Posted on 12/01/2014 10:20:35 AM PST by kiryandil
What about these 'classy' first daughter moments? Critics hit back at GOP staffer who criticized Sasha and Malia with unflattering photos of Jenna Bush
Twitter users have hit back at the GOP staffer who called Malia and Sasha Obama classless - by reminding her of Jenna Bush's more unseemly moments while her father was in office.
Elizabeth Lauten, communications director for Rep Stephen Fincher, issued a groveling apology on Friday after slamming the President's girls, aged 16 and 13, for wearing casual clothing and looking sullen during the Thanksgiving address.
Calling for the self-professed media expert to be sacked, thousands of people responded by tweeting the renowned picture of George W Bush's daughter Jenna drunkenly tumbling over her friend on to the floor of a frat party, cigarette in hand.
The 2001 photo, which earned the then 19-year-old the nickname Jenna And Tonic, has gone viral with the hash tag '#classy'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It's good to have your own wholly captured Propaganda Machine...
I don’t equate looking sullen with being falling down drunk.
Let’s just all agree that even if its bad form to comment on children of politicians - the Palin kids are still fair game!
/s
The Grey Goose doesn't fall far from Momma.
Only Republicans’ children can be criticized.
Bush’s daughters and Palin’s children are fair game. Moochelle’s and Barry’s spawn are not.
First of all, it is quite possible that the Jenna Bush photo was somehow altered to make her appear to be falling down drunk. But, we know the phone of the Obama girls is genuine and they appeared in the manner described, at a solemn White House event where the president issues a pardon to turkey.
30 minutes of being polite and playing the game of looking interested in Thanksgiving, not eye rolling and grimacing, is a small price to pay for living in the lap of taxpayer funded luxury beyond most peoples wildest dreams
My teenage kids volunteer to light the National Christmas tree and look happy to be there doing it
When they deliberately place themselves in the public eye, through TV or Facebook or Twitter, then they are fair game. But so long as they aren't trying for the public eye then Obama's girls and Bush's girls and Clinton's daughter should have all been left alone.
There is a big difference between a college student in a private moment and teenagers, appearing on the stage with their father, for whom they were showing utter disrespect.Obama’s policies appear to be as much a failure at home as iin politics.
Or David Letterman making jokes about 17 yr old Bristol Palin’s unwed motherhood (while being unmarried at the time to the mother of his own bastard son) and joking about raping 13 yr old Willow
There is a difference between looking “sullen” and looking merely bored or having an embarrassing incident that is caught on camera. That “sullen” look is of a very ‘particular’ variety, often exhibited by The Mooch, so the apples don’t fall far from the tree.
The staffer should have known better than to pick on the kids, even if what she did is no where near the abuse to which Republican (especially Palin) kids have been subjected.
Were critics of Jenna Bush made to apologize and resign their job?
I don’t know, just a question.
Children of US Presidents - Where Are They Now?
A quick summary of all the living children of US Presidents, with recent photos. The Carter offspring come across as the least well adjusted. Three of his four appear to be flakes.
Yes. Discussing decorum and apparel is very different than what the left does.
So a single Congressional staffer makes an offensive comment, and it’s national news?
The desperation in this particular red squirrel really shows, doesn’t it?
When it's a Republican staffer, the answer is ABSOLUTELY!
the staffer was saying out loud what a WHOLE lot of people think
firing her may intimidate people into silence but it doesn’t change their opinion of yet another no-class act by the grifter crew
If she contributes 50 grand to Moochelle’s senate election fund, she will be granted absolution by the MSM.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.