Former FLOTUS: racial slurs

[George K]

I remember all the reporting about this, don't you?

[Jolly]

To be honest, I tried to ignore everything about the woman as much as I could. I don't care for Obama's politics, but he does have some likeable traits.

I don't see her in that light...

[Copper]

It's not surprising that people weren't proud of her.

[Catseye3]

Wowie Zowie -- black celebrity subject to racial slurs in public. Is that a blockbuster headline or what?

[Loki]

@george-k said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

I remember all the reporting about this, don't you?

You are kidding right? I don’t remember it all.

[Mik]

I can see why they might not want to publicize this. Probably was a pretty common thing and to focus on it would detract from his agenda.

[George K]

@mik said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

I can see why they might not want to publicize this.

Yeah, but you'd think that at least one reporter, somewhere, would have commented on it.

Maybe s/he did, but it certainly didn't percolate to the surface of the news cycle during the two terms of the Obamas' racial healing.

[Mik]

Not if they were not told.

[Horace]

If Michelle "could not go anywhere without racial slurs being hurled at her" then audio and video would exist, obviously. And obviously it would have been trumpeted throughout the culture by a media ravenous to publicize such things.

[George K]

@horace said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

If Michelle "could not go anywhere without racial slurs being hurled at her" then audio and video would exist, obviously. And obviously it would have been trumpeted throughout the culture by a media ravenous to publicize such things.

Exactly my point.

[Horace]

@george-k said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

@horace said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

If Michelle "could not go anywhere without racial slurs being hurled at her" then audio and video would exist, obviously. And obviously it would have been trumpeted throughout the culture by a media ravenous to publicize such things.

Exactly my point.

I wonder if this secret service agent has a book coming out, or some other reason to be looking for some publicity?

[George K]

@horace said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

@george-k said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

@horace said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

If Michelle "could not go anywhere without racial slurs being hurled at her" then audio and video would exist, obviously. And obviously it would have been trumpeted throughout the culture by a media ravenous to publicize such things.

Exactly my point.

I wonder if this secret service agent has a book coming out, or some other reason to be looking for some publicity?

Heh.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

• HL Mencken

Oh, wait...

https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obamas-former-secret-agent-104924152.html

A former Secret Service agent says she couldn't defend Michelle Obama from racist verbal attacks.

Evy Poumpouras told Insider she "could do nothing" when witnessing racist comments.

Poumpouras' book, "Becoming Bulletproof," details her time in the Secret Service.

[Loki]

@horace said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

@george-k said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

@horace said in Former FLOTUS: racial slurs:

If Michelle "could not go anywhere without racial slurs being hurled at her" then audio and video would exist, obviously. And obviously it would have been trumpeted throughout the culture by a media ravenous to publicize such things.

Exactly my point.

I wonder if this secret service agent has a book coming out, or some other reason to be looking for some publicity?

Just go through his twitter posts if you want to see a case study on motivated reasoning.

[LuFins Dad]

Chicks... Whatcha gonna do? Amirite? C’mon fellas...

[Horace]

I am sure Michelle will rush to set the record straight about this obvious slander against the country she was First Lady of for eight years. They go low, she goes high. Watch it happen. I can't wait.