Posts Tagged ‘gma
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A #Sesame50 Tribute
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Carrying It Forward
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Owning Who You Are
"I think that this election gives us hope": Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks out on historic midterms in exc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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ABC News (@ABC) November 13, 2018.@MichelleObama says she's most proud of "being an inspiration to younger people...what more could we ask for?"… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018****
.@MichelleObama: "My dad - he's our rock and I think so much of who Craig and I are is because we always wanted to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018.@MichelleObama says Malia and Sasha are "thriving" and thanks Jenna and Barbara Bush and Chelsea Clinton who "alwa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018****
.@MichelleObama on Sasha and Malia: "They had support from a lot of the other first kids - Jenna and Barbara and Ch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018.@MichelleObama on her daughters Sasha and Malia: "They are thriving. Let me just say this out loud in public. I am… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018****
.@MichelleObama's brother Craig Robinson on the former first lady's love of family: "She made family imperative...e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018.@MichelleObama to women struggling with miscarriages after opening up about her own story: "You're not alone...we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018****
.@MichelleObama on the current climate in Chicago: "There is a lot of promise...part of the problem is people see b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018.@MichelleObama on whether Hillary Clinton should run for president in 2020: "I think at this point everybody is qu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018****
.@MichelleObama: "Think about our young people. We owe our young people hope. Young people grow up better than us."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018.@MichelleObama on potential 2020 election candidates: "I'm going to be looking at who handles themselves and each… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018****
.@MichelleObama to @RobinRoberts on her book #IAmBecoming: "I hope this book encourages people to tap into their me… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 13, 2018.@MichelleObama opens up to @RobinRoberts in revealing new interview; says she felt "lost and alone” after sufferin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 09, 2018****
Krissah Thompson: In Revealing New Memoir, Michelle Obama Candidly Shares Her Story
As Michelle Obama’s highly anticipated memoir “Becoming” arrives, it’s clear that the former first lady is occupying a space in the culture beyond politics. “I don’t think anybody will be necessarily prepared to read a memoir like this — especially coming from a first lady,” said Shonda Rhimes, the television producer, who read an advance copy of Obama’s book. The first-lady memoir is a rite of passage, but Obama’s is different by virtue of her very identity. “Becoming” takes her historic status as the first black woman to serve as first lady and melds it deftly into the American narrative. She writes of the common aspects of her story and — as the only White House resident to count an enslaved great-great-grandfather as an ancestor — of its singular sweep. “The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks,” she writes. “What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this I’d never forgive him.”
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.@MichelleObama to @RobinRoberts: "I think it's the worst thing that we do to each other as women, not share the tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 09, 2018****
She divides the memoir into three parts: Becoming Me, Becoming Us, Becoming More. The first section is a deep, often sociological exploration of Chicago and the people and institutions there. Its textured discussion of gentrification, public education, race and class are reminders that Obama majored in sociology and minored in African American studies at Princeton University. The second section, Becoming Us, is a romp through her romance with Barack Obama, starting a family with him and her search for work that she loved. It begins with words that have never before been written by a first lady about her man: “As soon as I allowed myself to feel anything for Barack, the feelings came rushing — a toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” She also shares intimate details for the first time, for instance, that she and her husband had trouble getting pregnant, suffered a miscarriage, and that both daughters were conceived through in vitro fertilization. And that she did a great deal of this while her husband was away serving in the state legislature, leaving her to administer the shots that are a part of that process herself.
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‘Chasing Light’
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Lauren Sher and Danielle Genet: Behind The Lens: Michelle Obama’s White House Photographer Shares Candid Stories
Photographer Amanda Lucidon had a front-row seat to the events in the Obama White House. For four years, Lucidon was the only female photographer on the White House staff and tasked with covering first lady Michelle Obama. “To be one of the few female photographers in [White House] history was really special. But on top of that, just to work for the administration that had appointed more women and minorities than any other administration; that was a real special thing,” Lucidon said in an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts for “Good Morning America.”
Lucidon, 38, is stepping out from behind the lens for the first time and sharing her personal reflections in a new book, “Chasing Light.” The book is a collection of her candid photographs of the first family and is filled with the lessons she learned along the way. “What the first lady has traveled around the country and the world saying candidly, which I learned from her, is that you can be anything; how you grew up and your circumstances do not define you,” Lucidon told Roberts. “Working at the White House was a very transformative time for me. I found confidence. I learned about myself. I learned about pushing boundaries. I learned about embracing my own story and my own background. … The first lady always taught us the challenges that you’ve encountered in your life are actually your strengths. They’re not your weaknesses. They’re the things that teach you resilience.”
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Meeting ‘The Man’
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Rise and Shine
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Today:
10:50: President Obama departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
11:50: Arrives in Newport News, Va.
1:05: Delivers remarks on the sequester
2:05: Departs Newport News
3:05: Arrives at the White House
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Michael Tomasky: How the credulousness of mainstream media figures like Bob Woodward and Ron Fournier enables Republican extremism …. On Saturday, I wrote about what I called the conservative Republican “rage machine” and its poisonous impact on our politics. I argued that a number of prominent conservative thinkers and pundits …. were and are partly responsible for this problem as long as they sit there pretending it doesn’t exist.
But there’s another responsible group here, too: Just as today’s Republican extremists benefit from the silence of conservative pundits, they also gain from the credulousness of mainstream figures who keep pretending that today’s GOP is a responsible party …. So that when the GOP takes a radical position on the sequester and Barack Obama a reasonable one, both are accorded equal seriousness, even when facts have to be ignored to do so.
Bob Woodward is Exhibit A here…..
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Bob Cesca: …. the sequestration issue has been one of those rare items that frustrate me to the point of being incapable of spending time on it. When I read about sequestration, my brain seizes. The stupidity of it all simply confounds me to the point of being speechless. For me, this is a shocking and rare predicament.
It’s not even the chronic brinksmanship — the reoccurring doomsday countdowns and the Republican-manifested economic sabotage that’s behind it all. It’s not the Keynesian in me who opposes the very notion of deficit reduction during a sluggish recovery. Granted, these are both points of irritation, but the characteristic of the sequester that ought to force us all into complete apoplexy and subsequent outrage-induced catatonia is the epidemic of ignorance regarding the status of the federal budget deficit.
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Charles Pierce: The administration made a sharp play, releasing a list of how the upcoming Sequester Plague is going to affect each individual state. (You will note the predominance of red states with Republican governors in the Top 20. Here’s Kansas, the most enthusiastic lab rat in the Republican experiment, and it will lose $5.5 million in school funding and have around 8000 defense-related employees furloughed….) There’s some not unexpected bleating coming from John Boehner’s office, as they duck phone calls from the district and hide behind either the curtains, or behind Bob Woodward’s reputation, whatever’s handiest.
…..You wanted the White House to play tough. This is Ronnie Lott stuff right here.
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Jonathan Bernstein: House Republicans held a quick session with the press to mainly make one point: They have no responsibility for sequestration….
…. This standoff isn’t going to be resolved by rhetoric. But it’s worth noting the extent to which Republican spin simply ignores that there was an election in November.
….. whether Boehner and the Republicans like it or not, Barack Obama was in fact re-elected on a platform of “balanced” deficit reduction — that is, new revenue and new spending cuts. Republicans have of course every right to oppose that, but it’s a little strange hearing them talk as if that campaign and election never happened.
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Steve Benen: Did you happen to catch yesterday’s Capitol Hill press conference with the entirety of the House Republican leadership? House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and House Republican Conference Cathy McMorris Rodgers wanted to talk about this week’s sequestration cuts, but in the process, they offered a case study in how to insult Americans’ intelligence.
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Dana Milbank: …. With just four days left to stop automatic spending cuts House Republicans had but one item on their agenda Monday: renaming a NASA facility in California.
You’d have to be on another planet to think that renaming NASA operations is Congress’s most pressing order of business this week. But for Republicans …. the naming proposal was taken up at a time when House Republicans are pursuing a considered strategy of deliberate idleness.
After months of fretting over the harmful effects of sequestration, as the automatic cuts are called, House Republicans have belatedly embraced the realization that if they do nothing at all, they will be rewarded on Friday with a 2.5 percent cut in all federal spending without coughing up a single dollar in tax increases. They have learned to stop worrying and love the sequester.
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MoooOOooorning!
