Michelle Derangement Syndrome
Is there a point where one's political dislike becomes so engrained it seeps into a personal hatred that borders on psychosis?
Michelle Derangement Syndrome
Ari Rabin-Havt
Is there a point where one’s political dislike becomes so engrained it seeps into a personal hatred that borders on psychosis?
The first lady has endured four years of attacks not on political positions -- where criticism would be completely in-bounds -- but on her style, her weight, and her butt.
The reaction to her appearance, by video, at last night’s Oscars ceremony demonstrates the depth of conservative delusion.
Never mind the First Lady was invited to attend the event, Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post groused: “It is not enough that President Obama pops up at every sporting event in the nation. Now the first lady feels entitled, with military personnel as props, to intrude on other forms of entertaining (this time for the benefit of the Hollywood glitterati who so lavishly paid for her husband’s election).”
Fox News’ Todd Starnes took to Twitter to assert Michelle Obama “made [the Oscars] about herself.”
Christian Toto of Breitbart.com claimed her appearance was an “unprecedented cultural power grab.” He continued, “Michelle Obama hijacked the Oscars tonight, and we're all supposed to be giddy at the chance to see her shine anew.”
And Rush Limbaugh bloviated “I thought of the Macintosh ad from the Super Bowl in 1984. Exact type of scenario except Michelle Obama was actually the dear leader of this -- obviously a totalitarian state."
I get it.
They hate the President. They hate the First Lady. They hate the fact that the majority of Americans voted to reelect Barack Obama to another four years in office.
And they hate that the vast majority of people watching the Oscar’s reaction to the First Lady’s appearance was to think, “Oh cool, Michelle Obama – Wow Argo won. Good for Ben Affleck. Remember Gigli, wow that movie sucked.”
Get over it. (Not Gigli, America is still owed an apology for that film.)
For better or worse our President and first family serve both a political and ceremonial role. Conservatives who cannot stand to see Michelle Obama on television without shaking with rage need to get some perspective.
It’s not unprecedented for political figures to appear at the Oscars. Laura Bush took part in the ceremony in 2002. I somehow doubt the right considers that a hijacking. (Fun fact: the first President to speak at the Oscars was Franklin Roosevelt in 1941.)
Michelle Derangement Syndrome is not a new disease. For six years conservatives have tried to paint the First Lady as an angry black woman, a stereotype designed to cynically scare white swing voters away from the President. With “positive views of [Michelle Obama outstripping] negative by about 4 to 1,” they are infuriated with their failure.
Why are Conservatives watching an homage to the Liberal Hollywood Elite anyway?— phillygwm
>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.
>Ronald Reagan also taped his own video message for the 53rd Academy Awards in 1981.
>Laura Bush participated in a taped segment - "What do the movies mean to you?" - for the 74th Academy Awards in 2002.- The only Oscar that she should have presented was to her husband for "best impersonation of a nation's leader" ....the man's a con and impostor.— dogman5
- We get it. Your side lost. Get over it. Move on.
— daxtremesolja - DAX is a classic example of liberal agenda and prerogative.
They view their "struggle" as "us vs them" and not American or citizen or promoting the ideology the Founding Fathers dreamed of. They echo the same destructive rhetoric as Lenin and Stalin which ultimately led to the destruction of the USSR.
BTW, isn't it amazing that it took a conservative to unite the country between 1860 and 1865?
— Professor1982 - Lincoln, a conservative? Really? That's news to most historians. The support base for the Republican Party was in the Northeast and industrialized upper Midwest... you know, those places that are almost entirely liberal now (and were not a whole lot different then). Democrats were the conservative, anti-abolitionists. The civil rights legislation of the 60s flipped the parties and all of the Jim Crow types in the South became Republicans where they could really get their freak on like the Tea Partiers of today. No one can say for sure but odds are that Lincoln would have been a Democrat by today's standards and ain't no conservative nowhere freeing up the pigmented either then or now. — Last Man Standing
- yes you won dax, how is that working out for ALL of us? — Mottz
- Looking at the President's current approval ratings, it's looking like the majority of Americans think he's doing well.
You clearly don't see it that way.— daxtremesolja - LoL...Dax you would think "approval ratings" are indicative of positive leadership.
Never knew real leadership was a "popularity contest". What next, we nominate the most incompetent yet popular person to be POTUS???
I guess if Americans thought we should turn over the plans to the F22 raptor to China...you'd agree with that too, lol!— Professor1982 - Well considering that the president is elected using a popular vote (and an electoral college based on state votes), yes the most popular president gets voted in. This is not a dictatorship Professor. — daxtremesolja
- Dax, that's not the point. The point is the average American voter is ignorant and apathetic to really what's important. That is one of the reasons why the Founding Fathers only allowed taxpaying landowners to vote. They had skin in the game.
Obama's voter have no "skin in the game" and only serve siphon off value from the country and those that actually produce.
Which is why the country is failing. Less and less produce and more and more take. Eventually there will be nothing left (see Soviet Union).— Professor1982 - "That is one of the reasons why the Founding Fathers only allowed taxpaying landowners to vote."
Don't forget "white" and "men" with that statement.— daxtremesolja - Nice, way to put down the American vote, you phony prfessor. The average American voter is a white middle class middle of the road guy. So happy to knwo you disdain their mentality. Talk about elitist. Since the vast majority of American voters selected Obama, that leaves elitists like you in the minority and we know just how much you dislike minorities. So the Founding Fathers thought that women and hired help, let alone free Blacks, should not vote. Glad to see you believe we should still live in the 19th century. God, and you people call liberals elite. What a phony you are. Admit it. — mike l
- It's always wonderful to read the likes of professor snake here showing his unlimited arrogance and total disrespect for the majority of the American people.
As long as right wingers continue to articulate their contempt for their fellow citizens, they will grow weaker, and fade, returning into the sulfurous smoke of hell from whence they came.— carl and sons - bwahahahahaha "approval ratings"? That wasn't the question. How is the country doing? Nevermind, you wont answer...approval ratings LMAO — Mottz
