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Honesty: The First Lady
In this case, what clearly discredits almost every single word of this piece is the silly hand gesture story that CNN published a day ago. In this article, the main purpose was to show how the First Lady didn’t want the president to touch her hand when they meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at Ben Gurion International Airport Monday morning.

In fact, liberal media has published some other stories of this kind, criticizing the First Lady because of these gestures, and even making a lot of conjectures of how her physical language proves that she has a bad relationship with the president. However, she's now been criticized for having a different attitude, and the new discourse is that she represents women submitting


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