Posted on 01/22/2017 7:46:37 PM PST by drewh
The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper is apologizing for a tweet and headline in which it asked readers whether Melania Trump was the first “sexy” First Lady.
“The headline and tweet were inappropriate. We’ve changed the headline on the column to better reflect the message,” the newspaper wrote on January 22.
2h Philly Inquirer ✔ @PhillyInquirer Fashion critic @EWellingtonPHL wrote favorably on FLOTUS’s fashion sense, noting that she brings elegance + sex appeal to the White House. Follow Philly Inquirer ✔ @PhillyInquirer The headline and tweet were inappropriate. We’ve changed the headline on the column to better reflect the message. 6:57 PM - 22 Jan 2017 31 31 Retweets 44 44 likes The headline was originally on a column by the newspaper’s fashion columnist, whom, the newspaper said in a tweet, “wrote favorably on FLOTUS’s fashion sense, noting that she brings elegance + sex appeal to the White House.”
Hervé Pierre, Hervé Pierre Melania Melania Trump at the Inaugural Ball dance wearing Hervé Pierre. (Getty)
In case people didn’t get the point, the newspaper tweeted, “We apologize for insensitive language on a tweet about Melania Trump.”
The tweet that sparked the apology is generating outrage on Twitter, with a lot of the umbrage directed at the Philly newspaper over its implied dis of outgoing First Lady Michelle Obama (not to mention all of the others).
View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Nicholas Mitchell @puxxled ≈Ye Olde Screenshotte≈ @abobrow @PhillyInquirer 8:40 PM - 22 Jan 2017 · California, USA Retweets likes People on Twitter posted photos of Michelle Obama to bolster the point.
@PhillyInquirer @FLOTUS pic.twitter.com/JhdxlhE8Hm
— Issa Strife (@HarleyGeffner) January 23, 2017
2h Philly Inquirer ✔ @PhillyInquirer Fashion critic @EWellingtonPHL wrote favorably on FLOTUS’s fashion sense, noting that she brings elegance + sex appeal to the White House. Follow William Smith @WilliamJ_Smith @PhillyInquirer @EWellingtonPHL pic.twitter.com/hjOPJ3a7bw 8:48 PM - 22 Jan 2017 View image on Twitter Retweets likes Others wanted the focus on women’s looks to stop. Melania’s fashion choices, of course, were highly scrutinized (and mostly praised) during the inauguration of her husband. She is unique among first ladies in having been a former fashion model before marrying Trump. She is also the first First Lady to have posed naked for modeling photos.
2h Philly Inquirer ✔ @PhillyInquirer Fashion critic @EWellingtonPHL wrote favorably on FLOTUS’s fashion sense, noting that she brings elegance + sex appeal to the White House. Follow Kelly Gray @kellygray26 @PhillyInquirer @EWellingtonPHL stop articles about women's physical appearances. period. stop. not news. 8:44 PM - 22 Jan 2017 Retweets 1 1 like A lot of people were upset about the tweet.
View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Nicholas Mitchell @puxxled ≈Ye Olde Screenshotte≈ @abobrow @PhillyInquirer 8:40 PM - 22 Jan 2017 · California, USA Retweets likes Follow man of mystery @Phaedrus08 @PhillyInquirer @FLOTUS Are you freaking nuts? 8:50 PM - 22 Jan 2017 Retweets likes 2h Philly Inquirer ✔ @PhillyInquirer The headline and tweet were inappropriate. We’ve changed the headline on the column to better reflect the message. Follow Courtland Winslow @COURTLANDwins @PhillyInquirer @montiero honestly thought they'd been hacked. 8:30 PM - 22 Jan 2017 Retweets likes 1h Jess @jaypelll For when @PhillyInquirer inevitably deletes this tweet pic.twitter.com/0HLhAEjIbr Follow Vertov @vertov @jaypelll @PhillyInquirer that's one horned-up newspaper 8:29 PM - 22 Jan 2017 Retweets likes 1h Kimberly Atkins ✔ @KimberlyEAtkins @gutbezahl @PhillyInquirer "Melania Trump: The first sexy first lady?" Follow Adam Gutbezahl @gutbezahl @KimberlyEAtkins @PhillyInquirer pic.twitter.com/EyzMbKJZc6 8:27 PM - 22 Jan 2017
Retweets 1 1 like 3h HawaiiDelilah @HawaiiDelilah This should summarily end the interest of anyone with a brain from taking the Philly Inquirer seriously. EVER. https://twitter.com/PhillyInquirer/status/823309554561716224 … Follow Raymond Figalora @RaymondFigalora @HawaiiDelilah @tm_roy @PhillyInquirer @FLOTUS real hard hitting investigative journalism! Why not expose on Trumps combover next 8:26 PM - 22 Jan 2017 Retweets likes The newspaper’s fashion columnist, Elizabeth Wellington, wrote of Melania’s inaugural ball gown and appearance, “But unlike any first lady before her, Trump kicked off her first ladyship fully embracing her sexy. She and President Trump slow-danced to Frank Sinatra’s classic version of “My Way” (he in yet another ill-fitting suit; please, somebody help him), and she looking like a beauty queen dancing – albeit awkwardly – with her king.”
Follow Elizabeth Wellington ✔ @EWellingtonPHL Melania Trump worked with French designer Herve Pierre to make her sexy, vanilla Inaugural confection. http://www.philly.com/philly/living/20170121_Melania_Trump__the_first_sexy_first_lady_.html … 9:40 PM - 20 Jan 2017 Photo published for Melania Trump: the first sexy first lady? Melania Trump: the first sexy first lady? First lady Melania Trump stepped into The Liberty Ball Friday night in a vanilla, off-the-shoulder crepe sheath she helped create with designer Hervé Pierre. philly.com Retweets likes Some people felt there was a racial component to the issue.
You can learn more about Melania Trump’s inaugural gown here:
Melania Trump Inaugural Gown: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Melania Trump's white inaugural ball gown is getting rave reviews. Learn all about the dress that Melania wore to the Inauguration.
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Bill “the bent one” Clinton thinks so. He was visually undressing her right in front of Hildabeast at the Inaugural.
What a pervert.
Hillary was the sexiest first lady ever.
Why apologize? Everyone who is a free-thinking human being is wondering about the same question. I guarantee you that half of the hard-left lesbians are thinking about it a LOT HARDER than most. LOL!
Even Reprobate Bill has given his seal-of-approval with his eyeballs.
What if you like big butts?
Well yeah, if you are a self-hating beta boy who wishes for a Nurse Ratched!. LOL.
They CONTINUALLY used the words "fashion icon", to describe Moochelle.
The Mooch, on the worlds stage, with the wives of other world leaders.
Nothing to apologize for, she is....
I do like big butts! However, I like a wide ass go now by God rather than one earned by gluttony. Cellulite is my kryptonite. A fat, saggy a*s is attractive to me as a sack of rotten potatoes. Wide his are cool, obesity is not.
Hillary has great legs.
Especially her ankles.
They are hot!
I absolutely know you are being sarcastic because her legs look like pantyhose stuffed with lumpy,’congealed chicken fat.
Hillary is a triple bagger that also requires beer-googles,’a hard-cash renumeraton, and a dose of Vitamin V!
(FYI, Vitamin V refers to a Viagra pill)
I hope she is as beautiful inside as she is out :)
Compared to the publications mocking Trump’s 10 year old son and calling the new President everything from Hitler to Stalin, calling a fashion model turned billionaire’s wife / First Lady “sexy” is not an offense.
Some truths are self-evident.
They will never apologize when they say something that actually deserves a apology.
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