Daily Caller Blames FLOTUS for Pedestrian Deaths
Jason Linkins reports:
As Ashley Halsey III, in the Washington Post,reports:
It is the kind risk teenagers take: darting across six lanes of traffic, paying no mind to the flashing sign warning pedestrians to await the green light.
Wayne Cuffy and his buddies bolted across Landover Road on their way to the mall Tuesday night, a mistake that cost the 15-year-old his life when he stepped in front of a Ford Expedition at Dodge Park Road.
A terrible tragedy, to be sure, one that figures into new statistics from the Governor's Highway Safety Administration, which finds that pedestrian deaths ticked upwards by a teensy 0.4 percent in 2010. And all of those deaths could have been prevented if only Michelle Obama hadn't been encouraging Wayne Cuffy and his buddies to get out there and start exercising, right?
The Daily Caller is pretty sure they have this all figured out, anyway:
Pedestrian deaths increased sharply during the first half of 2010, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). The reason may be First Lady Michelle Obama and her "Let's Move" campaign.
That's right! While an intelligent read of everyone else's reporting on the slight uptick in pedestrian deaths might lead you to conclude that more pedestrians are distracted by their iPods and smart-phones, or that pedestrians are growing more aggressive, The Daily Caller's Amanda Carey is pretty sure that this is all being caused by that time Michelle Obama urged children, "Let's Move!" as though she meant, "Let's move right in front of some moving cars!"
