Townhall: Michelle Obama is a Bitch, Get It?

Burt Prelutsky was a TV writer a long time ago. Then he aged out of it and became a crank. This wasn't one of those major loses like Steinbeck. Now he writes a column for Townhall.com, the popular website owned by a Christian radio network.

Here's something from his current offering:

Take Michelle Obama...please. Every time I turn around, there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I'll make an exception in her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she insists this is a mean country. The burning question in my circle is: if the First Family gets a female dog, will she be the First Bitch or will she have to settle for second place?

Get it? Because "bitch" had two meanings!

Ah, Christian-sponsored humor. That's not just funny. That's Jesus funny.

Weird that Burt Prelutsky doesn't work more. Because that "take my wife... please" bit is also pure dynamite. Must be ageism.

Naturally, the left-wing media is now trying to convince us that this James Brown-look-alike has all the allure, glamour and fashion sense of Jackie Kennedy.

She's not pretty, for heaven's sakes! She's black! She's a black bitch!

You can read the rest at Townhall. The Internet home of culture warriors Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett and Michael Medved.

(Who have all, by the way, written about Barack Obama's horrible, shocking association with that racist hatemonger Jeremiah Wright. Who called America an ugly black bitch. Oh wait, he didn't.)

(They've also all written columns bemoaning how angry and mean liberal humor is.)

If you read Burt Prelutsky's columns, you'll see that he isn't a racist; he just has a lot of thoughts -- I mean a lot -- about how black people should behave. If Langston Hughes had talked about black people as much at Burt Prelutsky does, someone would have told him to sit down.

Here's another Burt Prelutsky column from Townhall:

If we were a racist society, Oprah Winfrey, your fairy godmother, certainly wouldn't be a billionaire; she'd be fetching someone's mint julep. And Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice wouldn't grow up to be secretaries of state; they'd be sweeping out the stables. And Will Smith and Denzel Washington wouldn't be movie stars; they'd be in the fields picking cotton.

That's awfully big of us, letting Denzel Washington rise so high above his station. Thanks, Burt. Thanks Townhall. (Cross-posted with Stormfront.)

The executive editor of Townhall is Hugh Hewitt. His current column is about how terribly offended he was when Barack Obama made a joke about the Special Olympics:

We should hope President Obama makes more than apology. We should hope he makes good.

By getting me a julep.

Now, if there's one thing I hate worse that playing gotcha with a joke that goes wrong, it's using guilt-by-association and high dudgeon to score cheap political points. But I gotta ask:

Should we hope Hugh Hewitt apologizes for publishing sad old Burt Prelutsky?

How should he make good?

Oh, the Christian broadcasters who own Townhall, the site that says Michelle Obama is a bitch and Will Smith is lucky he's not picking cotton is Salem Communications. You can thank them here.

Comments

[goldengazelle]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".. so I wonder, what is wrong with "Brother" Burt Prelutsky's vision? Since he feels he has something to be critical about of our beautiful 1st Lady, LIKE some wild pit bull with a bone (who can't let it go), it also seems so unbecoming that he is still using his tongue to malign in some sort of last ditch effort/ campaign to keep an ugly thread going.

The Bible speaks about the tongue. So now that everyone else is quiet, why is he still talking? and for what purpose? Perhaps he can not "tame his tongue". Why is the Christian sticking out like a sore thumb? I don't mean to judge, nor am I really angry. It is just very sad that someone of supposed quality is still so deliberately being offensive to so many ... without a cause.

Could it be that you are trying to upset a man, a President, who loves his wife, a 1st Lady?

OR Who, Mr Prelutsky, are you speaking to? or for ? Are they really THAT important?

[Patjack]

It is sad and obvious that the owners of townhall and the "christian" network and Burt Prelutsky do not know the meaning of Christian. They sprew or allows sprewing of hatred and evilness to take place on their watch and on their media property. They will certainly have to anwer to a much higher authority for their actions.

For information sake, "Christian means the following. The Greek word for "Christian," is Christianos. This means "follower of Christ. Jesus Christ taught love, kindness, compassion."

Those sprewing words of hate would be the follower(s) of the anti-christ.

[mstisha30]

First of all let me start off saying our president is black and so is our first lady. Get over it. Our so call white president Bush shot our country straight to hell. Now if u ask me he's the bitch. You stupid white man you're jealous because the obama's are smart and educated. The bush's were drunks and ignorant. Sorry he is no longer the president. I am happy he is gone all he did was take take take until he ushered us into a recession. I am praying for our beautiful president and his beautiful wife. Who ever allowed this prejudice bastard to write should be ashamed that he represent your company.

[pjb755]

For anyone that does not frequent Townhall (Clownhall.... someone posted that earlier and I like it!), Prelutsky has responded to his critics:

http://townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2009/03/30/responding_to_my_critics

I'm glad Chris Kelly wrote about this. It was really just a downright mean article.

[Beetleman]

Well thank you Mr. Chris Kelly for now ruining two episodes of Mary Tyler Moore for me. It's been my favorite show and I googled the appalling bigot Burt Prelutsky to discover that he wrote two episodes for me. I will never be able to enjoy them again knowing that he was behind them.

[NyceGyrl]

All people who claim to be Christians are not. This person obviously is not and has some serious racial issues. As a "real Christian" I pray that you accept Jesus Christ, establish a relationship with Him and then find out how he treated others and mimic that behavior.

[JHuff68]

They are conveniently forget that Jesus was a "darkie" too!

There is not ONE good thing Christianity contributes to the world - only hate and intolerance.

[Bitsko]

That site is disgusting.

[bdmossman]

Just wondering, you are baseing your comment on experience or what others have told you? If from experience, please cite one example of something you consider "disgusting". Maybe you can add something to the discussion if you really knucle down.

[Leslib]

The Obamas have been nothing but gracious...even in the face of such bigotry as this. I hope that the authors of such vile attacks against them have the ability to be embarrassed when they realize how they've shamed themselves in attacking such a gracious, forgiving couple.

[listentome]

Forgive me if I do not find anything amusing about this article. The only relevance that it does have is to prove that Eric Holder was absolutely right. And anyone who finds the things that were said about First Lady Michelle Obama as funny is an outright racist.

[MsEngineer]

Anyone who trolls around ClownHall knows how truly scary some of these people are. It is not just Burt Prelutsky but Malkin and Coulter and a host of others. And those are the sane ones. Some of the comments are just completely off the wall and down right loony tunes. Some of the far right Christian ramblings are almost indecipherable. These are the people whoe represent the Republican Party. Scary.

[Meds]

Why women have to be either bitches or angels?

[AudsMom]

I didn't realize that affirmative action had a clause stating that they just give away Ivy League degrees and $7000 a week jobs. I am going to have to look into that because after GW Bush running this country into the ground, I could use a $7000 a week job! Sign me up!!

[fulanita]

I agree I sure as hell didn't get into Columbia despite being top two percent in my class. Where was affirmative action when I needed it? Oh yeah, not everything is based on race and gender...

[MacDawg]

White woman fair better than anybody else under affirmative action. Its not just a minority thing. Read up on it.

[highplainsdrifter]

There are a lot of things you didnt realize.

[Bitsko]

Can't imagine a black person getting anywhere without government help can you? I used to work for the major corporate law firm in the world, headquartered here in Manhattan and they tried everything they could to get Ms. 0bama to work there.

[JamesLM207]

There are few people in the public eye who have carried themselves with as much dignity as Michelle Obama. So this "joke" is ridiculous at every concievable level, and says everything we need to know about the teller.

[Freenation]

Not funny...

[RReitz]

No humor in this at all.