Quick - which state enslaved the ancestors of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama? Don't know? Really? Here's a hint ... it's the same state that recently landed in hot water when one of its prominent Republican activists compared the First Lady to an escaped gorilla at a local zoo. It's also the
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“DePassgate” Is Getting Ridiculous
The story that broke here on FITS last Friday about a racist comment made by S.C. Republican activist Rusty DePass continues to spiral out of control ... Yesterday, over fifty South Carolina lawmakers filed a resolution expressing their "dismay and regret" at DePass' remark, which jokingly compared
Read story »FMN Interview: Michelle Obama Responds
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama today fired back at the South Carolina Republican activist who referred to her as being descended from apes. "It's sad that there are those who still harbor such hate in their hearts, but I forgive him," Mrs. Obama said. Saying that forgiveness was "part of the change
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Since she was compared to a gorilla yesterday by a South Carolina Republican activist, we figured that U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama would be the perfect guest to invite for the next installment of our popular talk show "FITS Makes News" (a.k.a. FMN). Stay tuned ... we're waiting to hear back from
Read story »SCGOP Activist Posts Remark Disparaging First Lady
A prominent S.C. Republican Party activist is in hot water after describing an escaped gorilla at a South Carolina zoo as an "ancestor" of First Lady Michelle Obama. The exchange occurred after Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about
Read story »Our Kind Of Soup Kitchen
In a story we somehow missed earlier this year, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama stopped by a soup kitchen for Washington D.C. homeless people a few months ago. From the Chicago Tribune's Swamp blog: First Lady Michelle Obama stopped in at Miriam's Kitchen, a soup line for the homeless just seven blocks
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You’d think that the new Democratic hegemony would have brought on a PC bonanza, politically correct-ifying everything and leaving no heart unbled. Instead of lessons in bleeding thy heart, though, we’re getting a lecture on the bloody “butcher’s apron†that was Michelle
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