Writer Uses 'Mean Girls' to Teach a Lesson

Joanne Bamberger at Politics Daily‘s “Woman UP” is really bothered by a cartoon of a fat Michelle Obama posted at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment, which she calls a “playground mockery.”

Bamberger, a new writer for the site, wonders if the cartoon’s artists, James Hudnall and Batton Lash, are attacking FLOTUS’ initiatives or “dismissing her efforts by wrongly suggesting she’s a Fatty McFatterson.” If that’s the case, it’s childish: “Portraying the first lady as an obese glutton is like resorting to a classic elementary school taunt: ‘You’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny.'”

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