Michelle Obama comes under the attack on baseless charge

Ever since Barack Obama enter the White House nine months ago, some of his diehard political opponents seem determined to cause as more trouble for him as they can, sometimes using baseless and fabricated stories.

Now they have turned their attention on First lady Michelle Obama. In recent weeks, a group of conservative critics have used blogs, emails and chat rooms to launch an attack against the first lady accusing her of employing a "massive" staff with tax payers' money.

Of course, this is not the first time that first ladies have been criticized for such indulgences. But the current attack on Mrs Obama seemed mainly harsh given the fact that her staff is in no way bigger than previous first ladies.

As far as Michelle Obama's staff amount being "unprecedented" in modern times, this appears to be factually inaccurate.