moose cakes (aka Michelle Antoinette)’s Big B-Day Bash

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/michelle-antoinettes-big-b-day-bash/

http://minutemennews.com/2013/03/michelles-big-b-day-bash/

Michelle Antoinette’s Big B-Day Bash

March 14, 2013 By Ben Shapiro Comments (13)

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This week the Obama administration announced that due to the awful, terrible, nasty, horrible sequestration, they would have to shut down the White House tours for the public. The same week, a White House source told the Daily Mail that Michelle Obama was planning a birthday blowout for her 50^th. In attendance: Adele and Beyonce.

The White House did say that the Obamas would pay for the party. But that’s highly unlikely – it’s supposed to take place at the White House, which requires Secret Service protection, high-class dining, and all the fringe benefits.

The White House website currently carries a populist quote from Michelle Obama: “It’s the ‘People’s House.’ It’s a place that is steeped in history, but it’s also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that’s why my husband and I have made it our mission to open up the house to as many people as we can.”

Unless those people don’t earn several million dollars per year for singing. Then they can stick it.

The media has largely ignored this rather obvious example of Obama hypocrisy. Why? Because to point out the fact that Barack and Michelle are elitists would undercut the leftist narrative that they represent the people, while the Republican Party represents the 1%. A cursory look at reality shows precisely the opposite: Washington, D.C. Democrats like Barack and Michelle prefer to hang with the jet set, introduce nominations at the Academy Awards, golf with Tiger, and shop in Europe – all while claiming to be the voices of the people. They tax everyday Americans in the name of fairness, then claim that they’re truly taxing the top earners.

That’s not to say that Republican insiders aren’t also elitists. They are. But a least they cop to it; and  they’re not celebrity hounds to boot. Perhaps that’s a reflection of the GOP’s icy relationship with Tinseltown. Or perhaps it’s because the rich folks Republicans hang with aren’t singers and actors, but businessmenand women who actually create jobs for others. Say all you want about the Koch brothers, but they’ve created thousands of jobs. Mariah Carey has created jobs, too: reports say that she demands an assistant to walk in front of her facing her so that she can be caught if she trips, an assistant to carry toilet paper, an assistant to hold drinks up to her great maw to allow her to sip without raising her arms. Now that’s a stimulus package!

The media has crafted an image of the Obamas utterly at odds with reality. But that’s what Obama wants. It’s why he travels the country, sleeves rolled up on his forearms, top button undone. It’s why he pretends to shoot skeet. It’s why he won’t allow photographers to catch him on the golf course too often.

Obama knows the power of the images. That’s because he’s close with Hollywood. Hanging out with the glitterati pays off in more ways than one. Plus, you get great birthday guests.

FAIL: LONE UNION WORKER WALKS OUT OF WALMART

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by BEN SHAPIRO 22 Nov 2012 308POST A COMMENT

In an inspiring example of Union Fail, the planned union walkout on Walmart during Black Friday led off with a one-employee walkout at a Walmart in St. Cloud, Florida on Wednesday. The walkout was led by – and entirely constituted by – Vanessa Ferreira, 59. She told her manager that she was going on strike. The other workers watched her leave, shrugged, and went back about their business. The police then warned Ferreira for trespass.

Ferreira has worked for Walmart for eight years in the cakes department, where she decorates cakes. But she says that her wages are too low – at nearly $12 per hour – to survive on. Which, of course, begs the question of how she’s been living on those wages for eight years.

“They pay low wages, then the taxpayers pick up the tab for food stamps and Medicaid,” said Ferreira. “They need to take care of their people. They need to be responsible to their workers.”

Huffington Post tried to champion Ferreira as a brave soul:

Whatever strikes hit Walmart stores this Friday, it's likely only a small, perhaps miniscule fraction of the retailer's 1.4-million member U.S. workforce will take part. And though news footage may show boisterous gatherings by activists outside stores, the more daring acts of protest will have been undertaken by individual workers like Ferreira who walk out when there are no TV cameras around. In recent days, it became clear that if she went on strike she would probably do so alone.

But even Ferreira acknowledges that the other Walmart employees say she doesn’t speak for them, and are annoyed by her theatrics.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/22/union-black-friday-walmart-fail

The-1984-Manchurian-Animal-Farm IN BURMA: 'I WISH I COULD... IMPOSE MY WILL ON CONGRESS'

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by BEN SHAPIRO 19 Nov 2012, 12:02 PM PDT 271POST A COMMENT

Today, President Obama spoke in Burma – or as he termed it, Myanmar, despite official US practice to call the country Burma – and repeatedly botched the name of the country’s famed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, instead calling her Aung YAN Suu Kyi. Then he called President Thein Sein “President Sein,” which was a diplomatic snafu, since the president of Burma is to be called by his full name.

His speech was just as bad. After getting through the basics – acting as though his doctrine, not President Bush’s multiple actions on behalf of democracy in Burma, had created more freedom in Burma -- Obama cited Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “four fundamental freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.”

When it came to freedom of speech, Obama said all the right things – after all, he was not talking about an anti-Islam YouTube video in Burma. But he then followed up that glowing language with this bombshell: “Now, on other hand, as President, I cannot just impose my will on Congress -- the Congress of the United States -- even though sometimes I wish I could.” Yes, he does. And he does everything in his power to exceed his constitutional bounds. And he said this in Burma, a military dictatorship for decades, shortly after calling it Myanmar, the name for the country used by the military dictatorship. Talk about undermining America on the world stage.

Obama moved on to freedom from want, which he said was accomplished through private property which could be seized by government. Really. Here was his take on how economics makes peoples prosperous:

When ordinary people have a say in their own future, then your land can’t just be taken away from you.  And that's why reforms must ensure that the people of this nation can have that most fundamental of possessions -- the right to own the title to the land on which you live and on which you work. When your talents are unleashed, then opportunity will be created for all people …. as more wealth flows into your borders, we hope and expect that it will lift up more people.  It can't just help folks at the top.  It has to help everybody.  And that kind of economic growth, where everybody has opportunity -- if you work hard, you can succeed -- that's what gets a nation moving rapidly when it comes to develop. 

So property ownership is good, except that it promotes inequality, so it must be redistributed. Got it.

When Obama moved on to freedom of worship, he moved back into his “red states and blue states” nonsense from the campaign. Instead of taking religious differences seriously and recommending a separation of church and state, Obama talked happy talk about culture:

My own country and my own life have taught me the power of diversity.  The United States of America is a nation of Christians and Jews, and Muslims and Buddhists, and Hindus and non-believers.  Our story is shaped by every language; it’s enriched by every culture.  We have people from every corners of the world.  We’ve tasted the bitterness of civil war and segregation, but our history shows us that hatred in the human heart can recede; that the lines between races and tribes fade away.  And what’s left is a simple truth: e pluribus unum -- that’s what we say in America.  Out of many, we are one nation and we are one people.  And that truth has, time and again, made our union stronger.  It has made our country stronger.  It’s part of what has made America great.

Well, e pluribus unum, until such time as Obama needs to win an election. Then he divides us by race, religion, ethnicity, age, and gender.

Finally, Obama addressed freedom from fear. He didn’t talk about the need to discard tyrannical societies. Instead, he talked in vague terms about xenophobia, fear of change, and the like. Some more typical Obama happy talk:

In many ways, fear is the force that stands between human beings and their dreams.  Fear of conflict and the weapons of war.  Fear of a future that is different from the past.  Fear of changes that are reordering our societies and economy.  Fear of people who look different, or come from a different place, or worship in a different way.  In some of her darkest moments, when Aung San Suu Kyi was imprisoned, she wrote an essay about freedom from fear.  She said fear of losing corrupts those who wield it -- “Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” That's the fear that you can leave behind.  We see that chance in leaders who are beginning to understand that power comes from appealing to people’s hopes, not people's fears. We see it in citizens who insist that this time must be different, that this time change will come and will continue.  As Aung San Suu Kyi wrote: “Fear is not the natural state of civilized man.” I believe that. 

What does any of this mean? Even Obama would be hard-pressed to explain. 

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/11/19/Obama-in-Burma-Congress

http://patriotupdate.com/33008/obama-i-wish-i-could-impose-my-will-on-congress

MEDIA REPORT 20K AT OBAMA MILWAUKEE EVENT ... IN 12K ARENA

I think she's good for the extra 8000 seats all by herself.

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by BEN SHAPIRO 4 Nov 2012, 7:19 AM PDT 21POST A COMMENT

In their blatant attempt to pump up President Obama’s crowd sizes, the media has taken to inventing seats at arenas. Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported:

With help from pop sensation Katy Perry, President Barack Obama drew 20,000 people Saturday as he trumpeted his accomplishments in office and urged people not only to vote, but to volunteer in the closing days before the election.

“It’s good to be so close to home!” he shouted to roars inside the Delta Center in downtown Milwaukee.

That claim was also reported by the Hollywood Reporter and various other outlets.

Only one problem: the capacity for the Delta Center in Milwaukee is 12,580.

Oops.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/11/04/Media-reports-20k-in-12k-arena

CARNEY: 'EVERYONE' KNEW ABOUT TERRORIST CLAIMS 'INSTANTANEOUSLY'

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by BEN SHAPIRO 24 Oct 2012 243POST A COMMENT

Today, at the White House press gaggle, Jay Carney was asked one – really, just one – question about the emails regarding the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Those emails, to refresh, showed that within two hours of the attacks, the White House had been informed that the action on the ground was a terrorist attack. There was no mention of a YouTube video or a spontaneous demonstration in the emails.

Carney acknowledged today not only that the White House knew, but that it knew “instantaneously”:

The email you’re referring to was an open-source, unclassified email referring to an assertion made on a social media site that everyone in this room had access to and knew about instantaneously.

Instantaneously. Yet the Obama administration claimed for weeks that they were giving Americans the best available information.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/24/Carney-everyone-knew-terrorist-claims-instantaneously

http://visiontoamerica.com/12655/white-house-admits-it-knew-benghazi-was-terrorist-attack-instantaneously/