"Is there a sense, you think potentially, that maybe these families just really want to have their day and not have that full weight of history bearing down on them?"

◼ No Bad News for Michelle: Nets Skip Protest Over First Lady's High School Graduation Speech - Newsbusters

ABC, NBC and CBS routinely offer fawning coverage over Michelle Obama and her role as First Lady. However, a growing protest related to a planned gradation speech in Kansas has been ignored by the networks.

Fox and Friends covered the story on Sunday. Co-anchor Ainsley Earhardt explained, "The five high schools in the district would have a single ceremony, limiting the number of guests that each student can invite." She added, "Students and parents spoke out at a recent school board meeting saying that she might...upstage their big day." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] A Change.org petition has almost 2500 signatures requesting a return to "regular graduation."

On Monday, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough lashed out at the students upset over the First Lady's visit, calling the complaints "asinine" and lecturing them to "keep those concerns to yourself."