There is no rest for the wicked or vigilant. So, even while partaking in a little R and R with the fam. in warm and sunny FLA., I found a most worthy Douche of the Day: Michelle Malkin.
This past Tuesday, I was having a nice cup of morning coffee with Cat and her mother at her mother's place in The Villages, Florida. As is my custom, I was perusing the local paper, The Villages Daily Sun, when I came across Malkin's syndicated column. It was titled Michelle Obama: First lady of junk science. Within, Malkin takes Ms. Obama to task, writing that "Two of her showcase social engineering campaigns - tax preference for breast-pumping working mothers and expanded nutrition labels - are based on distorting or dismissing the prevailing public health literature". Malkin continues her barrage on Ms. Obama by quoting from a number of scientific studies that dispute the assertion made by the administration and Ms. Obama that breast feeding can help to prevent childhood obesity. She goes on to associate this health initiative with the administration's nefarious plan to control each and EVERY aspect of our lives.
I'll give credit where credit is due and say that, certainly, Malkin is thorough. Thoroughly mean spirited that is! She reminds me of a very conservative, Tea Party supporting acquaintance of mine. He is intelligent. He is thorough. He is dedicated to his beliefs. And he wants to see everything Obama fail miserably. Like other Tea Party devotees, he assaults you with statistics that support his point of view. And Malkin does the same here. She uses studies that support her point of view without bothering to research others that may support Michelle Obama's. I'm sure that if I had her resources, I would be able to find studies that would counter her claims. But, in a sense, that's not the point. Most statistics are subject to interpretation and, therefore, should not be seen as FACT. This is certainly a knife that cuts both ways. However, even if I could, I have chosen not to take that tack. I don't want to get bogged down with statistics and studies. They have their place, but not necessarily here. We are not computers. You don't feed humans facts and have them spit out data. We have feelings and emotions that must be accounted for. And Malkin's article is mean spirited to it's very core because it takes a well intentioned effort to confront a very pressing issue and reduces it to a political ploy on the part of the Obama administration. And, of course, Tea Party sycophants like Malkin see the liberal bogeyman behind every move the Obama's make. They are criticized if they are too conciliatory. They are slammed if they are too progressive. It's a classic case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Malkin acknowledged the overall benefits of breast feeding in general by writing that she was a"proud mom who breast-fed both of her babies" and concedes the overall benefits of breast-feeding for both baby and mother. But then goes on to further bash Ms. Obama by continuing "And we don't need Big Brother or Big Mother to lead the Charge of the Big Bosom to persuade us of the personal benefits. She continues, "But as I've noted many times over the past year, Mrs. O's real interest isn't in nurturing nursing moms or slimming down kids' waist-lines. It's in boosting government and public union payrolls, along with beefing up FCC and FTC regulators duties." OK, gang, here's our WTF?! moment. I'm sure that Malkin made this conclusion after long, deep conversations over tea with Mrs. O! Why would a mother, a lawyer, and, obviously, a VERY intelligent women, a mother of two young children like Mrs. Obama, put politics over the health of millions of children including her own? Talk about partisan! The claim has no merit because it has NO LOGIC. It's just plain mean. Pure and simple.
Only a MEAN SPIRITED, DOTD would even THINK of such a thing; today's DOTD, Michelle Malkin. Like our other favorites, Beck, Palin, and Gingrich I'm sure that this won't be the last time Ms. Malkin will make her appearance as DOTD.
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