And now for some hard-hitting reporting on Michelle Obama

I need to stop focusing on Michelle Obama’s relationship with Astroturf Axelrod and her other crony Chicago ties.
I need to stop asking questions about her meddling in the firing of the Americorps inspector general.
No, I’ve got to learn to emulate the hard-hitting MSM and investigate the important issues raised by the First Lady.
Like her shorts.
No, really.
By now, Michelle Obama has firmly established her sartorial right to bare arms. But baring thighs may be another matter.
Photographs of the first lady descending the steps of Air Force One in shorts have the media in a sweat. Some are saying Mrs. Obama— on her way to the Grand Canyon for a family vacation — may have revealed too much skin.
Mrs. Obama is no stranger to public scrutiny over her fashion decisions, including exposing her bare arms or wearing expensive sneakers to a soup kitchen. When Anya Strzemien, style editor at The Huffington Post, saw Obama’s shorts, she knew there would be interest.
“I thought the fact that she wore shorts was newsworthy because she’s the first first lady to wear shorts on Air Force One,” Strzemien said. “I was interested as a newsperson because it was a first. A lot of things the Obamas have done have been firsts.”
She posted a poll for readers to explain what they thought: Most were in favor of the outfit, but others thought the shorts were inappropriate or too short.
She was “interested as a newsperson.”
Reason number 10,997 I had to write Culture of Corruption!!
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My eyes! quick! someone put an apple in the pigs mouth and put her on the spit.
Just for laughs – Major Garrett’s tweet:
@MajoratWH Obama just told OFA he wants to create a “farmer’s market” outside the White House to sell Michelle’s WH garden vegetables. 8/20 4:00 P.M. –
ew, they were grown in sewage.
Michelle:
How about a viewer warning next time…please?
All real news outlets need a “style editor” to comment on “fashion firsts” because such things are so incredibly important.
I don’t care about the amount of skin she showed.
I think she looks classless.
I know women that wouldn’t be caught dead flying on a small airliner looking like that – nonetheless Air Force One.
Whether she likes it or not, she’s representing our country. She needs to decide if she wants to be a positive representation or a negative representation. On this trip, she chose negative.
First, the media was publishing too many pictures of Duh Ones man-boobs!
NOW we’re gonna have too many pictures of Mrs. Duh Ones THUNDER THIGHS!!
Oh how I miss Laura Bush…now there was a class act.
I think Michelle Obama has no respect for anything traditionally American including Airforce One!
What’s with the family vacation in the Grand Canyon? Thought the family vacation was on Martha’s Vinyard?
Bread and Ciruses
Ignore her.
*******Faux News Alert!!!******
First Lady (cough) wears a thong!!!
Special made by Byron the Tent Maker
film at 11:00
I want 100 bucks on 30 pounds since last fall.
no way she has not gained 30 pounds
“For the first time in my adult life, I’m proud of my legs.”
First lady’s contributions of merit…
Betty Ford’s Rehab Center
Nancy Reagan’s Anti-Drug campaign
Hillary…oh, yeah
Michelle Obama…Old Navy ad.
Go figure.
Michelle O, First Drag Queen.
She needs a burka.
Oh the stories you will here one day from the servants who had to wait on her royal thighness aboard AF1
The truth will come out…..
Yeah, she’s doing a bang-up job of lowering the standards set by distinguished women that came before her.
This clueless twit has the fashion sense of a Dollar Store shopper.
On August 21st, 2009 at 9:29 am, corkie said:
I don’t care about the amount of skin she showed.
I think she looks classless.
I know women that wouldn’t be caught dead flying on a small airliner looking like that – nonetheless Air Force One.
Whether she likes it or not, she’s representing our country. She needs to decide if she wants to be a positive representation or a negative representation. On this trip, she chose negative.
THIS.
Chewie in shorts? Not good.
Keeping it real has it’s drawbacks.
It’s like watching a Good Times rerun.
Yup. Exacly right.
“Hey look, everyone. Halley’s Comet!”
This has nothing to do with news. This has to do with the libtard media wanting to change the country’s focus from an honest discussion of an unconstitutional national health care plan, to a fluff piece on Mrs. Bitterman.
Everytime I see these people, they’re running around the country or the world. They don’t represent the country, they represent themselves. It’s been “party time” since January. The Obamas were never qualified to be the “First Family”. At least, they can “try” to act Presidental. You can bet that experienced diplomats from around the world are laughing at every bit of news they see. They need to go back to Chicago. They’re more at home there.
Frankly I could not care less what she wears or if she wears anything. I have no interest in this woman whatsoever. Sorry. However a super-sized baggie might work.
I guess I’m just glad she wasn’t dressed like what I saw at ‘Bike Week’ in Myrtle Beach, SC.
I don’t mean to sound like a schoolteacher…but, that type of comment is what we hear so regularly from the statists/collectivists/socialists/elitists.
It really doesn’t help the conservative cause.
I could have gone all year without that image of Obama in my eyes, Michelle. Please if you are going to post such images in the future send out some kind of warning and an expiration so I will know to stay away until the image runs its course.
Obama did tell us something having “skin in the game”. I’m sure she misunderstood.
I couldn’t care less about this woman. She is what my grandmother used to call “a nobody”. The fact that the MSM tries to make her the new Jackie O is laughable.
Another pig with lipstick.
I miss Laura Bush.
She was originally wearing more appropriate attire, but it got all wee-weed up when they hit some turbulence.
Dude looks like a lady.
Whats next??? 20 yr old rusty caddy,s on blocks on white house lawn……
lol gco – now that was funny.
Sorry Caddy’s………
Not sure what a style flap is unless it’s a style misstep. The story probably would have been better without the photo.
But with the USA TODAY photo, for an August day trip in Arizona it looks like he’s the one who flapped the (as in has no sense of) style.
…A lot of things the Obamas have done have been firsts.”
Quote of the day.
Been there, done that! Yowsers!
OT: I heard Bike Week was pitiful this year. The Mayor and Town Council have really screwed it up.
BOT: When it comes to fashion, Michelle O couldn’t carry Jackie O’s bouffant!
Looks like a gunny sack with two bulldogs fighting.
Michelle Obama is just another elitist thug. She is a disgrace to the nation she hates, and her attitude sucks. Plus, I refuse to buy into the popular notion that she exhibits great fashion and looks.
First, the snarky comment:
When they get done checking the South African runner, maybe they could stop by the white House because I have doubts…
Now,
Where was Barry? Does the first family get to take Air Force One wherever they want also? Frankly, I object to my tax dollars paying for somebody else’s family vacation at a time when I can’t afford one.
Forty axe-handles wide.
I’ve never seen a male Klingon warrior bumbling about publicly in tacky shorts, prior to this.
It’s difficult (if not downright impossible) to think of this devoutly unwished-for addition to my store of memories any material sort of improvement, really.
Next thing you know, she’ll be scrubbing laundry with a washboard and hanging it out to dry on a wash line on the front lawn.
Whether we like it or not, Micky O is the First Lady and she does one hell of a crappy job representing the country. There should be a dress code for AF1, regardless of whether she is on vacation or not. I remember when the press beat up on Laura Bush for looking “frumpy.” One “journalist” said she looked like a small-town librarian. You know what? I liked the way Laura looked everytime I saw her.
Sorry to ask this, but does she even have a bra on?
this is the best argument yet for sharia law in the US and the wearing of burkhas… she looks like a fugitive from a WalMart half off sale.
30 lbs.? Looks about right. When ‘Bambi sends us all off to the reeducation camps he could send this speciman and a couple of his other relatives along too, or are those camps simply for the mouthy unwashed? Maybe a tiny little diet of depriving yourself of arugala and that high-priced beef would be a start.
I wash my car dressed better than that!
And half the country would rather look at that than Sarah Palin? Sheeesh!
And, sad to say, a lot of things the media have done since the Obamas have been in office have been “firsts” – including their making MO’s shorts a news story.
A am all atwitter over Michelles nekid thighs.
No, really. I am. Honestly.
I’m so glad that trashy Sarah Palin didn’t get close to the White House.
You betcha.
/sarc
Shorts on AF1 is probably a lot better than Lyndon Johnson walking around in his underwear. I heard he used to do that, even with his daughters around.
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy had class. This, not so much.
What did I miss? I never saw Thelma in shorts.
pianoman & Rogue—you ain’t seen nuthin’ ’til you see barely-clad booty hanging off the back of a motor-sikkle!
Don’t forget the 8-lb fake gold nefertiti earrings & bright blue false eyelashes! OOooOOooO-WEE!
If MO accidentally put on a t-shirt inside out and photographed in public I have no doubt it would be noted as a bold fashion statement and a tribute to her sense of style. Even worse, next day we would see numerous Obamunists wandering around the malls with t-shirts inside out.
Now THAT’S a mental image I don’t want!
There is such a thing? eeegads!
Coming off Air Force One dressed down is totally classless. Bill Clinton degraded the White House, but this is right up there. For the first time in my life, I’m ashamed of the first lady–if she qualifies for that term.
The Clampetts are in DC… cavorting among their new found riches… but their hearts are of the ghetto moochers…
Granite, you DO sound like a schoolteacher. What I said isn’t statist or elitist, it was a statement of fact regarding Michelle Obama’s lack of fashion sense. Stop by any Dollar Store near you after school and you’ll see I’m right.
What is this, National Geographic?!
Thank God she didn’t opt to wear her spanex “ba-dunk-a-dunk” shorts!
Chris Matthews: “Nope, (feeling around leg) nope, nope, no tingle here! Back to my mancrush!”
Wait ’til they get a gander at the billy-ard table and the cee-ment pond!
Whoo-doggy!
As with her husband Missy Obama knows nothing of class.
I find it interesting that the post was about the MSM commenting on her appearance and not on really important matters, like her personal involvement in corruption, but almost all of the commenters here commented on her appearance.
In a similar vein, comments about Hilary’s African visit were mostly about her appearance, instead of her words and actions. Did anyone comment on what Bill was wearing in North Korea? Was his hair OK?
Not only do people have a People Mag focus, they have an obvious double-standard.
Oh, so they had mudflaps on their bikes?
Channeling Rudy from the Fat Albert show….”Man, you’re like school on Saturday…no class.”
Hey! I’m trying to read here! (Turns back to National Geographic)
Understood.
Perhaps I should better have said that such statements would likely be twisted by the socialist/elitist/etc. media and politicians, to project, in an accusatory fashion, onto conservatives the elitists’ own sneering contempt for folks who do not have their (elitists’) kind of bucks.
BTW, you are absolutely correct about
And nope, not a schoolteacher.
Ewww! Could you imagine HER in those shorts?! Yuck!
Oh, did I miss your point?
That’s why we keep lgm around.
Loved your intros to Red Eye.
The “shorts” story may be less important than the MM scandal stories, but it’s more accurate.
No class. The two of them have absolutely no class.
Surprised she doesn’t have a huge floppy hat and enormous sunglasses and flip-flops. Nice to see they are bringing back the term, “Ugly American”.
Anything else I have to say about her or this issue is not fit to be shown on this site and quite possibly get me banned.
I was just getting used to the blessed silence on the topic of Michelle Obama when my eyes see this. UGH, back to the decontamination chambers. Please waterboard me again, just don’t uncover anything else.
The horror.
The horror.
MO and your fraudulent presidential hubby are disgusting, showing their disdain for America everyday…if not through their hateful words and actions it’s through their irreverent dress…NO RESPECT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY…in turn showing no respect for the country.
Exactly! As for her clothing choices, who cares? The majority of people are partisan drones. They make excuses for people they like and go out of their way to criticize people they don’t.
Someone made a remark about a rusty caddy up on blocks. Since I don’t know the person I can’t say whether it was a lame joke or racist (or both). But I know it was dumb because it helps the left dismiss MM’s readers as racist.
In some situations it can be a badge of honor to be called a racist–such as when MM herself receives that label for reporting on the legal and ethical misdeeds commited by minorities or on behalf of minorities. The caddy remark does not fall into that category.
PS – MO shouldn’t have worn the shorts on AF1, for reasons of protocol and appearance…my eyes!!!
Quick ….get a Fashion Czar! Can’t have the MSM all “wee-weed up”.
Was really shocked to see THE FIRST LADY in shorts… Just one level lower on the SOPHISTICATION LEVEL this WH has brought to the office of POTUS… How sad…
Just like the administration, they don’t get that the World is Watching – or they don’t care.
How many of the Missy Obama Media Mavens are old enough to remember the savaging of “dowdy” Mamie Eisenhower for wearing American clothes and having a local hairdresser do her hair? Jackie Kennedy “doesn’t buy local” and the media mavens wee weed themselves in awe.
Mrs. Eisenhower was 56 when she entered the White House. Wouldn’t she have looked just a little tacky in the French “little black dress”?
But these are the people who mocked Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan and claimed school teachers do not work. It is to be expected. Missy Obama belongs in Chicago.
The picture of her at the bottom of the steps DOES appear to indicate that the AC on Air Force 1 may have been on full-blast….
From a man afraid to back up his assertions…
What a slob.
When asked to comment, White House Press Secretary Gibbs stated, “We’re sorry, but the First Lady misdressed.
What a slob.
Sorry, atheling. Great minds and all that.
Stillwaiting – The context isn’t available but a rusty Cad on blocks surfaces visions of poor Americans without regard to race. One could find an example behind a house in rural Arkansas just as quickly as in a Chicago ghetto. Cadillacs are about being American and thus transcend race.
Zero Grace
Zero Respect
Total Arrogance
Hatred of America
Why did you want this job anyway?
I don’t get it……
the beast wearing shorts on AF1 should not shock anyone, the standards have been lowered to gutter level to accomodate the trash living at the wh now.
This is the most attention she’s had in the media for the past 5 or 6 weeks. She must not be polling well in the focus groups.
The money quote from the last paragraph of the USA Today article:
Granted she’s no Laura Bush, Jackie O or Nancy Reagan, but she is the first Lady and while reading the comments here I thought I was on dkos.
While I agree her fashion sense leaves a bit to be desired, come on guys, a little class. Save your nasty comments for policy/gaffes of the Administration (including Michelle)and the stupidity of the media.
Degrading comments about her (or any other public figure’s) weight, facial features or other physical features should be left to the libtards.
We’re better than that.
Unfortunately, walterc, we’re not.
For women there’s an emphasis on appearance, but that’s not because of us Neanderthal men: most of mainstream TV is aimed toward women and their sensibilities. So much for progress and men keeping women down.
You’re right in some aspect. We delve too easily into cheap comments about her figure or looks,(guilty) but, comments regarding her slovenly appearance with regards to the degradation of the Whitehouse or the Presidency, I think are fair game. That picture indicates a severe lack of care about her current stature and what she represents. She is purportedly the First Lady. She should start dressing like one.