No Holiday for Media Slobbering Over Michelle Obama

It may be a national holiday, but that doesn't mean the media takes a day off from their contrived gushing over Michelle Obama. This one is so over the top it sets new standards for egregious fawning.

I could see if Barack Obama was married to Vanessa Williams or Tyra Banks, but seriously, this drooling over his wife is just sickening.

Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president.

But the American first lady, who has wowed publics in the U.S. and Europe with her easy elegance and charm, will perhaps face a bigger challenge in winning over a Russian public that has scant respect for women who grab the limelight from their powerful husbands.

Easy elegance? Charm? Superstar glamor?

Are they talking about this hulking woman who declared America is a downright mean country?

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife Svetlana is pious and discreet and met her husband while she was a schoolgirl. She supports charity and the arts, but has assumed no independent voice on issues facing the country. She dresses conservatively, lacking the edgy fashion sense that has attracted a nationwide following for Michelle Obama.

A nationwide following? What nation? Kenya? The nation where these media morons live?

Michelle Obama's fashion sense attracts comparisons with Jacqueline Kennedy, and there is a Web site entirely dedicated to what she wears.

The only people drawing comparisons to Jackie Kennedy are these media twits. Here in the real world I've yet to hear a single woman utter words such as "gee, I want to get that outfit Michelle Obama is wearing."