Michelle Obama admits her White House garden was a sham

The Gateway Pundit approaches the story from the angle of BET booting out Washington Post's Robin Givhan for admitting something Michelle Obama told her off the record. BET requires the truth varnished.

Monica Showalter at American Thinker gets straight to the point. She says the lede was buried in the NYPost story. She quotes:

"The garden was a subversive act," she said. "You can't go in with guns blazing until people trust you." 

And there could be no reprimanding.  No finger-wagging.  Because she knew that her finger-wagging, a black woman's finger-wagging, would be both amplified and resented. 

So she gave herself a bit of advice: Put down your finger and pick up the garden hoe.  "What's more innocent than a garden?" Mrs. Obama said.

Good self-advice. Drop the finger wagging. That's what makes the kids imitating Trump's hand motions so hilarious. It's charmingly devoid of typical  classical Democrat finger jabbing or Barack Obama's invisible baton pedantically tapping off points.

Nice little garden lady. Yeah. Garden. That's the ticket.

But even that couldn't  be "look what we've done," it had to be "you must eat this and you must not eat that, and government needs to fix food deserts." The haranguing and demands and intrusion is endless.

All of us observed with tremendous interest. We followed closely. We had to. She intruded into all of our Obama-free zones where we go to escape Obama intrusion. All the talk shows. There they are. On the Food Network! Iron Chef. Bogus switch out vegetables purchased at the grocery and purported to have come from the White House. She can't even tell the truth about vegetables.

We saw the garden plowed over (by Parks) when National Parks were dragged into government shutdown to blame on Republicans. That was the extent of Michelle's commitment to that garden. It was always a political garden and never an example of clean simple living. You didn't have to be a gardener yourself to see a politician as gardener. It was a photo op garden, its gardener in chief with her own staff to do the actual gardening. And plow it over the instant another superseding point needed to be driven. Those nasty Republicans ruined her garden.