MSNBC has a funny idea of "serious"
March 31, 2009 2:55 pm ET by Jamison Foser
MSNBC anchor Melissa Francis, on Michelle Obama: "Is there a danger in looking too glamorous during a recession, though, on a more serious note? I mean, we're talking about clothes, we're having a good time, but obviously, you know, there's a recession going on right now."
That's MSNBC's idea of a "serious note"? How about considering whether MSNBC should devote segments to Michelle Obama's clothes in the first place?
UPDATE: Less than an hour later, MSNBC devotes another segment to Michelle Obama's wardrobe, during which Norah O'Donnell said: " You know, we've got this banner up that says 'What will she wear?' I mean, isn't that sort of demeaning, that that's all that this first lady is about, by saying 'what is she going to wear?'”
She then spent the remainder of the segment discussing what Obama will wear with Washington Post reporter Robin Givhan.
So, in the past hour, MSNBC has told us that these are serious times -- too serious for Michelle Obama to be glamorous. And they've told us that it is "sort of demeaning" to focus on what Obama will wear. And they've devoted two different segments to focusing on precisely that "demeaning" topic.
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I wear a suit to work. Should I tell my employer that I will have to come to work in jeans and a t-shirt because there is a recession?
Good grief. There have been other RECESSIONS! This is not a mass depression with 40% unemployment!
So what was the anchor wearing? Should she and M Obama wear a big cracker barrel? Would that signify that there is a recession in the US?
I guess paying for WH rennovations with their own personal $$ isn't quite enough for that unfair liberal MSNBC.
"You know, we've got this banner up that says 'What will she wear?' I mean, isn't that sort of demeaning, that that's all that this first lady is about, by saying 'what is she going to wear?'”
Yeah, that's very important stuff, and we'll get to in a minute: but on a less serious note, do you realize what such a young and apparently conscientious woman as Mrs. Obama is, can do with what I think today has become an actual official Office, of First Lady of the United States?
There's nothing facetious or joking in the question.
The woman seems all at once to be intelligent and concerned (with matters of State and family and all good things perhaps): she is lively and energetic (that counts a lot), personable and seemingly warm and Human: she makes a great impression even from appearance alone (that counts a lot I say), but then impresses further by way of substance: she seems eager and more than able to the Office, whose responsibilities and duties are whatever she chooses to make them.
Do you know how far someone can go with such a combination as those things make, and of how much they can do in this world, whether as First Lady of the United States or in the workplace or the community, in the family even?
I'm not joking or being facetious in the least: the woman I believe could do as much if not more in this world, than even her husband!
True!
OK, enough of that stuff: let's get serious...
What was she wearing at her last public appearance?
It could make all the difference in the world, between war and peace and intolerance and Humanity... couldn't it?