I admit the comment uttered by radio talk show host Tammy Bruce, subbing for Laura Ingram, March 23, on WBAP sounded humorous, if not a little shocking, when she referred to First Lady Michelle Obama as “trash in the White House.”
What I found humorous was when Bruce compared Michelle Obama’s comments to a grade school class about how her classmates made fun of her in grade school for wanting to get good grades and talking like a “white girl” comparing her with the nitrous oxide kid seen on www.youtube.com who was drugged out after visiting the dentist crying, “Is this going to be forever?”
“No, it’s not going to be forever, Nitrous Oxide kid,” Bruce mockingly said. “It’s not.”
This was followed by Bruce calling the First Lady, “You know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. Trash is a thing that is color blind, it can cross all eco-socionic kind of categories, you can work on Wall Street or work at the Wal-Mart. Trash are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy.”
After reading over Bruce’s comment, I thought to myself, “This doesn’t describe Michelle Obama.” If anyone comes to mind who is "trash", it’s Bernard Madoff, the disgraced financier currently sitting in jail awaiting a 150-year prison sentence this June in a 20-year Ponzi scheme which supposedly earned him up to $65 billion.
Madoff is trash. But Michelle Obama? As much as it pains me to fight for the side of a liberal, I have to say no, she is not. I admit I don’t care the least for this president and I take great pride in what President Obama referred to in his election victory speech last November at being called “those Americans” whose support he has yet to earn. He didn’t win my vote and like Rush Limbaugh, I want this president to fail. I can offer a number of reasons why I think what President Obama is doing is bad for the country versus the disgrace of calling the First Lady “Trash in the White House.”
I really have no idea what Bruce, who on her website, www.tammybruce.com describes herself in the very first line of her biography as “an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush authentic feminist” is trying to say.
Ok. So what’s wrong with that? I may be wrong in what the First Lady was telling those grade school kids but all she is saying is she wasn’t going to allow the criticisms of fellow students who say she talks like "a white girl" and keeping that from getting straight A's.
Why should Michelle Obama lower her own expectations because of what other people think of her or how she talks? Why should anyone for that matter?
Thankfully though, I heard no other conservative commentators discuss Bruce’s comments on their shows in the days following. They were all too busy interviewing and promoting talk show host’s Mark R. Levin’s new book, "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto," which has been selling out at bookstores since its release March 24. I still haven’t been able to get a copy.
I suspect Levin’s new book will offer far more constructive arguments about revitalizing the conservative movement versus a female conservative pro-gay talk show host who calls the First Lady “trash in the White House.”
At least I have heard of Mark Levin.
©4/5/09
What I found humorous was when Bruce compared Michelle Obama’s comments to a grade school class about how her classmates made fun of her in grade school for wanting to get good grades and talking like a “white girl” comparing her with the nitrous oxide kid seen on www.youtube.com who was drugged out after visiting the dentist crying, “Is this going to be forever?”
“No, it’s not going to be forever, Nitrous Oxide kid,” Bruce mockingly said. “It’s not.”
This was followed by Bruce calling the First Lady, “You know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. Trash is a thing that is color blind, it can cross all eco-socionic kind of categories, you can work on Wall Street or work at the Wal-Mart. Trash are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy.”
I found all this funny, at first that is. Reading over Bruce’s comments and then listening to Michelle Obama’s comments to the grade school kids a couple more times the next night when the liberal drive-by media picked up on it, I started asking myself what is the point Bruce is trying to make? I found it to be the racist equivalent of shock jock Don Imus’ comments back in 2007 when he referred to members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.”The comment was not funny but insulting and uncalled for.
After reading over Bruce’s comment, I thought to myself, “This doesn’t describe Michelle Obama.” If anyone comes to mind who is "trash", it’s Bernard Madoff, the disgraced financier currently sitting in jail awaiting a 150-year prison sentence this June in a 20-year Ponzi scheme which supposedly earned him up to $65 billion.
Madoff is trash. But Michelle Obama? As much as it pains me to fight for the side of a liberal, I have to say no, she is not. I admit I don’t care the least for this president and I take great pride in what President Obama referred to in his election victory speech last November at being called “those Americans” whose support he has yet to earn. He didn’t win my vote and like Rush Limbaugh, I want this president to fail. I can offer a number of reasons why I think what President Obama is doing is bad for the country versus the disgrace of calling the First Lady “Trash in the White House.”
I really have no idea what Bruce, who on her website, www.tammybruce.com describes herself in the very first line of her biography as “an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush authentic feminist” is trying to say.
Listening to a clip Bruce played of Michelle Obama speaking to the grade school class, I fail to see where Bruce is coming from.“Getting good grades was always important to me and it wasn’t because my parents were hounding me or that they had the expectation,” Michelle Obama said. “It was something that I wanted for myself. I wanted an A, and I didn’t care whether it was cool cause I remember there were kids around my neighborhood who would say, “Ohhh, you talk funny. You talk like a white girl." I heard that growing up my whole life. I was like, I don’t even know what that means but you know what, I am still getting my A.”
Ok. So what’s wrong with that? I may be wrong in what the First Lady was telling those grade school kids but all she is saying is she wasn’t going to allow the criticisms of fellow students who say she talks like "a white girl" and keeping that from getting straight A's.
Why should Michelle Obama lower her own expectations because of what other people think of her or how she talks? Why should anyone for that matter?
Tammy Bruce is like MSNBC host, Rick Santelli, whose on air rant in February about responsible home owners taking up the slack for irresponsible ones who don’t pay their mortgages when it comes to President Obama's stimulus package got national attention. I haven’t heard anything controversial from Santelli since. I suspect I won’t hear anything controversial from Bruce any time soon either. Like Santelli, I never heard of Tammy Bruce until now.I don’t agree with her comment, but at least she has the balls to say what’s on her mind, even if it doesn’t make sense.
Thankfully though, I heard no other conservative commentators discuss Bruce’s comments on their shows in the days following. They were all too busy interviewing and promoting talk show host’s Mark R. Levin’s new book, "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto," which has been selling out at bookstores since its release March 24. I still haven’t been able to get a copy.
I suspect Levin’s new book will offer far more constructive arguments about revitalizing the conservative movement versus a female conservative pro-gay talk show host who calls the First Lady “trash in the White House.”
At least I have heard of Mark Levin.
©4/5/09
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