the eye roll..

[one_voice]

If, like most people, you stopped watching the wall-to-wall inaugural coverage around the time Jay-Z and Beyoncé followed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) off the main stage, you might have missed this moment during the luncheon, when something House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said got a reaction out of First Lady Michelle Obama — but probably not the one that Boehner expected.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/21/michelle-obama-rolls-her-eyes-at-speaker-boehner-a-gif-for-the-masses/

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. LOL! I love her even more!

[roguevalley]

53. her body language says it all. :D :D :D

[tosh]

2. That is priceless!

Michelle!!!

[CherokeeDem]

3. This is priceless.....

I adore the First Lady and apparently, she doesn't suffer fools!!!

[louis-t]

4. She probably got a whiff of his breath.

Glug, glug.

[AzDar]

5. Love Michelle!

[HangOnKids]

6. Eye Roll & Head Shake!!

I swear you can hear her saying " You have got to be shittin' me." BoneHead is hammered as USUAL.

[ewagner]

32. yep....

[SaveAmerica]

83. You might be right, Lip reader says it was about Smoking

Larry Wenig, a lip-reading expert, tells “Inside Edition” that his analysis shows the Ohio Republican asked President Obama if he had a cigarette before the Monday luncheon… According to Wenig, Boehner was referring to Michelle when he quipped to the commander in chief, “Somebody won’t let you do it.”


http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/22/michelle-obamas-eye-roll-was-she-throwing-shade/

[LuckyLib]

84. Boehner -- a sexist throwback jackass. Imagine that.

[TeamPooka]

7. Speaker, please!

[ecstatic]

12. lol! nt

[BumRushDaShow]

8. !!!!!

[lpbk2713]

9. "Michelle, will you please have the waiter refill my wine glass again?"

BWAHAHAHA

[KittyWampus]

10. look more closely. Obama is laughing & it looks genuine. I bet it's closer to an inside guy joke

between the two guys… and Michelle is like "oh, brother". LOL!

[TeamPooka]

17. I agree but the part everyone misses is how unhappy Boehner's wife looks being there.

ouch

[Mariana]

31. Being married to a sloppy drunk must really suck.

I wouldn't want to be seen with him, either.

[Left Coast2020]

80. I'm thinking Boner must in fact be a real douchbag..

and a drunk.

[janx]

20. That's exactly what it looks like to me.

And I was just going to post the same thing.

[sad-cafe]

22. that is what I was thinking

looked like orange man and POTUS were joking about something and Michelle was like oh grow up

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Good call.

[RB TexLa]

44. I think so too. All and all this is a very cordial day.

[stuntcat]

78. exactly

all this talk of anything else is embarrassing. She is not the kind who'd roll her eyes that way about the person sitting next to her.. with them, yes. I hope this conversation is off the main page soon, I'm regretting kicking it up but someone needs to say the adult thing.

[Nostrodumbest]

85. Yup

My thoughts exactly. Also, Boner does indeed look drunk and his wife pissed.

[lunatica]

88. Spoken like a man

I'm laughing so hard I might cough up a lung. Why would anyone have an inside joke with THE joke of a Majority Leader? Sure, Obama is really just one of the Good Old Boys.

edited to add the gif

[mokawanis]

11. I do that too

Just about every time I hear him speak.

[trumad]

13. I just changed my sig line.

[George II]

39. How do you do that?

[Sheldon Cooper]

69. I stole the sig line from you.

Do you mind, trumad? I think it's great!

[butterfly77]

14. Lol!

[malaise]

15. Thanks for this - I missed it

[Demo_Chris]

16. EPIC!

[Enrique]

18. probably bragging about his golf game again

[HappyMe]

19. It looks like the orange man

and the President had some sort of inside joke.

That is a pretty epic eye roll.

[RandiFan1290]

21. Obama caught her reaction, too

He reaches up and pats her back or shoulder lol

[Autumn]

23. Best look ever!!!!! I would love to have been a fly on that table.

And that beautiful little head shake. Perfection.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

24. Right before that Boehner touched her arm and she moved it away.

Check it out:





She's probably thinking, I wish I didn't have to be seated next to this drunken fool.

[awoke_in_2003]

55. Why do some men think...

that they can touch women anytime they want. Yes, he just touched her arm, but it was still unwelcome.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

62. I don't like being touched by certain people either.

Now that I think about it, the ones who keep doing it even though it clearly is not a welcome gesture are men.

My guess is they're oblivious to the fact their contact is unwelcome. Or, maybe in Boehner's case he could have had just had too many drinks already.

[progree]

73. Odd, in the OP video, no sign of him touching her arm, and no waiters in the background

In this #24 video, Boner is clearly touching her arm. And the background is full of two white-coated waiters.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

75. That's because they're two different clips.

I had thought I'd included the link to the gif in my post you replied to, but it appears I forgot it.

Here's the link to both video clips.

http://m.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/01/michelle-obama-john-boehner-eye-roll/61239/

[progree]

76. Thanks. So I see Michelle had more than one quality moment with Cheetos nt.

[flying-skeleton]

25. Boehner said, "I think the people want me to run for President next time" !!

[sasha031]

26. Beohner looks drunk

not looks, he's defiantly had too much to drink.

[nc4bo]

27. Someone on DU must be able to read lips!? Oh please what did the orange guy say?

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

28. Since both the President and Boehner are laughing...

And Michelle is rolling her eyes, how much do you want to bet one of the men made a "That's what she said" joke!!!

[George II]

37. I'll bet Barack said "Boehner, I don't even know her"

[Enrique]

64. lol

though others might say

[Trajan]

29. I've seen that look before ..

from my wife when we have "guy talk" ....

Maybe it's like that?

[sheshe2]

33. Please Proceed, Michelle!

[nolabear]

38. Thanks for playing.

Accept these lovely parting gifts.

[DollarBillHines]

40. Wow

That's one hung-up dude.

And to think that those types are out there, all of the time.

Scary...

[nc4bo]

41. and they have no problem letting everyone know just how stupid ignorant they are.

Good riddance low brow!

[DollarBillHines]

48. It's as if they are proud of the fact they are so boorish.

I know a guy who is a self-declared, 'self-made' (read: inherited) multi-millionaire. He is an intelligent person, but when it comes to Obama he becomes a troglodyte.

"I'll be damned if I am going to give any more of my Tax dollars to Obama!"

"Uh, Frank, Obama doesn't personally spend your tax dollars."

"Well, he sure as hell decides where they go."

"Actually, Frank, those decisions are made in committee."

"What the hell do you know? You never even graduated High School."

[Ikonoklast]

65. Looks like his time spent at an institution of higher learning were wasted.

Many of the people that made this nation great never even went to a high school, let alone attended university.

And some of the most highly-educated citizens we now have are spending their entire lives trying to destroy it.

[nolabear]

42. Flameout.

[mikeysnot]

47. One post and done.

[progree]

72. 3 minutes after he joined. "sad troll with sour grapes" is how the MIRT described it nt

[George II]

35. Around our house we call that look "the Costanza"! Good for her.

[ReRe]

36. K&R

.... I hope she didn't get heartburn from having to sit by that epic JERK!

[rainbow4321]

43. LOLOL "did I just roll my eyes out loud?"

FLOTUS is just keeping it real....

[In_The_Wind]

45. Perfect!

Just perfect . . .

[2naSalit]

46. He probably

said something insulting about his wife. She had just said something to him, he makes "the comment" (perhaps something like-"I can't take her anywhere"-or something lame like that) and she makes some verbal response as she (can't tell but) appears to be packing her stuff in her purse like she's about to leave. Or maybe she's stealing the flatware...?

[Jack Rabbit]

49. Was Boehner drinking his lunch again?

??

[jillan]

50. Whatever was said - Mrs Boner doesn't look too pleased either.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

51. oh I don't think Obama's laughing along WITH Cheetos......

If he were, everyone's body language would look different.

What Obama's doing is being polite in public. Appropriately so.

Notice Prez Obama laughs at Boner's remark but quickly turns away and faces in the opposite direction. That's a total shut out. Boner's wife looks down, away from her husband and at the moment of the remark, she purses her lips and frowns, separating herself from him further.

Boner himself does the lonely look around with tight lips; that's a classic response to being dissed and left flapping in the wind. He's looking around for some anchor--approval--and there is none.

And then of course there's Michelle's reaction.

Hee hee.

Suck it, Cheetos.

[another_liberal]

52. Did you see Beohner's tan line?

During the prayer offered before the luncheon, there was a close-up shot of the minister praying which also gave an even closer-up of the left side of Boehner's face. His skin tone goes from fish-belly-white to fully tanned about half an inch in front of his ear.

[bluestate10]

54. Look like the Speaker was making a guy joke to the President. nt

[WhoIsNumberNone]

56. I think somebody should add this to their signature line

Any volunteers?

[Skraxx]

57. Looks Like the Last Word Is "Wife"

Anyone better at lip reading than me?

Looks like hes' saying "<something something something> your wife..."

Funny clip though! You can tell she can't stand him, that gap between them is, I'm sure, intentional.

[fadedrose]

59. I love you Michelle . . .

[fadedrose]

60. GREAT CATCH!!! NT

[Berlum]

61. Must one endure these RepubliWankers and their unbridled FAIL?

Really now.

[lumberjack_jeff]

63. The problem with nonverbal communication.

Politicians learn to smile nicely while saying "go fuck yourself". The cameras don't pick that up so easily.

[bullwinkle428]

66. I'm guessing "Fox & Friends" heads have already exploded over this one!

Murdoch directive : CRANK POUTRAGE METER TO ELEVEN!!

[skeewee08]

67. LOL...Love It!!!!!

[xxxsdesdexxx]

68. Here's what I think was said

Speaker Boehner: "I like the first lady's butt"
Michelle Obama: 'Rolling eyes'
President Obama: "I do too"

[SunSeeker]

70. Well that would explain why Boehner's wife looks so unhappy.

[DallasNE]

71. The President's Reaction Was To Laugh

Was this a "boys will be boys" kind of joke? One has to wonder how off-colored Boehner's comment was and whether it was suitable for mixed company given the reaction.

[ChrissyB]

74. Seriously we don't know

Why do we assume the Obama's care for the entertainment? These guys play golf together and may have
formed one of those "your people/my people" relationships. I don't care for Boehner either, but he could have
said something so totally different than the expected. I'm hoping they were seeing the same thing, and shared the
same sense of humor, cause Lord knows things have to change.

[stuntcat]

77. to me it looks like she was responding WITH him, not to him

he made Obama laugh, and it looks like she was just reacting to what they were BOTH saying.

I'm sorry but all this eye-roll stuff if offensive to say about her. She's not the kind of person who would make that face about the person sitting next to her.
It should be clear she was doing it to what they were discussing, anything else is very un-1st-ladylike.

[DirkGently]

81. Priceless.

[FailureToCommunicate]

82. Michelle is a good sport. After all SOMEbody had to be seated next to Boehner.

[Crowman1979]

86. The first lady is reacting to another one of Boner's sobbing routines.

Seriously, the bastard is crying again!

There's also the whiskey breath as well.

[Odin2005]

87. Looks Michelle is rolling her eyes at "The Boys".

"Oh, you guys!!!" *roll eyes*

[secondwind]

89. Neither lady like the comment, apparently. Must have been a "guy thing". :-)

[efilon]

90. Love it

I love the first couple but it's bothering me that Michelle has her elbow on the table. LOL. that's the first time I've ever had a critical thought of this lady and I'm sure I'll never have another. The entire first family is beautiful! You can just see the love radiating between all of them.

[DaDeacon]

91. Translation: "Bitch Please..."

That's my homegirl...and let me tewll you if you ever Ever EVER get that look from a black woman Stop talking!