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Michelle Obama Grilled By 11-Year-Old Reporter On ‘Let’s Move!’ Campaign


Snagging an interview with the first lady is an accomplishment in itself, but asking tough questions is particularly impressive for a young, novice journalist. Especially when she hasn’t even taken her SATs yet.

Topanga Sena, an 11-year-old reporter for Scholastic News in Florida, can knock both of the above off her bucket list. As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the middle school aged girl recently had the opportunity to speak with first lady Michelle Obama about her Let’s Move! campaign and whether it oversteps its boundaries.

“How do you respond to critics who say the government should not be telling people how to eat or to stay active?” Sena asked, reading from a sheet of paper.

“You know, that’s absolutely right, and Let’s Move! doesn’t do that,” said the first lady. “Let’s Move! is not about having government telling people what to do, because government doesn’t have all the answers. I mean, a problem that’s this big and affects so many people requires everyone to step up. So we’re asking everyone to do their part. Parents have to make some changes at home, but they need the information to be able to make those choices. And they have to have access to affordable foods in their communities, fresh and healthy foods, right? So we need government to do its part, but we need businesses to do their part, as well.”

We’re not totally sure the question was fully answered, but hats off to the young lady who asked Ms. Obama something that has been on the minds of many since Let’s Move! debuted two years ago. This 11-year-old could be ready to start covering the presidential campaign this fall.

Watch the clip below, via the Washington Free Beacon:

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DZP2ZQSOEQ5LWQHJ2Y65JN3RLE Holly

    According to a report in the Daily Rash, at a conference on childhood obesity last summer Michelle Obama suggested slaughtering obese children to a group of physicians and nutritionists.  http://www.thedailyrash.com/michelle-obama-proposes-slaughtering-obese-children

  • Anonymous

    Of course she didn’t answer the question, she knows it’s true.  Just ask the little girl in NC who got her lunch taken away by the food nazi’s. 

  • Anonymous

    Laura says:

    We’re not totally sure the question was fully answered, but hats off to the young lady who asked Ms. Obama something that has been on the minds of many since Let’s Move! debuted two years ago

    Hey Laura, why not ask Tommy C to ask that question at the next White House briefing.   Just kidding, the corrupt, liberal media wouldn’t dream of questioning the Regime.

  • KMc Stu

    Yeah! Why can’t the government go back to worrying about what we’re doing in our bedrooms and what’s going on our (female) bodies and leave our kid’s lunch bags ALONE???

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/LFTAOUEU5NWVZUI4YMXE2FULSE Cc
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    This is the hardest media question asked of this administration since 2008. 

  • Young Gun Conservative

    Really?  This is news worthy?

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    So I guess Nancy Reagan telling people to say no to drugs is Anti-American. Who is the government to tell people not to do drugs.  What about prescription drugs, you know, the ones killing every celebrity lately? Should we say no to those? What about chemicals forced into your body from chemo-therapy, or the many drugs in everyday packaged and processed foods that destroy our health, cause obesity, addiction, heart attacks and cancer.

    You fat lazy MF’s need to get off your couch and do some push-ups with Michelle Obama.

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    Yes, leave my fats heartattck prone obese child alone and start worrying about women’s vaginas-instead. I wanna have a say in who can get married, who can adopt, who can have a baby, and who can die in prison!

    And don’t u dare say it’s the same thing because I’m a Republican and I…

    Can’t handle the truth!

  • Anonymous

    So Michelle Obama trying to get kids to eat healthy is somehow helping the “regime”. You’re just a crazy racist.

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    Jeff is an autistic child and a loser so please ignore his idiocy. 

    Thank you,

    Common sense human beings of planet earth.

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    Would you rather talk about the growing economy? Or Obama success in National Defense? This is a much easier topic for Repubic hairs

  • Anonymous

    You must live in a scary world if you believe these things.

  • Anonymous

    How has Michelle Obama effected what you eat exactly?

  • Anonymous

    I notice you completely ignored the example I cited.  Shocking!!  Michelle is just giving us the little shove we need to do what’s right, eh.  According to Cass Sustein, we all have a little Bart Simpson in us and need to be nudged along to do what’s right. 

  • Anonymous

    So I’m racist because I’m not a fan of Michelle’s?  Sorry that card jumped the shark long ago.  It’s just used to shut down an critism of The Regine. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/artmuseums Aladine Vargas

    TheIgnoranceOfLiberals  — I think ass said “Homer Simpson” – not Bart.   oops – I meant Cass.   ooooohhh :)

  • Tim_Thom

    I wonder if Mooch made this little “chubby” girl cry…for not eating organic tamales and organic french fries like her.

    She also gave the girl some pointers about sculpting her arms.

  • http://www.facebook.com/artmuseums Aladine Vargas

     He maybe crazy – to believe that the government will use something as innocent and harmless as feeding our kids healthy food … to somehow enslave the human spirit from it’s natural desire to express, explore and expand itself. 

    but — how is he a racist?  would you not be the racist for making race an issue here? I’m just asking not accusing.

    Question – why are people crazy to be suspicious of the government’s desire to control food? when we have thousands of years of history – showing that governments do indeed want to control food – in order to control you.

    The lack of Food is a primal fear. Fear is a greater motivator than gain. Can a dead person love? can a dead person change the world? or help their brother? So to love – or help others – our primal fear of starvation must be in check.  And when we have a long history in fact and in fiction of how people with power will use food to control.

    here is a list of off the top of my head:

    Stories: Adam and Eve, Snow White, The Daniel Fast – comes from Daniel in the bible not wanting to eat the food of the Babylonian King.

    History: Russia killing millions of Ukrainians, China killing millions of chinese, Hilter killing million of Jews. Prohibition of Alcohol. The real life Prince – the stories of Dracula come from. He invited all the nobles in the area to a feast. when they were in — he burned it down.

    What I find interesting is the people who tend to be against the food control of this Administration would associate with people who take the above STORIES to heart as filters be it fiction or non-ficition in order to help them perceive the dangerous intents of those who seek to lord over us.

    The HISTORY group will associate with people who “reason” morality to a point they can engage in “intellectual exercises” that would create social systems and structures that would at it’s worst kill people. 

    I was taught not to take food from strangers. And when I was about 6 a man drove up and offered to buy me candy — but we had to drive to the candy store — which was right across the street.  I sensed that danger and ran.

    As an adult – this government is offering to buy us a lot of candy — or healthy food. They want to tell us want to eat.  We sense danger because they are STRANGERS.  and yes the people elected Barrack Obama. But we didn’t elect or ask for Michelle to employ the will of Cass Sunstein – who is a very very very very dangerous man. And the media will not expose him to the American People.

    On a lighter note:

    If you want to look for a crazy racist conspiracy for a book — create one on this
    premise.  In 1805 a black kitchen slave was rapped and kill for taking a
    piece of bread for her daughter.  Her daughter was hiding in the pantry
    and saw the brutal evil unleashed onto her mother.  She vowed to get
    her revenge on whitey! even if it took several generations. Do you know
    who that slave daughter’s great great great grand daughter is?  Caprice O’Neil. 

    What?? You thought I was going to say Michelle Obama? You crazy racist conspiracy theorist! 

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    What a perfectly totalitarian response. Someone – albeit a partisan hack – suggests that pols should be held accountable by the press, and you respond by playing the race card.

    As for the kid, that was a real good job for her; few adults have the cojones to ask MichelleO a question like that.

    However, the question could have been a whole lot better: it should have been crafted to anticipate the possible responses and to box MichelleO in to a small set of responses.

    For over five years – since I tried to ask BHO a q at one of his appearances – I’ve been trying to get people to go ask him real questions:

    24ahead.com/s/question-authority

    I’ve not only had no luck with that, I’ve even gotten some pushback from supposed BHO opponents. I guess I was just promoting it to the wrong people.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a funny website, thanks for that Holly.  Love her or hate her, she is doing good work.  Obesity will be the biggest health problem of this century, and will drive health care costs thru the roof.  Kids need information and good eating habits, and if their parents aren’t educating them at home, and feeding them in a responsible manner then these awareness programs have a place.  And really, shouldn’t schools feed our kids healthy options instead of junk food?

  • Anonymous

    Citing an example means including where it it from or posting a link.  Pretty easy to ignore something when it’s not there.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, nothing you said was racist.  But arguing against a program that addresses something so vital to our children’s future smacks of partisanship in the worst way. 

  • Anonymous

    Took 2 seconds to find based on the little info I posted.  Google in your friend.

    Student’s lunch taken away for not being nutritious enough

    http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/national/students-lunch-taken-away-for-not-being-nutritious-enough

  • Anonymous

    I have 0 problem with her advocating children eat healthy.  I have  a HUGE problem when gov’t starts intruding on our lives and telling a parent the turkey sandwich they sent for their child diesn’t meets it’s requirements and replaces the students lunch. 

  • Anonymous

    Saying no to drugs is entirely different than Saying no to the turkey sandwich your mother provided to you for government provided chicken nuggets because a bureaucrat told you to do so..  And judging by the size of moochelle’s ass, maybe she should do some cardio along with her pushups….or maybe just stop eating Kobe beef…

  • Anonymous

    and the fact that they replaced the turky sandwich  with chicken nuggets speaks volumes to the government’s monumental ineptitude in issues like this…

  • Anonymous

    An excellent comment..!

  • Anonymous

    Thank you…! Michelle Obama is a beautiful lady who inspires us to do so many sensible things… It’s a real shame that some malign her for that……

  • Anonymous

    LEGALLY -PRESCRIBED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS are indeed a terrible problem

  • Anonymous

    She is, indeed, doing good work…! People are petty, who try to insult her… Obesity IS a terrible problem.. So many health problems can be IMPROVED just by a simple thing: changing / altering our diets. High blood pressure..diabetes…cholesterol

  • Anonymous

    What’s interesting is the article states many have been interested like the young lady in the program that is two years in. So WHERE HAS THE MSM BEEN IN ASKING THE QUESTION.

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    Ron Paul would disagree. So would all the white men who love black girls with big butts.

  • Anonymous

    And that’s Michelle Obama’s fault?

    You’re an idiot!!

  • Anonymous

    Dumb

  • Anonymous

    Dumber!!!

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    Ever watch a prescription drug commercial at the end “this product may cause you to die a slow painful death, suddenly and without warning, for no reason at all, just because you tried to take a pill to cure your high blood pressure, which was caused by your obesity, cause by your overeating greedy self-fish lifestyle of not taking responsibility for your body, probably because your parents were rich obnoxious butmonkeys and you were a lonely depressed spoiled brat. You think poor people ever die of a heart attack?? They can’t even afford food you fat Rush Limbaugh looking heart attack waiting to happen at any second!

  • Anonymous

    Why would you put down those with autism?  You liberals have no shame. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes, you really are.

  • Anonymous

    Dumbest of all.

  • Tim_Thom

    Dumbest!!!!! YOU WIN!

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    It’s the same thing. Man, do you have a problem with logic or what? So your mom can give you liquor in your lunch box? I though that was illegal. What about firecrackers? How about mace to protect yourself from bullies? Oh all that is illegal – wow Where’s your freedom now??

  • Dookie

     Nancy Reagan told people to say no to drugs as in NARCOTICS!! To assume she meant prescription drugs is kinda foolish thinking. Do people abuse prescription drugs?…..yes they do but….. they aren’t likely to kill others, only themselves. Drug abuse with narcotics, is entirely a different story. Innocent bystanders get killed by stray bullets, robberies and any other criminal act for the sake of attaining narcotics.

  • Anonymous

    Since you claiming the MSM hasn’t been asking tough question, in other words, you’re saying MSM has been asking questions at the same level that FOX asks Palin, give us some question then that haven’t already asked. Depending on the questions you ask, will say a lot about yourself to the readers.  If you can’t come up with any questions, or you just decide not to respond back, then we’ll know you’re just blowing wing and your comment lacks substance.  

    So, lets see what you believe hasn’t been asked in the past of the President already.

  • Anonymous

    Answer me one question and how you answer will determine if you are capable of having a rational, honest discussion on the matter.  Has Obama been vetted to the extent the Republican candidates have?

  • Anonymous

    I guess we should ask RODErick 2011 a year behind.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, he’s been in office for three years and we have seen how he has performed over that period of time.  In fact because he has been in office, we know what to expect vs. the candidates who have not held such a high office as President.  

    Now, instead of avoiding my questions any longer, I like for you to answer my first comment.

  • Anonymous

    Your answer isn’t clear, which I’m sure is how you intended it.  Are you saying that candidate Obama was vetted at thoroughly as the Republican nominees?

  • Reno

    The point is big government now trying to raise our kids along with a total takeover of our freedoms. Are we saying now parents do not know what is best for our kids. Having a nazi police inspecting their lunch boxes is not the America I know.

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    Should I even try with you on this nonsense issue?

    The Times analysis of 2009 death statistics found that the most commonly abused prescription drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, Xanax and Soma now cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.

    “the most powerful drug dealers of all — the pharmaceutical companies”

    “just as addictive as illegal drugs. In fact, in many cases there’s no difference between a street drug and a prescription drug”

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    You sir are a shameless coward and an immoral troll. Never would you ever voice your opinion in person to any living thing. Republicans have become an evil virus depeleting the sanity from our world. You should be ashamed of yourself for being on the racist, bigoted, and corrupt hypocritical side of every issue. Democrats aren’t perfect, neither are independents, but Republicans, like when John McCain was running, are no longer talking about taxes or spending cuts; now you bigots are talking about ending civil liberties for everyone except rich white men. You should bury your head whereever hole or bunker your’e living in.

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Vote for Democrats 2012

    Exactly. You need only to look at the death statistics to come to the conclusion that preventable deaths from Prescribed and abused prescription drugs occur more then heroin and cocaine deaths combined.

  • Aaron

    A productive exchange of ideas for all.

  • sharkeye

    These two comparisons don’t even make sense like comparing apples and potatoes, get off  your lazy #@#&^# and be real.

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Nut Romney

    What is real about ignoring obesity and the destructive heath issues related to it? The largest amount of the obese kids in the world live in America. Yes, we are that greedy and lazy. We feed our kids crap and then have the utter nerve to complain that because these fat lazy unmotivated losers weight down our over expensive healthcare system, causing the prices to sky rocket through the roof because everyone is so unhealthy.

    What is REAL is that obesity is a REAL epidemic!

  • Olclarry

    Her and her husband are CRAP

  • Anonymous

    Classy

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