Michelle Obama: The Light We Carry

The Black Mother

"That was the dilemma and continued to be the dilemma of the Black mother."

Former first lady @MichelleObama reflects on the long legacy of Emmett Till's murder for Black families in America. https://t.co/eYY5G0mWrN pic.twitter.com/inHwLmy0Ss

— ABC News (@ABC) January 6, 2022

We Got Us

real talk - this happened a few years ago so it's always nice to see it resurface. The one time I actually really e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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sabriya amira (@frmbriyawthxoxo) February 28, 2020

I saw this on YouTube last night. This is the funniest WWYD I’ve ever seen lmao I STAN sis. I SAID THANK YOU 😂😂 https://t.co/kthecAcFzs

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Amanda Scott (@AmandaScottTV) February 27, 2020

The Best POTUS Of Their Lifetimes

Americans rank Barack Obama as best president of their lifetimes: Poll - ABC News - via @ABC abcn.ws/2uqE8mP

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Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽 (@4lisaguerrero) July 12, 2019

All They Do Is Win

Barack and Michelle Obama are Gallup’s Most Admired Man and Woman for 2018. on.gallup.com/2AimCVj https://t.co/1fN1DKmULQ

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  (@GallupNews) December 27, 2018

Barack, Michelle Obama top Gallup poll of most admired man and woman by Americans. abcn.ws/2EOwEkd https://t.co/brn3IyYLCo

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ABC News (@ABC) December 27, 2018

NEW POLL: Barack and Michelle Obama are America’s most admired man and woman hill.cm/7IRjJiv https://t.co/gk6RaWezUD

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The Hill (@thehill) December 27, 2018

The Michelle Magic

Watch the amazing moment @MichelleObama surprises a dance class at her former high school. Obama visited the class… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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20/20 (@ABC2020) November 12, 2018

Shame on ABC and CNN for exploiting Foley tragedy

This past week saw American corporate media at one of its criminally shameful worst. And there is gross competition for how low they can go. Brian Ross of ABC news led the pack in exploiting the grief of James Foley’s family to push utterly offensive nonsense that the White House was derelict in pursuing efforts to rescue James Foley from the grip of the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL/IS). At the heart of this spurious attack is the media’s sensational headline that Foley’s mother claims that the Obama administration threatened them with prosecution if they paid ransom money to the militants to secure their son’s release.

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Bam! That framing was all that was needed to shift focus away from the heinous actions of the militants, to the virulent and cynically profitable blame-Obama-for-any-and-all-horror-that-happens-in-the-world syndrome in our political zeitgeist. And like clockwork, the rest of the media, politicians, and many commentators were baited and hooked by this media scam, including, I’m sorry to say, the Foley family itself.