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Melania Haters Now Loving Jill Biden
Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2021 | Tim Graham

Posted on 02/19/2021 4:16:00 AM PST by Kaslin

The liberal-Democrat media celebrated Valentine's Day a traditional way: gushy tributes to the new first lady. On Feb. 12, Jill Biden tweeted on her @FLOTUS Twitter account a photo of herself, with a scrunchie in her hair, at a Washington, D.C., bakery picking up "Valentine's treats for the weekend." "Don't tell Joe," she joked.

Glamour magazine posted an article titled "First Lady Jill Biden Wore a Scrunchie While Shopping and People Felt So Seen." New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller tweeted, "Loving the scrunchie energy."

A Washington Post "PowerPost" headline read, "Scrunchies and dog walking: the country gets a taste of Jill Biden's radical normalcy."

On Twitter, I asked the author of this puffery, Jacqueline Alemany, "What is 'radical normalcy'?" No reply.

Alemany boosted the PR stunt, writing: "Biden's scrunchie that really lit up the Internet. Leave it to a scrunchie to capture the zeitgeist of President Biden's promise to 'return to normalcy,' a stark departure from the 'I don't really care' message sent by Trump."

She'd begun by mocking Melania Trump and the "$51,000 Dolce & Gabbana multicolored floral jacket" she wore in Sicily in 2017.

The most ludicrous line was this: "Jill Biden's laissez-faire approach to her public image and affectionate relationship with her husband may foreshadow a different approach to the traditionally staid and formal office of the first lady."

There is nothing "laissez-faire" in "Dr." Biden's public image. The tweet itself is carefully curated, down to the selection of a black-owned bakery. This is the way the Bidens and the Obamas use social media: to sell themselves as loving and "relatable" people. It's informal poses. It's campaign work. Alemany's article was just more of the sales job.

Alemany turned to her Post colleague Mary Jordan, who authored a negative book on Melania called "The Art of Her Deal": "She'd be unlikely to ever be caught dead in a scrunchie -- 'unless it was Chanel,' Jordan joked." Jordan also crowed that "Melania Trump was the most put together person and Jill comes across as a relatable mom, teacher, wife and woman -- she's relatable in a way that Melania never was."

She echoed that with author Kate Anderson Brower: "Dr. Biden has already been out and about in Washington more publicly than her predecessor was in four years," she boasted. "Biden has had decades of experience being herself in public and she's obviously much more comfortable holding her husband's hand and being a demonstrably loving mother and grandmother when the world is watching. ... I think we need that right now."

Who, precisely, is "we"?

Melania Trump began her tenure as first lady behind the eight ball. First, the liberal media always adores first ladies who are Ivy League-educated lawyers or career educators, not just -- ick -- wives. Second, her beauty was deployed against her: She was seen as "arm candy," a "trophy wife." She resisted any attempt at public affection for the cameras. Comedians mocked their marriage, insisting it was like a prison and that she wanted to claw out of it. She didn't go for magazine cover articles or go "out and about in Washington," for fear of all the poison pens.

The same media outlets who treated the Trumps' marriage as a cynical ongoing negotiation lunged to portray Bill and Hillary Clinton as an inspiring romance, a baby-boomer Belle and the Beast.

The Bidens may be great lovers. But everything at the White House has a large degree of calculation in it. Everyone should know the gushing liberal newspapers and magazines are aggressively engaged in the politics of humanization.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: doublestandards; elderabuse; jillbiden; leftwingmediabias; melaniatrump
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To: knarf

Laugh o the day so far snarf knarf. Tanks. : )


41 posted on 02/19/2021 5:52:06 AM PST by PGalt (confirmed: past peak civilization)
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To: Kaslin

Shes a ghoul


42 posted on 02/19/2021 5:58:00 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

I have nothing against homely women (Michelle) or faded beauties (Dr. Jill); but it gripes me to see the fake news media slobber over those women and compare them to Jackie O while they dissed or ignored the most beautiful and graceful first lady of all time.


43 posted on 02/19/2021 5:59:34 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Sacajaweau
Passing out cookies to soldiers who had been sleeping on concrete floors...and hearts on the Whitehouse lawn is all I have to know about Jill.

You now know she CARES. If you are a care bear, that is all that matters. Soldiers getting cookies, rather than the treatment they get at the VA, or if they get sent to some third world s*** hole to fight in another endless war with no real strategic interests for the US.

44 posted on 02/19/2021 6:02:13 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: BiglyCommentary

Joined Dec 2020.


45 posted on 02/19/2021 6:06:01 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: BiglyCommentary

Wise up...It was a photo op after their disgusting treatment of these soldiers.


46 posted on 02/19/2021 6:07:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Do I really need to add /sarc tags every time?


47 posted on 02/19/2021 6:09:52 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: DoughtyOne

I agree.

People DO treat me differently. And I understand that.

I had to go onsite last Saturday night for an upgrade we were doing that would have me there until the morning, and I got dressed as I always do when working. I could have put on jeans and a t-shirt, but...I work with other areas, and also in the presence of patients, so...I wish to look professional. It does matter.

Funny, I am the only one on my team who wears a shirt and tie, the rest wear polo shirts and such, which...given their job is perfectly appropriate.

I am older than all of them, and all the young-uns poke me in good nature about my appearance, but...as I approach the end of my professional portion of life, I am not about to change...:)


48 posted on 02/19/2021 6:14:07 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

If you’re going to judge people, judge them fairly.
According to Jill’s husband, Jill cheated on him with Joe. Joe and Jill saying that they met on a blind date is a big lie. So Jill was just a trashy divorcee at one time.
How Melania taking a few harmless photos compares with Jill’s behavior is for each to decide on his/her own.


49 posted on 02/19/2021 6:45:04 AM PST by ZagFan
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To: Kaslin

50 posted on 02/19/2021 6:46:32 AM PST by MAAG (Tetelestai, paid in full. You are as righteous as God is. Double jeopardy is forbidden.)
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To: MAAG

Seeing democrats drinking Kool-Aid is a stunning thing.


51 posted on 02/19/2021 9:19:51 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
"Of course it is. We make moral judgements about people every single day, and we’re supposed to. It’s called “discernment."

Thank you for making that clear. I get so tired of the phrase, "you don't have the right to judge me". Of course I do, according to my morals, ethics, character, and breathing the same damn air.

I'm also sick of "you shouldn't discriminate". Certain biases are not good, but we all discriminate from the time we wake up to choose what to wear to the flavor of ice cream to the type of people we want to associate with to the gas in our cars. Has anyone ever looked up the definition of "discriminate"?

52 posted on 02/19/2021 9:45:12 AM PST by A Navy Vet (Dems no longer liberals. Dems longer socialists. Dems are going full communist.)
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To: Kaslin

53 posted on 02/19/2021 11:39:14 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. --Craig Ferguson)
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To: Albion Wilde

Jill is a close second to Cuomo for winning the 2020 Elder abuse award.


54 posted on 02/19/2021 11:41:57 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: FamiliarFace

Haven’t found the dirt on her yet, except she’s a lib


55 posted on 02/19/2021 11:50:20 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (House lost. Check. Senate lost. Check. White House lost. Check. Twice Impeached. Check. WINNING!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Nope. That distinction (best First Lady) is reserved for Nancy Reagan. And here husband was THE best American President.

Stop. Full stop.


56 posted on 02/19/2021 11:53:42 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (House lost. Check. Senate lost. Check. White House lost. Check. Twice Impeached. Check. WINNING!)
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To: ZagFan

OK they both cancel each other out then as lowlifes.

I just feel sorry for the kid (Barron) whom I must say I don’t believe I saw smile in nearly four years. Poor kid. That who Trump family strikes me as staged as a Potemkin Village, dysfunctional, lacking love and warmth. At least it was rarely on display as say you see with the Reagan’s, Fords, Bush’s


57 posted on 02/19/2021 11:58:07 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (House lost. Check. Senate lost. Check. White House lost. Check. Twice Impeached. Check. WINNING!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Ask her ex husband. He said she and Joe were getting it on together while he was still married, he thought lovingly, to her. Maybe that’s just rumor, but that’s what he’s said. It even sounded like it was while Joe’s first wife was still alive. Rumor, to be sure, but rumor doesn’t mean it isn’t true either.

I suggest you check sources other than the mainstream media for your dirt, too. They won’t tell you anything they don’t want you to hear.

Bottom line for me is that you hypocritically said that you don’t pass judgment, but you do. We all do. I’ll be the first to admit that. Sometimes passing judgment has helped me steer clear of trouble.


58 posted on 02/19/2021 12:02:03 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Look, I love Reagan also, but Trump gave us 450 or so miles
of good solid wall, and particularly in the former worst
places.

He cut off most of the illegal immigration, and sent many
back.

As for Nancy, I respect her a lot also, but Melania was a
very good first lady.

Trump started an actual Middle-East peace process.

He got European NATO to step up and pay more for their own
defense.

On and on it goes. For a four year term, he did very well.


59 posted on 02/19/2021 12:05:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

*** That who Trump family strikes me as staged as a Potemkin Village, dysfunctional, lacking love and warmth***

Just WOW. Have you been watching the MSM much? Your portrayal of the Trump family differs vastly from what I’ve seen.


60 posted on 02/19/2021 12:09:06 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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