Conservative Morons Are Apparently Mad Obama Ate a Fancy Dinner
In DepthStop the presses! President Obama and Michelle Obama ate at a fancy restaurant on vacation! Why is this news? It isn’t, unless you’re a conservative media outlet or website columnist grasping at more straws than a herd of cats in a plastics factory.
Here’s the non-story: at the end of his annual Hawaiian vacation, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at at a really fancy restaurant called Vintage Cave where the average cost for two comes to $1000. Sure, that’s a super fancy restaurant, but eating at fancy restaurants is what people do on vacation, and it seems pretty reasonable to me that the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD would be entitled to splurge at a place so fancy they’d probably hit me with a kitchen hose and start performing an exorcism the minute I walked through the door.
The fact that Fox News covered this is so obvious I don’t even really need to state it. This is exactly the sort of non-story on which they love to expend their harrumphs. If Fox News captioned the above image, it would read something like, “President Obama seen eating shaved ice; why does he hate diabetic Americans?”* They devote an entire paragraph to the pretentiousness of Vintage Cave’s self-descriptions on its website, because sure, no fancy restaurant has ever committed that cardinal sin before. Of special note is how Fox goes out of its way to point out that Vintage Cave offers memberships for both $50,000/year and $500,000/year — despite the fact that the President does not own one of these memberships, so this information is completely and utterly irrelevant. Never mind that, though — gotta find any reason possible to try to make the black guy look bad, regardless of any of those pesky “facts.”
But the reaction from Fox is, while certainly expected and obnoxious, surprisingly restrained compared to Mediaiiaiaiaiaiaiaii1ite’s Joe Concha. Concha isn’t content to just poo-poo the ritziness of Vintage Cave; oh no, he has to catalog a long list of supposed white collar offenses by the President that real ‘muricans don’t appreciate. He covers a couple of the classics — Obama playing golf 15 minutes after making a statement regarding the beheading of James Foley (the President’s golf habits are something we’re supposed to care about, I guess?), and he talks about that one speech in Berlin at Victory Column that you had completely forgotten about until I mentioned it just now (who am I kidding, you probably still don’t remember it).