AP Lauds Michelle Obama's 'Superstar Glamor'; Mocks Russian First Lady

NewsBusters ^ | July 6, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

The way the Associated Press is fawning over Michelle Obama and her supposed sense of fashion, you would almost think they were talking about Carla Bruni who really does dress quite elegantly and oozes glamor. To add to this absurdity, the AP also went out of its way to paint the Russian First Lady as frumpy. Um, advice to AP personnel; don't expect the Russians to go out of their way to help you in your stories in that country after that gratuitous slam on the wife of their president. First let us watch the AP's Catrina Stewart act dazzled over the "superstar glamor" of Michelle Obama:

MOSCOW (AP) - Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president.

But the American first lady, who has wowed publics in the U.S. and Europe with her easy elegance and charm, will perhaps face a bigger challenge in winning over a Russian public that has scant respect for women who grab the limelight from their powerful husbands.

[PJ-Comix]

I have the HOTS for someone who really does have "superstar glamor"---Carla Bruni. Is that woman not perfect? She carries herself like an angel.

No wonder Michelle HATES her.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I saw that M.O. “junk-in-da-trunk” photo on Drudge today....

Yipes!!!

[Woebama]

I wouldn’t go to church with my wife wearing the stuff Obama wears . . . her dresses look like you could camp in them.

[Juan Medén]

She got back.

[lilylangtree]

Bleah! m’obozo doesn’t have ANY fashion sense or taste.

[OldDeckHand]

". . . her dresses look like you could camp in them."

A few more years of her husband's economic policies, we may all have to be able to camp in our clothes. She's just getting a utilitarian step up.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

 

[skimbell]

Oh yeah, Huba Hubba?

Do this dog make my azz look big?

[Argus]

Racist condescension masquerading as admiration.

[jakerobins]

Michelle is quoted as saying..."Watch it sucka"..

[Krankor]

[Steel Wolf]

It will be real shame when the last of these old media dinosaurs finally bites the dust. Because I don't know anyone, liberal or conservative, that thinks Michelle Obama is some kind of Jackie Kennedy reincarnate. In fact, I don't really know anyone, liberal or conservative, that doesn't think she looks like a scowling, ill-dressed linebacker. Even big Obama fans I know don't buy this glamour schtick.

How can the media be so out of touch? Or are they really just so married to the razzle dazzle that they've convinced themselves it's true? I guess love truly is blind...

[WakeUpAndVote]

[Carley]

Dressed by the neighborhood dumpster diver.

[maggief]

[Boiling Pots]

You could put that face in dough and make gorilla cookies - Fred G. Sanford

[spectre]

"Honey, does this dress make me look fat?"

"No, Dear"...

sw

[arasina]

To have the media salivating at Michelle Øbama’s so-called chic fashion sense is an inverted-world version of those who watch the pomp parade featuring the emperor with no clothes. I want to laugh, but knowing all those people are blind by choice is somehow very sad.

[paulycy]

Michelle's new Dead White Woman look:

[jakerobins]

LOL.....Loved Red Foxx.....God Bless his smutty old soul...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

"Yes, dear, for the tenth time...that dress makes your butt look huge..."

[Florida native]

Oh yeah, Huba Hubba?

Do this dog make my azz look big?

She's Bertha Butt - gag me wit a shovel.

[skimbell]

Why yes Mrs. obama that is alter wine, why do you ask?

[tflabo]

Russian president's wife, Svetlana Medvedeva, and U.S. president's wife, Michelle Obama, visit Moscow Kremlin's museums

[maggief]

[Miss Behave]

Those armpit-belts make her already long arms look seriously freakishly long—which in turn makes her look like hulking, lurching man. PLEASE someone around her TELL her.

[VeniVidiVici]

A bustle in her hedgerow?

[Miss Behave]

OMG she’s looking at the GROUND.

[cousair]

The only frumpy one on the front page of Drudge this am. was Michelle my Belle Obama, who looked like the last petunia of summer in her flower splashed frock and yellow coverup walking along leading her husband into the frey. She wowed them in London too, and I am sure the wherever and whenever bare arms are big in fashion on the national stage. Not all women of color have such a fashion touch though...take Condi Rice for example...never ever was there more of a class act...both on stage and off. Her clothes and person were always classic beauty!

[LA Woman3]

No belt in the last pic??

[Gator113]

Isn’t that one of Rev Wrights outfits?

They made him look thinner.

[tflabo]

All my womens lookins smokin’ hot when brotha hereya takes da eyeglasses off and dims da lights!

[maggief]

She’s not looking too “proud.”

[dandiegirl]

Why does she wear evening wear during the day?

[Tax-chick]

Pretty color, for a change, but there’s that stupid clear plastic belt again, and the nightgown neckline. Sheewt, the woman must be blind.

[Gator113]

When she walks backwards, does she beep like a delivery truck?

If she gains just 10 more pounds, Obama is going to give her trunk it’s own Zip code.

[Shyla]

I am not a hot bag for a long shot.

I know how to dress.

She is a freak.

Not first lady material by a loooong shot.

Whatever happened to nice, cut suits???

[Tax-chick]

Mrs. Medvedeva, while stout and plain, looks elegantly appropriate to the occasion. Mrs. Obama, as always, looks like she picked up random garments from the closet floor in the dark.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Circus must be in town!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Her outfit is not horrible except for the belt.

Is she preggers?

[varon]

I saw that M.O. “junk-in-da-trunk” photo on Drudge today....

I saw it as well and it confirmed what I had thought when seeing pictures of her in slacks; she has legs and thighs that would make a sumo wrestler proud.

[tflabo]

Agreed... it’s not to overly criticize MO but the styles and colors just don’t fit the occasion nor look appropriate for a first lady as she visits another nation! Wear that red grapefruit color to a cocktail party instead! Just MHO!

[maggief]

“Circus must be in town!”

... or the Clampetts.

[cschroe]

Why yes Mrs. obama that is alter wine, why do you ask?

Because she was hoping it was some Mad Dog 20/20? Night Train?

[Tax-chick]

She’s looked just like that for a year. We humans don’t gestate that long ...

[Dallas59]

[Tax-chick]

It’s a pretty color - I’d look great in it. Even Michelle doesn’t look bad, except for the idiotic belt. But the whole outfit is just *wrong* for her position and the event.

[OldEagle]

Folks, I am not an Obama fan. Michelle is not purely ugly at all. If someone would dress and accessorize her for the world stage she would dress out OK.

[McLynnan]

Why does she wear evening wear during the day?

That was my thought. This coral number looks like something the mother of the bride would wear to a candlelight ceremony.