The New York Daily News published a column Tuesday on the fabricated cartoon controversy – except they saw no reason to hyperventilate as Lawrence O’Donnell did last night, and bring race into a situation where it clearly doesn’t belong.
In the cartoon, posted over the weekend, the First Lady is sitting at a dinner table with President Obama.
“I’ve stepped up my efforts to control America‘s eating habits by telling restaurants to lower portion sizes and fat content,” a double-chinned Michelle Obama says, referring to her anti-obesity campaign, which celebrated its one-year anniversary last week.
The President, pictured with huge ears and sitting next to her in front of a tiny plate of vegetables, responds, “Michelle, I want to get reelected. What you’re doing is only going to annoy a lot of people.”
The First Lady responds, “Shut up and pass the bacon!”
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“Michelle Obama’s work on nutrition issues has gone beyond the normal First Lady advocacy into the realm of shaping national policy, so, on this issue, I think she is fair game for criticism,” Flynn [Mike Flynn, Editor, BigGovernment.com] added.
A local news station in Cleveland also reported on the story:
Controversy over a new conservative slam against the white house. A cartoon features an overweight Michelle Obama eating burgers while promoting healthier eating to the President. The creators say nothing racist here, just a jab at what they call the hypocrisy in the first lady’s campaign against obesity, telling people how and what to eat.
Again, it seems racist to constantly point out that certain individuals deserve special treatment due to skin color or religion – just as it’s racist to assert that the President and First Lady are exempt from criticism because of their ethnicity.
Lawrence O’Donnell could have chosen to simply report, but instead chose to seemingly incite a virtual riot against James Hudnall and Batton Lash.