Will Cain of The Blaze exploded after Michelle Obama joined the "Bring Back our Girls" movement which is demanding action to free the 200+ girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria. It doesn't matter what Barack or Michelle Obama does; it is never good enough for the right-wingers.
“We do cheap outrage on TV, we do cheap hashtag activism when it comes to the girls with Boko Haram, and this is cheap,” Cain complained on Thursday.
“I’m telling you putting a tweet up with a hashtag, you didn’t do your duty today,” Cain insisted
“I wasn’t necessarily targeting the first lady exclusively,” Cain replied.
Whatever.
The problem is that Will Cain doesn't offer any coherent alternative to what someone in Michelle Obama's position could do better.
“I said society had gotten cheap,” Cain shot back. “We do cheap outrage on television, we do cheap hashtag activism on Twitter… Every single person, Don! It’s a meme. I didn’t say anything about the first lady! You did!”
The whole narrative that is being driven by Glenn Beck and Will Cain is based on the premise that society is going to pot and deviating from traditional Judeo-Christian values, which, coincidentally, are aligned with that of the Republican Party. So when someone like Michelle Obama joins the movement because it's the right thing to do in accordance with Biblical teachings on standing up for the least among us, it doesn't fit their narrative of Republicans Good, Democrats Baaaaaaad.
By ridiculing Michelle Obama, Cain places himself to the right of even George Bush, who at least had the decency to put together an AIDS initiative in Africa that was successful. In fact, Bush is wildly popular in some parts of Africa because of the fact that we drastically increased our spending there under his administration, as reported by The Independent, hardly an ally of the Bush administration. If Bush had shown that sort of compassion for the rest of the world, he would have been one of our most popular Presidents, not one of our least popular Presidents. Obama has built on that, including a $7 billion initiative to bring power -- something we take for granted -- to parts of Africa which do not have adequate power supplies.
Investing in and supporting Africa more is something that has been supported by administrations of both parties. But apparently, for certain Republicans, if Obama were to say the sky was blue, they would say that it is red.