No lobster for Limbaugh, only crow
I don't often read the New York Post, so I was unaware that on October 17th their column Page Six ran a gotcha story about Michelle Obama livin' it up in tough times...ordering lavish room service -- $450 worth of champagne, lobster hors d’oeuvres, whole steamed lobsters and Iranian caviar -- at the Waldorf-Astoria.
All the while poor starving peasants were wandering the streets below no doubt...
Though I did think the Iranian caviar detail was a nice touch artistically...but a dead giveaway that the story was bogus, concocted by someone trying to stick it to the Obamas.
Of course, Rush Limbaugh and the rightwing slime merchants jumped on the story and ran with it as Exhibit A of liberal hypocrisy...braying that this is what the Obamas do with all that cash people send them...that this is how the Obamas live when nobody is looking.
Even a P.U.M.A. Web site was promoting the story, they even mocked up a fake receipt signed by Michelle.
Well, they *say* they're P.U.M.A....
Turns out, it was all a lie...a big fat lie. Page Six had to delete that little gossip item because - get this - Michelle Obama was nowhere near NYC on Wednesday...she was in Indiana:
So, yesterday The New York Post's Page Six had to run a red-faced retraction of its flagrant slur against Michelle:
"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."
BTW, this really made me laugh -- The very next day, someone from the McCain campaign was talking about Cindy McCain and said he'd never seen a Presidential candidate's spouse treated so negatively or so unfairly.
But it's sooo nice to see Limbaugh and the rabid righties have to eat crow pie...big slices too. It never ceases to amaze me how gullible they can be...regurgitating every cockamamie rumor that comes down the pike.
Yet it's upsetting to see the level of hatred for Barack Obama in the country at large. It makes me nervous and I find it hard to deal with.
Hopefully he will survive it.
It was the same with Bill Clinton. Right from the start, before he had zipper problems, the Republicans hated and resented him so much. The more moderate wouldn't work with him in Congress, the more hateful spread rumors about him being involved with murder and drug-running. They were just out for blood period, and their desperation to stick it to him spurred them to mount their fatally flawed impeachment campaign.
