Despite widespread acclaim for first lady Michelle Obama’s address to the Democratic National Convention on Monday, some conservatives have cherry-picked her mention of the fact that slaves helped build the White House as a point of contention.

The same sentiment was shared when Obama uttered a similar line during a commencement address at City College in New York last month. Her critics have pointed out that technically there were some free black men and white men that contributed to its construction. And one intrepid conservative even tracked down evidence that while MOST of the money the government paid for the construction of the White House went to the slave owners, one slave apparently might have received a sum total of $31 (by today's value) for his efforts. Still, they were probably not happy about it, as pop star Kelly Clarkson recently pointed out to skeptics.

In response to a since-deleted tweet in which the user said "I'm not sure I liked the part where she said the Whitehouse [sic] was built by slaves," Clarkson fired back: "Pretty certain the slaves that built it didn't like it either."

Meanwhile, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bipartisan Poltifact has rated Obama's statement as true. But that hasn’t stopped some people for claiming she shouldn’t have lived in the White House in the first place if its uncomfortable history “bothered” her. And others suggest that she shouldn’t complain since the American public pays her bills.

This is yet another example of Michelle Obama derangement syndrome, which has led her opponents to call her racist for saying “Black Girls Rock!,” her college thesis getting misconstrued as a black nationalist screed, and provoked right wing pundit Ann Coulter to lament that the U.S. has done “enough” to make up for slavery.