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Jenna Bush, Engaged in a Tricky Role
Washington Post ^ | Sunday, August 26, 2007 | Robin Givhan

Posted on 08/31/2007 7:11:30 AM PDT by presidio9

Do not be fooled by Jenna Bush.

She has wrapped herself in the golden glow of celebrity. But she is something else entirely.

For almost seven years, the blond Bush twin has reveled in the trappings associated with Hollywood starlets -- from wearing made-to-order designer clothes to smiling brightly from the glossy pages of a Vogue photo spread. She has walked red carpets and swanned past velvet ropes. Like so many celebrities, she has taken on a cause -- education -- and is using her fame to stir interest and attract media attention to an upcoming book tour. She has indulged in the kind of naughty behavior that paints her as human but not necessarily in need of an intervention. As she said onstage at the 2004 Republican convention, in a scripted introduction of her mother that had all the awkward, self-deprecating humor of an Oscar segue: She and her twin, Barbara, had misbehaved when they were "young and irresponsible." Who couldn't relate to that?

Jenna even had a moment of public exasperation with the media -- her own version of a modest paparazzi meltdown. She stuck her tongue out at the press corps from behind the gray windows of the presidential limousine while campaigning with her father.

-SNIP-

Some presidential children seemed perfectly suited to the job of symbol. The image of Chelsea Clinton walking hand in hand with her parents toward a waiting helicopter, symbolically bridging the divide caused by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is a part of history. But from the beginning, Jenna struggled with the demands of presidential symbolism. She wore a cherry-red camisole onstage when her father celebrated his reelection in 2004, prompting questions about whether first daughters should wear lingerie-like clothing on such public occasions.

-SNIP-

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KEYWORDS: bushfamily; bushtwins; celebrity; hitpiece; jennabush; trialbymedia; zogbyism
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1 posted on 08/31/2007 7:11:31 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
What a hit piece.. she stuck her tongue out at reporters and she drank underage..
2 posted on 08/31/2007 7:14:14 AM PDT by mnehrling (If there's one thing that makes me sick, it's when someone tries to hide behind politics- JoeyRamone)
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To: presidio9

B.D.S. carries on into the next generation. What a silly aritcle.


3 posted on 08/31/2007 7:15:12 AM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: presidio9
jealous robin givhan

4 posted on 08/31/2007 7:15:55 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: presidio9

Isn’t this the same bimbo who wrote the snarky piece abot Cheney in the parka?
She needs to get a life.


5 posted on 08/31/2007 7:16:21 AM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: presidio9
Some presidential children seemed perfectly suited to the job of symbol. The image of Chelsea Clinton walking hand in hand with her parents toward a waiting helicopter, symbolically bridging the divide caused by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is a part of history.

That ain't a "symbol" at all . . . it's a propaganda tool.

I wonder if even 10% of the people in government these days -- including their families -- would fit any outside-the-Beltway definition of "normal."

6 posted on 08/31/2007 7:17:15 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: mnehrling

Why, oh why, can’t she more like the beautiful, talented, and oh so well behaved Chelsea Clinton? Not only was Chelsea the rock that held the first family together, but also, in our nation’s darkest hour, there she was in the thick of things at the WTC.


7 posted on 08/31/2007 7:17:44 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

What absolute drivel.....(sigh)


8 posted on 08/31/2007 7:17:46 AM PDT by penelopesire
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To: acapesket

This woman was “The Player of the Week” on Fox News Sunday a few weeks ago.....and yeah, she was the one sniping at Cheney.


9 posted on 08/31/2007 7:18:39 AM PDT by trimom
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To: presidio9

I celebrate Jenna’s spirit. What do they want - some kind of cardboard kid who robotically does everything expected?


10 posted on 08/31/2007 7:19:16 AM PDT by Bookwoman
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To: presidio9

What a steaming pile this article is..


11 posted on 08/31/2007 7:20:07 AM PDT by cardinal4 (http://artoriuscastus.blogspot.com/)
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To: presidio9
A lesson in hit reporting, right out of Atlas Shrugged:

She has indulged in the kind of naughty behavior that paints her as human but not necessarily in need of an intervention.

Make sure it's vague and unnamed. Then every reader can make up his own horror story in his mind.

12 posted on 08/31/2007 7:20:08 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: mnehrling

She’s green with envy and probably green with mold!


13 posted on 08/31/2007 7:20:39 AM PDT by Tolkien (There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: penelopesire

hat is why the paper is dying


14 posted on 08/31/2007 7:21:17 AM PDT by colonialhk (Power and Money,the new mantra of the left!)
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To: presidio9

Where’s the GAG alert? WP = vomit


15 posted on 08/31/2007 7:22:34 AM PDT by RicocheT
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To: acapesket

“Isn’t this the same bimbo who wrote the snarky piece about Cheney in the parka?”

And about Hillary’s cleavage.


16 posted on 08/31/2007 7:23:46 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: presidio9

The only good thing about a Robin Givhan WaPo article are the abusive letters-to-the-editor the next day bashing the author for having no life.


17 posted on 08/31/2007 7:25:14 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: acapesket

-she wrote the hit piece on Katherine Harris’s lipstick......if I remember correctly.


18 posted on 08/31/2007 7:28:01 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Alberta's Child

“it’s a propaganda tool”

“Crapaganda” is a more fitting word....;-D


19 posted on 08/31/2007 7:31:50 AM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
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To: presidio9

Baffling people like her get paid for dribble like this.


20 posted on 08/31/2007 7:34:45 AM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: presidio9
the blond Bush twin

Jealousy, anyone? Not to get snarky, but the author has an odd hairline.. Not that there's anyuthing wrong with that, of course.

21 posted on 08/31/2007 7:41:31 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: presidio9
What a waste of paper!
22 posted on 08/31/2007 7:44:38 AM PDT by McGruff (If I can't have Cheney, Fred will have to do.)
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To: presidio9
Holy cr#p...you should read the comments about the article.

I don't know why anybody would want to be President. The libs HATE her because she's "rich, drunk, silly, going to get a big wedding, has no talent, living off her name, didn't enlist and isn't patrolling Baghdad...etc"

It must suck to hate somebody that much....I guess I hated Clinton and what he did, so I can understand. Wow, it seems silly to look at the comments, however. I hope I never sounded like that.

weird...

23 posted on 08/31/2007 7:44:52 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: presidio9

Does anybody have the picture of the modest, always well-behaved Chelsea setting an example of proper public behavior? She’s at some sports event and her boyfried is nuzzling her neck. Chelsea’s nipples are raised at attention and saluting the world under her thin t-shirt. What a paragon of good behavior for a president’s daughter.


24 posted on 08/31/2007 7:51:11 AM PDT by kitkat (I refuse to let the DUers chase me off FR.)
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To: presidio9
She wore a cherry-red camisole onstage when her father celebrated his reelection in 2004, prompting questions about whether first daughters should wear lingerie-like clothing on such public occasions.

Did the author have any complaints about John Kerry's daughter showing up somewhere (Cannes film festival?) in the see-through dress?

25 posted on 08/31/2007 7:51:49 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Nonstatist

“the blond Bush twin

Jealousy, anyone?”

Don’t get me started. People will call me names but I believe a great deal of racial friction stems from just that.


26 posted on 08/31/2007 7:52:32 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: presidio9
PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE

RULES...PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!


27 posted on 08/31/2007 7:56:06 AM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: peggybac
Baffling people like her get paid for dribble like this.

Drivel is the word you are looking for, I think.

/language police

:^)

28 posted on 08/31/2007 7:56:09 AM PDT by Disambiguator (What's the temperature, Albert?)
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To: kitkat

Actually I thought you meant the photo of a bleep faced Chelsea Clinton stumbling out of a bar.


29 posted on 08/31/2007 7:56:16 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: kitkat

One of the tabloids, either here or in London, ran of photos of Chelsea Clinton falling down drunk in a London club and sprawling with her crotch exposed in the backseat of a cab her boyfriend managed to pour her into.


30 posted on 08/31/2007 8:06:32 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Disambiguator
Fellow (self-appointed) "language policewoman" here....in this case, however, dribble might apply. When one foams at the mouth, I imagine it DOES dribble a bit! ;o)
31 posted on 08/31/2007 8:12:03 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (I practice Calorie Offset Trading: I eat a candy bar then pay my kid $10 to run around the block)
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To: presidio9
One must wonder why Ms. Givhans never mentioned the 9 months that Jenna Bush spent in Panama with UNICEF or the book she wrote promoting HIV awareness.

Never mind, that doesn't fit the agenda of leftists attempting to paint a negative about Jenna Bush or anyone in the Bush Administration.

Chelsea, on the other hand, is a good girl. She did photo ops with Mommy and Daddy even while knowing Daddy lied, cheated and made of fool of Mommy and her. And we know Chelsea didn't stick her tongue out at the press. She was only rude to the Military Personnel in the White House.

32 posted on 08/31/2007 8:14:31 AM PDT by Jen's Mom (Liberals are the enemy within)
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To: presidio9
Contrast this story to the charming little bon mot from UPI for Chelsea Clinton:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889363/posts

The MSM is determined to crown the ugly witch, HClinton as POTUS.

33 posted on 08/31/2007 8:16:56 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Drivel is the written equivalent of raw sewage, which this article resembles. Another useful word for written junk is “twaddle”, which I believe was invented by Charlotte Mason.


34 posted on 08/31/2007 8:18:59 AM PDT by Disambiguator (What's the temperature, Albert?)
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>>She has indulged in the kind of naughty behavior that paints her as human but not necessarily in need of an intervention.<<

This has to be one of the most unnecessary statements ever.
The only point is to reinforce the premise that Jenna is a “bad girl”, when in fact, she is quite a lovely girl.
This entire article is total cr@p.

35 posted on 08/31/2007 8:20:05 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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36 posted on 08/31/2007 8:23:18 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Alberta's Child
I wonder if even 10% of the people in government these days -- including their families -- would fit any outside-the-Beltway definition of "normal."

Let's find out; TERM LIMIT THE BA$+ARD$!

37 posted on 08/31/2007 8:31:39 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
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To: jaydubya2

Ick. I need to pour alcohol in my eyes now.


38 posted on 08/31/2007 8:40:04 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: Nonstatist

That’s where they add the sawdust to this bimbo reporter’s brain. She is a feckless weirdo.


39 posted on 08/31/2007 8:45:44 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: presidio9

Where’s the barf alert?


40 posted on 08/31/2007 8:47:56 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: mountn man

That is a stunning photo! Excellent post.


41 posted on 08/31/2007 8:49:34 AM PDT by Et in Arcadia Ego
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To: evets

Wow, that picture explains why this woman is so vicious towards ANY WOMAN thats attractive.


42 posted on 08/31/2007 8:51:32 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: mountn man

Jealousy, it’s that simple.


43 posted on 08/31/2007 8:51:53 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: trimom

This woman was “The Player of the Week” on Fox News Sunday a few weeks ago.....and yeah, she was the one sniping at Cheney.

I usually watch Fox News Sunday, up til the ‘Power Player of the Week’ which I’ve always found to be absurd, boring, and vapid.


44 posted on 08/31/2007 8:53:04 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: presidio9

Personally I think all three should be left alone. Yes Chelsea, Jenna and Barabra. They were not voted President and should be allowed to live they way they want too.


45 posted on 08/31/2007 8:54:40 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: presidio9

The image of Chelsea Clinton walking hand in hand with her parents toward a waiting helicopter, symbolically bridging the divide CAUSED BY THE MONICA LEWINSKY SCANDAL is a part of history.

Should read “caused by the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky love scandal!!!! Her father chose to participate in it not just monica alone.


46 posted on 08/31/2007 8:56:00 AM PDT by cubreporter ( Rush has done more for our country from where he sits than anyone will ever know.)
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To: presidio9

So what Robin????? Jealous????


47 posted on 08/31/2007 8:56:44 AM PDT by cubreporter ( Rush has done more for our country from where he sits than anyone will ever know.)
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To: presidio9

That is so biased it is not even funny!


48 posted on 08/31/2007 8:56:44 AM PDT by JFC
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To: presidio9

A catty attack. Having just come from a thread defending Chelsea Clinton, I’ll repeat it here. Jenna and Barbara Bush did not choose their parents. They should not be attacked like this until and unless they step into the political arena themselves.


49 posted on 08/31/2007 9:06:37 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Thompson for President: 2008, 2012: Jindal for President 2016, 2020)
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To: presidio9
Some presidential children seemed perfectly suited to the job of symbol. The image of Chelsea Clinton walking hand in hand with her parents toward a waiting helicopter, symbolically bridging the divide caused by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is a part of history.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Echoes of Jennings' 9-11 taunt "Some presidents do this sort of thing well, while others (rolls eyes) do not".

50 posted on 08/31/2007 9:17:17 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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