Thursday, September 16, 2010

Who ya goin believe? Mrs. Sarkozy...or the Liar-in-chief's Big Mama?...Both Deny? Oh well...

White House, French Embassy deny report that Michelle Obama told Carla Bruni life as First Lady is 'hell'*

September 16, 2010 8:54 AM

Tapper ABC News' Jake Tapper reports:

The White House Thursday afternoon denied an account in a new biography of French First Lady Carla Bruni claiming that U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama told Bruni that life in the White House is “hell.”

“Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!” the biography has Michelle Obama telling Bruni after being asked about life as the wife of the president during a Sarkozy family visit to the White House in March.

A spokeswoman for First Lady Obama, Catherine McCormick-Lelyveld, tells ABC News “the First Lady never said that.”

The account, first reported by London’s Daily Mail, appears in a new book “Carla And The Ambitious,” written by French journalists Michael Darmon and Yves Derai in cooperation with Ms. Bruni.

Emmanuel Lenain, a spokesman for the French Embassy to the US, said, “Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy distances herself completely from the content of the book ‘Carla and the Ambitious’, which was not authorized and the authors alone are responsible for its contents. The words attributed to the First Lady of the United States were never said.”

European media reported that the biography was authorized and Ms. Bruni participcated in its writing. When asked about that, Monsieur Lenain told ABC News, "I don't have all the details, I'll have to get back to you."

-Jake Tapper

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