Sept 17, 2010
Take this however you like.
Do recall how Halperin and Heileman attacked Mrs Edwards, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and others in their book bound blog without directly quoting or naming their sources.
French journalists Michael Darmon and Yves Derai wrote an unauthorized biography of Ms Bruni (Carla and The Ambitious) and in it they attribute a quote to Mrs Obama without naming a source.
Quotes via AOL (who said the story first broke at the Daily Mail)
Ms Bruni allegedly asked Mrs Obama how she liked being first lady and Mrs Obama allegedly responded:
Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!
FLOTUS spokesperson Catherine McCormick-Lelyveld “told ABC News that “the first lady never said that.”
EMMANUEL LENAIN, French Embassy, DC:
Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy distances herself completely from the content of the book ‘Carla and the Ambitious,’ which was not authorized and the authors alone are responsible for its contents. The words attributed to the first lady of the United States were never said.
And that is who ROBERT GIBBS quotes in his tweet. He never denies – he defers.
