Right-wing bloggers to Obama: Leave Jessica Simpson alone!

[CatWoman]

Thank God for conservative bloggers. Without them, who would stand up when women are under attack?

The latest feminist crusade from the right side of the blogosphere was provoked by this section of a transcript NBC released of President Obama's pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer:

LAUER: Yeah, well -- let -- let me show you. This is the -- the current issue of -- of Us Weekly.

OBAMA: Right.

LAUER: And here’s a great picture --

OBAMA: Oh, it’s beautiful.

LAUER: -- of -- of you and -- and Michelle and -- and your daughters. Now, the -- the reason I bring this up I think is funny. It’s a great picture.

OBAMA: Yeah.

LAUER: But I wanna show you the cover. Look what they did. They -- they took you off the cover.

OBAMA: Yeah.

LAUER: They took you out of it.

OBAMA: It -- it’s -- it’s a little hurtful.

LAUER: You got replaced by Jessica Simpson.

OBAMA: Yeah, who’s losing a weight battle apparently. (LAUGHTER) Yeah. Oh, well.

This provoked outrage from, among others, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, Dan Riehl, Sister Toldjah and Warner Todd Huston of Newsbusters, who wrote, "Lastly, let us imagine the hue and cry that would have been raised if George W. Bush had on national TV slammed a singer for being fat? Would the moonbats of the left have ignored that? Wouldn't the rest of the media have gone nuts reporting the story if it should have been Bush instead of Obama that called someone like Jessica Simpson fat?"

Then the truth came out: The transcript was wrong. Obama hadn't said Simpson was losing a weight battle; he'd said she was in one. And it just so happens that the current cover of US Weekly, the one Lauer showed the president, has a headline that says, "Inside Jess' weight battle."

Yes, folks, Obama was simply reading the headline aloud. Some bloggers, like Huston and Sister Toldjah (who, ironically, had already suggested that MSNBC would alter the transcript in Obama's favor), did note the transcription error. But even they didn't let that stop them from declaring Obama guilty anyway. "I apologize for not catching MSNBC's mistake. It does not alter my point, however, that Obama was commenting on Simpson's weight. Saying someone is 'in a weight battle' is not very much different than saying they are fat," Huston wrote.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

[Cha]

1. Oh dear...it's sounds like something matt

lauer would get someone involved in.. with his inane interviewing style.

Maybe Jessica will get a phone call?

[high density]

3. The interview was funny

Obama was simply repeating the absurd headline that was where his face should have been.

[Cha]

5. Good..and I'm thinking of past

lauer interviews. I'd heard before that this was a good one though.

Like I said if Obama thinks he's inadvertantly offended someone..he'll apologize.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Ah, good to see the RW nutcases focusing in on what is important.

I mean, reading headlines is so much more important that re-evaulating the Obstructionist Party's role in the stimulus package, worrying about our soldiers in Iraq and considering a change in our health care.

Glad to see they know what counts.

:eyes:

[YOY]

4. Come on now! Only Infotainment can say such things!

You're not allowed to read their headlines Mr. Obama! Republicans know that all of us are horribly sexist monsters!

[liberalmuse]

6. Seen on Politico, 'Did Obama Diss Jessica Simpson"? ZOMG!!!

What the hell is up with this nonsense? Holy mother, we're having a global financial meltdown and this is the shit that makes headlines and gets the freepers abuzzin'. Kill me now. PLEASE.

[Berry Cool]

8. It's perfectly OK for the Coultergeist to call Keith Olbermann "a 57-year-old woman

trapped in a man's body," but if Obama repeats a stupid headline on a magazine cover, suddenly the wingnuts are champions of feminism.

They can all bite me.

[NoPasaran]

7. Not that there's anything wrong with it...

But Jessica does have her eatin' pants on.

[sandyj999]

9. I heard it when he said it. And saw him when he said it.

He was in no way making fun of Jessica Simpson but making fun of the magazine and it's stupid cover and what it said. That was all and anyone making more of it than it was, needs to get a life!

[Number23]

10. Ah, thanks for the explanation.

That makes sense. I was just about to say "that truly does not sound like something Obama would say" before I saw your post.

[FarLeftRage]

11. Figures it was lauer in this..

Little matty loser just loves to stir up the shit, doesn't he???? :puke:

[Franks Wild Years]

12. It's because they cannot read and were therefore unable to discern the headline.

But then unintelligent & hideously ugly swine like Michelle Malkin have never had reason to learn, so perhaps we should strive to be more understanding of their kind.

[4lbs]

13. The thing that gets lost in all of this, is that long before President Obama made an off-hand remark

about Jessica Simpson, all the entertainment shows (Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Access Hollywood, etc.) were yapping for 3 whole days and many multiple segments about Jessica Simpson's weight issue.

So, no outrage then? Only when the President spends two seconds to quip about it eh?

[Jennicut]

14. THIS is all they got, seriously?

HAHHAHAHHAHA!

[Clear Blue Sky]

15. What a nonstory this is.