Some obviously visually impaired, or possibly extremely over-caffeinated, or otherwise unrealistically imaginative, and/or artificially stimulated people have put forth the notion that Michelle Obama is somehow reminiscent of Jacqueline Kennedy. However, I cannot imagine surviving the ingestion of a sufficient amount of hallucinogenics required to seriously entertain such a thought. Jackie O? Why not Mamie Eisenhower? Rosalynn Carter? I can get there from here, but Jackie Kennedy, uh uh.
Now, according to New York Magazine, Phillip Bloch and Forrest Whitaker’s wife (huh?) have decided that not only is Michelle Obama Jackie Kennedy reincarnated, “Blackie O” is an appropriate appellation.
He does have some suggestions for Michelle Obama: He’s thinking Carolina Herrera or Oscar de la Renta. “Michelle, call me!” he yelled into our tape recorder. “I will hook you up, girl. I will not charge.” He’s even got a slightly off-color nickname for his First Lady pick. “Forrest Whitaker’s wife and I always joke about this,” he said. “We were at the convention and I said, ‘Oh, girl, you’re looking like Jackie O!’ And she said, ‘Hell no, baby, I’m looking like Blackie O.’ When I say this, I don’t want this to come out as I’m making a derogatory remark, but Blackie O: in the White House!’”
Bloch also defended Sarah Palin against the media’s unfair Wardrobe-gate attacks:
“Image is everything,” he opined at the Central Park Conservancy’s Halloween Ball at the park’s Naumburg Bandshell last night. “To give her a hard time about spending $150,000 on the wardrobe — she didn’t make up the prices, she didn’t hire a big stylist and say get me the most expensive things.” Although he approves of her look — “chic and elegant; age appropriate” — he said he wasn’t sure the RNC absolutely had to blow that much money on it. “Her stylist should’ve asked for a discount,” he said. “If she were working with me, I would’ve gotten her a discount.”
Yeah, Phil, and coupled with your (I assume) standard no-charge offer, Sarah probably could have come in way under a hundred and fifty grand with you as her stylist. Then again, maybe SP should call Star Jones for “how to get free stuff” tips.
In other news, protesters did what protesters do, that is, protested the L.A. Times today, demanding the release of tapes showing Michelle and Barack Obama at a dinner honoring Rashid Khalidi. For all the good it apparently did.
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