Michelle Derangement Syndrome

[pokerfan]

Completely deranged...

The right wing base is absolutely demented with dim-witted anger at Michelle Obama, ranting uncontrollably today at every single right wing website. They have a special hatred for the First Lady, so over the top it sometimes seems like a parody — but of course it isn’t.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41664_Right_Wing_Rages_Uncontrollably_at_Michelle_Obama-_Someone_Put_a_Bullet_in_That_Fat_Pig

Limbaugh Pans ‘Dear Leader’ Michelle Obama’s Oscars Cameo, Compares To Apple’s ’1984′ Ad
And so they turned to Obama. It’s all about optics, Limbaugh said, and speaking of: Did you see how how giant the screen was? She was the “dear leader” of a “totalitarian state,” he remarked, comparing it to Apple’s famous 1984 commercial.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-pans-dear-leader-michelle-obamas-oscars-cameo-compares-to-apples-1984-ad/

Todd Starnes: Michelle Obama 'Probably' Felt 'Entitled' To 'Upstage' Oscars
http://www.newshounds.us/todd_starnes_michelle_obama_probably_felt_entitled_to_upstage_oscars_02252013

[Bluzmann57]

1. Much ado about nothing

Outside of the teahadists, who really cares?

[pokerfan]

7. Mostly, I just find it amusing (nt)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Party politics at its most silly.

[CherokeeDem]

3. I suspected it would only be the Right Wing...

but after seeing the inane postings on DU about it...I'm beginning to believe some people need to get a life.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Amen cherokeedem

Amen. To include Democratics who are whining about there even being an Oscars show in the first place.

Sometime we just need to freakin' fun. And not take everything so seriously. I wonder sometimes if folks EVER smile in real life here. I bet you anything don't.

[CTyankee]

4. republicans aren't doing so well at the "re-branding" thing and not "being stupid" as Jindal said.

I guess they just can't help it.

Let's face it: most of the country is agog over Michelle. We can't get enough of her. As my late mother used to say "Nothing succeeds like success" and she sure does...

[onenote]

6. Ronald Reagan also appeared on a "giant screen"

at the March 1981 Academy Awards:

https://oscar.go.com/photos/themed-galleries/movies/the-oscars-go-to-washington/media/reagan-oscars

[Cha]

12. FDR sent a radio message instead of his special invitation..

President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the 13th Academy Awards ceremony, addressing the nation and the crowd at the Biltmore Hotel in a six-minute direct-radio-line speech from the White House. Roosevelt was the first president to participate in the Academy Awards. He declined a special invitation to Los Angeles because of the world's political climate but made the most of his time as the opening act, chatting about the Lend-Lease Act and thanking Hollywood for raising money for defense and promoting the "American way of life" in its

h/t Tx4obama http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2426881

[rocktivity]

8. Racism plus jealousy plus knee-jerk partisanship

Haters gonna hate...and I do mean "jerk."


rocktivity

[Bake]

9. From what I've seen, it's allive and well on DU too.

And that's a shame. Hell, whether you think she should/shouldn't have done the appearance, it was worth it just to make the RWers heads 'splode!

Bake

[pokerfan]

10. Exactly

plus it highlights their racism/sexism all at the same time.

[Lex]

11. Republicans: Your Mean and Angry keeps showing.

You'll never be able to re-brand yourselves as anything but Mean and Angry.

[Scurrilous]

13. Oh, the humanity...

[Berlum]

14. Jealousy

...yet another facet of the soul sickness that has deranged Republicans and caused them to be held in such low esteem by Americans.

[NCTraveler]

15. It is out of control.

Here is what one person said about her appearance at the Oscars.

"It is in very poor taste, and un-American and antiquated and hearkens back to the worst of human history. That doesn't mean it was a tragedy... nobody died... but it was GROSS. The Academy should not have asked, though they have the right to do so, and she should surely have not accepted."

[Dawson Leery]

16. Blind hatred of the first black President has brought out every reactionary.