglas was encouraging that kind of behavior.
  1. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    She is legitimately concerned that Little League teams go to McDonald's after games
    
    You may want to use a different word there.
    1. fried wylie 13 years ago
      
      Sincerely.
    2. Joe R. 13 years ago
      
      Err, yeah. My bad.
    3. Joe R. 13 years ago
      
      I blame rage and low blood sugar.
Drake 13 years ago

"Fuck off you old busy-body"

She could have ended the Obama Administration right there.
1. Joe R. 13 years ago
  
  I would have bought a box of Wheaties with her picture on it for that.
  
  And an Egg McMuffin.
2. Copernicus 13 years ago
  
  This is my dream exchange:
  
  Leno: How did you celebrate?
  GD: Went to McD's. I love McD's.
  MO: Don't say that, you're setting me back.
  GD: Why, do I look fat to you? I'm a hell of a lot more fit than you or your cigarette smoking husband. I'll eat what I damn well please, you don't own me.
niobiumstudio 13 years ago

Sure, what the first lady said came off a little bitchy, but it wasn't that bad - it certainly didn't warrant a friggin article about it. Michelle Obama did not make Gabby Douglas apologize - she was clearly joking around and didn't say "Apologize bitch!" or even say the word "apologize". I think your absolute hate for her makes you hear things you want to hear so you can feed your hate-boners for her. It wasn't that bad. Get the fuck over it. I don't see Gabby Douglass bitching about it anywhere.
1. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
  
  PS - I am not defending Michelle Obama, so please don't start the "Slaver" shit again, it took me a long time to get past that. I am just saying, this is not good porn for your Michelle Obama hate boners...
  1. Marshall Gill 13 years ago
    
    it took me a long time to get past that.
    
    Sticks and fucking stones, dude, sticks and stones.
    1. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
      
      Yeah right, you think without that little disclaimer, I WOULDN'T get the "fuck off slaver" for "defending that vile cunt"? Please, this is Hit[ampersand]Run...
  2. Suthenboy 13 years ago
    
    The Michelle Obama hate boners were not conjured out of thin air. This is exactly the kind of shit the 'vile cunt' does that makes us hate her so much.
2. John 13 years ago
  
  Which part of Douglas saying "sorry" don't you understand?
  
  And maybe Michelle shouldn't make every thing about her political pet peeves and she wouldn't open herself up for this?
  1. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
    
    They were clearly joking around and the first lady didn't ask her to apologize. She was saying it in a joking manner - obviated by the fact they are on the Tonight Show... I am not defending her - I am just saying this is clearly a stupid fucking thing to get your panties in a bunch about.
    1. Episiarch 13 years ago
      
      You sure seem to be getting your panties in a bunch over something you say no one should get their panties in a bunch for. Here's a truism: defending shitheads will get you called out. Too fucking bad, dipshit.
      1. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
        
        If only I were defending her...and if my comments weren't dripping with pure, unadulterated sarcasm. Then you would have a point.
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        I don't need a point. Stop getting your panties in a bunch.
    2. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      FUCK OFF, SLAVER!!
    3. Capo 13 years ago
      
      I really just want to point out here, turnabout is fair play. Honestly, you know how tiring it is to have Liberal friends? All you hear all day long is whining about how evil everyone who isn't Liberal is and blah blah blah.
      
      And any time a conservative talk show host or whoever even partially puts their foot in their mouth, you have to endure weeks of this same kind of crap.
      
      In summary, deal with it. 😛
      1. Audrey the Liberal 13 years ago
        
        Honestly, you know how tiring it is to have Liberal friends?
        
        I get around it by having no friends. Also, how do you feel about classical liberals?
3. Randian 13 years ago
  
  niobium,
  
  Passive-aggressively "joking around" with people about their behavior, of which you obviously don't approve, is actually one of the most manipulative tactics out there.
  
  Needling someone but trying to cloak it in good-natured banter is a load of horseshit.
  1. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    Not to mention that this is the First Lady talking to a teenager.
    1. Drake 13 years ago
      
      Yes - makes it manipulative and creepy and pure bitchy.
  2. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
    
    I agree it was bitchy, she's a vile piece of shit, blah, blah, blah, and she shouldn't have done it - but writing an article about it on reason and discussing it like it means jack shit is fucking retarded. You have to admit, there is a point to that. The only reason it is here is to act as porn for people to stroke their hate boners before lunch...
    1. RBS 13 years ago
      
      For someone who doesn't care you are spending a great deal of time telling us about it.
      1. Ragnar 13 years ago
        
        He's stroking his "I hate people who hate Michelle" hate boner...
        
        niobiumstudio 13 years ago
        
        No, I am just procrastinating form doing any meaningful, real work today.
    2. Randian 13 years ago
      
      You agree that it was a bad thing to do.
      
      You agree that it has cultural and political relevance.
      
      You just don't agree that it should be discussed.
      
      It isn't even an article, guy. It's a blog post. KMW herself wrote all of 100 original words on the subject and embedded some video.
      
      Your criticism makes no sense. Is it your contention that nothing is worth talking about? No, that cannot be it. Is there some criteria you want to set forth about things that should be ignored? If so, I have yet to see it.
      1. RBS 13 years ago
        
        I have come to the conclusion that some people simply do not understand the purpose of a blog post.
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        Or he's just a concern troll. I think that's most likely it.
      2. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
        
        "Michelle Obama Makes Gabby Douglas Apologize for Celebrating Her Olympic Gold Medals with an Egg McMuffin" - way, way over-sensationalizing something that amounts to pretty much nothing. That is the only criticism there is.
        
        Randian 13 years ago
        
        way, way over-sensationalizing something that amounts to pretty much nothing. That is the only criticism there is.
        
        Actually, that is not your only criticism.
        
        If that is what you meant to say, then you should have said that. But you said this:
        
        writing an article about it on reason and discussing it like it means jack shit is fucking retarded. You have to admit, there is a point to that. The only reason it is here is to act as porn for people to stroke their hate boners before lunch...
        
        Does that read the same to you?
        
        niobiumstudio 13 years ago
        
        Yep, about sums it up.
    3. RedDragon6009 13 years ago
      
      The only reason it is here is to act as porn for people to stroke their hate boners before lunch...
      
      Wait a minute. Are you saying that folks at reason are providing their audience with shit they might actually agree with and perhaps enjoy reading about? Who the fuck do they think they are? No wonder why slavers like you are so worked up.
      1. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
        
        I am not worked up one bit, it was pure sarcasm. Obviously it is here because people like reading about every little thing Michelle Obama does/says to make them hate her even more. I absofuckinglutely hate the way the police work yet I love reading about cops shooting puppies, children, minorities, etc. here. Just saying that is the only reason it is here and sensationalized to make it seem like Michelle Obama slapped the shit out of Gabby and demanded she apoligized.
        
        Randian 13 years ago
        
        The recursive irony of complainers complaining about the things people complain about.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        Randian| 8.14.12 @ 12:17PM |#|?|filternamelinkcustom
        
        The recursive irony of complainers complaining about the things people complain about.
        
        Yes.
        
        niobiumstudio 13 years ago
        
        Isn't that the point of a comments section...especially the comment section of H[and]R?
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        Concern troll is concerned. We get it. You don't care, except you post a whole hell of a lot for someone so unconcerned.
        
        You're a dipshit. But we already knew that.
        
        RedDragon6009 13 years ago
        
        Just saying that is the only reason it is here and sensationalized to make it seem like Michelle Obama slapped the shit out of Gabby and demanded she apoligized (sic).
        
        I understood your point. I just think it's stupid to reiterate it over and over and over again. But please continue. It's fun to watch you go down in flames.
        
        fried wylie 13 years ago
        
        it was pure sarcasm
        
        Not according to the font.
    4. Ted S. 13 years ago
      
      Every time the moral scolds do this stuff, they need to be told in no uncertain terms that their unsolicited moral scolding is wicked. Preferably, they need it told to their faces.
      1. fried wylie 13 years ago
        
        Scold the scolds. If anyone deserves it...
        
        Irony Intended 13 years ago
        
        Yes, that doesn't make you at all like them!
    5. Audrey the Liberal 13 years ago
      
      The only reason it is here is to act as porn for people to stroke their hate boners before lunch...
      
      What's so wrong with that?
  3. nicole 13 years ago
    
    Passive-aggressively "joking around" with people about their behavior, of which you obviously don't approve, is actually one of the most manipulative tactics out there.
    
    Not to mention the fact that like, no gymnasts ever have eating disorders or anything like that.
    
    I mean fucking a. Anyone ever hear of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes? Sorry. Former gymnast here with a big "fuck off," slaver or not.
    1. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      Ever been to Camp Woodward in PA? I used to coach women's gymnastics there. And as a women's coach (who coached the women's Olympic team there), I agree with you. Eating disorders are fairly common and this cows manipulative actions are deplorable. To that I would add that the number one reason to end Obama's reign is so that this useless bitch get booted out of 1600 PA Ave. I suspect within 2-3 years she will serve Barack divorce papers as he will no longer be of use to her.
      1. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
        
        I'm sure she'd like to be first lady of the world.
        
        Besides she doesn't have any marketable skills to support herself.
4. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Perhaps if MO had made more fun of herself a la Jon Stewart, been a little more self-deprecating, she wouldn't have come off as an overbearing sexual intellect.
5. RBS 13 years ago
  
  Fuck off slaver. But seriously, stop being such a cunt.
  1. niobiumstudio 13 years ago
    
    🙂 Oh, it's good to be back on here...
  2. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    + 69 * 420
6. Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago
  
  It's not just about Michelle. (I know, heresy!) One of the things that is dragging Western civilization into the ditches is the way every little piece of our lives--christ, including our fucking snacks!--is regarded as belonging to the political class. It's just plain stifling.
  1. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
    
    Those had better be State Approved? sandwiches you're enjoying, buster.
The Late P Brooks 13 years ago

DOUGLAS: Sorry.

I'm sorry your life is so empty and unfulfilling you feel the need to stick your mammoth proboscis into everybody else's business. Why don't you go home and browbeat your husband now?
Joe M 13 years ago

Oh my god. I'm going to vote for Romney just to get rid of that obnoxious bitch.
R C Dean 13 years ago

OBAMA: You're setting me back, Gabby.

DOUGLAS: Sorry. You're not exactly helping me out here, either, you know. Tell you what, if you agree that an occasional Mickey D's isn't bad for anyone, I'll agree that we just drop this whole subject, mm'kay?
1. John 13 years ago
  
  And have you ever known a world class or even nationally ranked gymnast? They practice ballerina levels of anorexia. I bet that was the first fast food that girl had had in years.
  1. fried wylie 13 years ago
    
    How the fuck can an athlete operate without fuel?
  2. rac3rx 13 years ago
    
    Really? Because every professional dancer and world class athlete I've ever associated with (including myself at a much younger age) has to put a fairly healthy amount of food in the system to keep up with the metabolic requirements of 10-12 hours of practice/rehearsal a day. If you aren't eating, you don't have the strength to keep up.
    
    Those little girls in the after school specials that are (based on a true story!) trying to scare parents away from making their kid competitive in anything never make it to this young lady's level of excellence.
    
    Michelle Obama is just a fat twat who needs to mind her own damn business.
    1. fried wylie 13 years ago
      
      fat twat. fatwa.
      
      'nough said.
2. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Better:
  
  DOUGLAS: Sorry. Not everything is about you, ma'am.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    ^^THIS^^
    
    The Obamas really are the corpse at every funeral and the bride at every wedding. That would have been the pitch perfect response.
    1. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
      
      "When you manage to win a gold medal you can celebrate with whatever food you want."
Mike M. 13 years ago

So hilarious when you consider that the awesome Gabby Douglas has already accomplished more in sixteen years than the swine next to her will ever accomplish in her sorry life.

Hey First "Lady", the next time you open your big stupid mouth just stuff a few more gallons of ice cream in it you disgusting, fat-assed, pig-faced hypocrital bitch.
1. Randian 13 years ago
  
  You stay classy, Mike M.
  1. Mike M. 13 years ago
    
    Is concern troll concerned?
    1. Randian 13 years ago
      
      Don't you have some NASCAR to watch and some Vagisil to drink?
      1. Mike M. 13 years ago
        
        In fact, I was just watching the NASCAR replay, but my portable generator ran out of moonshine. Luckily my brother Bo is on his way with some more.
        
        Randian 13 years ago
        
        Thank god. Is momma gettin' to watch 'er stories still?
        
        Mike M. 13 years ago
        
        Oh yeah, her favorite daytime show is called Orange Line Diaries. It mostly revolves around a government bureaucrat, his gay lover, and their wild romantic times around DuPont Circle.
        
        Randian 13 years ago
        
        Bless her heart. I'll send the boy over with the six-pack, the carton of Tourneys and the blue meth shortly.
        
        fried wylie 13 years ago
        
        It mostly revolves around a government bureaucrat, his gay lover, and their wild romantic times around DuPont Circle.
        
        That sounds like the absolute worst show ever.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        They turned me down for staff writer. I think I really could have helped them, you know?
        
        fried wylie 13 years ago
        
        Do you really think you have the constitution to fix that show before you'd succumb to a stroke or heart failure?
        
        VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
        
        It mostly revolves around a government bureaucrat, his gay lover, and their wild romantic times around DuPont Circle.
        
        Is that the one with the philosopher turned journ-a-list that sneers at the protagonist, no matter how much he sucks up to him?
John 13 years ago

http://www.slate.com/articles/.....970s_.html

Dave Weigel gets his prog rock love on. As much as I dislike Weigel, I have to agree with him that ELP and Yes not being in the Rock and Roll HOF and The Red Hot Chili Peppers being in is pretty bad.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  ELP and Yes not being in the Rock and Roll HOF and The Red Hot Chili Peppers being in is pretty bad
  
  Didn't realize that. That is truly pathetic.
  1. Randian 13 years ago
    
    RHCP deserves it over ELP, but not over Yes.
    
    Just my $.02.
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      But it's the show that never ends!
    2. PS 13 years ago
      
      Even though I never worked as an engineer, my EE degree with an emphasis on emag means I will always see RHCP as right hand circularly polarized.
      1. fried wylie 13 years ago
        
        I will always see RHCP as right hand circularly polarized.
        
        Which, come to think of it, wouldn't be such terrible band name either.
  2. John 13 years ago
    
    The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a novelty band. They did a couple of fun songs. I am no Prog rock guy, but no way do they belong in there over a band like Yes or ELP of Tull. Keeping Tull out is on par with keeping the Grateful Dead out.
    1. Episiarch 13 years ago
      
      Whoa, wait a second. Ian Anderson is being lapped by Anthony Kiedis and crew? WHAT THE FUCK?!?
    2. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      What about Rush? 30+ fucking years, all the notable members of the band are still around (Original Drummer is give hand-jobs to meth addicts in Toronto I hear), and they've got more ability in a 3-piece that all the young "hardcore" fuckwaffles out there couldn't muster with less than 5 people.
      1. Apple 13 years ago
        
        Original drummer is giving hand-jobs in Heaven now. John Rutsey, 1953-2008.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Well...make me feel like shit for being too lazy to google. You win this round Manzana. You. Win. This. Round.
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        He was also a diabetic and coulnd't handle the touring.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Now that I did know, but was just wanted to be a douche for crass comedy's sake. In the end, it doesn't matter. It's made all the worse that my knowledge deficit is years behind. ?Por qu??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      2. John 13 years ago
        
        I will give Rush credit. Working Man is pretty much what every swinging dick 70s and 80s hard rock band wanted to sound like but where not skilled enough to pull off. There is not a single original riff in that song. But it is done so well and Alex Lifeson is such a skilled player, it doesn't matter.
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        "See this Randy? When somebody like Alex Lifeson gives you a fucking t-shirt to put on, you're putting the fucking thing on!"
        
        Archduke PantsFan 13 years ago
        
        +1 Rum Coke
        
        R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        +1 highschool flashback.
        
        Thanks, Archie.
    3. Randian 13 years ago
      
      I didn't know Tull was out still. That is pretty rotten. However this:
      
      The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a novelty band.
      
      is flat wrong. They have sold 80 million albums and have been a band for 30 years, John. They deserve just as much as anybody else. Blood Sugar Sex Magik is still one of my favorite albums.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        To each his own. I would say Californication is a good record. Before that there one really good song were covers "Higher Ground" and "Fire". I really thought the Rick Ruban record that sold so much was lousy. That song about heroin addiction (Under the Bridge) makes me want to do heroin.
        
        generic Brand 13 years ago
        
        John, you have not heard anything from the Chili Peppers since the 90s from what you just posted. Yes, they started out doing covers, just like most bands. But then they found their own sound and have basically defined the alternative rock genre for the last two decades.
        
        As Randian pointed out, "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" is a phenomenal album, but I personally can't find a single track to dislike on "Stadium Arcadium". They deserve to be in the HOF, but so do other bands. It's not an either/or thing; Yes should be in and so should the Chili Peppers. I know not this "Tull" that others speak of.
        
        Marshall Gill 13 years ago
        
        I know not this "Tull" that others speak of.
        
        WTF? Either you better be about 14 or this has to be a joke.
        
        Enough About Palin 13 years ago
        
        This is fantastic:
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll7FW1XoYzo
      2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        They definitely belong in for Blood Sugar Sex Magik. But it's a joke that some of these bands are being shut out for no good reason.
      3. fried wylie 13 years ago
        
        They have sold 80 million albums and have been a band for 30 years,
        
        So has Michael Jackson. See now how it's not much of a qualification for Greatness?
        
        (yes, yes, he wasn't "a band", and not in the Rock genre, STFU)
    4. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      Sales, John. RHCP has outsold Yes, ELP, and Tull combined. Don't mistake what the award is for.
      1. Randian 13 years ago
        
        Well, it does say "Hall of FAME" in the title, so I guess that's a good point.
        
        fried wylie 13 years ago
        
        Shit, yeah. My brain has been translating it into "Hall of Greatness" my whole life. Two entirely different things.
      2. John 13 years ago
        
        By that standard then why isn't David Cassidy in?
        
        Randian 13 years ago
        
        Not rock and roll.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        But they let rap artists and pop music people in all of the time.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Shut up John, you are making sense, and the last thing the HOF is about is making sense. It makes about as much sense as when Metallica lost to Jethro Tull for "Best Metal Record" Grammy.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I remember when that happened. I was in college. The two Tull geeks on the dorm floor had a hay day torturing the metal heads over it.
        
        EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
        
        Dude, the Rn'R HOF is in Cleveland. 'Nuff said.
2. Warty 13 years ago
  
  The Rock Hall is a fucking joke anyway. Hey, you what's totally rock 'n roll? Going to a fucking museum.
  1. Randian 13 years ago
    
    The Rock Hall is a fucking joke anyway.
    
    Well, yeah, look at where they built it.
    1. Restoras 13 years ago
      
      Rock n' Roll was born in Cleveland, some say.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Freed
      
      Freed promoted dances and concerts featuring the music he was playing on the radio. He was one of the organizers of a five-act show called "The Moondog Coronation Ball" on March 21, 1952 at the Cleveland Arena. This event is known as the first rock and roll concert.
      1. Warty 13 years ago
        
        I got free tickets to this year's Moondog Coronation Ball. I never thought I'd see KC and the Sunshine Band with a bunch of 70-something people, and I never thought it would be such a blast.
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        I've visited Cleveland several times and while the city has seen better days and still has big problems, the people I've met there are of far, far better quality than the preening, entitled, elitist douchebags that inhabit Westchester County, NY.
        
        Plus, lots of great golf.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        Dude, in all seriousness, I love this decaying shithole.
        
        R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        I have fond memories of visiting when I was in college. My best friend lived there.
  2. Episiarch 13 years ago
    
    So you go every two weeks, then?
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      Only to boo the Bruce Springsteen section.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Right. We all know you're screaming, "Bruuuuce!"
      2. Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        Born in East LA
    2. John 13 years ago
      
      He has to go. He lives in Cleveland. It is either go there or watch the river burn or maybe check out the twenty bums who live in the Brown's stadium.
      1. Warty 13 years ago
        
        Not true. Not true at all. I spend most of my time throwing rocks at windows in abandoned factories, thank you very much.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        And you can occasional lite the river on fire, which is always fun.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        They've clamped down on that. You have to get a permit and shit nowadays.
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        You've probably created more jobs than Obama. Maybe you should run for president. Afterall, imagine how many jobs will be created once you get the Thunderdome up and running.
  3. fried wylie 13 years ago
    
    Hey, you know what's totally rock 'n roll? Going to a fucking museum.
    
    If you do it right, it can be.
3. robc 13 years ago
  
  ELP, Yes and Rush absolutely should be in.
  
  I dont have a problem with the RHCP being in too, but yeah.
  
  Its all because the (former?) editor of Rolling Stone hates prog.
  1. Randian 13 years ago
    
    So what's their beef with Tull?
    1. Episiarch 13 years ago
      
      They think badass flute playing is totally gay.
      1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        Only if it's a skin flute.
      2. Ted S. 13 years ago
        
        What do you have against Zamfir?
    2. John 13 years ago
      
      They hate prog rock. They have completely excluded it, which when you consider the history of the 70s, is insane. It would be like having an automotive hall of fame and excluding all SUVs because you don't like them.
      1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        It would be like having an automotive hall of fame and excluding all SUVs because you don't like them.
        
        And why wouldn't they? SUVs are killing Mother Earth! They guzzle gasoline! They're big! Unnecessary! They may as well not exist!
  2. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    Jann Wenner also hates Ayn Rand, which is not surprising,given his politics. He has stated that Rush will never get in while he's alive.
    
    From what I've heard, Rush do not give a shit for the reason Warty mentioned - rock isn't about museums.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      Yeah. I've never been, and I have no desire to go. The fact that that stupid piece of shit museum was built with tax money is especially insulting.
      1. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        I went in there once while visiting grandma in Rocky River and I needed to kill a few hours while she napped.
        
        It was terribly curated and practically empty. I think I spent an hour, tops, in there and I probably saw everything twice in that timeframe.
        
        It was more entertaining to sit at the lake and watch the sludge roll in and out.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        You should have taken a long walk in the Rocky River Reservation. Pretty place.
    2. Randian 13 years ago
      
      Is Jann Wenner worse than Hitler? Signs point to yes.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Yo, Michelle! What's your BMI? Stick it!
Loki 13 years ago

Yea, OK, let's just hector a KID (she's, what, 16?) for daring to enjoy herself for one fucking moment after winning 2 Olymipc gold medals in gymnastics, probably one of the most physically demanding sports out there. She probably has to watch her diet and training regimen constantly, and after this she'll be right back to the daily training grind to prepare for the next big international tournament, but nope. Better not celebrate it even a little if that means indulging in one fucking thing that the queen has deemed "bad". Good God what a cunt.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  She probably has to watch her diet and training regimen constantly,
  
  That is an understatement. They are all borderline anorexics. You can't do that stuff if you have so much as an ounce of extra fat on you.
  1. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
    
    "They are all borderline anorexics."
    
    That's not really true.
2. Randian 13 years ago
  
  I bet that if some Olympian had said "we had champagne after we won the gold medal", Michelle would not have said a thing despite the empty calories of alcohol.
  
  I think what slays me about this is not the "scolding", because passive-aggressive though it was, it did seem like banter. My problem is shoehorning in your pet project when it is this girl's moment. It's not your moment, Michelle, it's hers, so try to have some class and stop compulsively politicizing every. single. thing.
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    Exactly. It would have been less offensive if she were quite a bit older. But for god's sake, she's 16. She doesn't have a clue yet. If MO had done the same thing to Phelps or Treanor, it would have been different. She could have made a bad Bieber joke instead.
  2. Loki 13 years ago
    
    ^THIS^
    
    It's like her and her husband can't seem to fathom anything that isn't all about them.
  3. Ted S. 13 years ago
    
    When the Canadian women's hockey team won gold in Vancouver, they celebrated at center ice with a giant bottle of Molson beer among other things.
    
    The wicked moral scolds has a conniption fit.
Archduke PantsFan 13 years ago

Didn't her hubby just buy everyone a round of beers?
That's gotta be worse than a McDonald's breakfast meal.
1. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  Well, except for the guy with the Romney sign.
  
  Most normal people would have laughingly said "even Romney sign." But not thin skinned, perpetually bristling Obama. He and Michelle were meant for each other.
  1. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    The winning move would have been to invite Romney sign guy over to have his beer with the Prez, talk about sports with him.
    
    You know, be a good-natured, decent, real human being.
    1. Loki 13 years ago
      
      You know, be a good-natured, decent, real human being.
      
      Remember who you're talking about here.
The Late P Brooks 13 years ago

writing an article about it on reason and discussing it like it means jack shit is fucking retarded.

How about this?

What did it cost to ship the First Lady and her entourage to London so they could bask in the reflected glory of the Olympians?

Fuck off, slaver.
Ragnar 13 years ago

Why don't people just tell her to fuck off and mind her own business?
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  Racist!
2. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  Because they don't want to end up like Breitbart.
  1. Randian 13 years ago
    
    Fat?
Invisible Finger 13 years ago

I didn't think it was possible to be more annoying than Hilary Clinton, but I was quickly proven wrong.

Only a douchebag would marry an awful piece of shit like this. At least Clinton had the decency to cheat on his wench.
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  Maybe Barry's a closet homo.
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Only a douchebag spineless beta-male with no sack would marry an awful piece of shit like this.
  
  FTFY.
BoscoH 13 years ago

Was I the only one who saw Gabbie mouth, "See You Next Tuesday, Mrs. Obama" at the end of the segment?
1. RBS 13 years ago
  
  I wonder what is happening next Tuesday?
  1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
    
    i'd gladly tell you for an egg mcmuffin today.
  2. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    I wonder if it was a thinly veiled threat.
  3. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    Maybe some of the medalists are going to the White House?
    1. Randian 13 years ago
      
      Guys, let me help you out here.
      
      Old people, I swear.
      1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
        
        well that made my day.
      2. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
        
        Did she really say that?
  4. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    Or, or, "See You Next Tuesday" could be a mutation of C-U-Next-Tuesday. Maybe.
Warty 13 years ago

Michelle Obama is Carrie Nation. Fuck her.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  She is worse. Carrie Nation actually practiced what she preached.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Chewbacca looked much better before getting a shave.

Seriously.
1. Episiarch 13 years ago
  
  "I suggest a new strategy, Gabby: let the wookie win."
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    LMAO!
  2. NoTalentAssclown 13 years ago
    
    winner!
Brett L 13 years ago

How did this not get a McKayla is not impressed photoshop for the pic? C'mon guys, even Gillespie has a meme generator now.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Michelle just should be glad it wasn't McKayla who won the all around. McKayla would have bitched slapped her ass. Even Michelle doesn't want any part of that crazy.
  1. RBS 13 years ago
    
    I disagree. McKayla would have reached over and pulled her still beating heart out of her chest and showed it to her as she expired.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      I prefer to imagine her saying, "is this healthy for me, bitch?" as she ate the heart, but otherwise well played.
2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  Seems she IS impressed.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem.....-soil.html
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    I think she is quite attractive. And I bet she is probably a very nice girl. But those eyes, those eyes.
    1. Warty 13 years ago
      
      She is a cutie pie, and is clearly a very, very dirty girl.
    2. Restoras 13 years ago
      
      Yes. I see what you like. There will be a long, long trail of wrecked and ruined men before she finds the one that can tame her.
      1. RBS 13 years ago
        
        There will be a long, long trail ofwrecked and ruined men bodies before she finds the one that can tame her.
        
        NoVAHockey 13 years ago
        
        you can't tame a wild animal. you can cage it. but it won't be tame.
  2. RBS 13 years ago
    
    The best part of those pics is Lebron James looks like a fucking moron.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Isn't that every pic of LaBron?
      1. RBS 13 years ago
        
        I don't get how the hipster glasses took over the NBA. I mean these guys are the pinnacle of manhood for some people and they intentionally dress like the dork in high school who trips over his own feet.
        
        BoscoH 13 years ago
        
        It's because a few years ago, David Stern decided that all the players would dress professionally and nicely when arriving at and departing from games. The idea was that if they were dressed like they belonged uptown, there would be fewer incidents downtown.
        
        The "Urkel look" started as an in-your-face protest of everything that was wrong with Stern's dictate, was welcomed by Stern (to his credit), and took on a life of its own in hip-hop fashion.
        
        NebulousFocus 13 years ago
        
        In that case, I support it.
3. Ted S. 13 years ago
  
  Maybe because the meme generators are almost uniformly stupid?
T o n y 13 years ago

Give me a freakin break. The only possible adjective that could accompany this segment is "lighthearted."

We are a nation of fat people. The First Lady's initiative is so uncontroversial that it might as well be the puppy awareness drive. Well, uncontroversial to people who aren't high-strung rightwing morons.
1. Randian 13 years ago
  
  Obvious troll is obvious.
  1. Episiarch 13 years ago
    
    Just ignore it, dude. It hates that.
  2. T o n y 13 years ago
    
    Dear God I just clicked your name. You are even more obsessed with policing this blog than Epi. Get a life for Christ's sake. What would Ayn say?
    1. Randian 13 years ago
      
      ???
      
      Please explain, because I have no idea what you are talking about.
      
      What would Ayn say?
      
      I dunno. "I'm dead", maybe? What would Judy Garland say to you if she found out you trolled here all day?
      1. Fluffy 13 years ago
        
        What would Judy Garland say to you if she found out you trolled here all day?
        
        DUDE.
        
        SWEET.
2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  You're right. There's nothing controversial about wanting to control what millions of people eat and drink. That's totally normal and understandable.
3. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  Tony, one of two things have to be true:
  
  1. Michelle Obama thinks she is in a position to lecture an Olympic athlete about fitness. If she does think that, she's crazy.
  
  2. Michelle Obama knows Gabby is fit and can eat what she wants, but she thinks Gabby should pretend she doesn't go to McDonald's, because she's a "role model" and we have to lie to young people to get them to "eat better".
  
  I tend to think that we're dealing with #2. And #2 is breathtakingly repulsive to me, no matter how uncontroversial the issue being advocated.
  1. Randian 13 years ago
    
    It is always interesting to me that single-minded athletes are considered "role models". Yes, because if there is anyone I want my kids to take after, it's neurotic little weirdos with no intellectual or social lives who waste their childhoods to get a bit of metal around their necks.
    1. RBS 13 years ago
      
      Like that commercial with all the athletes talking about how they don't have time to watch tv or haven't read the latest books? Why would I want my son to emulate that?
      1. Randian 13 years ago
        
        The commercial is the perfect example.
      2. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        I wouldn't have any problem if my kids traded the athleticism for building a billion dollar internet empire (preferably porn based) and did it without getting laid or a social life... as long as they pay for dad's new robot liver.
    2. Episiarch 13 years ago
      
      And millions of dollars in endorsements. Don't forget that.
    3. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      That's true and I agree with that.
      
      But even if I thought that athletes should be emulated, I would still have a problem with the notion that the way to get kids to emulate them would be...lying.
      1. Randian 13 years ago
        
        I concur entirely.
    4. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      "neurotic little weirdos with no intellectual or social lives who waste their childhoods to get a bit of metal around their necks."
      
      Really, you have no idea what you are talking about. You may just as well be weighing in on the social world of worm farmers.
4. Old Mexican 13 years ago
  
  Re: Tony,
  
  The only possible adjective that could accompany this segment is "lighthearted."
  
  Bullying a little girl into compliance is "lighthearted." You heard it right here, folks!!!
  
  We are a nation of fat people.
  
  What's with this "we" business, Kimosabe? The US is a BIG nation with a population made of all sorts. Your thinking is too insular, just like the thinking of all collectivist assholes.
  1. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
    
    No, OM, your fat is my fat too.
5. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  Stick to discussing gay marriage shithook. It is the only subject where you make sense, and not always then.
  1. Old Mexican 13 years ago
    
    Re: Suthenboy,
    
    Stick to discussing gay marriage shithook. It is the only subject where you make sense, and not always then.
    
    Murray Rothbard said that most people tend to specialize in those things they understand the least. In the case of Tony, it is argumentation. He has gone as far as asserting that agreements between people cannot really exist if they cannot be "enforced" by the state, which would make all agreements the responsibility of the State, thus making "marriage" the responsibility of the State.
    
    If that were the case, where would one go to enforce a contract between a person and the State? To a higher State? And another above that one? And then a higher one at that? Until when? If a contract between the State and a person cannot really be enforced, then that pretty much makes all contracts null and void, as there's no guarantee there will be a higher State to enforce the contract.
    
    Obviously, the argument is fallacious. Contracts are agreements between two people, which includes the enforcement part by mutual consent. Even if one breaks the agreement, enforcement can still be achieved even without the State by way of a ruined reputation as a CHEAT. Because, even if it were true that the State is there to ensure that contracts are "enforced" (which would make the State some sort of omnipotent body), would you still want to enter into a contract with a cheat?
Warty 13 years ago

Oh, looky, Penn State hid a pedophile ring.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  That would explain why they were so loath to turn him in now wouldn't it? I could never figure out why they didn't at a minimum throw him off campus. It never made any sense, unless of course there were some donors involved.
  1. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    If this proves out, I could see just shutting down the whole fucking cesspit of a school.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      That they didn't give them the death penalty is amazing. It just goes to show, no matter what happens, the football game always gets played.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        I saw that the academic accrediting body told PSU they were considering action against the University. Getting your accreditation stripped will probably destroy your fundraising and enrollment.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        If this turns out to be true, my God. It is just unthinkable.
        
        Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        The action was already announced, Penn State is basically on probation:
        
        http://news.yahoo.com/penn-sta.....tml?_esi=1
        
        And this probably has more to do with the side issues with Clery Act enforcement that were revealed in the Freeh Report than with the Sandusky Scandal per se.
      2. Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
        
        While the school certainly deserved the death penalty, eliminating Penn State football for several years would likely bankrupt hundreds of business in Central PA, and I think people were justifiably loathe to cause an economic disaster for thousands of people only tangentally related to the university (e.g. Should some hotel maid in Altoona lose her job because of the Sandusky scandal?)
2. Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
  
  After all that's come out, who knows if this is true or not. But that article seem REALLY poorly sourced.
  1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
    
    When this story first broke, one of the talking heads on ESPN (Herbstreit maybe?) made a side comment at the time that this scandal was going to get much worse. And then followed that with the implication that there may be a "child sex for generous boosters" type program.
    
    They may very well lose their accreditation over this. Goodbye PSU
    1. Stormy Dragon 13 years ago
      
      They may very well lose their accreditation over this.
      
      Again, Penn State may deserve to, but I think it's unlikely they're going to bankrupt hundreds of thousands of people by rendering their degrees useless.
      1. robc 13 years ago
        
        Past degrees wouldnt be useless, only ones going forward.
3. Suthenboy 13 years ago
  
  Having worked with incarcerated pedophiles I can tell you that they are incredibly devious, scheming and conniving in ways you can scarcely imagine. For most of them, their entire life is planned around access to children.
  
  I am not at all surprised at this, and wont be surprised when more turns up.
The Late P Brooks 13 years ago

except for the guy with the Romney sign.

That guy needs to pay his fair share.

He's probably got a job.
Loki 13 years ago

'Home sweet home! It feels good to be back on U.S. soil. Now i need a good American burger #Jeah,' tweeted swimmer Ryan Lochte.

Uh oh, looks like Lochte didn't get the memo either.
1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
  
  Neither did Lolo Jones.
2. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  If Michelle tries to lecture Lochte, I predict lulz aplenty. One thing he's got is attitude out the wazoo.
Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago

Being the bastard I am, I would have told the First Bag "yeah, and after the show I'm going for a Moon Pie and a 64-ounce soda pop...you want in? I'm buyin'."
1. Killazontherun 13 years ago
  
  I would have gone with, 'the great thing about being an American is I can tell the wife of the POTUS to 'fuck off' without any consequences. 'USA! USA! USA!'
Archimedes 13 years ago

London 2012: how the Olympics suckered the Left'

The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain's modern history. Billions of pounds are taken from poor and middle-income taxpayers and service users to build temples to a corporate and sporting elite. Democratic, grassroots sport is stripped of money to fund the most rarefied sport imaginable. The police and the state are turned into the enforcement arm of Coca-Cola. How did this event suddenly become the toast of the Left?
Corporations who make people fat and sick ? or, in one case, actually maimed and killed them ? are allowed to launder their images; the London Paralympics, in a detail you simply could not make up, are sponsored by Atos, the firm repeatedly accused of bullying disabled people off benefits. Meanwhile, the main sponsors ? the people of Britain ? are largely excluded from the event they paid for.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/n.....-the-left/
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Taking money from the working people to build vanity monuments to national pride and to create circuses for the rich to watch sounds pretty Left to me.
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    You know who else built monuments to national pride?
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Stalin? FDR? Those guys were pretty left last I looked.
      1. Randian 13 years ago
        
        It slays me that for whatever reason, people think nationalist strongmen must be right-wingers.
    2. rbenchley 13 years ago
      
      David Brooks?
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain's modern history. Billions of pounds are taken from poor and middle-income taxpayers and service users to build temples to a corporate and sporting elite.
  
  *Sigh* Corpratism is not a "right wing" or "left wing" thing. Both "wings" are equally guilty of this shit. Maybe pundits should quit trying so desperately to pin the blame for things they don't like on the other "wing".
  
  "But that would require, like, thinking and stuff."
HazelMeade 13 years ago

This exchange reminds my of my kid sister.

One of those people where EVERY fucking subject gets politcized.

She can't go for a walk on the beach without going on a big rag about whale hunting, or how dolphins are really smart and people are murdering them, or ocean pollution and the big trash flotilla in the Pacific, or climate change a sea levels. Which immediately turns into an argument about how capitalism is evil and raping the planet - especially Americans.

She can't eat a fucking meal without bringing up GMOs, ragging on about high fructose corn syrup or the evils of milk or factory farming.

She can't discuss travel without specifying just how each country one might visit differs from the US in terms of helath care policy, or was oppressed by the United States, or a victim of some sort of evil global capitalist exploitation.

She can't open a Christmas present without talking about how Christmas had been commercialed and the evils of consumerism.

She can't watch a television show or a movie without pointing out when one of the characters says something liberal that she agrees with.
1. Randian 13 years ago
  
  You should have mercy on her and put her down. She's clearly in pain.
  1. HazelMeade 13 years ago
    
    I remember one time going outside and looking at the stars, and she cstopped to loudly read something on the back of the star chart about light pollution.
    1. Archimedes 13 years ago
      
      Does she also complain that instead of wasting energy on baking cookies, we should have fresh organic carrots instead?
    2. fried wylie 13 years ago
      
      light pollution IS really lame. Would it cost so much to put reflectors on our night-lights? Shit, might even be able to use the next-size-down bulb if half the light weren't uselessly shining up into the sky.
      
      I'm still not convinced of the utility of street-lights in general. (I can see the value of property/premises lighting though.)
    3. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      It might be difficult, but get limit of your interaction with her to approach 0 as soon as possible.
      1. HazelMeade 13 years ago
        
        Believe me, my interaction with her went to zero immediately after 9/11 and stayed there.
        
        At that moment, I just didn't think I could take what would inevitably be her undisguised schadenfreude as she explained how the Americans had it coming for their global imperialism and rape of the planet.
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Your sister and my aunt should meet. My aunt's the same way, except 180 degree polar opposite in her politics. Like you sister, she just won't shut up about it. If we put them together, we just may cause a singularity. Or at least get them to kill each other.
3. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
  
  my sister-in-law is like that. she was Buddhist for awhile, but still sent out her annual wish list for Christmas. so i just wrote back "possessions are fleeting"
  1. fried wylie 13 years ago
    
    Snap.
  2. Ted S. 13 years ago
    
    I would have made a donation in her name to the Human Fund.
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      I would have said I made a donation.
      1. Ted S. 13 years ago
        
        Drax apparently doesn't get the reference.
4. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  It sounds like some guy really needs to kiss her where it stinks. And I don't mean Staten Island.
5. Michael 13 years ago
  
  This is exactly how my girlfriend's family is, and especially her mom. They're absolutely wonderful people otherwise, but holy damn is it a massive feat of willpower to make it through some conversations when
  
  EVERY.
  
  THING.
  
  IS.
  
  POLITICAL.
  
  Last time we all went out to dinner the discussion somehow turned to hormones in meat products. When I admitted that the subject barely moved the needle on my outrage meter and that I will continue eating whatever I please while still outliving most people, they were positively aghast. A conflicting opinion isn't even required to make their jaws drop. Most of the time expressing simple apathy will do the trick.
  1. HazelMeade 13 years ago
    
    Some liberals seem to live in this constant cycle of outrage at everything. It's an entire frame of reference where they are constantly being assaulted on all sides by the evils of TEH CORPORASHUNS. Every new event frames and informs how their perceive the next one, so that each new thing turns into a new massive outrage that informs and reinforces the outrage of everything else.
    
    And of course, you can't trust the mainstream media to report any of it, because they're owned by the corporations.
6. NebulousFocus 13 years ago
  
  Do you at least antagonize the crap out of her?
Les 13 years ago

It's funny how frequently the quality of commenting here is so similar to Salon, in terms of pettiness and superficial personal judgment.
1. Killazontherun 13 years ago
  
  Petty, check. Superficial, double check. Judgmental, yep! Welcome home, Les. Kick your boots off. Stay awhile.
  1. fried wylie 13 years ago
    
    At least here we're allowed to wear boots.
2. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  Michelle Obama wants to stop my kid from having a Happy Meal or a chocolate milk at lunch because other people's brats are obese.
  
  That entitles me to wish her ill and to jump on every related statement she makes. I owe her no intellectual charity or good will at all. None.
  
  And it's hardly a superficial judgment. I could write you a 1000 page tome on the implications of Michelle's nanny state food scolding.
  1. Ted S. 13 years ago
    
    I've used the word "wicked" a couple of times above. The reason is that these moral scolds don't have good intentions. They're nothing more than control freaks; perverts who get their rocks off on telling other people how to live their lives.
Old Mexican 13 years ago

Re: Tony,

The only possible adjective that could accompany this segment is "lighthearted."

Bullying a little girl into compliance is "lighthearted." You heard it right here, folks!!!

We are a nation of fat people.

What's with this "we" business, Kimosabe? The US is a BIG nation with a population made of all sorts. Your thinking is too insular, just like the thinking of all collectivist assholes.
NoTalentAssclown 13 years ago

Better alt-text: "If I had a daughter, she would look like you."
1. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  "You didn't win those gold medals."
fried wylie 13 years ago

What exactly is so nutritionally horrible about an egg mcmuffin. It's gotta be one of the healthiest options on their menu. Low-density bread, cheese, egg, sausage (not the best protein, but still), some oil.

It's not like the girl admitted to having 6 hashbrowns PLUS two sandwiches (you can actually order that meal by asking them for a "fried wylie.")
1. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
  
  "fried wylie."
  
  Whoa! That sounds painful.
Irony Intended 13 years ago

OMG, did you see how intimidated that poor child was? Chastised and humiliated on national television--her body language tells you that's exactly how she felt. This is practically child abuse!!! Mrs. Obama is a monster!!!!!!
1. fried wylie 13 years ago
  
  It's not abuse when you're doing what's best for the child. Just like whoopings. That girl should consider herself lucky that the first lady didn't tell her to go fetch a switch.
  1. Irony Intended 13 years ago
    
    No need! The first lady will probably lie and say she meant it as a joke, but Gabby's horrified reaction is all the proof you need to disprove that nonsense!
Shawn 13 years ago

Really? Talk about a misleading headline. It was a lighthearted exchange. Give me a break.
Joe Emenaker 13 years ago

Well, I watched, but the horror never materialized.

Please... you guys are reaching on this one.

I appreciate your need to paint any action by a government official or representative as "big government"s all-out assault on individual achievement and personal sovereignty, but you're really grasping at straws, here.

First, the FLOTUS didn't *make* Gabby apologize and didn't "scold" her as some articles are spinning it. All she did was give Gabby a little ribbing over the fact that, when you're someone who's trying to be an ambassador for proper diet and exercise, it doesn't help your pitch when an Olympian goes on national TV and says "McMuffin".

And Gabby took it the right way. She didn't say "I'm sorry I ate the McMuffin, Mrs. Obama. I'll never do it again". Instead, she just threw out a "sorry" as in "Oh, whoops... I guess I just made your job a little harder. Sorry about that, bro.". It was *sympathetic* more than *apologetic*.

We now return you to our regularly-scheduled program of seeing any kind of encouragement to be mindful of others as big government's crusade against individual liberty.

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