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Glenn Beck did just that on his radio show last week when he discussed Michelle Obama's breasts in her shimmery, sapphire-colored gown at the state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala.
Beck said first that the economy is in flames, and that Julius Caesar (aka Barack Obama) is in the White House. He followed that by saying Michelle was "dolled up" in her Peter Soronen creation, and asked listeners if they saw her picture on the Drudge Report with its headline, "Sex in the City."
"She looks positively like she's trying to be some Greek statue," he said. "I don't think I've ever seen the first lady with her, excuse the expression, but with her breasts all smushed up. What is that? Did you even see that picture? I mean that, that's . . . what is that?"
Beck then called the look "bizarre," and his sidekick laughed. And sniggered. And giggled.Tee-hee-hee. Boobs. What is this? Seventh-grade talk radio? Click play below for audio of the segment:
Let's start with one of the most beloved first ladies in history -- Dolley Madison -- who enjoyed displaying her zingers. She was married, by the way, to James, one of the Founding Fathers that Beck often quotes.
It's a good thing Beck lives in the "Sex and the City" age and not back in the corset-happy antebellum South. He might have fainted if he saw smushed-up southern belles like Scarlett O'Hara every day. Here's a word of advice, Glenn: Stay away from burlesque shows, too. Burlesque dancers like stiff undergarments that push up everything.
Beck would have cried outrage over Frances Cleveland, wife of Grover. First, she was 21 when she married her 49-year-old husband while he served in the White House. Second, one portrait shows the revealing décolletage of Frances' soft, flowing beige dress. But she was married to a Democrat. Maybe that was to be expected.
But there's Republican Mamie Eisenhower. Her pink inaugural dress featured a plunging neckline that showed more skin than Michelle's blue dress that got Beck all in a tizzy.
Beck must have forgotten about Nancy Reagan's inaugural dress in 1981. Nancy wore a white one-shoulder sheath lace dress over silk satin designed by James Galanos. A close examination of the picture reveals, wait, could that be just a tiny hint of cleavage?
No, no, no. Nancy, a former Hollywood starlet, certainly wasn't going for sexy at age 60. After all, she added white evening gloves to her ensemble to cover part of her arms. The other first ladies probably didn't give one iota of thought to looking radiant either. It's only confident, beautiful, 40-something Michelle Obama with the to-die-for biceps who has ever thought about looking sexy, whether in stunning strapless gold or Greek goddess blue.
It's just a little odd -- wait, just plain weird -- that one of the right's leading voices is giggling about boobs and dresses. What does Beck do on the weekends? Invite his friends over for slumber parties and sneak peeks at Victoria Secret catalogues? Is this possibly a case of arrested development? My diagnosis: yes.
Media Matters for America called Beck's remarks a "sexist attack." It wasn't. It was just stupid. The biggest boob in all of this? Glenn Beck.
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August 31 2010 at 11:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy is he looking so hard at her breast anyway? Its like he is trying to find anything to nippick at about the obamas. Obviously, he has nothing so he finds anything. Like the first ladies dress. Why wont beck find something more productive to do and report about?
June 07 2010 at 2:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOut of everything he has uncovered you pick that to write an entire column? What about the Joyce Foundation, Chicago Climate Exchange, Shore Bank, Joel Rogers, Maurice Strong, global governance, czars, our exploding debt? Sad day in journalism when a non-journalist does more investigating than you!
June 02 2010 at 11:33 AM Report abuse Permalink +5 rate up rate down Replygood point, BECK definitely is a NON-JOURNALIST !!
June 02 2010 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyCan this man keep his feet out of his mouth?
June 01 2010 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink +4 rate up rate down ReplyBeck has a right to voice an opinion. What is scary is that the liberals at times fight against people who are practicing freedom of speech. It seems the nation is divided; some stand for the constitution and its values, and some stand against it and are trying to employ a new order.
June 01 2010 at 4:39 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Replysteve
"remember he challenges the white house daily to respond to his information releases."_____
His challenges carry as much weight with the White House as to the other farm animals with Chicken Little's claims that the sky was falling.
True J.M. But the feverish response to his shock value, you almost think that what he says and does means something to a lot of people. I think his crazy antics are so popular because it baits what some people want to say but are afraid to. Again I must reiterate "shock value".
August 31 2010 at 11:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGlen Beck to me appears to be a destructive force , whose sole mission is not to inform or debate, but rather to debase and attack.
He and his words only depress and via convoluted logic destroy. He offers no solutions , only sarcasm and self indulgence.
Are you people calling for Glenn Beck to be taken off the air absolutely serioius? Really? Think about it; would you be willing to start us down a path of poliical censorship just to get a voice off the air that you disagree with? What if someone on the left was next targeted for removal from the airwaves? Have you really thought this through. Freedoms once taken are never regained.
May 31 2010 at 5:30 PM Report abuse Permalink +14 rate up rate down ReplyGod Bless President Obama
May 31 2010 at 4:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow could any thinking individual consider this man (Beck) a credible social and political commentator? I sincerely believe that the intense level of exposure that he and others of his ilk receive in the media speaks volumes about the state of American culture in general as well as its failed educational system in particular. This is not thoughtful commentary; it is a circus act.
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