News analyst, author, and longtime journalist Juan Williams, went on Fox News yesterday and decided that it was appropriate and accurate to refer to Michelle Obama as militant.

WILLIAMS: Well, she’s got to be herself, but I do not think she can go for it all out in terms of this kind of militant anger that she sometimes uses, you know. She can be, it seems, rather cynical or dismissive of people. In fact, I think that’s one of the things she’s going to say tonight is, when she first met Barack Obama, she didn’t think much of this kid who was from Hawaii, although they both were Harvard Law graduates. And so she’s going to say, “You know what? I got to know him, and then I was impressed, and that is how you can get to know him, and you’ll see that there’s real substance to him.” That’s going to — but to come back to her own issues. I don’t think she wants to get anywhere near the race issue, anywhere near the militance issue.

Juan Williams has surely known a handful of militant folks in his day, and I'm also sure not a single one of them acted like Michelle Obama. Maybe he's one of those people who didn't understand that New Yorker cover was supposed to be satire. [JJP]