Nets: GOP ‘Playing Politics With Children’s Health’; Michelle Obama Is a ‘Gladiator’

‘I will never understand the downside to encouraging people to eat healthy’

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Networks Cheer 'Gladiator' Michelle Obama Combating GOP 'Playing Politics With Children's Health' (NewsBusters)

NBC, ABC, and CBS all hailed First Lady Michelle Obama attacking Republicans for trying to make her draconian school lunch mandate more flexible. At the top of Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed: "Food fight. Michelle Obama as we've rarely heard her before, returning to her campaign by accusing Republicans in Congress of playing politics with children's health."

On ABC's World News, anchor Diane Sawyer cheered the First Lady as "an unlikely gladiator" who "entered an arena" after having "carefully stayed out of the fray." Sawyer gushed at how Obama "came out swinging today about an issue close to her heart."

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