This is "risque"?

This is "risque"? May 8, 2008

Is it me, or does it seem like reporters aren’t even trying to make sense anymore?

Tricia Nixon was risque in a sleeveless gown at her Rose Garden wedding.

Oh please. In 1971, this might have been fashion forward, very lovely and “different” (neither hippy-granny dress, nor blowsy meringue) but it was hardly “risque,” especially for a wedding held in a garden instead of a church.

Blah, blah, blah, Jenna is not having a White House wedding because blah, blah, George Bush isn’t running for election and he’s unpopular, blah, blah, blah. I’m sure if Jenna Bush wanted a White House wedding, she’d have had one. It seems to me President Bush is not intimidated by his low approval ratings, and he’s also not interested in pandering for that approval by dancing to “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” for the cameras. What is much more likely (and believable) is that the Bushes prefer to keep their family celebrations to themselves and not reduce their special occasions to fodder for the very press that hates them all.

What blather. Congrats to Jenna Bush and her intended. She’ll be teaching in Baltimore after the wedding.


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