Turns Out Karma is Quite a Bi-otch, Too

The GOP staffer who posted a highly critical Facebook post about President Obama’s two teenaged daughters last week resigned Monday, the only logical result of one of the more notorious social media faux pas in recent memory.

Elizabeth Lauten told NBC News that her resignation was in the works, this less than a week after the communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) penned as intemperate and meanspirited a critique of the children of a sitting president as seen since Rush Limbaugh likened Chelsea Clinton to a “dog.”

Lauten, attacking in a fashion that would have made the Klan weep with joy, verbally shredded Sasha and Malia Obama for everything from their clothing choices, facial expressions and posture. Why? She did not care for the way the two girls -- like the nation as a whole-- squirmed through the annual “you’ve got to be kidding me” ceremony in which The President pardons a turkey on Thanksgiving Eve.

Seriously?

Perhaps if Lauten had approached the subject in tongue-in-cheek fashion as did many in the media, she might have flown under the radar and lived to snark another day. They’re kids. Dad’s corny. The turkeys are gross-looking. Photo ops wreak. Honestly, we get it.

Lauten chose not to see the humor when the First Family’s generation gap was showing. Instead she attacked, the daughters, the father, the mother. Talk about a hissy-fit. Lauten seemed angrier about Turkey-pardoning etiquette than Turkey-Iraqi unrest. So she skewered two kids - a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, even Forbes noticed. None were kind. Most notably Forbes snapped not only at the original post, but what eventually followed -- a weak, even cynical, attempt at an apology. Lauten prayed for hours, she would write in a follow-up post, aligning herself with the aggrieved by saying she would not have wanted to be treated the way she treated the Obama girls.

Well, gee, who’s the victim, now? Why it’s the woman who was so obviously raised right (in her eyes), went so wrong in  that one fleeting moment.

Forbes nailed it when it accused Lauten of trotting out the classic social media non-apology apology, the rope-a-dope in which you never actually say you’re sorry to the people you’ve slimed. If you felt wounded, Lauten basically said, then consider yourself on the receiving end of a “my bad.” If you didn’t care one way or the other, well, never mind ...

Alas, all that sanctimonious talk of consulting with her inner awkward teenager and being scolded by her parents went for naught. Lauten is out. For now.

If she plays her cards right, Lauten could continue her 15 minutes of fame. Faster than you can spell FOX, she could become the star of televised conspiracy-theory think tanks. Because maybe, just maybe, the one self-appointed good girl in this silly saga was actually tricked into falling on her face on Facebook by those bad, bad, bad Obama girls.