Boooooooooooring
Posted on 02/19/2021 4:16:00 AM PST by Kaslin
The liberal-Democrat media celebrated Valentine's Day a traditional way: gushy tributes to the new first lady. On Feb. 12, Jill Biden tweeted on her @FLOTUS Twitter account a photo of herself, with a scrunchie in her hair, at a Washington, D.C., bakery picking up "Valentine's treats for the weekend." "Don't tell Joe," she joked.
Glamour magazine posted an article titled "First Lady Jill Biden Wore a Scrunchie While Shopping and People Felt So Seen." New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller tweeted, "Loving the scrunchie energy."
A Washington Post "PowerPost" headline read, "Scrunchies and dog walking: the country gets a taste of Jill Biden's radical normalcy."
On Twitter, I asked the author of this puffery, Jacqueline Alemany, "What is 'radical normalcy'?" No reply.
Alemany boosted the PR stunt, writing: "Biden's scrunchie that really lit up the Internet. Leave it to a scrunchie to capture the zeitgeist of President Biden's promise to 'return to normalcy,' a stark departure from the 'I don't really care' message sent by Trump."
She'd begun by mocking Melania Trump and the "$51,000 Dolce & Gabbana multicolored floral jacket" she wore in Sicily in 2017.
The most ludicrous line was this: "Jill Biden's laissez-faire approach to her public image and affectionate relationship with her husband may foreshadow a different approach to the traditionally staid and formal office of the first lady."
There is nothing "laissez-faire" in "Dr." Biden's public image. The tweet itself is carefully curated, down to the selection of a black-owned bakery. This is the way the Bidens and the Obamas use social media: to sell themselves as loving and "relatable" people. It's informal poses. It's campaign work. Alemany's article was just more of the sales job.
Alemany turned to her Post colleague Mary Jordan, who authored a negative book on Melania called "The Art of Her Deal": "She'd be unlikely to ever be caught dead in a scrunchie -- 'unless it was Chanel,' Jordan joked." Jordan also crowed that "Melania Trump was the most put together person and Jill comes across as a relatable mom, teacher, wife and woman -- she's relatable in a way that Melania never was."
She echoed that with author Kate Anderson Brower: "Dr. Biden has already been out and about in Washington more publicly than her predecessor was in four years," she boasted. "Biden has had decades of experience being herself in public and she's obviously much more comfortable holding her husband's hand and being a demonstrably loving mother and grandmother when the world is watching. ... I think we need that right now."
Who, precisely, is "we"?
Melania Trump began her tenure as first lady behind the eight ball. First, the liberal media always adores first ladies who are Ivy League-educated lawyers or career educators, not just -- ick -- wives. Second, her beauty was deployed against her: She was seen as "arm candy," a "trophy wife." She resisted any attempt at public affection for the cameras. Comedians mocked their marriage, insisting it was like a prison and that she wanted to claw out of it. She didn't go for magazine cover articles or go "out and about in Washington," for fear of all the poison pens.
The same media outlets who treated the Trumps' marriage as a cynical ongoing negotiation lunged to portray Bill and Hillary Clinton as an inspiring romance, a baby-boomer Belle and the Beast.
The Bidens may be great lovers. But everything at the White House has a large degree of calculation in it. Everyone should know the gushing liberal newspapers and magazines are aggressively engaged in the politics of humanization.
Boooooooooooring
WT H*** is a “scrunchie”?
Rats love to self engrandize when their is nothing there. How about the Nobel peace prize!
It is not me to make moral judgements about people. She is a flaming lib for sure, but I will say this: she never posed nude for magazines in lesbian poses with other women leaving nothing to the imagination. That was very, very disappointing to see and we’d never countenance it toward the wife of a lib socialist president. There’d be no end of it on FR. Just sayin.
He could have been standing next to her when she go them and not remember it 5 minutes later.
go=got
Funny you say you don’t make moral judgments about people, and you really only meant Jill Biden in this case.You made moral judgments about somebody, I’m guessing Melania Trump, very easily. I’m not sure if that’s who you were referring to, but I heard rumors of Melania posing nude. I never checked that out. Maybe you did?
A rubber band-like hair band covered with fabric to tie back long hair in a pony tail......
I have three girls and my wife.....
I’ve seldom seen Melania when she wasn’t smiling and joyous. For some rare people smiling and a positive attitude comes naturally. It has become their natural state of being.
Contrast her with Michelle Obama whose natural state of being was all too often a glare and expressed displeasure.
I have nothing against Jill Biden, but it is going to push credibility when the press tries to push the wondrous persona of her after literally ignoring Melania for the last four years.
I don’t think we’ve had a better First Lady than Melania, and the press low balled her entirely.
WOW - what a fashion statement from Dr. Jill.
Yep....it’s a casual everyday go-to for women with long hair to keep it tied back.....
Not exactly the epitome of fashion.......
Glamor was Melania......
That showed she didn't CARE. So many American women struggling to get by with $7 Walmart purses. It will destroy her place in history as a FLOTUS. If only she had consulted a team of leftist professional virtue signalers first. How could she be so obtuse? How could she not understand the optics? Trump will never get the average American to vote for him in 2020. He is finished.
Didn’t pedojoe recently hire a PR firm?
Propaganda. And the sheep will fall for it and drool all over the doctor AND her scrunchy.
Dr. Mrs. BiteMe is a pedophile-enabling adulteress.
What’s not to love, eh?
She’s a doctor you know....
Many women aspire to own nice handbags.
It’s not about how much it cost.
It’s ABOUT WHO PAID FOR IT.
The Trumps are self-made and pay their own way.
How do the BiteMes afford high end swag on a public servant salary?
Seen the pics. Not good. I’m guessing 15 years ago. Never knew of Jill Biden doing that. Maybe she has baggage. Just being consistent here.
At any rate, I don’t particularly expect that marriage to last. Particularly was the legal trials drag on and on.
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