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HuffPost’s Fineman: Obama has ‘conquered the world of celebrity’

Feb. 26, 2013 4:14pm Eddie Scarry

Here’s a weird one.

Huffington Post Editorial Director Howard Fineman writes today that the Obama administration has mastered its celebrity status and that Republicans are jealous about it:

With the practiced ease of an old Hollywood hand, [Michelle] Obama presided Sunday night, by live remote from the White House, over the Best Picture Award ceremony in the Oscars’ finale. It was just the most recent and most glitteringly dramatic example of how the Obama administration has conquered the world of celebrity and social communication. …

Celebrity won’t help him put all of the fiscal pieces together. In fact, his unglamorous political rivals resent him for it. They are jealous, and they know he doesn’t like to share the platform. …

As for social media, it is no contest. Republicans are nowhere to be seen in the upper reaches of Twitter, while the president ranks fifth, surrounded by other cultural icons such as Lady Gaga, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey.

Maybe those three could help him craft a big budget deal. Now that show would be a hit.

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berlet98
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 1:23am
Michelle Obama Does the Oscars!

True to her obnoxious self, “Lady” Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama made a “surprise” satellite appearance at Sunday night’s Oscar presentations bedecked in her cleavage-revealing gown and coiffed in her new Moe Howard bangs. She proved once again that putting lipstick on an even-toed ungulate in the genus Sus doesn’t make the ungulate a movie star.
Is that too harsh? Granted, the following lines from ”Lady” O. don’t reference lipsticked pigs but are they any less nasty?

–”If you can’t run your own house, how can you run the White House” (2008, ripping Hillary Clinton);

–”I want to rip his eyes out!” (2008, ripping Hillary’s hubby);

–”For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country” (2008, ripping the United States of America).

Okay, suggesting the FLOTUS is an oinker may be over the top. Maybe when she starts acting like the First Lady of the United States–or when the Secret Service arrests me for telling the truth and rips my eyes out– I’ll cease and desist.

And maybe not.

Hey, look, at least I didn’t mention what everyone including Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R, WI) has noticed, namely that “Lady” O. is endowed with a “big ****” and eats like a hog yet preaches good eating habits to fat kids and nor did I cite Barack’s evident interest in booty.

But, on to the Oscars.

Jennifer Rubin asks the excellent rhetorical question “Why Was M

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carl_in_ohio
Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:00am
I wish he could conquer something important like our debt-crisis.

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vendingdude
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:31pm
He’s in company with Ellen, Oprah and GaGa? LOL. How apropos.

Who give a rat’s behind who has the most tweets? Just don’t let this country burn…

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