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All —
... A lot of (really naive)
people are wondering (or pretending to wonder, when they're in public) how this "homeless" guy could "afford" a
cellphone: ...
Poor And Homeless In The 21st Century
The Moderate Voice —
You gotta have a cell phone…
Homeless, Starving But You Need a Cell Phone
PoliGazette —
... First Lady Michelle Obama went to a soup kitchen for homeless poor people not far from the White House yesterday. She hoped, she said, that she would inspire other Americans to help out the poor as well. Sadly, critical journalists noticed something strange about one of the homeless men being served by the first lady: he was taking pictures of her with his cell phone. ...
Catering To The Richest “Poor” In The World
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
LA Times:
by Andrew Malcolm
First Lady Michelle Obama showed up Thursday as a surprise and welcome volunteer at Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen for homeless poor people not far from the White House.
She brought with her some food donated by White House staff.
The first lady served up mushroom risotto and broccoli to a long line of homeless men and women during part of her lunch hour and in these photos poses for a picture by one homeless diner obviously excited to be in the first lady’s presence.
Obama said she ...
Priceless photo of the day: Homeless…with a cellphone
Michelle Malkin —
Pop singer Crystal Waters did a song many years ago called “She’s Homeless.” The hook went like this: “She’s just like you and me, but she is homeless, she is homeless.” In D.C., the homeless are just like you and me, and they have cell phones, they have cell phones. Via Andrew Malcolm , here is one of the homeless cell phone owners snapping a pic of First Lady Michelle Obama — ruining what was supposed to be a sob story photo op of the compassionate Mrs. O catering to the downtrodden. Say cheese! [image] Some folks are wondering where the cell phone bills get sent. The answer ...
Photo of the Day: Michelle Obama Serves Up Food to Poor and Homeless with Cell Phones
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... A nice gesture by the FLOTUS, but……
It doesn’t detract from the first lady’s generous gesture or the real needs she seeks to highlight to ask two bothersome journalistic questions about these news photos:
If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?
And if he is homeless, where do they send the cellphone bills?
Michelle asks whether there is a government bailout to provide Blackberry Pearls, since there is one to already provide the poor ...
HEY, THEY SAID “HOMELESS,” not “cellphoneless.”…
Instapundit —
HEY, THEY SAID “HOMELESS,” not “cellphoneless.”
First Lady Michelle Obama And The “CAMERA PHONE”
The Moderate Voice —
... to homeless and poor people for safety reasons (emergencies, etc). Don’t believe me. SafeLink Wireless, please educate those not in the know!
10. As the First Lady, it is her duty to smile if a citizen wants a picture (provided the situation is safe).
10. The guy could be a plant to embarrass First Lady Michelle Obama in a picture.
Your criticism of this photo and situation is pointless, nonsensical, quite petty, and loopy. That goes double for you here and here.
Hat tip to our Editor-In-Chief for the first post on this ...
A Children’s Treasury Of Conservative Reactions To This Poor Guy Having a Cellphone Near Michelle Obama
Wonkette » top —
... Aww, Michelle Obama went to help out at soup kitchen for homeless people on Thursday! And while she was there, the AP took a photo of this guy taking a cellphone photo of Michelle’s very famous arms. So now America’s conservative pundits are very upset that this supposedly homeless man has a telephone, so poverty isn’t actually a problem, and we’re even “blessed” to have such rich homeless people in the United States. ...
Get Up Off My Minutes
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... Via Andrew Malcolm, here is one of the homeless cell phone owners snapping a pic of First Lady Michelle Obama — ruining what was supposed to be a sob story photo op of the compassionate Mrs. O catering to the downtrodden. ...
The Simple-Minded and the Uninformed
Comments from Left Field —
... no critical words whatsoever for Mrs. Obama. It was the impoverished recipients of the food aid that he attacked. And in a singularly vicious way. He sets the reader up with a straightforward recounting of Michelle Obama’s visit, bringing food from the White House, serving it up to the men and women there, her comments about the importance of doing this kind of volunteer work, etc., etc. — and then, after this very mild, innocuous lead-in, Malcolm saves these three short paragraphs for the end: ...
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Moderate Voice —
... There I was, having a fine week of venting some righteous indignation about President Obama’s economic policies and diplomatic gaffes, when others who oppose everything to do with both Obama’s administration and his family force me into cursing them rather than lighting a candle in the darkness. Andrew Malcolm posted a story about First Lady Michelle Obama showing up at a DC homeless shelter to serve meals to the needy, and it’s resulted in a particularly ugly response. ...
I’m Not Letting This Go Just Yet
Comments from Left Field —
... Don’t believe me? SafeLink Wireless, please educate those not in the know!
10. As the First Lady, it is her duty to smile if a citizen wants a picture (provided the situation is safe).
11. The guy could be a plant to embarrass First Lady Michelle Obama in a picture or just a regular guy that wanted a picture (hope he didn’t just cut in the line).
Criticism of this photo and situation is pointless, nonsensical, quite petty, and loopy. That goes double for you here and here. And Mrs. Malkin, your Blackberry Pearl comment is cute but no ...
The obligatory homeless-guy-with-cellphone post
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Call it the picture that set a million teeth on edge. Andrew Malcom showed a shot of Michelle Obama serving food in a homeless shelter while one of the recipients of her charitable work took a picture with his cellphone. This created a firestorm of debate over how a homeless person could wind up with a cellphone: [image] Both of these news photos were widely distributed across the country and even around the world. It doesn’t detract from the first lady’s generous gesture or the real needs she seeks to highlight to ask two bothersome journalistic questions about these news ...
Let's Make Poverty Less Enticing
Jon Swift —
... "If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?" wrote the Los Angeles Times' ...
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Moonbattery —
... Here we see a woman who is at last proud of her country posing for a touching photo op, doling out free gourmet government cheese for the starving masses oppressed by capitalism: ...
Why Won’t the LA TIMES Fire Andrew Malcolm?
The Democratic Daily —
... Michelle Obama serves food to D.C. poor and homeless, but… ...
In America, Even The Homeless Have Cell Phones (Michelle Obama Edition)
Hit & Run —
... The excellent Los Angeles Times blogger Andrew Malcolm trains his gimlet eye on a phoney-baloney photo op featuring the First Lady. Michelle Obama recently served up mushroom risotto and broccoli at a privately run D.C. kitchen for the homeless called Miriam's. ...
The Conservative Disorder relating to poverty: "Greed Transference"
Crooks and Liars —
... Searching for something (anything) to bitch about when it comes to the Obama's, Andrew Malcolm seizes on Michelle Obama serving food at a homeless shelter in order to point out that some filthy homeless person is taking a picture of the First Lady with a cellphone. Blissfully unaware of cheap disposable cellphones that can be purchased anywhere, Malcolm wonders where the disgusting parasitic poor have their phone bills delivered. Later Malcolm will review older pictures from the last Republican Depression That FDR Was Responsible For and wonder why all the ...
Record-setting Business at Food Banks
Firedoglake —
... , the soup kitchen where Michelle Obama helped serve meals last March. On their home page, they note that homelessness in DC is up 25% this year. ...
