Here are two pictures taken in a homeless shelter, where the always charming Michelle Obama, America’s first lady served food for the homeless kitchen. I really salute Michelle’s for her voluntary community service!
There are few things wrong with these pictures: a homeless man with a camera phone is snapping a photo of the First Lady. And the other guy in line is wearing a sharp, price-looking suit. Is this even at a homeless shelter? Or is she surrounded by actors in a studio?
I admit, it is not impossible for a homeless man to have a camera phone, especially in this economy. Or it could be a prepaid phone.
In picture two, you find a sharply dressed man getting food at the homeless kitchen. I would say at least 200 dollars is what he paid for the suit. If this is an old suite, I want to get his dry cleaners address!
Whatever happened to the homeless man we got used to? Were they booted out by the press handlers?
More likely, the camera phone holder and suited gentleman are part of the newly foreclosed, laid off class of folks being hit in every city.
As I write this, I know I sound naive asking such questions about the homeless (Urban Outdoorsmen as a friend calls them). You cannot blame me. As my mother used to quote Arabic proverb for me she would say, “When the poor man takes a rather big dump, people cannot help but ask, ‘How is that possible?’”
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I’d bet you real money (if I had any) that these people are actors or, if they are homeless, hand-picked residents of the shelter chosen for not looking too shabby. Perhaps the camera-phone guy and the snazzy suit guy could possibly be part of the Nouveau Poor, but given the context — and the recent trend of heavily stage-managed photo ops these days — these guys a probably “plants”, in the same way that the hand-picked audiences and people chosen to ask questions at televised phony “town hall meetings” are “plants”. And, don’t forget GWBush serving the big, fake plastic turkey to troops in Iraq during his infamous surprise Thanksgiving visit.
Perhaps I’m a bit overly cynical, but that comes from being born and raised in and around Washington, DC, and having grown up during Vietnam and Watergate, as well as the intervening era of ReaganBushClintonBushObama.
Posted by Mike Flugennock | April 22, 2011, 10:39 am