{"id":8063,"date":"2015-02-01T03:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2015-02-01T03:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T03:27:23","slug":"mrs-obama-defends-sniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8063","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Obama defends &#039;Sniper&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Michelle Obama has taken a stand in support of a controversial film about a heart-wrenching subject.<\/p>\n<p>Good for her.<\/p>\n<p>She came to the defense this week of &#8220;American Sniper,&#8221; the film about the late Navy SEAL sharpshooter Chris Kyle, saying the film\u00a0deals squarely with\u00a0the emotional heartache felt by combat veterans and their families.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LbOlE9fa8p\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/231316-first-lady-defends-american-sniper\/\">First lady defends &#8216;American Sniper&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;First lady defends &#8216;American Sniper&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/231316-first-lady-defends-american-sniper\/embed\/#?secret=NkMpzRkEVz#?secret=LbOlE9fa8p\" data-secret=\"LbOlE9fa8p\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Obama didn&#8217;t go after some of the critics of the film directly, although she well could have done so; perhaps she <em>should<\/em> have done so. But whatever her intention, she made a salient point about the film&#8217;s theme and the emotions it has brought to those who have seen it.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI felt that, more often than not, this film touches on many of the emotions and experiences that I\u2019ve heard firsthand from military families over these past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, she and Jill Biden, the vice president&#8217;s wife, have made the care of veterans and their families a hallmark of their tenure during the Obama administration and both of these women deserve to be applauded for the attention they have given to this important matter.<\/p>\n<p>As for the criticism of the film &#8212; notably by filmmaker Michael Moore\u00a0&#8212; much of it has bordered on the ridiculous. Moore, of course, referred to snipers as &#8220;cowards.&#8221; He knows nothing of which he spoke on this matter, but his comments got considerable play anyway &#8212; I suppose because of his celebrity status and his previous tangles with political conservatives over an array of other issues.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the first lady has put the film in its proper perspective and that should stand as a more credible assessment of a gripping story of triumph, struggle and immense emotional heartache.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama has taken a stand in support of a controversial film about a heart-wrenching subject. Good for her. She came to the defense this week of &#8220;American Sniper,&#8221; the film about the late Navy SEAL sharpshooter Chris Kyle, saying the film\u00a0deals squarely with\u00a0the emotional heartache felt by combat veterans and their families. First lady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mrs. Obama defends &#039;Sniper&#039;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,13],"tags":[369,968,1074,1146,2469,3029,3043,3226,3370,5098],"class_list":["post-8063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-american-sniper","tag-chris-kyle","tag-combat-veterans","tag-controversial-film","tag-jill-biden","tag-michael-moore","tag-michelle-obama","tag-navy-seals","tag-obama-administration","tag-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}