Michelle-O’s “Cheeseburger Paradise” Binges Off Limits Now to Cameras… Let The Masses Eat Arugula!
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 7, 2009
Barack and Michelle leaving for their $225,000 'hot date' to NYC for dinner (no cheeseburgers) and a Broadway show back in May
For cryin’ out loud. What’s suddenly going on with banning photo-taking of Michelle Obama eating a cheeseburger when she’s out in public?
Obama has pretty much given marching orders for citizens to tattle on other citizens who aren’t in lock-step with joy about ObamaCare… but HEY! Just because you’re willing to be a stool pigeon for Dear Leader does NOT give you the right to take a photo of the First Lady eating in a public place. In a public place while eating one of her beloved, I’m-craving-it-in-the-middle-of-the-night, fattening cheeseburgers… whoa, boy, BUSTED!
A Five Guys cheeseburger
Read about the latest cheeseburger weirdness and other assorted Michelle O weirdness:
The Powers That Be: Michelle Obama Can Haz Cheezburger, But You Can No Haz Camera While She Eats It
Michelle Malkin And now for some hard-hitting reporting on Michelle Obama and No snitching on Michelle Obama allowed!
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: No photos of Michelle Obama allowed!
Maggie’s Farm: Obama Blubbers Another One (UPDATED)
For fun:
ABC News: Brain Food: Bill Clinton Chows on Double Burger, Onion Rings, French Fries, Milkshake on Eve of Obesity Conference
Makes no sense. It’s not Michelle-O’s first public burger. So why the cell-phone camera ban?
Associated Press ran the following story on April 23, 2009 and the title says it all: First lady says she sneaks out for burgers. However, previously on March 11, Listicles blog, following up on the White House’s and the Obamas’ extremely public and proactive approach to reforming Americans’ diets, suggested “5 Foods Michelle Obama Should Banish from American Diets.” You guessed it… hamburgers were included on the “should be banned” list. Sorry, Listicles staff… Michelle-O would say, with FLOTUS-from-Chicago attitude, to buzz off.
She’s seriously into those cheeseburgers.
Maybe that’s the problem. With the White House rumblings about all of us self-indulgent, stupid Americans having to start eating leafy greens and treating fried foods like Original Sin, showing FLOTUS chowing down on a gloriously dripping 1,000-calorie burger could come across as… dare I say it… hypocrisy.
Here’s a fluff-piece write-up about FLOTUS and her burgers from May that was posted at Huffington Post:
Michelle Obama And Staff Go For Burgers
Huffington Post
May 9, 2009Not to be outdone by her husband’s now famous trip to Ray’s Hell Burger earlier this week, Michelle Obama and her staff dined at the DC burger joint Good Stuff Eatery for lunch Friday.
Washington Post has more details on what they ate:
The selection included the Colletti’s Smokehouse burger, recently the winner of Rachel Ray’s Burger Bash best burger in the country prize, free range turkey burgers, the “Prez Obama” burger, regular burgers and bacon cheeseburgers, served with two kinds of French fries, sea-salt dusted ones and a thyme, rosemary and cracked pepper version. Also on offer were Cliff’s Homegrown Vidalia Onion Petals, a kind of high-end blooming onion.
Before this week one might have assumed that eating a hamburger for lunch would be a rather safe move politically. Yet as President Obama learned following his lunch outing with Vice President Joe Biden, the GOP can even find something to dislike in one’s choice of condiments. In case you missed it, not only did Sean Hannity mock Obama for requesting Dijon mustard on his burger, but, as HuffPost’s Jason Linkins pointed out, the GOP has now turned the Obama mustard order into a ‘full-blown right-wing talking point’.
No word yet on what, if anything, Michelle had on her burger. However it seems safe to assume that Sean Hannity will be displeased when he finds out what it is on the restaurant’s “Obama Burger”: bacon, blue cheese, onion marmalade, and horseradish mayo.
More about burgers… this from June 24, Naples Daily News:
Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries has fans in the most unusual place. The hamburger place has quickly become a favorite of President and First Lady Obama. Michelle Obama took her staff to the restaurant on DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C. in February and President Obama stopped at the one in Southeast, Washington (near Nationals’ Park) at the end of May to pick up a take-out order for his staff, the White House press and NBC’s Nightly News anchor Brian Williams.
Back on February 9, 2009, in A Hamburger A Day: Michelle Obama Makes a Cheeseburger Run
I was confident this new administration would make many decisions that were more in line with my tastes than the previous one, but I can’t say I expected them to get it so right so soon. Michelle Obama eats a cheeseburger, fries, and a coke at Five Guys? That’s change I can believe in.
More confessed sneaking from FLOTUS on April 23: Michelle Obama: I Sneak Out To Restaurants
“Every now and then I have this thing that I like to do with some of my staff members, and we sneak out, without telling anybody, and we go and test out all the fun places to eat in D.C.,” Mrs. Obama told children visiting the White House.
“I went to Five Guys and nobody knew it,” she said, naming a popular chain of hamburger restaurants. “It was good.”
Mrs. Obama didn’t mean that she sneaks out of the White House without the Secret Service agents who protect her, but that she sometimes goes out without reporters following her, an aide said.
From today, August 7, 2009, in Althouse:
Michelle Obama takes Malia and Sasha out “for a hearty lunch of burgers, fries, onion rings and milkshakes.”
August 7, 2009They had cheeseburgers and the “President Obama burger” (with “horseradish mayo, red onion marmalade, crumbled blue cheese and bacon”). Among the milkshakes was one with “butterscotch, hot fudge, malt balls, custard and whipped cream.”
I hope this means Michelle and Barack will lay off lecturing us about what foods we ought to eat. Or will the next photo op be in the setting of the White House vegetable garden?
What are we to think of all this burger eating? Those little girls are slim, certainly not obese, but what are other little girls supposed to think? They want cheeseburgers and malts too. What’s the secret? Maybe the hamburgers are cut in quarters and each girl gets a 200-calorie little sandwich along with a a 100-calorie portion of the malt. Really, how do you do it? (Certainly not by throwing up!) The little girls of America need some health-care info from the family that has undertaken to oversee our health.
Now, one more thing. Why was the female component of the Obama family deployed yesterday? The linked NYT blog says “Someone in the White House obviously had a hankering for an Obama burger.” Now, I’m going to throw up.
'Sesame Street' guest appearance, 2009 Healthy Foods: A basketful of cheeseburgers instead of veggies would likely have been more to Michelle-O's liking, but Elmo may have freaked out
Final observation: You can’t grow cheeseburgers in the White House garden. But wouldn’t it be cool if you could?
Barack and his cheeseburger... paradise (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
More reading:
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Town hall time for Obama and ‘the mob’
Tim Slagle, Big Government: EPA’s Next Priority: Meat Control?
Obama Foodorama: On Larry King Live, Meat Safety In The Obama Era Gets Ground Up In Other Issues
Track-A-’Crat: Warning: Stay Out Of Eating Range
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Michelle Obama’s new motto \ LET THEM EAT KALE!\
(As she and first family chow down on cheeseburgers).
I don’t care what Barry and Michelle put on their plates, I only care about what they are taking off mine.