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Glenn Beck Defends Limbaugh: Michelle Obama Is 'Uppity'

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Mostly sane, most of the time.11/22/2011 9:25:24 am PST

re: #15 SanFranciscoZionist

The normal usage assumes that the person being described is presuming above their station. This is why it’s normally used to describe black people, women and children, although I’ve heard it used in old-fashioned Southern novels to describe the white nouveau riche as well.

Hence, in this use, it’s a desperate attempt to reduce Michelle Obama to a person who knows she isn’t really important enough to get the special seats and the special service and the special treatment, but is pushing for it anyway, because she likes putting one over on her ‘betters’—that would be Rush Limbaugh’s listeners—who therefore are entitled to mock her and put her back in her place.

Thing is, of course, that they are very, very mistaken in this. Michelle is not only inherently classier than Rush Limbaugh, she is the wife of the President of the United States of America, which, by itself, makes her a special person to be treated specially.

This is the United States. Other than the US Army, do we have stations? The entire point of not having an aristocracy was that we are all equal.

And I don’t eat bait or what look to me like dandelion leaves. I think this is what was in that salad at the Smithsonian that I hated. Too bitter. I actually did feel like I was eating the leaves off of some of my plants. I did not like the taste.

If this makes me downity, so be it.