Smear on Michelle Obama: The lobster dinner that wasn't

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

More rightwing fabricated bullshit

Last Friday, the New York Post's famous gossip column, Page Six, printed what seemed like a devastating report, with potential to impact the election. "Though he's battling GOP accusations that he's an Ivy League elitist, Barack Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous," the report read. "While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six."

Page Six is known for being less than absolutely devoted to the truth, especially when it's going after one of its column's favorite targets. (Sometimes, those targets seem related to the interests of the newspaper's parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.) Still, even for Page Six, this story reeked. There was the thin sourcing, of course. Plus -- she ate Iranian caviar? Come on. Apparently, someone just couldn't resist adding that extra little bit of detail, but it was obviously too good to be true.

Lo and behold, it was -- turns out Obama couldn't even have been at the hotel at the time the column said she was.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/10/21/lobster/?source=refresh

[Webster Green]

1. I like lobster!

What if she had ordered lobster? Are lobster eaters commies or terrorists or something now? :wtf:

[Left Is Write]

3. Lobster-eaters are elitists.

People who buy their campaign clothes at Nieman-Marcus and Saks are the real Americans. :P

[AllentownJake]

4. She's an uppity elitist is the idea they are trying to project

Trying to smear Obama's family as rich people who eat at the finest places...not like you in real America who eat at Applebees and Fridays.

Its disgusting because Cindy McCain wears earing that costs more than most American's houses on a regular basis.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Maybe the repukes are making a bid for the ainimal rights vote?

God know everything else hasn't workeed so far.

[Phx_Dem]

2. Lobster is so elistist.

But spending $150,000 in one month on clothes from stores like Neiman Marcus and Saks Fith Avenue is so Joe Six Pack.

[Left Is Write]

5. LOL! Looks like we had the same thought at the same time.

[ErinBerin84]

6. I was wondering what this was about

freeper types were spamming this comment all over Politico. Honestly, even if it was Cindy who had hypothetically ordered lobster and caviar, who cares?

[leftist.]

7. Sean Hannity says it's true and uses it about 27 times a day.

Therefore it must be true, please retract your post OP

:P

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Wasn't Sean Hannity once a roofer?

He must have fallen on his head.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Not just caviar- IRANIAN caviar.

She's been spawnin' with teh turrurrusts!

[KingFlorez]

10. Sounds more like some Cindy McCain would do

Or something Sarah Palin would do and try to charge to the government of Alaska.

[BlooInBloo]

15. Given the republican MO of blaming Democrats for their own crimes...

it should be looked into immediately.

[qanda]

11. I'm surprised they didn't accuse her of ordering white tea

[TheKentuckian]

12. People for the folks with seven houses/McMansions/actual estates

want to talk about a lobster dinner? Really???

Mr. Fantastic can't stretch like that and to lie about it is about 100,000,000 light years before you make it up to the beginning of lameness.

[New Dawn]

13. "New York Post" is a Rupert Murdoch paper.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. As noted in the post.