Michelle Obama’s Self-Serving “Cheese Dust” Disdain By Michelle Malkin on February 10, 2015, 9:05 pm
Before the nation’s Food Nanny guilt-trips you into ditching boxed dinners on a frazzled night, know this: The first lady profited from cheese dust before she was against it.
In the new issue of Cooking Light magazine, Michelle Obama takes another sanctimonious stand against processed foods. The occasion of this latest hectoring is a month-long celebration of the fifth anniversary of her Let’s Move initiative. This time, she spins a slickly crafted tale of how her former personal chef challenged daughter Malia several years ago to turn a block of cheese into powder. “She sat there for 30 minutes trying to pulverize a block of cheese into dust,” Mrs. Obama claims.
“She was really focused on it, and it just didn’t work, so she had to give up. And from then on, we stopped eating macaroni and cheese out of a box because cheese dust is not food,” snob momma Obama pontificated.
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The first lady may not think it’s food now, but powdered edibles provided hefty financial sustenance for her family 10 years ago. It’s just one of the many tasty perks of political influence Mrs. Barack Obama has enjoyed in her adult lifetime.
Let’s move? How about let’s remember, shall we? In June 2005, a few months after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, Mrs. Obama snagged a seat on the corporate board of directors of TreeHouse Foods Inc. Currying favor, the food-processing company put her on its audit and nominating and corporate governance committees despite her complete lack of experience or expertise. For her on-the-job training and the privilege of putting her name and face on their literature, the company forked over $45,000 in 2005 and $51,200 in 2006 to Mrs. Obama–as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more than $72,000 for each year.
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She certainly didn’t look down her nose at milk dust, cheese dust, juice dust, oatmeal dust or broth dust when it came mixed with a healthy paycheck.
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Mrs. Obama’s self-aggrandizing food elitism is hard for ordinary Americans to swallow, no matter how much truffle oil her personal chef drizzles on top.