{"id":1802,"date":"2010-02-15T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T23:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2010-02-15T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T23:35:43","slug":"makes-me-wonder-what-her-shoe-closet-is-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/makes-me-wonder-what-her-shoe-closet-is-like\/fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Makes Me Wonder What Her Shoe Closet Is Like&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessandmedia.org\/commentary\/2010\/20100210113159.aspx\">Here&#8217;s a good read<\/a> by Dan Kennedy on the Business &amp; Media Institute website. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mrs. Obama&#8230; reportedly has a staff of 22 assistants. Yes, I said twenty-two. (Previous First Ladies\u2019 dedicated staffs were in the single digits). Michelle\u2019s little army includes a Chief of Staff costing $172,000 a year; a Deputy Chief of Staff at $90,000; a Director of Policy and Projects at $140,000; a Director of Communications at $102,000; a Deputy Director of Scheduling at $62,000; two Social Secretaries \u2013 mysteriously, one at $65,000, one at $64,000; an Associate Director of Correspondence at $45,000, an Assistant to the Social Secretary at $36,000, and more, in total consuming $6.3-million annually thus $25-million during her 4-year term. Not to mention a make-up artist and hair stylist.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kennedy took the occasion of the scolding tone of President Obama to bring this up; when he said that a trip to Vegas wasn\u2019t the wisest move \u201cwhen you\u2019re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices. It&#8217;s time your government did the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talk about the pot calling the kettle black&#8230;*<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shoeblogs.com\/wordpress\/images\/marcosshrine.jpg?resize=290%2C344\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"290\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>*not a racist comment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good read by Dan Kennedy on the Business &amp; Media Institute website. An excerpt: Mrs. Obama&#8230; reportedly has a staff of 22 assistants. Yes, I said twenty-two. (Previous First Ladies\u2019 dedicated staffs were in the single digits). Michelle\u2019s little army includes a Chief of Staff costing $172,000 a year; a Deputy Chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-media-bias","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}