Read this anecdote again. Read it from The Letterman transcript and read it from the current transcript of Michelle Obama.
I’d ask, was the “short woman” Caucasian? We don’t know.
The implication from these anecdotes is that she was Caucasian but...isn’t that implication rayciss?
Think about it.
Here’s what I took away from this and I actually watched the replay of the Letterman exchange this morning and so was paying particular attention to the body language of Moochelle. The very fact that she didn’t identify the woman as anything other than ‘short’ and she had this look on her face that said she knew she was giving information that was slyly misleading told me all that I needed to know. I’m willing to bet a grand that the woman who asked her to reach to the higher shelf was NOT white.
I want to see a reporter ask Moochelle this question directly.