According to MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell, Michelle Obama "never said that she had
not been proud of her country." The cable host on Friday disingenuously spun for
the First Lady while reporting on a speech Sarah Palin gave in
California.
In fact, on February
18, 2008 [1], Mrs. Obama addressed a crowd in Wisconsin and announced, "For the
first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, and not just
because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."
[See video. MP3 audio here [2].]
On
Thursday, Palin wondered, "You know, when I hear people say or had said during
the campaign, that they had never been proud of America until, until that time,
I think haven't they met anybody in uniform yet?" This prompted O'Donnell,
during a supposedly straight news report, to chide, "Of course, Mrs.
Obama never said that. She never said that she had not been proud of her
country."
Now, perhaps O'Donnell was trying to argue grammatical
semantics over the words "really" or "adult lifetime." But, clearly, Obama was
saying that she hadn't previously been proud of America.
Of course, Norah
O'Donnell is the same person who berated then-17-year old Jackie
Seal [3] for her support of Palin.
A transcript of the October 15
segment, which aired at 12:53pm EDT, follows:
- Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here [4] to follow him on Twitter.