NewsBusters Podcast: Self-Adoring Diva Michelle Obama Draws More Gush
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

NewsBusters Podcast: Self-Adoring Diva Michelle Obama Draws More Gush

Eight years after she left the White House, the liberals on TV are still fawning all over Michelle Obama. Gayle King and Whoopi Goldberg led the parade defending Queen Michelle's self-absorbed decision to skip Jimmy Carter's funeral and Donald Trump's inauguration because it wasn't "the right thing for me." She's free to do that, but she's not free to demand we all shut up about it. On April 10, CBS Mornings host Gayle King led her royal consort in proclaiming that Mrs. Obama can tell everyone it's none of their business. "She doesn't need to explain anything to anybody," announced CBS's Vladimir Duthiers. Gayle thought her complaining was so lovable!  The funniest part of this fawning is Gayle saying Michelle’s so unbothered, "I bet she won’t talk about this again." Oh no, she did it again on another podcast with an actress. This time it was Taraji P. Henson, who seems like quite a egotistical diva in her own right, but this was on Michelle's own podcast (the one with her brother Craig Robinson.)  Newsweek reported journalist Katie Couric wrote a message in the comments that garnered over 9,800 likes: "Michelle. You do you. That's why we love you. Ignore the haters and the naysayers. You're powerful and that's why you're a lightening rod for them. Carry on!" This podcast spurred Whoopi Goldberg to come unglued on The View. How dare anyone question the Queen! “My question about all of this is why does she owe anybody an explanation? … Why is it my business?! She didn't go!” Sunny Hostin said it was a female thing: "You know why -- I think it's because women are always expected to say “yes,” and expected to do things even when they don't want to do them." These types of events are generally dutifully attended by all living presidents and first ladies. So an absence is notable. Attendance is NOT mandatory, but when Barack shows up and Michelle doesn’t, then the tabloids and the social media started speculating about whether their marriage was on the rocks. Michelle Obama is very rich and very famous and she is free to skip out on anything she feels is not worth her time. But she is not free to squash anyone else talking about it, even if all her liberal media adorers want to shame everybody else. Michelle just doesn’t get how whiny and entitled she sounds. The entire time that she’s been on the national stage, her media coverage was about 97 percent positive, most of it super-duper positive.  In addition, we talk about our new number about the network obsession with deported illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia: 143 and a half minutes of televised attention to the "Maryland Man." But the rape and murder of Maryland mom Rachel Morin is still ignored, despite her illegal-alien killer being convicted at trial. Her mother Patty Morin appeared in the White House briefing room, and ABC and CBS still skipped it. NBC gave it 12 seconds.  CNN's Donie O'Sullivan was the latest liberal to devote a story to the White House allowing an invasion of "MAGA Media" White House correspondents. He was appalled that these journalists (he wondered if they were journalists) were cheerleading Trump instead of challenging them. Would Donie want to revisit how CNN covered Biden and Harris, not to mention Obama?  Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.