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Michelle Obama’s recent stop on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was billed as a chat about fashion and her new book, but the segment quickly slid into familiar territory: identity and grievance. She described fashion as “soft power” and explained how she had to manage her image to avoid being painted as the “angry, bitter Black woman” in the public eye. What she presented as vulnerability felt to many like a practiced performance — telling, polished, and politically useful.
Conservatives aren’t buying the victim-act masquerading as introspection, especially from someone who has enjoyed every elite platform America offers. Michelle even insisted that “we bleed red, white, and blue,” while simultaneously rehearsing the same tired narrative that America is quick to distort and demonize her. Hardworking Americans don’t owe the cultural elite admiration for playing both sides — praise when convenient, grievance when useful.
That contradiction didn’t escape conservative commentators who dissected the interview on shows like The Megyn Kelly Show, where guests from RealClearPolitics called out the performative nature of her remarks and questioned the gratitude owed by those who have benefited so much from this country. These aren’t just partisan talking points; they’re observations from mainstream conservative analysts who see a pattern of elite grievance that corrodes national unity. If you tune into the reaction, you’ll hear real Americans asking why our national conversation is dominated by celebrities lecturing the rest of us.
Meanwhile, legacy media predictably gushed over the Obamas, framing every defense as proof of racism and every criticism as proof of bigotry. That media reflex matters — when newsrooms elevate polished grievances, they give cover to a permanent class of professional victims who trade on identity instead of ideas. The result is cultural toxicity: a nation told to divide itself by grievance rather than unite around opportunity and shared values.
This isn’t about silencing anyone’s experience; it’s about rejecting a politics that monetizes resentment and weaponizes identity for power. Conservatives believe in lifting people up through policy, not performance, and in celebrating the freedoms that let someone go from modest roots to global platforms without turning on the country that enabled it. We want leaders who talk about work, family, and common-sense solutions — not another round of grievance theater on late-night TV.
Patriotic Americans should call out condescension and hypocrisy wherever we see it, whether it comes from a politician, a celebrity, or a studio audience laughing at manufactured outrage. We can respect real struggles while refusing to let the grievance industry define our national story. If Michelle Obama’s interview proves anything, it’s that the elites are running the same playbook — and hardworking Americans are rightly tired of playing along.
