The conservative National Review recently showed a stern-faced Michelle Obama on its cover, under the headline, “Mrs. Grievance.” The Tennessee Republican Party questioned her patriotism. Michelle Obama has become a favorite target for critics, drawing many to compare her arrival on the national stage to Hillary Clinton’s after she infuriated conservatives when she said, “I could have stayed home and baked cookies.”

It’s likely to get worse. “It’s going to be very ugly stuff,” Democratic strategist Tad Devine said. “They’re going to try to depict her as someone who is angry, outside the mainstream and not proud to be an American.” Read More

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Sometimes, this rumor of this alleged tape of Michelle Obama denouncing “whitey” sounds like something out of a clichéd political thriller novel.

Actually, it sounds exactly like something out of a clichéd political thriller novel. Specifically, Stephen Frey’s The Power Broker, published in 2006 by Ballantine Books.

A major plot line of the novel is the presidential campaign of Democrat Jesse Wood, aiming to be the country’s first African American president — “Wood was handsome, smart, charismatic, and being mentioned increasingly often in the press as someone who could unite a twenty-first century America growing more, not less, racially and economically divided.” (p.35) More

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Fox News contributor: Rumored Michelle Obama ‘Bombshell’ May Drop Wednesday

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Republican strategist, Roger Stone, accuses Michelle Obama of calling white people ‘Whity’ on Fox News

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Hugh Hewitt

“Whether or not the issue of Barack Obama’s two decades under the spiritual direction of Jeremiah Wright remains an issue through the next six months, the views of the possible First Lady at his side will be part of this half-year’s discussion. Which is why we have transcribed a major speech she made in North Carolina on the Friday before that state’s primary vote, and why we have posted the audio of the speech here. Read it…This is not a speech from the mainstream of American politics. It is a radical critique of the country, [one I enjoyed reading] and it is not the sort of assessment widely shared beyond the far precincts of the left.” Read more

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