I think anyone who watches network or cable news regularly realizes that the stations tend to get sloppy with reporting. An astute, informed interviewer would have corrected the First Lady’s misstatement; an informed reporter or anchor would have qualified the misinformation; erroneous facts, that are, in fact, not facts, get reported as facts anyway. Seems to be the norm of broadcast journalism anymore.
Editing a statement for the sake of time constraints sounds baffling. If the news medium doesn’t have time to quote what a speaker has to say, then why broadcast an incorrect, altered statement that changes the context of what was said?
I should get the same story if I’m watching Fox, MSNBC, PBS, or CNN; not a different version. I shouldn’t have to consult a fact-check site to find out what’s accurate.

I didn’t see the interview and couldn’t read the first lady’s mind in any case. True or not, I stand by my statement that broadcast media takes its viewership for granted; that it fabricates, omits, or slants facts to fit whatever agenda or because of sloppy reporting and incompetence; that sensationalism is given priority over factual reporting.

hand gun or semi automatic

Who cares?

Leave Michelle alone…Sore losers!

Take all the pot shots you want at the President. He’s the policy figure. I wish people would leave the wife and kids alone! We don’t elect the first family. What they look like, say, or do, or imply is really irrelevant.

It should be COMMON decency. When the children or first lady are in a position to make policy decisions and decide the fate of the nation, then you can criticize her intentions all you want. But matrimonial influence aside, its BARACK who makes the decisions. And you can criticize the president and his agenda or policies all you want, but him and his family are still human beings.

When the children or first lady are in a position to make policy decisions and decide the fate of the nation, then you can criticize her intentions all you want.

I guess you forgot that she made the decision to starve a bunch of school kids with her assinine lunch policies.

Then we both agree that Michelle is not “Queen” of the US and thus any actions on her part that affect US policy are thus open to scrutiny and criticism, as well as praise; as the issue warrants. And thus, is well within common decency for Americans to exercise their First Amendment rights.