The View : Why Does Michelle Obama Get A Network Farewell Special?

Has any other First Lady ever gotten one? What an ego. I'll be so glad when she's gone.

They may have, I can't recall top of my headI don't think it's unusual - especially for a First Lady who spent 8 years in the White House, and she was beloved by a lot of people. I don't think it's ego, just a nice send off for someone who has tried to serve her country in the best way she saw appropriate.

well your hero melania trump is screwed she can't copy off of Michelle Obama anymore

it's never Joan Van Ark- Marge Simpsons

why not?

Nobody copied Michelle. I hope you don't think they write their own speeches. They just use the same lazy writers.

I never said they did.

She got a farewell special courtesy of Oprah. Ya think Oprah would've given Laura Bush the time of day? LOL

Melania Trump is hardly my "hero". She just happens to be married to him.

And what exactly would she "copy" from Michelle? Her know-it-all arrogance? Her snotty demeanor? Tried to give Mrs. Obama the benefit of the doubt for eight loooong years. But her farewell address really corked the bottle. She is an elitist snob, just like the rest of the lefttards she identifies with. Adios Michelle, and take your hubby with you!!



Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

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And what exactly would she "copy" from Michelle? Her know-it-all arrogance? Her snotty demeanor? Tried to give Mrs. Obama the benefit of the doubt for eight loooong years. But her farewell address really corked the bottle. She is an elitist snob, just like the rest of the lefttards she identifies with. Adios Michelle, and take your hubby with you!!

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What exactly has she said that makes her snotty?

Well, eight years ago it was "the FIRST time" she was proud of her country. What? Really? Yeah, the US of A has been a cesspool with nothing good every happening here before her husband got elected President.

I would have understood if she had just said that she was really proud of her country. But "the first time" was a bit much.

Regarding her interview, she said that now we have NO hope. The country is hopeless. Hopeless? WTF Regardless of all the magazine covers that she has been on, she does not speak for the whole country, she certainly does not speak for ME!

If her husband's presidency was such a smashing success, why do we have to feel so "hopeless" just because the two of them are vacating the White House?

Her comments were unclassy and uncalled for. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt for eight years. I did not want to be critical just because I differed with her on politics. But it comes down to her personality. She is simply one of those arrogant snot nose types that get under my skin. That's just the way it it.


Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

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Well, eight years ago it was "the FIRST time" she was proud of her country. What? Really? Yeah, the US of A has been a cesspool with nothing good every happening here before her husband got elected President.

I would have understood if she had just said that she was really proud of her country. But "the first time" was a bit much.

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Are you being deliberately insensitive? You can't understand why a Black woman whose parents lived through Jim Crow and segregation would have a different view of America than yours?

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Regarding her interview, she said that now we have NO hope. The country is hopeless. Hopeless? WTF Regardless of all the magazine covers that she has been on, she does not speak for the whole country, she certainly does not speak for ME!

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Actually, what she said was "some" are feeling that now. If you translated her some as all, that's on you not her.

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If her husband's presidency was such a smashing success, why do we have to feel so "hopeless" just because the two of them are vacating the White House?

Her comments were unclassy and uncalled for. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt for eight years. I did not want to be critical just because I differed with her on politics. But it comes down to her personality. She is simply one of those arrogant snot nose types that get under my skin. That's just the way it it.

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You clearly didn't listen, and you seem to have made up your mind before the special even aired.

Well, now we have a "First Lady" who behind closed doors probably gets visits from her father at night. Their relationship is clearly not "right".

That's happening while the real "First Lady" is staying as far away as possible from her lech husband who clearly was never sexually attracted to her, he was pursuing other women the very year they were married, during her pregnancy.

By his own admission he stated he was more attracted to his daughter than his own wife, but that was Marla days. I guess that's got more to do w/ our new President (choke) than his wife.

And I won't mention the smutty pictures the Trump family calls art. No, it's soft porn, not art. Amen and Alleluia to the Evangelical hypocrites who supported him.

I ignore all the people whose quotes are then posted and am reminded why, as I read comments that are clearly nothing but racial prejudices. But to the ones keeping 'em straight, good work!!

Why wouldn't Michelle get a Network Farewell Special?

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Ya think Oprah would've given Laura Bush the time of day?

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Yes, she did - on May 4, 2010.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Former-First-Lady-Laura-Bush

Have we been watching the same woman for the last 8 years??? I'm not surprised that our thoughts of Michelle are quite different. I was proud to have this gracious, down-to-earth, smart, & funny woman as our FLOTUS.

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Tried to give Mrs. Obama the benefit of the doubt for eight loooong years.

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Thanks for the laugh.

Well, okay, I stand corrected. Have not watched Oprah in years. But 2010 was two years after she was no longer First Lady. Hardly a big exit interview. And did she say anything as classless as now "we are hopeless"??

If you think Michelle is "gracious", that's your opinion. I don't think she's a bad person, but she strikes me as quite arrogant.


Why are you laughing? What's wrong with giving someone the benefit of the doubt? I tried to accept her as a person even though I knew I disagreed with her politics. They are my own feelings (thought I was entitled to them). But every time that woman opens her mouth, something arrogant comes out. Typical of most lefties. They are convinced that they are better and smarter than everyone else. Not so. Michelle Obama may have a lot of education, but it didn't give her any special wisdom.

Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

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Has any other First Lady ever gotten one? What an ego. I'll be so glad when she's gone.

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Nancy and Ronald Reagan got a network farewell special from their friend Barbara Walters back in 1988. If I remember correctly, it was a 2 hour special.

"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16

Wrong again. That was part of one of BW's numerous specials.

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Wrong again. That was part of one of BW's numerous specials.

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Who cares if it was one of her specials (although I think it was a '20/20' show devoted to the Reagans, not one of her other specials)? Nancy and Ron still got a big send-off with a farewell interview on network TV with Walters in 1988.

Can't rewrite history, no matter how you try.

"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16

If you are going to put it in quotes, you're suppose to QUOTE the person.

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"We feel the difference now. See, now, we are feeling what not having hope feels like"

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All you have to do is read the posts on this board (& comprehend) to understand what she is saying about the President-elect.

You mentioned a Hawaiian luxury vacation. Both Barack & Michelle have worked very hard for the last 8 years. Have you ever begrudged any other President a vacation or going home after? I know people have exaggerated the vacations the first family has taken, but the President really never goes on vacation - it's always a working vacation.

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You mentioned a Hawaiian luxury vacation. Both Barack & Michelle have worked very hard for the last 8 years.

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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL (and LOL's til infinityand beyond!)

They are the laziest I have ever seen. She is just happy she doesn't have to do any work again (as if she ever did) for the rest of her life.

What a sad pathetic twosome.

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They are the laziest I have ever seen. She is just happy she doesn't have to do any work again (as if she ever did) for the rest of her life.

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You mean like Laura Bush?

Actually, she did write a children's book about a talking tree or something, didn't she? She spent 6 or 7 years writing that bookwith her daughter's help, no less.

"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16

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Yes, she did - on May 4, 2010.

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Yobets!!!! I love it when nonsense gets shut down.

"when they go low, we go high" - Michelle Obama

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Yobets!!!! I love it when nonsense gets shut down.

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Then they slither away back into obscurity.

"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16

Ego? You clearly don't understand the meaning of the world. It's not like she asked for the special. Your anger is misguided and misdirected.

Don't mind Shruggie: he's just having a bad day because his favorite porn site crashed and w/o it he can't jerk off properly!

BTW, I know someone who's getting a dictionary for Xmas this year.

Better to be a wolf of Odin than a Lamb of God.

Yep. As much as I dislike Barack, I dislike Michelle even more. What a total phony.

Yeah, because I'm sure she couldn't have said, "no, thanks, Oprah."

Laura Bush may have been on Oprah's show, but she didn't get her own prime time network special. Big difference.

Michelle Obama is the only First Lady with 2, yes two, Ivy League degrees.

How did we get from the class act that is the Obamas to the trash that is the Trumps?

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Michelle Obama is the only First Lady with 2, yes two, Ivy League degrees.

How did we get from the class act that is the Obamas to the trash that is the Trumps?

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So if you don't have two Ivy League degrees, that makes you trash? Wow.

Another perfect example of why voters turned against the snobby elite.

More proof that an Ivy League degree aint what it used to be.

If the Obamas are your idea of a "class act", I'd hate to see what your idea of snotty arrogance is!!

Michelle is jetting off to Hawaii for a luxury vacation, and SHE'S without hope? What a clueless fool. She needs a job commensurate with her talents, maybe cafeteria worker (she's so good with nutrition).

I am counting the days when Mr and Mrs Arrogance are gone!

Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

pjpurple.She is so good with nutritionand this is from a "lowly" Cafeteria Worker.
Don't worry, I know what you meant by your wonderful words, I read between the lines and don't give me any *beep* that you weren't insulting Cafeteria Workers.



"When they go low
We go high"

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Don't worry, I know what you meant by your wonderful words, I read between the lines and don't give me any *beep* that you weren't insulting Cafeteria Workers.

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She's a peach, isn't she? Now she's going to try and twist everything around and say she was just 'misunderstood'. She never admits to the vitriol she spews off her keyboard.

"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16

"She" is "he"

If he was polite, it was his Eddie Haskell act. "Oh, good evening Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver. . . ."

When it was just the regs, purple spewed the acidic venom of Storm. So much, well, you know. Ignore, ignore.

No Tubamom, I won't give you #beep#. As a left-tard, you are probably full of it anyway. I wasn't insulting cafeteria workers. I was a teacher and I saw how hard they work.

I WAS insulting Michelle Obama! LOL She's hardly the brainy intellectual that the left makes her out to be. And I think she's read too many of her own press clippings. She is someone of average intelligence who got where she is by affirmative action and a lucky marriage. Stop making her out to be some genius already. It's nauseating. I don't dislike her but I really dislike the slobbering sycophantic liberals who want to make themselves feel good, so they raise her to the leveL of goddess. Sheesh!! Enough already! She's almost out the door. Let her go with her husband to whatever mansion they'll be living in and writing their multi-million dollar memoirsnd giving speechesand letting the world see how great they are

And according to her and all her fans on the left, she IS good with nutrition. After all she planted a vegetable GARDEN behind the White House. OH MY!!! Who in the WORLD has ever done that before??? I'll bet the nation's farmers were SO freaking impressed. And she redesigned a lunch program that lost millions because kids wouldn't eat it! Wow, genius I.Q. there. Truth is, she couldn't handle the hard physical work of a cafeteria employee, but like most politicians, she CAN TALK!!


And gee, on another note HOW does that dumkopf Hester even know what I post? What a liar. She takes every chance to print her list of those on ignore and I make the cut every time. Thanks Hessie!! (rhymes with Nessie, as in Loch Ness, wish she'd sink to the bottom of the lake too, LOL) I am not Storm, but really!!, THANKS for the compliment!



Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

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She is someone of average intelligence who got where she is by affirmative action and a lucky marriage.

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That is one of the most ignorant statements you've made on this board. I'm sick of White people using the "affirmative action" line because they don't like someone. Affirmative action did not get the grades, graduate, attend law school, nor work for Michelle Obama. She did. She was also the person that introduced her husband to the people that would ultimately jumpstart his political career. So, your lucky marriage comment is equally offensive. Frankly, since you know so little about her, why don't you just stick to what you do know.

You rail against the so-called "White guilt" you feel others are trying to force on you, and then, you state something that proves your racial insensitivity, prejudice, and bias. Maybe, your complex about people trying to make you feel "White guilt" is really about feeling guilty about the way you see some Black people.

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I wasn't insulting cafeteria workers. I was a teacher and I saw how hard they work.

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I got BINGO! I called this one - said pjs&pimples was going to twist her words all around and say she didn't mean it! I called it!

"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16

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How did we get from the class act that is the Obamas to the trash that is the Trumps?

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"Splodey heads keep splodin' " - Sarah Palin, 7-1-16

Michelle is a snob that loves hanging out with celebrities and has that Chicago character trait.

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Chicago character trait

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Which is?

Why did she get a network farewell special? Because producers knew she'd bring in huge ratings. She's the most popular First Lady since Jackie Kennedy. In addition to being intelligent, articulate, and funny, she's gorgeous. No First Lady has touched her approval ratings in decades. The network banked on it.

She's gorgeous to who exactly?

What exactly do approval ratings and polls really mean?
Hillary was supposed to be the next President according to ratings and polls, Remember? HAHAHAHA I think it's clear that most don't really capture how most Americans feel.

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In addition to being intelligent, articulate, and funny, she's gorgeous.

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LOL

She is NOT gorgeous.

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In addition to being intelligent, articulate, and funny, she's gorgeous.



LOL

She is NOT gorgeous.

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To you

She's hot!

classless remark about wonderful woman who you hero melania trump plagiarized from
it's never Joan Van Ark- Marge Simpsons

As I mentioned earlier, nobody plagiarized from her. They both used the same hack writers.

No, they didn't. Michelle knows how to write a speech. She's articulate. That's not to say she doesn't have speech writers, but she can adapt anything written for her.

So, Melania LIED when she said she wrote her own speech with just "a little" help? The whole world caught her in a whopper of a lie.

If they used the same hack writers, why did the GOP trip over itself claiming the passages in question were just similar? It was hilarious seeing the women giving the speeches in split screens.

Stick to your stance, fine, but admit that Trump's people told a zillion lies while trying to cover up the scandal. The woman who took the fall for Melania's speech has never worked for the Obamas.

I've heard Michelle Obama speak in person. She can set a speech aside and ad lib. That's what smart people do. Melania has no education. She can barely speak a coherent sentence.

Okay we get it. The lefties adore Michelle. Fine. I bear her no ill will. But she AINT the goddess you'd like to pretend she is. Nor is she exceptionally brilliant. (if she was she would have known that her school lunch program would be multimillion dollar flop, great insights there Michelle!! way to waste taxpayer money) Average intelligence from what I can glean from her comments and interviews. Graduate of Princeton and Harvard? Okay, that's a decent academic resume. But honestly, from what she "ad libs" in interviews, I'm thinking "affirmative action." And y'all would think the same if she was not a Democrat.

Melania is somehow a bad person because she has "no education"? What a freaking SNOB Hester Boo Boo is. And would someone she doesn't have on ignore kindly tell her that I said so!

Melania grew up in modest circumstances in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. She's done quite well for herself regardless. I don't look down on people who don't have fancy degrees. But neither do I hold those with fancy degrees in exceptionally high esteem. I've known enough doctors and lawyers personally to know that some of the most educated people are not necessarily the smartest or the wisest.


According to HesterBoo Boo Melania can hardly "speak a coherent sentence". Well Hysterical Hester can barely TYPE a coherent post! So, I guess they're even. English is not Melania's first language, wonder what Hester's excuse is? LOL However, in addition to English, Melania does speak Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, German and her native Slovene.

Geez, can you people stop being such a bunch of partisan, hateful,,crybaby losers?? The woman has not yet become First Lady and you savage her like a bunch of b#tchy stuck up high school cheerleader snot noses who enjoy tormenting the girls who aren't popular. Pathetic bunch of losers! You should be ashamed of yourselves for acting like such children!

Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

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She's done quite well for herself regardless.

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Marrying well is not the same as achieving success on one's own.

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According to HesterBoo Boo Melania can hardly "speak a coherent sentence". Well Hysterical Hester can barely TYPE a coherent post! So, I guess they're even. English is not Melania's first language, wonder what Hester's excuse is? LOL However, in addition to English, Melania does speak Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, German and her native Slovene.

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Has any of that been proven? Her bio also said she had a degree she did not obtain. Why should I believe she can speak all those languages?

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According to HesterBoo Boo Melania can hardly "speak a coherent sentence". Well Hysterical Hester can barely TYPE a coherent post! So, I guess they're even. English is not Melania's first language, wonder what Hester's excuse is? LOL However, in addition to English, Melania does speak Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, German and her native Slovene.

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Has any of that been proven? Her bio also said she had a degree she did not obtain. Why should I believe she can speak all those languages?

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And if "speaking 5 languages" means she speaks the other 4 as well as she does English, she'd do better to focus on 1 language so she could learn to speak it well. She comes across as never having an original idea, if you listen to the handful of 2 minute speeches she's given, everything is memorized verbatim, so well that I have memorized it as well. Doesn't make her anything but a parrot.

And she still is a glorified PlayMate with no class whatsoever.

Okay, y'all hate her because of her marriage. If Trump had run as a Democrat, if the Hildabeast had asked him to be her running mate, y'all would NOT be attacking Melania with scorched earth tactics. Just ADMIT it already.

Why DOES she have to be good at giving speeches anyway? Did she apply for a job as "speechgiver"?? Don't be such a jackass! Bill Clinton gave GREAT speeches, I agree! But not one word was ever sincere or truthful.

What's with all this speech bullsh#T anyway? I recently had my furnace serviced and cleaned for the winter. The technician didn't make a SPEECH. He did his job. Actually the company I use has a bunch of technicians and I requested him specifically because he does such a good job.

I just took my car in for an oil change and the anti-freeze system flushed for the winter. It's a family owned garage. They do a great job and DON'T give me a speech about my car. (they also have a Trump 2016 sign in their window, so I know I can trust them!).


What the freak is this leftist love affiar with "speechifying" anyway? What exactly is accomplished with speeches? If you had to call 911 because you accidentally cut yourself with a knife while cooking, would you want the responders to give you a SPEECH?

So Melania has NO class? No, YOU have no class for attacking a woman because she is fair game for being WHITE and married to a Republican (or so he says!). If Melania came from Kenya, you'd fall down in sycophantic worship, lest you'd be called a racist. What transparent phonies you all are!!


It has nothing to do with Melania's education or lack thereof, her speaking abilities or lack thereof, her beauty (NO Lack there!). You just attack her because of her husband. Stop being such phonies and liars. Just admit it already. Or preferably, just shut up!

Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell