White House removed the incident from transcripts, would not air the video

Jun 6, 2013 08:52 GMT  ·  By

The other day, during a speech at a private fundraiser, First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama was interrupted by a female heckler who kept asking her why the President would not sign an executive order that would protect the LGBT community.

The White House removed all traces of the incident from the transcript of the speech and made sure that no videos got out online.

However, as these things go, these days, everyone has a cell phone camera and the willingness to whip it out when something out of the ordinary happens. The same applied here, as the video below, obtained by CNN, confirms.

The heckler, Ellen Sturtz, later said that Mrs. Obama got “within a few inches – in my face,” and the video confirms that, indeed, the First Lady most definitely lost her cool for a brief second.

The White House is saying she handled the interruption “brilliantly.” What do you say?