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

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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.

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Following that buildup for Michelle, the AP putdown of the Russian First Lady:

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife Svetlana is pious and discreet and met her husband while she was a schoolgirl. She supports charity and the arts, but has assumed no independent voice on issues facing the country. She dresses conservatively, lacking the edgy fashion sense that has attracted a nationwide following for Michelle Obama.

After that snarky observation, AP returns to viewing Michelle Obama with total awe:

On a recent trip to Paris, she impressed the fashion-conscious French with her chic designer outfits standing side-by-side with the country's former supermodel First Lady Carla Bruni. In Britain, she famously breached palace protocol by putting her arm around Queen Elizabeth II.

And to the AP, the Russian First Lady is simply no match for the "dazzling" Michelle O:

Michelle Obama's fashion sense attracts comparisons with Jacqueline Kennedy, and there is a Web site entirely dedicated to what she wears.

...Svetlana Medvedeva, meanwhile, has flitted between the shadows and the spotlight. She is liked by younger Russians, who follow her appearances at celebrity bashes and her frequent outings - hand in hand - with her husband.

She has acquired a reputation as a tenacious networker who helped restart her husband's career in the mid 1990s, and is said to play an influential role in his career behind the scenes. Trained as an economist, she gave up her own job to look after the couple's only child, born in 1996.

Despite all that, Svetlana barely breaks the mold crafted by so many first ladies in Russia before her.

She largely confines her public observations to carefully rehearsed speeches; she provides sympathetic interviewers with bland comments on womanhood. She dresses conservatively in tailored, pastel-colored outfits.

Your humble correspondent is hardly an expert in women's fashions but he sure knows when he sees true elegance so to keep things in perspective let us now take a look at someone with a real sense of great clothing and how to wear them.

Now that is true elegance and class!!!  Take note, AP.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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Oh puleeze give me a

Oh puleeze give me a break...I can't take anymore of Michelle and her so called fashion sense that she seems to WOW the looney left with.

I wouldn't be caught dead in anything the woman has worn.

You cannot buy class...and Michelle never will attain that.

It's obvious.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

The photo used by Drudge today....

... the one of Michelle Obama in the blue-flowered dress reminded me of Debbie Dunham (the girl Toad picked up) in American Graffiti.

When did high fashion travel back to 1963? 

--

W.C. Green

I don't remember the girl

I don't remember the girl from AG, it's been ages since I've seen it.

But when I saw that picture on Drudge this AM, I thought, Oh, my, gosh, this is what they are calling "glamour" now????

And somebody, quick!  Hide the belts!!

(thanks to Scuba Dude, way down, for the link to a larger photo of the dress.)

That's what I meant the other day when I said she looks like she's hauling a trailer!

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

In other fashion news,

In other fashion news, apparently  J Crew  is using her daughters to advertise their fashions.

 

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Lordy me, mb, did you see the prices on those outfits????!

I wonder how many kids in America are wearing $300 trenchcoats? 

Oh I forgot, hard times are hitting only HARD-WORKING AMERICANS - those people who go about their lives never once considering spending $500 on one outfit for one child!!!!  Believe me, none of my children ever had such! 

Of course, this is the same woman who wore her $500+ ugly tennis shoes to serve the homeless.  And the same woman who said that last year's tax rebate of $600 wouldn't even buy a decent pair of earrings!!! 

I'd rather have that $600 this year than have to watch trillions going down the toilet with ABSOLUTELY NO HELP TO HARD-WORKING AMERICANS!

And, yes, I agree that everyone keeps ignoring that caboose she carries around with her!  Isn't she so chic chic!!!!  Puke!! or as cool would say, VURP! ;-)

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Right Wing Radical Extremist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

CC... Poor ol' Hillary

CC...

Poor ol' Hillary wore pants-suits forever...still does, because of the critics etc...bet she is madder than a Derby Hat.

Poor Bill & Hill...they finally met somebody who is going to out-do them in history...dang it all...now Clinton's name is going to be related to scandal and Impeachment...and they did their best with the illegal $$$ to the Clinton Library and such to change the real story.

Dang...Soros stabbed them in the back...especially Hillary.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

And don't forget this...

Earlier this year, the first lady smacked down the company that makes
Beanie Babies for modeling two new dolls after her daughters: Sweet
Sasha and Marvelous Malia.

"We believe it is inappropriate to use young, private citizens for
marketing purposes," Michelle Obama's spokeswoman said in a statement
at the time, and the company pulled them from the shelves.

I wonder when she will speak out about this..... 

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

OINK

So Michelle is glamourous and "toned" huh?? Look at the woman, she has an ass  like a $40 cow. I mean come on, her ass is 2 ax handles wide. And she has shoulders as big as Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Orlacher. 

Re Big Butts

I wonder if this will affect the look of runway models? Will the fashionistas reject the size fours and demand models with big butts and thighs? Will enormous butts and thighs become the latest fashion must-have? Will the ice-cream companies be rolling in filthy profits?

Re big butts:  she looks

Re big butts:  she looks like she's got an ottoman under there!

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Regarding BFA Michelle

An ottoman!!  That is funny.  Here's the latest picture from Russia with Michelle trying on the new uniforms that Hussein wants for his National Security Force:

http://media1.break....

I wonder if she gets stuck in the WH tub likeTaft used to?  I wonder if they changed the WH toilet seats - to XXXL?  Are there Carhartts that she can fit into for her gardening?  I wonder what advice Sheryl Crow has for the wiping of that Hugh Chass?

I wonder . . . 

nadad,you missed it

you missed it by thisss much:  My grandpa used to say, "2 ax handles and a chaw of tobacco".

Can't forget that chaw...if not for that, she could probably even button those stupid sweaters! 

   Well Michelle does

   Well Michelle does have Hollywood Star looks.

→ Not nice MidAmerica

I think she looks stunning in this photo.

Ahhhh!!! My eyes!!!!!!!!

Ahhhh!!!

My eyes!!!!!!!!

Any

women who dosen't know how to button a sweater shouldn't be considered "fashionable"....stoopid comes to mind though

Hey cool...

  That is quite a jolt...

   But you know she feels good....

Thank you

All the crap we've been subjected to about how Michael influenced so many artists, and your post of the hardest working man in show business brings it home. Without James, MJ would have worked as a busboy in Indiana.

And isn't the guy twirling his trumpet about as cool as you can get? 

Michelle in the morning

Damn, C.A. ---- that pic was therapeutic!

Speaking of our First Lady...

we can file this story under "You can't make this stuff up" or "The US MSM would never print this"

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

The Wooky says

"here kids have some paint chips"

What gets me . . .

Is this AP article was written before the Obamas even left the States.  Catrina already made up her mind Michelle was going to clean the Russian First Lady's clock fashionwise. 

She needs to lose those sloppy looking cardigans, or at least learn how to button them properly, and lose those stupid belts she wears with them.  It's as if she knows she can throw anything on, no matter how crappy looking, and the MSM will still rave about her elegance and chic.  Gimme a break. 

And the photo posted above:  She looks like a pinata--something you want to hit with a stick.     

 

 

k - thanks for the pinata description ;-)

I kept trying to figure out what it reminded me of...definitely a kindergarten level costume!

And I don't know when I've seen a nicer collection of pictures of a woman (Carla Bruni) with such class & style! 

The AP and the rest of the msm can stop their ridiculous ranting and raving over MO anytime - it AIN'T WORKING, folks!  We do have eyes of our own that are not smeared with sticky koolaid!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Right Wing Radical Extremist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

She looks like she went

She looks like she went dumpster-diving behind Goodwill, and looted the stuff that was too ugly to sell. 

"I would rather be historically accurate than politically correct" ~ My husband's T-Shirt

That is a fashion

That is a fashion disaster.  My 6 year old son knew that outfit didn't match, much less look good.  Ahhhhh, I nominate her for TLC's "What Not to Wear"  show.

http://tlc.discovery...

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan

"What Not to Wear"

Or "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy".... is that show even on anymore? (sorry -- killed my TV ~10 yrs ago)

fashion queen...

as Dennis Miller says, "that's a long day"

 

 

Fashion Sense? 

Fashion Sense?  Glamorous?  Not according to this Pic.  Lookit the junk in that trunk!!!!!

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

No Class...All

No Class...All A$$.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Somebody

Sprayed that pumpkin with too much Miracle-Gro! 

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - General George Patton Jr

Pg... Now that is

Pg...

Now that is funny!

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Why does France get to have

Why does France get to have a "Carla Bruni" and we get stuck with Michele Obama?

karma

Because France elected Nicolas Sarkozy and we elected Chairman Obongo.

Must these insipid...

"journalists" continue to inflict their inane, slobbering "Obama-love" blather on us all? Michelle Obama as a fashion icon??? I really believe that Michelle could wear a burlap sack, and the nattering nabobs in the media would still fall all over themselves chattering about how "stunning," "stylish," and "chic" she looks in it...

In comparison, Carla Bruni really does dress in a stunning, stylish and chic manner...Granted, she is a former model and doesn't have Michelle's height, long arms, and rather generous backside, which of course Michelle can't change...It's the way God made her. But...This incessant syncophancy is just ludicrous.   

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

Sky... So right you

Sky...

So right you are...

A picture is worth a thousand words...and when I see, hear, or read anything about her and fashion, I see the picture, I laugh, tells you all you need to know...and I click it all.

One time I was stunned, the only time I have ever made a point of fashion here, she was with the Queen then, or somewhere around the area...I was stunned with what she wore, especially the weather, it was winter, so I posted about it immediately...

Anyway, the msm are insane when it comes to her and 'fashion'....then again, it is the left...look at most of those women that report on this to begin with.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

bt...It really has gone...

beyond being ridiculous. I am not a fashion critic, but personally, I am not a fan of much of what Michelle wears, in particular what she wore when she met the Queen in England...Ugh!

That said, enough already about what the woman wears! I know though, that this will likely continue until "O's" out of office...Oh goody!  

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

image manipulation

Remember how the Hilldabeest offended the public by acting like she was co-president early in Bubba's first term, and how she held her "pretty in pink" press conference (with fluffy pink sweater and more-feminine hairdo... talking about baking cookies, etc) as an emergency image-repair move?

Remember, also, how M.O. began developing similar image problems during the primaries (e.g. angry, fist-bumping radical), then pretty much vanished for the rest of the campaign?

Seems like the Obamas and the press are on the same page trying for months now to imprint this smiling fashion queen image on the public's mind.  They're grooming her to run in 2016 to succeed her husband, by vigorously giving her a softer and warmer image than Hitlery's (which she can't shake off now).

Sorry, Sky -- this fashion crap will continue until after she's out of office, if they have their way...

I never got the Jackie-O

I never got the Jackie-O mystique.  I found her voice to be very annoying and simpering, and she always had kind of a dazed look going on.

The way she dressed was OK, but I think women in general dressed a lot more nicely back then anyway.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

at least the first Russia

at least the first LADY of  Russia looks like a woman.......not like Michelle I mean michael.........

 

mom

charlieT.... Careful now

charlieT....

Careful now there....Michelle MaBelle will give you the Aunt Esther look.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

What

What in God's name is that female inpersonator wearing in the picture on this link? She looks like some transvestite from the Rock Horror Picture Show movie. The world has gone looney..

I love this picture. It's

I love this picture. It's sooooo... help me out here - what's the word I am looking for?

 

"I would rather be historically accurate than politically correct" ~ My husband's T-Shirt

Diana Ross on Drugs?

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

" . . .help me out here . . ."

Hairspraymania.

''Crissakes, Barack, don't light that match!!!''

Sammy Davis, Jr. in drag.

Sammy Davis, Jr. in drag.

Ok, sing along with me

Ok, sing along with me now..                                           Lowered expectations   (mad tv)

Just Dropping This Off

From the White House Digital Darkroom

whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/hero_russia2_CK-0123.jpg

(Add your own "http://www.)

wow

2 immediate impressions:  (1) That's one goofy-looking honor team carrying the flowers and ribbons, (2) the Obamas would never be that overtly respectful/solemn for an American-hero ceremony.

Big butt

My gosh if that butt of the wookie gets any bigger we will see Maobama setting under it to get out of the rain.

Arg

That yellow and orange outfit looks like a box of Kleenex threw up on it. Come on, woman--you can do better. Maybe install a mirror?

class

Laura and Barbara Bush are ladies with class,. Michelle Obama is a cow.