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.
“(best First Lady) is reserved for Nancy Reagan.”
I think she was a good First Lady for Reagan’s personal life, but for the country, I was not impressed. I always felt she was a Hollywood liberal who loved her husband desperately but had no core values herself when it came to politics.
We lived literally on the other side of the fence from the Reagan Library for several years, including when he died. Nancy pretty much ran the show when it came to who spoke there, who met there, etc. After he died, libs were there all the time, and she was there right beside them.
I protested on the corner when she hosted a Teddy Kennedy event there. When she drove by and saw my sign, “Teddy Kennedy Murderer Traitor”, she scowled.
My opinion: She took care of “Ronnie”, but was shallow in most other areas.
As if OAN would report anything negative on that family. Really. Separate bedrooms. With such a hot smoking babe of a wife? Something ain’t right.
Yes that’s politics. But I think this thread is more on personality, sense of morals and the like.
My in-laws didn’t sleep in the same bed. Had five kids. People have their reasons and it doesn’t make them unloving as a family. At all.
Just one more image to add to the group picture of frumpy Dem women vs chic Republican ones.
My wife poses nude for me a LOT!
INDEED!
I don’t understand how folks can go to the movies after seeing the women all fancied up at them thar award show things!
You will, and you will also make a groveling statement showing a very sincere apology; too!
Mrs. Trump did some nude, artistic photo shoots. I used to do some modeling and had many friends that were models. A lot of them did these artistic shoots They are not pornography. I never was offered the opportunity, and would not have done it anyway, because I am pretty shy, but never saw anything at all wrong with it. Melania was a successful model and she did a variety of jobs. I think she is wonderful.
I think so too. Epitome of grace and charm
Oh, my goodness, a woman took off her clothes for a modeling shoot 25 years ago. And with another woman at that! How dare she! Where are my pearls?
Look at his recent posts. He’s not arguing in good faith about anything.
Oh, I have looked. You’re right.
Regarding Barron, I noticed too that he not only never smiled but also never spoke to anyone—even on Election Night 2016 he looked confused on stage, not cheerful-—kinda odd for a kid. I’ve wondered if he’s autistic. He doesn’t seem comfortable in social settings and Trump has even said he’s a tech whiz. Melania has wisely kept him out of the spotlight—he could just be a shy kid. Who knows.
Melania is actually a sweet woman who made some career misjudgments in the past. It’s a shame Don went behind her back in Lake Tahoe when Barron was so small and porked that pornstar Stormy Daniels then tried to hush the whole thing up. She’s been to hell and back and it’s a wonder they are still together.
That Boston Marathon scandal best matches what happened in the 2020 election.
Hey, I like it.
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