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                    Ignoring
                    Clint Eastwood's advice in "Dirty Harry" that
                    opinions, like certain body parts, are best kept to
                    yourself. 
                     
                    
  Recently,
                    Joan Rivers startled a bunch of people during a televised
                    interview, by saying our president was gay, and the first
                    lady was a transsexual. The 81 year old comedienne didn't
                    seem to be joking, and later, when asked, refused to
                    apologize for her remarks. "Everybody knows",
                    she said.
  Controversy isn't something new for Ms.
                    Rivers, a few years ago she got into some trouble with a
                    joke in her comedy routine, We used to have Jackie
                    O, now we have Blackie O!. But, this new quote
                    that suggests we have a same sex couple living in the White
                    House is on a completely different level. 
  How much
                    validity was mainstream media giving to this story? I
                    decided to check it out, but not wanting NSA or KGB to think
                    I was a complete nut, I clicked open
                    "private
                      browsing" and went to the
                    "duckduckgo"
                    search engine to leave no trail of my research. The "duck"
                    people say they don't keep search records, but I have a
                    feeling those 18 year-old computer nerds being hired by NSA
                    are figuring that one out.
  As I suspected, a search
                    for
                    "Joan
                      Rivers + Michelle Obama" didn't show any articles
                    by the mainstream alphabet news services (ABC, CBS, CNN,
                    FOX, NBC), but dozens of articles on news sites and blogs
                    I'd never heard of. And videos, lots of videos, that were,
                    to put it politely, very amateurish productions showing
                    little or no proof that Michelle was actually a man. Some
                    claimed Michelle had been born "Michael" and
                    played football in high school, evidently at one without
                    yearbooks. Any proof shown was a real stretch.
  "Look,
                    at her hands, you can see by the length of her ring finger
                    that she's a man, and look at those muscles!"
  A
                    few years ago, former White House press secretary Pierre
                    Salinger
                    was
                      convinced by articles he read on the internet that TWA
                    flight 800 was accidently shot down in 1996 by our own Navy.
                    After an hour that I'll never get back, I came to the
                    conclusion that Joan Rivers and Pierre Salinger have a lot
                    in common.
  
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