Michelle Obama

NASCAR Fans Boo Michelle Obama During Event Honoring Troops

Ryan J. Reilly | November 20, 2011, 4:30PM

NASCAR fans booed Michelle Obama and Jill Biden at the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday.

Both the first lady and the vice president's wife were there to honor military troops and their families and to call attention to companies who have made commitments to hire and train veterans and military spouses.

The Associated Press reports that drivers gave the duo a standing ovation during a pre-race meeting.

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Jimmy Lakey

CO Radio Host And Former House Candidate Compares Michelle Obama To Chewbacca

Jillian Rayfield | October 4, 2011, 12:36PM

CO radio host Jimmy Lakey

A conservative radio host in Colorado told a story on air about how someone made a comment about Chewbacca, and everyone in the room knew the reference was to Michelle Obama. "Everyone drew the conclusion. And I've tested it -- I've done group testing and I've said if I say Chewbacca what do you think?"

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Let's Move

Safety Group Accidentally Touches Off Accusations That Michelle Obama Is Killing Pedestrians

Rachel Slajda | January 20, 2011, 2:23PM

First Lady Michelle Obama

First, the Daily Caller's headline read: "First Lady's anti-obesity campaign could be causing more pedestrian deaths." Then, later, they hedged a little:

"Highway safety spokesperson blames pedestrian deaths on first lady's obesity campaign."

This, as you might imagine, piqued our interest. Here's what happened:

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Carl Paladino

Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality

Zachary Roth | April 12, 2010, 11:39AM

Carl Paladino

An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York, to a long list of political and business associates. One email shows a video of an African tribal dance, entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal," while another depicts hardcore bestiality.

Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo, would not comment on specific emails, but acknowledged to TPMmuckraker that Paladino had sent emails that were "off-color" and "politically incorrect," saying that few such emails represented the candidate's own opinion. Caputo accused Democrats of wanting to change the subject from substantive issues to "having sex with horses."

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Right-wing extremism

Going To Extremes: The Obama Era's Top Ten Anti-Government Flare-Ups

Zachary Roth | April 1, 2010, 6:35PM

Clockwise from top left: David Stone, Sr., John Patrick Bedell, Joseph Stack and James von Brunn

The charges filed this week against nine members of the Hutaree Christian militia group have re-focused attention on the resurgence over the last year or so of the broader militia movement.

That resurgence has been driven in part, say experts, by the election of President Obama. But during the Obama era, threats of anti-government violence -- and even the real thing -- have become more widespread. In fact, with disaffected Americans from Massachusetts to California freaking out against the Feds en masse, it sometimes seems that going postal has become all the rage. Of course, in some cases, that anti-government animus long predates the election of our current president. But there seems to be something about the current climate that's contributing to the rash of incidents.

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