Post Goes for the Jugular of Roberts' Children - (how tacky, but how predictable!)

TRADITIONAL VALUES COALITION.ORG ^ | JULY 25, 2005 | Editor, TVC

[CHARLITE]

Washington, DC – Traditional Values Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty complained today that an article in the Washington Post about the clothes worn by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ children was “unfair and disappointing.”

Mrs. Lafferty said in a letter sent to Post Editor Leonard Downie, Jr. that the Post has now set a new pecking order for “unfair journalism which ignores substance and slides right into chortling about form.”

“If you can’t come up with something disgusting about the actual nominee or his wife then rough-up the kids some and see what happens,” Mrs. Lafferty said today.

Post fashion writer Robin Givhan complained about “the nostalgic costuming of the children” at the President’s announcement

“Just when it looked like there was an opportunity for a substantive debate over Mr. Roberts qualification for the Supreme Court, the Post drags it down to ‘your mother dresses you funny’ school yard banter.

“Maybe the cynics over at the Post are not impressed with the President or the White House but a family about to see their father nominated by the President of the United States for America’s highest court will probably want to dress-up for the occasion. Most Americans would understand what the Post views as some sort of cynical ploy and deception.

“There are clothes you wear to the playground and clothes you wear to meet the President, Mrs. Roberts and her adorable children understand that which has apparently eluded the Post.

“Let’s raise the bar on this debate back to where it is the nominee who is given a vigorous public examination. And let’s leave the rest of the family alone.”

[txroadhawg]

Maybe they should have had their nipples pierced for the occasion

[Reactionary]

The liberal swine hate all good things. They hate all decency. They hate decent people.

The fact that the children looked respectable is enough to send these degenerates into a frenzy.

[fish hawk]

The left would have been so very overjoyed if those two beautiful children would have been aborted.

[Huntress]

Ouch.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Yeah well, consider the source. Then you'll never be surprised.

[Huntress]

Ouch.

[sockmonkey]

Thanks for posting that picture. It looks to me as if they wore their "Easter" duds for the occasion. What is so awful about that. I think they look cute as buttons.

[CaptainK]

The irony of a dowdy skank, as the arbiter of it's fashion section, is lost on the Washington Post.

[mountainfolk]

IMO Robin Givhan just doesn't know any better.

[cricket]

" I even heard a newscaster, though I think it was FOX, say they were dressed reminiscent of the John Kennedy family."

Just as bad a comment/observation; but Fox News has it's Libs for sure.

[bannie]

The source is the source
of course of course;
And no one can talk to the source,
of course.
Unless, of course,
The name of the source
Has "Freeper" in its name.


WHOOOOHOOOO

[atlanta67]

some here on the far right, are acting just as dispicably

[KosmicKitty]

Like this

[Cecily]

The fashion critic in all her glory. LOL!

[mombonn]

Post fashion writer Robin Givhan complained about “the nostalgic costuming of the children”

They were adorable, and reminiscent of Caroline and John-John.

Imagine if these two had been children of a RAT nominee. It would have been Camelot revisited.

[ShowMeMom]

Those beautiful children were adopted instead of aborted. Thank God!!

What I don't understand is how Dubya kept a straight face while little Jack did his dance.

[okie01]

but the Post's critic, Robin Givhan, used a buzz word - "NOSTALGIC"

Miss Givhan also had a case of the vapors over John Bolton's hair.

And surely you recall her vicious comments about Katherine Harris' makeup and wardrobe.

Givhan is a shallow fashion critic who finds fault with one's politics...

[Sloth]

I thought the boy looked ridiculous. Shorts for a televised meeting with the President?!

[mombonn]

I wish the little boy had been helped to tone it down

For Heaven's sake, it was 9:00 p.m. - the kids were probably up waaaay past their bedtime, after a veeeeeery long day.

[Howlin]

If the only thing they can find "wrong" with John G. Roberts, Jr. is the "nostalgic" style of his children's clothing, then Judge Roberts should be approved by acclamation tomorrow morning.

Lots of people on this very site were carping about the very same thing.