About us Login Get email updates
County Fair
Print

Dept. of Lousy Judgment

July 06, 2009 4:17 pm ET by Jamison Foser

The media's obsession with (Democratic, mostly) politicians' clothing and haircuts is bad enough. But ABC should rethink whether the fashion choices of an eleven-year-old-girl should really be fodder for their useless snark.

Three ABC reporters combined to produce a 188-word post - 63 words per reporter -- for Jake Tapper's blog, speculating that Malia Obama "may have inherited her mother's taste in sometimes expensive clothes." No, I won't provide a link.

Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All Add Comment
    • Author by pointofview (July 06, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
        8
      Oh yea, there were never attacks about Palin's clothing, or attacks on her daughters. It is always against the dems......yea right. Get real.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by wookie (July 06, 2009 4:36 pm ET)
        4  
        Maxing out the RNC credit card at Neiman Marcus may have been a faux pas.
        Report Abuse
      • Author by shaggles (July 06, 2009 4:42 pm ET)
        1  
        What were the attacks on Palin's daughters?
        Report Abuse
        • Author by archae (July 06, 2009 4:55 pm ET)
          5  
          Well...there's the daughter who was taught abstinence, but got knocked up anyway.
          Report Abuse
          • Author by mdh (July 06, 2009 10:57 pm ET)
               
            I don't think her snowmobile racing ex-boyfriend has a political stand, other than to stand as far from the Palin's as possible.

            I'm also not sure "attack" is the correct verb for what apparently happened.
            Report Abuse
      • Author by bintx (July 06, 2009 5:15 pm ET)
        1  
        The attacks on the clothing had nothing to do with Palin, they had to do with the ethics of the RNC presenting this woman as an "everywoman" while spending RIDICULOUS amounts of money trying to make her look more "presentable," to the elite campaign donors. As for her daughters, I never heard anyone in the media "attacking" her daughters. Comedians, yes, news personnel, no. Big difference. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, trotted her pregnant, unwed daughter in front of the entire country so as to nip in the bud the months-long rumors which followed her from Alaska regarding the parentage of Trig. She humiliated her own daughter in order to advance her political chances.

        BTW, this has nothing to do with the stupid political clubs. It has to do with a big mistake made by the RNC last year. They chose a blatantly incompetent person to run as VP. Or as Liz Trotta said on Fox today, "an inarticulate, undereducated" candidate who wasn't "fit to hold any job." Liz Trotta isn't a "dem."
        Report Abuse
      • Author by harley (July 06, 2009 5:25 pm ET)
        2  

        Yeah, perhaps we should just focus on the type of mustard that Obama uses, or the whether the First Lady shows her arms or not, or even better we can discuss Obama's middle name and bowling scores.
        Report Abuse
      • Author by ReasonAndResolve (July 06, 2009 5:35 pm ET)
        4  
        Democrats aren't the people who turned presidential politics into a cult of personality. And Democrats aren't the party that nominated a VP candidate with a thin resume and then sheilded her from the press, creating a vacuum that had to be filled with conjecture.

        Finally, while "good mother", Sarah Palin, was dragging her daughters to every political gathering she attended, the Obama girls were busy going to school.

        It is one thing to paint a target on your daughters' backs, but then dragging them out onto the firing range exhibits a brand of callous political behavior that the Republicans have pretty much slapped a trademark on.
        Report Abuse
        • Author by pointofview (July 06, 2009 6:13 pm ET)
            3
          Apparently it was all planed, even the J Crew Press Release.

          "J.Crew is using Sasha and Malia Obama to market some of its spring and summer styles, in a press release sent ...

          ... to reporters Monday afternoon titled "The Obama Girls Bring Some American Style to Moscow."

          http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0709/profiting_off_the_obamas_29066b65-8269-431d-93c7-98c4dcb777cf.html

          That is pretty shameless!!

          Report Abuse
          • Author by twseattle (July 06, 2009 6:24 pm ET)
            5  
            "Heather Lynch McAuliffe, the vice president of J.Crew public relations, said the White House did not approve the release before she sent it."

            This is directly from the above link. Is your point to have no point?
            Report Abuse
            • Author by ReasonAndResolve (July 06, 2009 6:25 pm ET)
                 
              We both noticed the same thing and crossed paths in the ether...lol.
              Report Abuse
          • Author by ReasonAndResolve (July 06, 2009 6:25 pm ET)
            3  
            From your link:

            "Heather Lynch McAuliffe, the vice president of J.Crew public relations, said the White House did not approve the release before she sent it."


            It is unclear just who the shameless party is, isn't it?
            Report Abuse
            • Author by Max2000 (July 07, 2009 2:30 am ET)
                 
              J. Crew is the shameless party. The Obamas just buy their clothes at the mall and took their kids to Europe in the summer.
              Report Abuse
      • Author by magnolialover (July 06, 2009 7:07 pm ET)
        3  
        Catch your breath crazy person.

        Nobody ever called out Palin for wearing certain clothing. She was called out, because while she was trying to sell herself as "just like the average American" she was busy pilfering the RNC bank to get herself, and her family lots of fancy clothing. Now, I seem to remember a lot of republicans being mad about that, and not so much liberals. I didn't care that she used RNC funding for her shopping sprees, but there were plenty of republicans who did care, and it showed her total, yes, hypocrisy between what she said she was, and what she ACTUALLY was.

        And what attacks on her daughters? There weren't any by folks in the media. Show us a source. Show us an attack story on her daughters. There aren't any. That's just a little nugget that you'd like to think happened, but didn't. Show me a progressive journalist who wrote such a story. Can't find one can you? Nope...
        Report Abuse
        • Author by mdh (July 06, 2009 10:59 pm ET)
             
          But David Letterman made a tasteless joke on his late night show!!!! Waaaaaaaah!
          Report Abuse
        • Author by LuvLuLu (July 07, 2009 2:59 am ET)
             
          As I have said on other threads, the attacks were not on her children.

          They were jokes at her expense. There was a picture that was photoshopped of Palin holding her youngest son, and someone removed his face and replaced it with someone who was linked to Palin. That was an attack on Palin, not an attack on her son, yet Palin tried to paint it as an offensive attack on a special needs child! The kid's face was removed from the photo, yet somehow it's an attack on her kid?
          Report Abuse
    • Author by montyone (July 06, 2009 4:59 pm ET)
         
      They overdoing it with worthless propaganda lately.
      This is getting beyond ridiculous there are not too many
      people who are not appalled by such trash or who give that
      artifically created shallow nonsense a second thought i think /
      hope.
      ABC , seriously WHO CARES?! Discuss such matters on toilett - or
      lunch breaks..how stupid do you think people are?
      Why do you think anybody is interested in bothering a little
      girl ?

      Has nothing to do with left / right, if it would be lets
      say Rush Limbaughs daughter there would be no differnce.
      Left / right is not very exact and an odd way of categorizing
      people..still nearly everybody does it. Chris Rock summed it up
      perfectly IMO.

      That kind of creepy pseudo journalism hopefully has no future..
      seriously who pays to read those types of investigations
      Report Abuse
    • Author by randy99 (July 06, 2009 5:12 pm ET)
         
      I will provide the link though....

      http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/07/malia-obama-budding-fashionista.html

      heh heh
      Report Abuse
    • Author by Eric Jaffa (July 07, 2009 12:11 am ET)
        1
      If an article is important enough to write about, then it's important enough to provide a link.

      The no-link approach is the opposite of the traditional "Media Matters for America" approach of providing links, videos, and transcripts.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by LuvLuLu (July 07, 2009 3:00 am ET)
           
        Duh. This is their blog section. Not their research section. This is the commentary part.
        Report Abuse