Chrystia Freeland on Ann Romney: 'Michelle Obama Gets Bashed If She Wears Expensive Clothes'
As NewsBusters reported, Ann Romney got mercilessly attacked last week for having the unmitigated audacity to wear a $990 shirt on television.
On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, Thomson Reuters' Chrystia Freeland said this was "fair" and "fine" because "Michelle Obama gets bashed if she wears expensive clothes" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Chrystia, what about the other burning issue, the fact that Ann Romney went on CBS this morning and it was noted that she was wearing a $990 shirt. Is it fair for the press to keep bringing this up? OK. They're wealthy. We get it.
CHRYSTIA FREELAND, THOMSON REUTERS: Yes, sure. Sure, it's fair. I mean, Michelle Obama gets bashed if she wears expensive clothes. So, yes, I think that's fine.
Really? I challenge Freeland to show examples of non-conservative media members bashing Mrs. Obama for wearing expensive clothes.
From what I've seen, the first lady gets fawned and gushed over for whatever she puts on.
As for Kurtz, he seemed just "fine" with Freeland's answer and quickly moved on to another subject:
KURTZ: All right. We see the videotape there from CBS. Jonah Goldberg, before we go, in a couple of sentences, tell us the thesis of your book, "The Tyranny of Cliches".
I guess that settled that.
According to CNN's Reliable Sources, it's "fair" and "fine" to attack Mrs. Romney's attire because "Michelle Obama gets bashed if she wears expensive clothes."
So don't be at all surprised when it continues to happen - to Mrs. Romney, of course! - for the next six months.
Nice media analysis there, Howie. You're a real pro.
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"Sure it's fair"
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:42pm.
Anne Romney pays for her clothes....whilst Mooch gets hers for free.
THAT's FAIR!
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Ann Romney has probably been
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:03pm.
Ann Romney has probably been buying her clothes where she does for years.
It's Mrs. Obama "from the south side of Chicago" who went nuts when she got a taste of "high (read: expensive) fashion."
Liberals are better than the rest of us: they not only have standards, they have double standards.
Obama's spending well
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:52pm.
Over a trillion dollars every year in deficit spending that he needs to steal from us, but I am supposed to be upset about a shirt?
Try again libtards!
Actually, Chrystia - if
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:54pm.
Actually, Chrystia - if Mooooooooooooochelle DOES get 'bashed' (and who in the MSM or StateRun Media 'bashes' her, anyway?) - I think it's because she's such a phony and a hypocrit, as well as the fact that she is living like a modern-day Marie Antionette - replete with the attitude - and has spent litterally tens, if not hundreds, of millions of US taxpayer (as well as borrowed and printed) dollars for her own pleasure, comfort, and experience.
I don't know, or care, if Mooooooooooochelle pays for her clothes anyway - but you can be damn sure that she can afford them, and you can also be damn sure that she doesn't shop at WalMart or Target - unless it's for some phony photo-op. To the best of my knowledge, Ann Romney hasn't expected the American public to pay for any of her clothes - including that hideous T-shirt that she wore, which started this whole stupid subject anyway.
The more they criticize Mrs. Romney, the more they humanize her
Submitted by American Delight on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 6:00pm.
Ann Romney looks great in that shirt.
Should she apologize for not letting herself become a walking advertisement for J Crew?
But Mrs. Romney
Submitted by katiejane on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 6:34pm.
isn't whining about how the rest of us live and spend OUR money like MO is.
I did see dings on MO
Submitted by pockets64 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 6:36pm.
Rush made a deal over her flashy and expensive jewelry.
Most people would not know an expensive dress by looking at one on TV unless they were told it is expensive.
If "bashing" means getting
Submitted by forest on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 6:47pm.
If "bashing" means getting tongue bathes for being the most fashionable 1st lady ever and for having great arms, then yeah, Michelle gets "bashed" by the media.
Maybe the problem is Ann has
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:13pm.
Maybe the problem is Ann has ALWAYS been proud of her Country.Or that they actually took a car on vacation and not Air Force 2 on 17 vacations at public expense. Or that Michelle doesn't mean or intend to always be a shameless grifter but "change takes time".
Michelle Obama gets praised by the media for her "fashion sense"
Submitted by OxyCon on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:25pm.
Michelle Obama gets praised by the media for her "fashion sense". There's never any mention about the price of her lavish, ill-chosen clothes in the media. The only place Michelle Obama gets criticized for wearing expensive clothes is on a handful of blogs and twitter, and that only happens when she wears $500.00 sneakers to a homeless shelter.
The media on the other hand explicitly launched an attack on the cost of Ann Romney's clothing, going so far as to warn her to wear cheap, off the rack clothes, lest she be attacked again.
TAKE A LOOK, CHRYSTIA
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:39pm.
WANT TO SEE HOW MICHELLE DRESSES FOR A PUBLIC OCCASION? CHECK REUTERS AND SEE WHAT SHE WORE TO THE KID'S CHOICE AWARDS...FINE FOR 7TH AVE/NYC...BUT AS A PRESENTER IN A CHILDREN'S AWARDS CEREMONY??!!/..'NUFF SAID.
PREVIEW:
Michelle Obama Wows in Sparkly Top, Skin-Tight Jeans
And the skin tight jeans were
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:43pm.
And the skin tight jeans were enough to make me consider going gay.........................briefly!!! I just needed someone to poke a stick into my mind's eye!!!
Alternative solution
Submitted by BuffNBone on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:55pm.
There's always eye bleach but you might have to buy it by the case.
➚ Imagine if you will . . .
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:07pm.
You're a fashion designer . . . Michelle Obama wants her body adorned with your creations.
Likely your product will go the path of Nancy Peloisi's book.
Ann vs Moooochelle
Submitted by NVRAT on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:15pm.
Ann Romney is easy to look at regardless of what she wears. MOOOOCHELLE on the other hand want`s to make you throw-up weather it`s a $900 blouse/shirt or a $2,500 dress she still looks like she was born and raised in a circus. That`s the difference between class and, well you know what I mean. I think the comparison is that Moooochelle is trying to make everybody believe that she is a common person and shops at Target when in reality everybody known where she shops. That`s why Mooochelle gets bashed when she wears expensive clothing.
I don't think
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 11:28pm.
I don't think Mooooooooochelle even cut it with the African women on one of her many vacations - either on the dance floor or in a fashion sense.
If Anne Romney wants to
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 11:51pm.
If Ann Romney wants to foolishly spend $990 of her own money on a freakin' tee shirt, that's her business, not mine. If the media deliberately slobbers over Michelle Obama's "wonderful fashion sense" as part of their dishonest pandering efforts to boost the Obamas in their political efforts, then it becomes our business.
Moochelle does NOT get bashed
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 11:20pm.
Moochelle does NOT get bashed for wearing expensive clothes. No.
She gets bashed because some limp-wristed designer decides to paint her up like the north end of a southbound mandrill, dress her like a Bulgarian peasant, and parade her around as the height of all womanhood.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
In the 2008 Presidential election, I don't recall the Left
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 4:23am.
criticizing Gov. Sarah Palin for her wardrobe. Oooops! Nevermind!
Michelle
Submitted by alberta43 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:06am.
Michelle's wardrobe gets bashed not because of the price, but because they look like they came from a low cost second hand store. A fashionable dresser she is not. All of her clothing looks cheap.
In my darkest
Submitted by bobsmom on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:49am.
moments, I have remade the movie "Carrie" in my head. With the FLOTUS playing the Sissy Spacek part, and the fashion designers playing the Nancy Allen/John Travolta types making her believe she is just the absolute bees knees.........but, rather than the bucket of blood ending, it's the two of them being ushered out of the WH, with all of us great unwashed yelling things like "Don't let the screen door hit ya.......Hit the road Jack..........Nah nah nah nah hey hey hey good bye".............and relishing the surprised/hateful looks on their faces when they realize 2/3 of the population never "loved" them at all, just tolerated them.
Hey, one can dream
The main stream media has
Submitted by DaChew on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 11:53am.
The main stream media has never "bashed" Michelle over the cost of her wardrobe - THAT'S THE WHOLE FREAKIN' POINT.
The media was completely immersed in discussion of the "appropriatness" of the cost of Sarah Palin's wardrobe for months during the 2008 election. They never said a thing about Michelle. When the election was over they began to fawn over Michelle's fashion sense, never once questioning the cost of her clothing. That hypocrisy began to be pointed out by conservative comentators. Nobody in the main stream media ever questioned the appropriateness of Michelle's wardrobe. Now, they're back to bashing the conservative and acting as if they're being balanced because somebody, not them, pointed out Michelle's clothes.
They are just the biggest liars.
Moosechelle Spends a Fortune (Of YOUR Money), But
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 1:38pm.
She still looks like she is shopping at Target.
That is the ultimate insult.
Must I hear about her "buff arms and shoulders" too?
We have to suffer the state-run-media (SRM) while they fawn over these two gerbils' stellar level of fitness..."
But Moosie is a bucktooth hag and BarROID is a floppy-earred trogolodyte.
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I think she mispoke
Submitted by ant on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 2:30pm.
She meant to say, "Michelle Obama gets smashed at another bash where she wears expensive clothes."