Right winger freaks out over caviar... which is IRANIAN!!!!

[ck4829]

"Believe me, Governor Palin deserves every stitch of the $150,000 wardrobe! Why are we not discussing Michelle`s lavish room service order of Bollenger Champagne, lobster appetitzers, whole lobsters and IRANIAN caviar! That is extravagant!"

http://townhall.com/blog/g/91a0305f-5e48-4a79-9aa2-7ef5670e3fbc?comments=true#comments

The Iranian caviar is building weapons of mass destruction, OMG!!!

What else are these nefarious fish eggs planning?

(Ha! Not only is it IRANIAN, but it's imaginary too.)

[mainegreen]

1. Lobster isn't extravagant anymore. Less than 3.50 lb up here. Cheaper than good beef.

:crazy:

[Subdivisions]

2. Actually, the event the stupid freeper references was RETRACTED

by the NY Post because it was found to be fabricated and not true.

Those idiots glom onto lies like a leech to an artery.

[ck4829]

4. So, the freeper is rampaging over imaginary IRANIAN caviar?

[oldcoot]

13. Yes

Another point the freepers seem to miss is that the money spent on Palin's clothes could have easily been used to help Republican candidates in close races.

[Ian David]

3. Rupert Murdoch retracted that story. It was a fabrication.

Smear on Michelle Obama: The lobster dinner that wasn't
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7551590

[scheming daemons]

5. The lobster story has been debunked... Michelle wasn't even there.

[Warpy]

6. Debunked

Michelle Obama wasn't in that hotel or even in that city when the allegedly unpatriotic caviar was served.

It's just more bullshit from the elitist right wing.

[krispos42]

7. Caviar is Iran's 2nd-largest export, I believe

Their first is oil.


Now tell me how it's okay that the US does not cut back on oil consumption (which would lower the price and thus Iranian profits), and that this idiot and his buddies cruise around in 14-mpg pickups and SUVs without even a thought about Middle Eastern profits, but the caviar gets his undies in a bunch???

[Subdivisions]

18. ...the caviar gets his undies in a bunch??? Well, don't terrorist fish eggs

piss you off too?

[Thorandmjolnir]

8. Besides, that whole story was false! Michelle Obama was not even in town that day

NY POST

October 21, 2008 --

THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/gossip/pagesix/room_disservice_134490.htm

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. And then several people have to infrom them there was no such room service, or stay at that hotel

the story about it was fake.

[kskiska]

10. The lobster-caviar story has been retracted by the NY Post

ROOM DISSERVICE

THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.

more…
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/gossip/pagesix/room_disservice_134490.htm

[NNN0LHI]

11. Why post this untrue smear here that has been retracted because the story was bullshit?

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/consider-posts-lobster

by Matt Haber | October 21, 2008 |

Correction of the day award goes to The New York Post's Page Six, which ran this item today:

The source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.


The original item, which ran on October 17th, has been scrubbed from the Post's Web site, but that doesn't mean it hasn't had an impact.

Rush Limbaugh's Web site has a transcript of the radio host reading the Page Six item and saying, "Now, the first thing about this is, if I'm the Obamas, I'm thinking, 'Who the hell called the newspaper on this?' These hotels are not supposed to say a word about what goes on in there. Trust me, they do." Mr. Limbaugh also termed the Obamas non-existent meal order "hypocrisy." (Weirdly—appropriately?—Mr. Limbaugh's transcription service renders the hotel's name 'Waldorf-Hysteria.')

Town Hall's Carol Platt Liebau wrote, "Look, I don't begrudge the Obamas their caviar and lobster. I like lobster, too (caviar? not so much). It's just that the whole mentality strikes me as typical of Democrat thinking."

It wasn't just professional talking pointers jumping on the story. This "P.U.M.A." Web site (remember "P.U.M.A."? Good times...) mocked up a fake receipt signed by Ms. Obama. A different site ran with the headline The Audacity of Michelle Obama's $447.39 Snack Tab. Here's another which noted "Obama is swimming in the $$$$" and then quipped, "What does one do with all that cash?"

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

14. I would like to add...

That Carol Platt Liebau, formerly of HuffPo, where she was hooted out of town for her substance-less scribblings, is a maniac. She lives in her own little world, where normative realities rarely visit.

[MiniMe]

12. And...the story isn't even true

The NY Post had to retract it.

[louis-t]

15. But we know that 90% of right-wing crazies

will still spout this as fact. Rush says it so it must be true.

[MiniMe]

16. Link to the retraction

spread it around wherever you see it.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/gossip/pagesix/room_disservice_134490.htm

October 21, 2008 --

THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.

[leftofthedial]

17. not only a stupid concern, but the entire episode was a lie.

goddamned wingnuts have an utter hatred for the truth.

[RebelOne]

19. When Sean Hannity got his teeth in that story,

he wouldn't let go. He harped on that during his radio show. I'm sure he is now red-faced for repeating a fabricated tale.