It never ceases to amaze me how lefties project their own faults onto conservatives.  So, Michelle Obama doing so doesn’t surprise me all that much (as reported by the Wall Street Journal):

By choosing Fort Bragg for her first official trip outside the capital last Thursday, Michelle Obama signaled that she will use her position as First Lady to promote one of America’s most deserving causes: our military families. Plainly the families loved it. Just look at the smiles on those children as she read them “The Cat in the Hat.”

So it was just a little disconcerting the next morning to hear the First Lady explain how she came to this issue during last year’s campaign. “I think I was like most Americans,” she told ABC News. “Pretty oblivious to the life of military families. Sort of taking it for granted.”

Perhaps Mrs. Obama did take these families for granted. Surely, however, it’s extraordinary to suggest that “most Americans” did the same. Certainly not the McCains, the Bidens and the Palins, each of whom had at least one son in uniform. More to the point, the presidential campaign in which she says the issue started “taking shape” for her came nearly seven years into a war that has inspired millions across America to step forward to help our troops.

But, the writer notes, this is just part of a larger, more disturbing trend:

If the ABC interview was a one-off thing, it would be easy to overlook. But these days the reporting seems to reflect an assumption that if the Obamas haven’t done something, nobody else has, either. Certainly the Washington Post did not challenge the First Lady’s social secretary when she said, “one idea Michelle had was to have an event for military families — here they are sacrificing so much for the country and many of them probably have never been invited to the White House.

Until now, I had been pleasantly surprised by how little we’d heard from this First Lady.  I hope she recedes somewhat.  I’d prefer she be a wallflower if coverage of her is going to be as dishonest as the WSJ writer so accurately characterizes it.

The limit of fair use is the only reason I’m not quoting more of the piece.  It is well worth your while, especially for comparing the graciousness of Laura Bush to Michelle Obama.

H/T: Gateway Pundit.