Phone Interview With Michelle Obama Over Lobsters

After I heard my favorite amusing bloviator, Rush Limbaugh, rant about Michelle Obama's alleged lobster binging at the Waldorf-Astoria, I blogged about it. Since then any number of search strings looking for info about Mrs. Obama's supposed seafood binge causes my blog to show up and thus people to read my version of the scandal, followed by comments.

After 2 weeks of it not letting up I decided it was time someone somewhere asked Michelle Obama directly what was up with all that lobster. It was a little more difficult to get Mrs. Obama on the phone than some people I call, but I have my ways of getting through. I won't say I'm always totally scrupulous, but I'm always on the side of truth, justice and the American Way.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:45---2 Weeks after Lobster-Gate began, Mrs. Obama answered her cell phone. What follows is as accurate a transcript of the conversation that transpired that my limited technical abilities could muster....

Durango---Well, let's get right to it. On Wednesday, October 15, the afternoon of your husband's last debate, it has been alleged, all over the Internet, that you ordered lobster appetizers, 2 steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne from room service at the Waldorf-Astoria. Is this true?

Mrs. O---Why would I be in the Waldorf-Astoria the afternoon of my husband's last debate? I don't like lobster and I don't think I've ever tasted caviar that I liked, Iranian or otherwise.

Durango---Okay, but you aren't exactly denying being in the Waldorf-Astoria. Or eating lobster. You could eat it and not like it. And you could be in the Waldorf and later at the debate. And no one likes caviar.

Mrs. O---I'm not saying I couldn't or I didn't or I wouldn't.

Durango---What are you saying?

Mrs. O---I'm saying it's nobody's business, but mine, what I eat, when I eat it or where I eat it.

Durango---Yes, you can say it's nobody's business, but there are a lot of people out there, like Rush Limbaugh, who are making it their business, claiming that your expensive lobster habit proves you and your husband are elitists. Or something like that.

Mrs. O---(Laughing) I could not get my husband to eat something like lobster or caviar no matter what power of persuasion I used.

Durango---No one is talking about your husband's taste in lobster, it is your lobster gorging that has the country talking.

Mrs. O---I don't understand why people would worry about such a thing.

Durango---Well, there isn't a lot going on out there, that and I guess there is some worry that if you'd spend almost $500 at the Waldorf-Astoria, for some expensive seafood, fish eggs and booze, that you might be a real expensive First Lady ordering who knows what from who knows where for State Dinners. I guess there is some concern that we've never had an elitist with expensive tastes in the White House before.

Mrs. O--- I must admit I am very flattered that people think of me as an elitist with expensive tastes, that's one of the nicest compliments I've ever received, but it just isn't true. If anything, given my actual tastes, people might want to worry that I'll call up the Colonel and order in a ton of Kentucky Fried Chicken with all the fixin's for a State Dinner. If I'd been caught ordering from the KFC drive-up window would the Internet be all abuzz over my bad tastes? Sometimes you just can't win. So I don't try. Let people think what they want.

Durango---Are you saying this interview is over?

Mrs. O---Yes, and it has been very nice talking with you. Goodbye. Come see us in the White House. We'll order in. But not from the Waldorf.

Durango---Thanks for your time and for the invite to the White House. I'll be looking forward to it. Couldn't you just have the White House kitchen whip up some lobsters instead of ordering in?

New York Post Admits It Was Wrong About Michelle Obama's Lobster Binge

The gossip mongers on the Internet, including myself, have been abuzz over what Michelle Obama was alleged to have ordered from room service while at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City last Wednesday, that being October 15.

The same day that I blogged about this I got a comment telling me that Mrs. Obama was in Fort Wayne, Indiana on the day she was supposedly gorging on lobster in NYC.

Every more desperate Republican Bad Boys have been making a big deal out of this supposed proof of Obama's elitism that never took place.

And now the original source of the lobster rumor, the New York Post, has printed a retraction on their "Page Six" page, saying....

ROOM DISSERVICE

THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.

Almost every other hit on my blog that past 5 days has been from someone Googling some variation of "Michele Obama Lobster Waldorf." I think the damage has been done and a retraction does not undo it. And Republicans, like Rush Limbaugh, from whom I first heard the Lobster Lie, should be ashamed of themselves. Unless they now tell the truth about the lobster.

Lately Rush Limbaugh's overly strident partisaning, to coin a word, has not been funny or pleasant to listen to. So, I doubt I'll hear him retract the Lobster Lie, if he does, which I doubt he will.

All this lobster talk has me thinking I'd like to go to Zorro's Buffet on Friday. That's seafood day at the biggest buffet in Texas.

Did Michelle Obama Gorge on Lobster? Or Not?

Yesterday, the story about Michelle Obama being at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on Wednesday while her husband was at a meeting during which she supposedly had room service bring her a platter of lobster hors d'oeuvres, 2 whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne was all over the Internet, Cable TV News and talk radio.

I first heard it on Rush Limbaugh.

And now today I get a comment to yesterday's blog about Michelle Obama's good taste in seafood.

Someone calling him or herself dynosaurusrex had this to say......

"Michelle Obama held a rally in Fort Wayne Indiana at 1pm on Wednesday....she wasn't even at the Waldorf when she was "ordering" lobster etc."

I Googled to see if the above was true. I could find nothing. All I found was more info about Michelle and the lobsters. Okay, I looked again with a better search string, that being "Michelle Obama Fort Wayne Indiana." Turns out she was in Indiana on Wednesday, campaigning for her husband.

So, who was this impersonator in New York City ordering all that lobster in Michelle Obama's name? It's all very perplexing. I think Rush Limbaugh started this rumor.

Michelle Obama Really Likes Lobster

I'd not listened to Rush Limbaugh in quite some time. But today I did whilst roller blading.

Speaking of roller blading. I ran over a snake today. It was a little one, slithering fast out onto the warm cement and under my blades before I could avoid him. I looked back to see the snake sort of jerking around. I expected to find it deceased on my way back. But there was no snake corpse to be seen. So it must have survived its run-in with me.

So, back to Rush Limbaugh. He seems to be harping on Obama being an elitist. Somehow Joe the Plumber got mixed in. I'm not getting the Joe the Plumber thing.

Somehow John and Elizabeth Edwards going out on their anniversary to a Wendy's with John Kerry and his wife got churned into the ranting. Something about Teresa Heinz looking at a picture of a bowl of chili, asking what it was and then asking if she could have a bowl. While John Kerry marvelled over a chocolate Frosty. According to Limbaugh, after a half hour of photo-opping the Edward's and Kerry's got on a bus where they ate a real meal from some country club.

I somehow thought this Wendy's thing had just happened, but no, this was way back during the last election. This story was somehow supposed to illustrate how elitist and phony liberals are. Or something like that.

Limbaugh's other example of democrat liberal elitism did just happen. As in on Wednesday October 15 the Obama's were in New York City. While Mr. Obama had a meeting somewhere in the Waldorf-Astoria, at 4 pm Mrs. Obama called up room service and ordered a platter of lobster hors d'oeuvres, 2 whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar. And champagne.

Did she eat all this herself? Isn't 4 in the afternoon in the middle of the week a tad bit early to get into ones cups? Iranian caviar? That stuff is expensive. I'm thinking Mrs. O is gonna make a very interesting First Lady.