what's wrong with fabulous?

Or maybe the question is, what's wrong with those people who keep complaining about Michelle Obama's appearance? Supposedly there was a ruckus in the media because she walked off of Airforce One wearing jean shorts.


They were in Arizona, so I like to think that the thing in her right hand is a rolled-up hat, ready to be worn in the blazing sun. It seems to me that people on all sides of the political spectrum should admire that outfit. She's promoting tourism, the anti-Muslim folks (hi, Fox news, waving at you) could see it as a rebuke to the laws requiring women to be covered, the people who like to wear casual clothes could identify, the fashionistas would have to admit that she is *wearing* those clothes. They aren't cut-offs - they have a hem, and her upper arms (the buffness of which has offended the press in the past) are covered.

It's not as though it was a slow news week and they needed to make something up just to fill space.