People Magazine's New "Piece of VOMIT" on Barack and Michelle Obama's Marriage FAR From the Truth

We have got to discuss this People magazine piece of vomit on pages. There are two, not one, but two articles about the Obamas. Now there's, there's puff pieces in media. Every once in a while, every Paul is going to get a good puff piece done by a magazine like People. We know that, that's fine. You have something to promote and they say nice things about. This is so over the top, someone should be fired. And that someone is named Janine Rubinstein, who is editor at large for People magazine. She wrote both of them. She's a disgrace to the profession. I like, I actually just looked up, like, what does Janine Rubinstein do? I've never heard of this woman who writes for People. And this is what they say. She's written, hold on, my team's just sending me. She's prior to People. She's written for Essence, the Cape Times newspaper and Los Angeles magazine. But what I read about her at People is that she's the host of the People Everyday podcast, a daily dose of breaking news, pop culture, and heartwarming human interest stories. Formerly senior editor of music content, she's also covered crime, human interest, and television news throughout her many years with the brand. What are you, what word are you missing there? Politics, right? She doesn't cover hard news at all. And you can tell. All right, two articles. One, Barack and Michelle Obama in their most personal interview yet, quote, we are each other's counterbalance. This is her writing. Okay, I'm going to, I'm going to get through it. It's in the way his hand rests gently on her knee. The way she crinkles her nose at the joke she's probably heard before. The way they can speak at the same time, but somehow never seem to talk over each other. It's in the details. After nearly 34 years of marriage, and perhaps because of the minutia and magnitude of what time encompassed the love between former President Barack Obama, 64, and former First Lady Michelle Obama, 62. I don't know if it's been an equal partnership, he says, but it's worked out for me pretty well. I've gotten more out of this than she has. For her, it's probably more of a mixed bag. Then the second piece, People magazine, same writer, every photo from Barack and Michelle Obama's People cover shoot at their massive new Chicago center, exclusive. Buckle up. When the pair arrived, you could feel the excitement and joy they both had ahead of showcasing the center to and for the South Side Chicago community they love so much. You could also feel the love emanating between them, as if there's such a thing as 34-year-old married newlyweds. Wait, not done. The gentle touches, easy laughter and smiles, made the shoot fly by with ease as they moved from one set up to the next. Their love, like the pieces on the walls around them, presents like a work of fine art, painstakingly crafted over time, using a hodgepodge of materials until no more tinkering can make it any better, a joy to witness. Here's the truth. She's making us all hot and bothered. Here's the truth about their relationship. Let's run our little montage. One word to describe your next chapter. One word. Fun. Me. I'm so glad I didn't have a boy. Cuz he would have been a Barack Obama. If we had a baby Barack, it would have been amazing. No, I would have felt for him. We're empty nesters. It's like, well, what are we gonna talk about? So we're together all day, and we do this thing where it's like, I'll see him, and it's like, what you been doing? It's like, oh, don't tell me until dinner, because we're, we gotta have something to talk about at dinner. The way you're chewing makes me want to smack you upside the head. Even in my marriage now, you know, you go through the period of, I want him to be different. I want him to do this differently. I've grown to know I don't have control over him just like he doesn't have control over me. So let me do my work and let him do our work, and together, we come together as whole people. We could be here all day. I've got 20 more. That's awesome. So I feel we've been misled by People Magazine, guys. What do you make of it? You've made Tom's day, Megan. It's right up Tom's alley with the media. Well, listen, I've written a couple profiles over the years, and I can tell you if I turned anything that sounded like that to Carl, he would throw it straight in the trash. So ridiculous. But look, on one hand, it's not surprising. The Obamas have always gotten this unbelievably adoring press coverage, even from the quote-unquote hard news. I mean, you remember, who was it? It was somebody from the Chicago Tribune who asked him this ridiculous question after he got re-elected about what a great person he was and all these things. Don't leave Chris Matthews out. Remember Steve Kroft? Yeah, oh, God. I mean, you could go on and on. And then you go to sort of the fluffier magazines like Vogue and People, and it's ridiculous, and it's over the top. I mean, obviously, to the point that the montage you just played, there's a bunch of evidence suggesting that it's not all just butterflies and rainbows and unicorns for the Obamas. She hates him. Yeah, I know, right? I gotta say this. I'm starting to like her more and more because it's like a housewife show. It's like she's the housewives of Chicago or something. I mean, that kind of in-your-face, wagging the finger, I mean, come on. It's reality TV. Andy's doing the finger wave. I've never seen that before. Carl, it's as if that were not insulting enough, what I just read to you. They have these pictures of the two of them, and the captions are just as inane as the writing in the piece. So a bunch of them sort of fawning on each other. Embracing at the Obama Center, the formal pose, smiling for the camera, top of the tower, leaning on the rail. Why is this in a caption in a magazine? In the atrium, the cover shot. This is like a photographer's notes to himself about what each of these is a candidate for, you know, like a short form. It's the one where they're on the rail. It somehow made it into People magazine as the official caption. Leaning on the rail as though we're supposed to appreciate this is like a work of art. They leaned. Carl, they leaned. They leaned right after they were in the atrium as they passed through the open change lobby, which is the thing. You know, I was thinking of that. So these two don't seem to have any illusions. I don't know how they got this writer to write what she did. But the other day, he was asked, Obama, in a friendly interview, they're all friendly, as Tom pointed out, you know, what do you do to relax and recharge? And Obama, you know, went, tried to think of something profound, and Michelle wasn't having issues. He golfs. That's what he does. And so I think they know who they are. And as you're reading that, I had this picture in my mind, Megan, of those two meeting at dinner when they've been apart all day long. And and she's reading it, and they're both laughing. And she said it makes her so amused. She says he can have a cigarette after dinner. It's OK, because, you know, how did he get this? How did he charm this woman to write this stuff? And he said, really, can I have a cigarette? He's smoking and they're laughing about this piece the way we are now. So maybe I don't think they have any illusions of what I'm trying to say. I know this is like a fun parlor game, but honestly, Tom, can you imagine this ever being done for Donald and Melania Trump? No, I mean, and it wasn't it wasn't even done for George W. Bush and Laura, you know, I mean, and they clearly were very much in love and they clearly were very, very much in love and had been married for a long, long time. But, you know, I mean, Joe and Jill got despite the fact she's like walking off stage without him, you know, like all this stuff. Yeah. And Megan, Megan, I covered the White House and Bush was president W. And one time he was like late. He would go running and we got this early pool call. It was down in Crawford and and and Bush. And he was late and he wasn't really late. And he said he leaned over. I think it was Ron Forney of AP. And he says, you know, you're late. I was having some quality time with the first lady. And it was good. So genuinely, we all kind of blanched. You can see you kind of regretted saying it. And we went our merry way. But hey, we'd much rather that they have some some quality time with the first lady than with the 16 year old intern like JFK reportedly did. I think she was lost right over that stuff to protect Camelot with the Trumps. Not so much. We will not be engaging in any of these these fictions, which they they clearly are. These two do not like each other. She cannot stand him. And how do I know that from her? We're going to play more of her tomorrow. I can I can think of another five bites off the top of my head. But join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. We may not always agree, but we are always going to talk about it and respect. No BS, no agenda, no fear. For the first time since World War Two, our national debt has exceeded the gross domestic product. America's reckless government spending keeps catching up with us. 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