Michelle Obama’s ‘Makeover’: MSNBC Yanks Promo Featuring ‘Inappropriate’ Images

MSNBC (see related link): "The artwork should not have been used, it was inappropriate. We pulled the spot this morning and it was re-done without those images."

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June 20, 2008 at 7:11 am - MSNBC
Dateline: Washington, DC
Christopher   June 19th, 2008 - 11:38 pm

MSNBC needs a makeover.

Ralph   June 19th, 2008 - 11:47 pm

Crap!!! Their goes my Cindy McCain Horsey love down video clips!! NBC thought they were fake! How DO you get to be a rodeo “Queen”…. It’s all about your “love” with animals…

Joser   June 20th, 2008 - 6:12 am

Obviously, MSNBC got a call from Hussein Obama and was told to take that ad down. I guess it was the gogo girl outlines that upset ‘em. What do you expect from a loser cable network and a candidates wife that hates white people? That they need to “repackage” and do an image makeover on her tells me all I need to know.

claspur   June 20th, 2008 - 6:15 am

Toss’er in a head scarf and move-on… *sigh

jbh50   June 20th, 2008 - 8:35 am

I’m surprised all 4 of MSNBC’s viewers even complained about the ad. There just kool aide drinkers….

Dan, St Louis   June 20th, 2008 - 9:01 am

Why does Ms. Obama need a make over?

if   June 20th, 2008 - 9:59 am

She really should be wearing a burka shaking her fist at America. 20 years in wrights church and now your friendly with the white folk. The only ones buying this garbage is mush brained mouth breathing liberals. She said she loves her country, but never says she loves AMERICA. Her country is what her and bho want to turn America into. Like we don’t already have enough crotch grabin grill wearin drug dealin ass shakin no workin government hand out lovin gangstas already. Obama change that will harm America!

Sean   June 20th, 2008 - 10:22 am

I dont support Barrack Obama.
That said I think Michelle is getting a raw deal.

Fed up   June 20th, 2008 - 10:24 am

So I’m assuming all of the moronic “Obama Haters” on these postings will vote for Bush’s third term because they aren’t aware of the other parties involved and can’t think for themselves.
I’ve also noticed that most Reps and Neo-Cons can’t spell. Explains a lot.
Fight, fight, fight, that’s what McInsane wants.

Sean   June 20th, 2008 - 10:29 am

“Fed up June 20th, 2008 – 10:24 am

So I’m assuming all of the moronic “Obama Haters” on these postings will vote for Bush’s third term because they aren’t aware of the other parties involved and can’t think for themselves.
I’ve also noticed that most Reps and Neo-Cons can’t spell. Explains a lot.
Fight, fight, fight, that’s what McInsane wants.”

Criticizing spelling on a forum usually gets you the title of Spelling Nazi.
Those who throw stones…

ptb   June 20th, 2008 - 11:06 am

“Fed up June 20th, 2008 – 10:24 am

Mentioning “Bush’s third term” just makes me think you believe it’s possible. Like when you all tried to create one for Clinton. You had another chance to do it and you have decided to grab the coat tails of a socialist pretending to be a pseudo-Christian.
By the way, Jesus made me a conservative, not Mr. Limbaugh. I have always thought for myself and I do not need to name call to prove it. Pretty shrill of you.

just a thinker   June 20th, 2008 - 11:18 am

does this mean that olbermann will name matthews “worst person in the world” for participating in this commercial??

seriously – i am not an obama supporter. that said, i really don’t understand the problem with this commercial. isn’t the whole point of the obama campaign to be ‘new and different’? weren’t we supposed to accept the ‘fist bump’ as normal for the new generation? (actually, i’m white and 41, and i ‘fist bump’ my friends all the time)

my suspicion is, as Joser stated, that the obama camp saw this and got scared of the image it presents. they probably thought it looked too ‘BET’ for the white folk.

and again i agree with Joser, the fact that they need to give her an ‘image makeover’ tells me enough about the obamas. he crawled across the finish line, and is clearly the weaker democratic candidate.

unfortunately mccain and his ‘high road’ approach may just give obama the white house, but it’s sure to be a 1-term deal, followed by 12-20 years of conservative leadership. that’s what carter did for the US, and this guy is worse than carter.

‘i used to be a liberal, then i learned to think for myself…’

m-antony   June 20th, 2008 - 11:30 am

Matthews and Olbermann. Two retards. And obama , there is nothing you can do for her. She is a hateful , ugly person. No amount of money , charm school . Could help that thing.I guess, I do not have the right to say or think that. Hussien , said lay off my wife. In a veiled threating kind of way. I got soooo scared. A pansy for pres. Tryin to be a gansta in the wright places. We are screwed if this piece becomes pres.

JimmiP   June 20th, 2008 - 11:32 am

Yep what we need is change, we need an “everybody makes the team”, “we are all special”, “we do not want to affect their self esteem”, “you are hurting my feelings” “that’s not fair” raised child in the whitehouse.

He will tell on all the bullies to the UN when someone is mean to the US. He will take the terrorists to court, and he will encourage the congress to pass laws to protect us and make sure that we make the right choices.

Lee   June 20th, 2008 - 12:33 pm

Liberal handlers can try to “tame” a Black Liberation Theology hate America wanna be First Lady, but voters are smarter than that! She is what she is. They’re going to have to have a very short leash for her for the next 4+ months!

m-antony   June 20th, 2008 - 12:52 pm

And it is vital that IRAN should have the BOMB. Yes. Every cuntry has a rite to the atomick bomb.

m-antony   June 20th, 2008 - 12:52 pm

I changed my mind . . . amazing what going back on my Prozac can do. I love Obama. I . . . yes, I am the idiot. I apologize.

still Fed up   June 20th, 2008 - 12:55 pm

I’m curious, “PTB” how Jesus made you a conservative, when he was a “liberal”. Most people don’t know what the words mean anymore. Just like the term, “spelling Nazi”.
And by the phrase, “Bush’s third term”, I meant McCain. He wants to keep a lot of Bush’s harmful policies alive, which will hurt America a lot more than having a “Muslim” in the Office.
Time to vote Libertarian I guess.

Sean   June 20th, 2008 - 1:17 pm

“still Fed up June 20th, 2008 – 12:55 pm

I’m curious, “PTB” how Jesus made you a conservative, when he was a “liberal”. Most people don’t know what the words mean anymore. Just like the term, “spelling Nazi”

Seems pretty clear to me. Please explain my mistake and I will then explain your grammatical error.

Pickles   June 20th, 2008 - 1:49 pm

And they still can’t figure out why Fox News is eating their dinner, with even more DEMOCRATS now watching Fox News that all the other cable news outlets put together? This clip tells it all! These people are clowns, pure and simple. Just to see that pencil throwing sophomore Keith Olberman merely commenting on Tim Russert is a sad state of affairs. Even the anchorman and the news station he used to work for in Los Angeles years ago couldn’t stand the guy because he was so immature and narcissistic. This garbage isn’t news, it’s just a private little children’s club that gets their stuff put out on national television. Standards of every kind have disappeared since the day Matthews came on the air.

Thirteenburn   June 20th, 2008 - 2:02 pm

I’m still trying to figure out what the “inappropriate” images were. The fact they were ‘blackout’ silhouetts and she’s Black? Were they deemed ‘racist’ by the PC crowd?

Seriously, I don’t understand what the big deal is.

Oh well. It’s not like I really give a Damn anyway as I’m not voting for either one of these clowns. Obama is an uber-liberal nitwit, and McCain is an obvious RINO, so in this case, the lesser of two evils doesn’t apply as they’re both one and the same.

I’m wrting in my first choice in Fred Thompson. It’s too bad that someone got to him and forced him to give up his run. He would have made an outstanding President.

Come November, God help us all…

thirteenburn   June 20th, 2008 - 2:06 pm

Oops.

Before the Spelling Nazi ‘Fed-Up’ drops a load of himeself in his shorts over my misspelling of the word writing, let me correct myself now.

Unlike the perfect a$$hole Fed-Up, normal human beings sometimes hit the wrong the key on the keyboard or in my case, missed the key all together.

Hey, it happens.

E390   June 20th, 2008 - 2:22 pm

I agree. what in the world was “inappropriate” with the ad. Can you imagin what the world will be like with Obama as president. The censors will be working overtime, well I guess he could then claim he created jobs.

Trochilus   June 20th, 2008 - 2:34 pm

They didn’t pull the promo because of the fist-bump, “just a thinker.” They pulled the promo because of the several subtly suggestive semblance shots of her in short-skirt silhouette, all set in staccato sequence.

Her handlers obviously want her to come off as a potential first lady, not as a short skirted leg-flashing demi-tart. So they quite rightly asked the juvenile program promoters at MSNBC to pull the damn ad!

The whole idea of a “make-over” for Michelle, was to try and undo the clear initial impression she had created entirely on her own, as a somewhat whiny, self-centered woman who could barely mask her contempt for this country, notwithstanding all the advantages she had enjoyed here. “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country . . .”

So far, her appearance on The View did little to undo the self-centered portion of that because she told them that of course she was proud of her country . . . look what it had done for her! But they cannot get her to simply apologize for her prior comment, or even say that she had badly misspoken. They are limited to trying to weave a new image all around it.

Unfortunately, the old adage is true. You only get one chance to create a first impression! And she blew it.

SomaObama   June 20th, 2008 - 2:51 pm

They should have made the shadow red like a Commie.

plaintiff   June 21st, 2008 - 3:26 pm

looks like ghettoprom

N Waff   June 23rd, 2008 - 8:24 pm

=== LIBERAL SYMBOLISM ===
The graphics are perfect for MSNBC. The liberal morality makes women sex craving objects.

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