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Slow News Day?
Fox and Friends are on it!
White House chief florist resigns – wilted under pressure from first lady?
The sudden departure of the longtime White House florist has the scent of scandal.
The official story is that Chief Florist Laura Dowling simply left her position earlier this year.
But a source familiar with the situation confirmed to Fox News that she "resigned." Reportedly, she was even escorted from the building -- and this was preceded by a clash over aesthetics with first lady Michelle Obama.
The Washington Post first reported on the fresh-cut drama earlier this week, with a source telling the newspaper Dowling was escorted out on Feb. 13 after nearly six years on the job.
Sources told the Post her "fussy style" clashed with Michelle Obama's more modern approach to White House decor.
Dowling's style "is just different," one floral designer told the Post. "I'm not sure if it was right for the White House."
Reportedly, the first lady debuted a more modern Old Family dining room just three days before Dowling left.
Reached for comment, the first lady's office praised Dowling's work without speaking to the circumstances of her departure.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Slow News Day?
I'll put this in the "Who gives a Rip?" folder section of my filing cabinet.
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Re: Slow News Day?
Fox News Alert! Just one more incident in this scandal plagued administration that is the Obama White House.
A highly placed White House insider confidential source who asked for anonymity to protect themselves from administrative repercussions told us that Ms. Dowling was physically forced out of the door due to her refusing to eat wilting flowers as part of Michelle Obama's misguided and tyrannical obsession with her healthy foods agenda. The source relayed one incident where the First Lady screamed angrily at tearful Dowling, "you are wrong and stupid if you deny that tulip petals and marigold leaves are delicious components of a healthy salad".
"Nuts" declared Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow. "Definitely nuts" when he analyzed the first lady's outburst. Megyn Kelly will have more on the outrage over the flower lady's abrupt dismissal at 9:00 tonight followed by ad nauseum repetition of the story for the next 48 hours.
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Re: Slow News Day?
Should be a new Republican House investigation on this any day now ! 
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Re: Slow News Day?
Rongone wrote:
Fox News Alert! Just one more incident in this scandal plagued administration that is the Obama White House.
A highly placed White House insider confidential source who asked for anonymity to protect themselves from administrative repercussions told us that Ms. Dowling was physically forced out of the door due to her refusing to eat wilting flowers as part of Michelle Obama's misguided and tyrannical obsession with her healthy foods agenda. The source relayed one incident where the First Lady screamed angrily at tearful Dowling, "you are wrong and stupid if you deny that tulip petals and marigold leaves are delicious components of a healthy salad".
"Nuts" declared Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow. "Definitely nuts" when he analyzed the first lady's outburst. Megyn Kelly will have more on the outrage over the flower lady's abrupt dismissal at 9:00 tonight followed by ad nauseum repetition of the story for the next 48 hours.
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Re: Slow News Day?
Florist is a paid position at the White House?
How the hell did this get past congress?
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Re: Slow News Day?
Fox News Alert! Just one more incident in this scandal plagued administration that is the Obama White House.
A highly placed White House insider confidential source who asked for anonymity to protect themselves from administrative repercussions told us that Ms. Dowling was physically forced out of the door due to her refusing to eat wilting flowers as part of Michelle Obama's misguided and tyrannical obsession with her healthy foods agenda. The source relayed one incident where the First Lady screamed angrily at tearful Dowling, "you are wrong and stupid if you deny that tulip petals and marigold leaves are delicious components of a healthy salad".
"Nuts" declared Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow. "Definitely nuts" when he analyzed the first lady's outburst. Megyn Kelly will have more on the outrage over the flower lady's abrupt dismissal at 9:00 tonight followed by ad nauseum repetition of the story for the next 48 hours.
Too funny, thanks for the laugh!
If you make yourself miserable trying to make others happy that means everyone is miserable.
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