February 1st, 2012
Hollywood raised its collective glass to Michelle Obama at a fundraiser Tuesday. (more)
January 30th, 2012
The report by a British newspaper that the first lady accompanied the queen of Qatar on a $50,000 lingerie shopping spree is false, White House Spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday. (more)
January 30th, 2012
Michelle Obama reportedly shelled out $50,000 on “the sexiest lingerie in the world” at Agent Provocateur in New York City, according to The Telegraph. (more)
January 27th, 2012
Michelle Obama is playing a growing role in her husband’s re-election campaign, partly as a fundraiser, but especially as a cheerleader for her husband’s female supporters. (more)
January 26th, 2012
Fashion blogs and websites are in an uproar after an item on the French Elle website says that the Obamas are the first fashionable black family, the Daily Mail reports. (more)
January 25th, 2012
While the president spoke about the economic frustrations of average Americans in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, his wife, Michelle Obama appeared at the event in a sapphire blue dress from designer Barbara Tfank’s 2012 Resort collection, estimated to cost over $2k. (more)
January 24th, 2012
First lady Michelle Obama’s guest list for her husband’s Tuesday night State of the Union address offers a road map of President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign. (more)
January 17th, 2012
Love her or hate her, Michelle Obama has pulled out all the stops to manicure her image during her first three years in the White House. (more)
January 14th, 2012
In November 2016, Illinois voters will go to the polls to decide who they want to occupy the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. And although it is a long way off, could one of the names on the ticket be first lady Michelle Obama? (more)
January 11th, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is challenging assertions she has forcefully imposed her will on White House aides and says people have inaccurately tried to portray her as “some kind of angry black woman.” (more)
January 9th, 2012
“The Obamas,” a book by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, reveals that the White House secretly hosted an “Alice in Wonderland costume ball,” considered by some to be poor taste in the middle of a recession. (more)
January 7th, 2012
Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tells the author of a new book on President Obama’s family that he “stopped taking” presidential aide Valerie Jarrett “at all seriously as an adviser to the president” after she made up complaints from first lady Michelle Obama about his work. (more)
January 6th, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is a behind-the-scenes force in the White House whose opinions on policy and politics drew her into conflict with presidential advisers and who bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life as the president’s wife, according to a detailed account of the first couple’s relationship. (more)
January 6th, 2012
Mike O’Neal, the speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, has apologized for forwarding a tasteless email to other lawmakers which referred to the first lady as “Mrs. YoMama,” the Kansas City Star reported Thursday. (more)
December 21st, 2011
1.) Eric Holder hopes Santa doesn’t check his list twice this year — You’ll never guess who’s to blame for Eric Holder’s problems. Or maybe you know already, assuming you own a mirror. That’s right, it’s your fault! TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: (more)
November 26th, 2011
Perhaps it is a low regard for the racial sensibilities of Rush Limbaugh’s audience, or what he calls “non-college whites” as a whole, but MSNBC host Chris Matthews and the panel on this weekend’s broadcast of “The Chris Matthews Show” has branded an entire segment of society as being guilty of prejudice. (more)
November 23rd, 2011
On his Wednesday show, radio host Rush Limbaugh illustrated what would otherwise be an ill-advised hypothetical situation by suggesting that if Michelle Obama were to appear on his radio show, he would introduce the first lady with Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s 1992 hit “Baby Got Back.” (more)
November 22nd, 2011
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann received an apology from an NBC executive after an off-color song was played during her appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s “Late Night,” her spokeswoman said late Wednesday. (more)
