If she didn’t hijack the event to push her anti-fat kid campaign nobody would have cared what book she picked.
Via Red Alert Politics:
Oops! First Lady Michelle Obama’s attempt to turn the 135th Annual Easter Egg Roll into another one of her “Let’s Move” events backfired when the kids in attendance announced that they liked spaghetti and meatballs more than peas and broccoli.
Her first mistake was choosing (or allowing someone in her office to choose) the children’s book “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” by Judi Barrett for the reading part of the event. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” for those of you not familiar with it, is all about very unhealthy foods, such as pancakes and hamburgers, falling from the sky.
So naturally when she finished the reading and asked the kids in attendance what foods they hoped would fall from the sky, many of them asked for sugar-laden foods like ice cream and candy. That was clearly not the answer Mrs. Obama – who last month announced that she hopes for an America in which kids beg for fruits and vegetables – was looking for, as she promptly suggested that they should be excited about “peas” and other of her favorite foods.
“Let’s just say it’s eat your vegetables,” FLOTUS said. “That’s the moral of the story.”
Actually, that’s not the moral. The book is about a fantasy world where yummy, unhealthy foods fall from the sky. There is no moral.