Michelle Obama to America: “Let them eat kale!”. Michelle Obama to the waitstaff: “Where’s my lobster? And gimme a side of chili fries with extra cheese!”
Megan Fox is a radio host — and a home-schooling mother of two in a suburb of Chicago — who has been paying great attention to the hectoring Michelle Antoinette Obama’s been giving parents in her “Let’s Move!” crusade against other people’s obesity while seemingly eating every fancy and expensive thing she can in her remaining time in the White House. Megan takes a look at some of our illustrious First Lady’s endless hippo-crasy for HillBuzz.org.
The role of America’s first lady has always been one American women have admired. Jackie Kennedy inspired an entire generation of women to invest in pill box hats, study French and dream of love. Martha Washington probably inspired women of her day to volunteer their services to the army after her presence at the battle of Valley Forge was said to have rallied troop spirits. Laura Bush, with her quiet librarian-like dignity and sweet children’s books inspired moms to read more stories to their little ones.
Michelle Obama, on the other hand, inspires moms to angrily throw out magazines with her picture on it, specifically ones where she preaches that they should feed their children baked sweet potato fries, veggie subs, spaghetti peppered with carrots and broccoli and fresh squeezed carrot-lemonade. Yeah, okay. Is that before or after she scurries off for lobster dipped in butter or short ribs or the multitude of fast food joints where she’s been photographed stuffing her face?
I don’t have a problem giving children healthy food, but it irks me to no end that this woman gets up on her pedestal and lectures us on every occasion how we’re doing it wrong and our children are suffering because of their diets and then she goes off to get a cheeseburger. If I made my children eat green beans while I ate pizza, I’d have two very upset little girls on my hands. My kids eat vegetables because I do. An old adage comes to mind, “lead by example.” But with Michelle, it’s always just, “farting through silk”.
It is typical of the current residents of the White House to pull the “do as I say not as I do” routine. The first lady’s husband wants your kids languishing in failing public schools while his flourish in expensive private schools you could never afford. Michelle says we all will have to “sacrifice” to get through this economy while she jets off on lavish vacations even royalty couldn’t afford. She’s spent $10 million on vacations this year alone, and it’s only September. So it’s fitting that her chosen platform centers around something she has no intention of doing herself. Eating well.
The truth is, no one would care or report about what she eats if she didn’t scowl at us over HDTV and carp about the little people eating fried stuff while indulging in fried stuff as often as possible. Does she even know how insulting it is? While childhood obesity is a problem for some, it is not the majority of us. My children have a very active social life. Not one of their friends has an obesity problem. Most of the moms I know have very healthy eating habits and go out of their way to make sure their children are getting proper nutrition.
Moms are a conscientious bunch. Not only that, we are an easily injured bunch. We suffer from “mom guilt,” or the constant nagging fear that these precious little people we are responsible for are getting gypped. We fear we haven’t spent enough play time, reading time, lovey-dovey time, or fill in the blank here. We agonize. We join chat groups. We make battle plans on how to get one serving of anything down the throat of a picky and willful toddler.
Then “America’s Mom” gets on television or shows up in our favorite magazine and criticizes us. Tone deaf is a phrase that has been used time and time again to describe these people who are unfortunately living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the moment. It’s a pitch perfect description of people who have no grasp on who Americans are. At the risk of being called a birther, it’s almost as if they are from another planet. When tragedy strikes and most Americans are waiting breathlessly for a presidential statement, we get a “shout-out” instead. When the unemployment numbers plummet, the Obamas jet off to Martha’s vineyard in separate planes despite having a totally paid-for and rockin’ presidential vacation spot called Camp David. Poverty is at an all time high but Obama has money to treat the press to filet of sole at market price. (H/T WLS-AM two days ago by one of the attendees at the event that was not publicized.) I am making a chicken stretch over three meals and the Obamas are dining out and accusing me of feeding my family crap. I resent it.
When was the last time you ordered anything at market price at a restaurant?
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© 2011, Megan Fox. All rights reserved.
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I can make a chicken last FOUR days!
And I haven't bought anything that wasn't marked down or on sale nor have I gone out to eat in a restaurant in years. We can't afford it. My kids eat healthy, but it's because they like veggies & stuff, however, I let them have treats, because they are TREATS as in not something you eat all the time. My kids are lean and healthy.
I eat junk food, and I am five foot 4 inches tall and weigh 120 pounds. I drink soda with sugar in it, but my kids don't, because I told them they are growing and should drink healthy stuff, so they do & don't complain. They look at soda the same way they would coffee, wine or beer, as grown up stuff that probably doesn't taste good.
I don't need a fat indulgent excessive hypocritical sow telling me what to eat pr what to feed my family, she isn't paying for my food, although I am being forced to pay for hers.
I've gone to bed hungry to make sure what food we have was enough for husband & the children, I bet that Moo has never felt the pain of an empty stomach that has been empty for a day or three. I have. Screw her.
fat indulgent excessive hypocritical sow
That's an insult to sows everywhere. You need to apologize to tasty pork producers!
I'd twitter you to #attachwatch but I haven't got the heart…
I was going to make a comment of my own, but Zilla, you have out it so succinctly that all I will do is say Amen! Especially: "I don't need a fat, indulgent, excessive, hypocritical sow telling me what to eat or what to feed my family; she isn't paying for my food, although I am being forced to pay for hers."
That's one of the things that really bugs me about Moochelle Obama. The absolute arrogance and hypocrisy, as well as the tone-deafness of the White House PR people. She makes the covers of all the magazines, and we're supposed to believe she is such a style-maven because they TELL US SHE IS. But all you have to do is look at her to know that she is a sow with the fashion sense of…I don't know what. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig! She's HUGE yet she lectures the rest of us about being obese. She tries to tell us what we should be feeding ourselves and our families, but she is pictured time and time again eating burgers, fries and lobster.
Don't the PR people at the White House know how much we the people resent this? Moochelle would have been better off to quietly stay in the background – although it obviously isn't her nature. She is not an asset to Obama, she is a HUGE liability.
Omama, we all need her mothering like we need her face all over the place. Go Megan, you know how to tell it. Sooner than he thinks Obama will be paying her bills again tho' with our treasury paying the bills. She has to have her oqwn plane, her own motorcade and this is becauswe she is so arogant she imagines she was elected and wants it for herself. I for one will be glad when her hand no longer dips into our treasury at will.
Seriously??? That is one huge order of fries. They should have shared them between each other and the photographer.
BTW, I didn't throw my BH&G magazine out. I just ripped the cover off and trashed it. THEN, I called the magazine and told them I didn't appreciate them ruining my perfectly good day by having Michelle Obama pop out of my mailbox!! It was scary!
DID THE SAME!
I actually tore the cover off too and kept it, but I think I'm going to cancel and get Martha Stewart's Everyday Living instead. She may be a horrible liberal but she knows how to get lipstick out of a shirt.
I tend to turn around any magazines I see at my local library with Michelle Obamas face on it. I figure it how I contribute to making the world a better place.
lol
Ha! I do the same thing with Obama books at my local book stores. A manager caught me once but just shook his head, smiled, and walked on down the isle. I finished my work there and left. Whew!!
I got caught at Borders…very obozo friendly…wait a minute…they went bankrupt too…can't stop LMAO!
Women leaving the home and entering the workforce (by choice or need) contributes to the rise of obesity. Planning, shopping, preparing, cooking all takes time, and we all know, time is precious, so, fast food became the convenient solution. We do have healthier alternatives, but why are they priced so much higher than the 'bad stuff''? Its more expensive to "eat healthy' and that also factors into the obesity issue, good-for-you take out vs. fast food "dollar menus"? Fresh fruit vs. candy, milk
vs. soda pop…. add to all of this the daily confusion of what is good/bad for you, (pyramid vs block), and we are simply failing…
My family eats, what I put in front of them, Subway sandwiches, Whopper/fries, or grilled cheese and soup…. We, Moms, do have the power and the responsibilitiy to take charge, and make better choices for our families and lead by example.
It is more expensive to eat healthy, however, I've been planning my meals 10 to 15 days out…shopping all at once and cooking it all over 2 days and freezing. This way we get healthy, low-fat, FAST food. I just threw a veggie lasagna in the oven and it's 5:30pm…by 6:30 it will be ready and bubbling for my family and it came from my garden. 100% organic, low sodium, no chemicals and DELICIOUS (low carb too. I only used two lasagna noodles and substituted zucchini and eggplants for the rest) Over 2 days of cooking I can stock up to 15 meals that are ready with ZERO prep time and my family never has to get a quick pizza or a drive thru. This is the best change I've made in years. It is SAVING me so much time and so much stress. With homeschool…I need all the extra time I can get.
My point is, planning meals, shopping, cooking, freezing, harvesting, serving, cleaning, for a meal, all involved "TIME" — and when mortgages didn't consume 45% of your take home pay, and taxes, utilities, the other 35%, families could afford for Mom's to stay home and take care of their families. Now, we have to work to help support our families, and simply don't have the time. So, dinner in a bag, becomes the norm. I agree, it doesn't need to be this way, Rachel Ray's 30 Minute meals, (before she went mainstream popular) were a lifesaver for our family.
BTW, Homeschool gives you options that 98% of us don't have & I applaude your life choices.
I eat my veggies because I GROW them myself, and frankly, meat is too darned expensive to eat regularly (thank you, Barack and company, for devaluing the dollar so much that commodities are astronomically high. Bet Tim Geithner made a bundle on this move). About childhood obesity – maybe if cities weren't so crime-ridden more parents would let their kids go outside and PLAY. I know people who live in fairly respectable communities with preteen boys who don't let them bike to a friend's house that is more than 4 blocks away. But of course, for any mayor to attack crime would brand him or her as a RAAAAACIST.
"Does she even know how insulting it is?"
No, Megan, she doesn't know because she doesn't care to know. Both of the Obamas walk around with a giant chip of grievance upon their shoulders, determined to look for any sign that they are receiving "less" than they "deserve", even though, in actuality, their lives have been more privileged than most of us, or our children, could imagine.
It's a sad commentary on our society and our education system that we have become so polarized and so angry. Everyone is resentful and spiteful and looking for someone to blame. We no longer try to find common ground and work together – we are fracturing into "victim of this, victim of that, your Mama's too thin and your Daddy's too fat" (The Eagles-"Get Over It")
And as long as we have the racial monger-in-chief and his bitter, resentful wife in the White House, the Balkanization of America will continue….because it's much easier to control the population when they're all mad at each other!
Sung to the tune of "If You Love Me Let Me Go" (hat tip Rush–lyrics mine):
If you love me pass the bill,
If you don't then AttachWatch will
Send Michelle to sit on top of you…..
[add versus at will]
I do hope you've all taken time today to turn your friends in (double points for turning in a parent) @ #AttackWatch….Dear Leader is taking names and hash marks.
Just saw this on yahoo news… thought those of us here might get a kick out of it!
Our royalty is taking credit for Olive Garden and Red Lobster changing their kids menu…
She celebrated by eating a 2200 calorie pasta and washed it down with a lobster tail dripping with butter.
http://news.yahoo.com/mrs-obama-applauds-olive-ga…
The same people who want parents to approve french fry orders for their kids, do not want parents to be involved in their kids abortion "choice". It is crazy.
I just sent OG an e-mail and a copy of the picture of fatass and BO chowing down on the burgers & fries. I stated that their partnership with Mooch cost them my 20+ yrs. of business.
I sent them an email too.
I think they caved and im boycotting them
Dear attackwatch: Michelle Obama made my food at Olive Garden and Red Lobster taste like shiiiiiiiitttt…can you make it stop???
you should put this on twitter. LMAO #attackwatch
Oh I did…among other smarky comments I could think of. This is so much fun.
It's a bait and switch. The point isn't "Let's Move", but "Let's Move to Cuba". How can anyone criticize eating better. It's a great scam. Behind the scenes any company that cooperates with Michelle gets Obamacare waivers etc. Walmart changes their product line and lo and behold swipe fees are transferred from banks to retailers. It's the big con and Michelle's a pro.
can you say chicago cronies? Is the state of illinois (a place that I will NEVER live again) any better since barry was a senator thier?
wow you are educated, right?
Times are tough for most people out there and prices are rising. Still, I do splurge once in a while. I buy two, mind you, two 99 cent snackers at the KFC.