Maybe I’ve been reading the wrong news outlets.
“In fact, the portrayals of the first lady as angry, which were dominant early in the 2008 campaign — culminating in a satirical New Yorker cartoon depicting her as a militant black radical — have mostly subsided in the years since. She has assiduously crafted a benign image of herself as the ‘mom in chief,’ adopting non-controversial causes, such as fighting childhood obesity.”