We all know that PETA hates Presidential Fly Swatting and they never seem to shut up about fur wearers, but when the FLOTUS decided to rock a luxury alligator clutch while strolling through the Russian woods earlier this week (price tag right around $6K- but I won’t go there), we heard crickets.
I guess PETA’s silence on the issue means that they are A-OK with the First Lady’s fashion choices. I mean, the bag is really cute.
But aren’t alligators people animals, too? Sure, they’re not quite as cute and cuddly as house flies or those baby seals PETA people seem so obsessed with, but I’m sure they’re just as valuable to society or the ecosystem or whatever it is animal-rights crazies care about.
I’m guessing the PETA people have actually used their brains (another first) to figure out that it is far easier to throw paint on a fur-wearer than a leather-wearer. Sure, messing with an old lady in a fur coat seems easy enough, but I don’t think throwing paint on leather wearing Hell’s Angels or Harley Davidson crews would be very well received.
Maybe it is wise that PETA isn’t attacking Michelle for her choice in handbags. I’m pretty sure with her jacked arms she could rip them a new one.
UPDATE:
So it turns out the designers of the bag misidentified Michelle’s clutch as the alligator version when in fact it is the patent leather version. But my point still stands, patent leather is made from cows. I have no idea why PETA isn’t having one.
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I bet she wrassled that gator and skinned it herself! From what I hear she’s a kick ass gardener too! Is there anything that woman can’t do?
$6K for a purse? Oh yeah, the Obamas are “just like us.” Thank God we dodged the bullet with that rich old guy, huh?
I think it’s more of the case that the PeTards are afraid that the Klingon Warrior Princess will call down the Klingon Battlecruiser and wipe them out with a barrage of Photon torpedos.
And there is no doubt in my mind that she 86′d that gator.
Pick an outfit that doesn’t make her ass look like an aircraft carrier, apparently.
LOL Good point, Swede. I wonder why she picked such a small purse – there’s no way she’d be able to fit a bat’leth in that thing!
Beige – ZING!
Yeah, I’m so glad the Obamas are keepin’ it rill. You know, to show they can relate to the average man. The average man whose scary troglodyte wife demands $6K accessories and stands around looking like she just swallowed a tarantula for fun.
But wait, there’s more! Now the bag has been “misidentified” as an alligator clutch…
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/07/09/2009-07-09_michelle_obama_flashes_expensive_taste_carries_5950_black_bag_alligator_russia_.html
CM, she doesn’t NEED to put a bat’leth in it. She has the superhero Telepromterman to save her!
Yeah the issue is that it is NOT a 6k alligator bag. Just a clutch worth 1k made from leather. So…..still expensive and Michelle is still a Horse face, but I guess it is not as bad as first thought.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if that WAS her favorite hobby Beige.
PETA probably wouldn’t object to that either.
Hey, without alligators, there wouldn’t be the UF Gators, which means no Tim Telbow which means no FU chants for me to scream drunkenly during Tennessee football games.
….That’s the only good I find from the alligators. I guess.
@Pasta: I’m waiting in my kids’ heavily-fortified playroom for the jackbooted O thugs to show up and pistol-whip me for blaspheming MO’s epic ass. Could you throw some Neosporin and Band-Aids in the mail, please?
BEige, love ya! And $1000 or $6000 for a purse that tiny and it better do something more than be held by the likes of this FLOTUS. How about $24.00 Target purse I got. Wish I could afford $500 sneakers and $1000 purse, but I have to buy things like food for us. Yet he has no problems raising my taxes to take care of his peeps.
So did they find a good campsite or what?
Sorry I need all of mine. Well… that and the Amoxicillin. Don’t ask.
Ms. Obama should never again wear those pants.
Or that black/red Narcisco Rodriguez-travesty of a dress she wore to the inauguration.
Don’t forget the Polly Pocket ensemble from Westminster Abbey, Fortunate Son.
So the purse is still expensive, as others have pointed out. I, like others, STILL couldn’t afford it. How long are people going to be under the Obama spell? And didn’t the left-wingers have a mud slinging-fest when Palin’s daughter was carrying a designer bag? I call hypocrisy.
I got nothin’ to add……….all of ya’ll said it already.
Signed, Koka
……who is sitting in her house looking at a soon to be due insurance bill of $1,000 + for the house and the 2 vehicles we own, wondering how I am going to get new shoes and uniform clothes for my 2 sons when school starts in 4 weeks, all the while reading all of the witty remarks everyone has made about The Untouchable Ones to my unemployed for over 7 months husband.
Well, you have to consider the cost of the purse plus how much to Obamas had to pay the company to cover for their over-the-top purchase… patent leather her ass O:)
PETA has consistently campaigned against leather and leather production. Do your research.
I’d like to see them throw red paint on some Hell’s Angels.
Michelle would bitch slap PETA if they dare make any noise about her alligator/cow clutch.
Yeah, I think PETA’s racist. I remember them pissing their pants over Britney Spears’s plans to use a python (or was it a boa constrictor?) in her act a few years ago, and God help any (white) celebrity seen in fur, unless it’s a PETA spokesperson. Not hearing any stomping outrage over this one, no matter how much the clutch costs.
And another thing: Why are the wives walking several paces behind the menfolk? Have they been secretly transported to medieval Japan? Given that Michelle can no doubt break Barry over her knee like wee bits o’kindling, you’d think he’d be afraid to turn his back on her.
“Given that Michelle can no doubt break Barry over her knee like wee bits o’kindling, you’d think he’d be afraid to turn his back on her.”
He better keep an extra vigilant eye on her now after the stunt he pulled:
http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/09/obama-baby-got-barack/
or he’s about to be kindling.
How much did it cost us to constantly have her kids and mother tag along? Obama’s need a full time babysitter so they have to bring her along?
I constantly look at Michelle and wonder what I am missing if people view her as a fashion icon. I will take Laura’s clothes over hers any day.
AAW – couldn’t agree with you more…I’m glad there is at least one more person in the world who does not see Michelle Obama as any kind of fashion icon. And she can’t hold a candle to the class, elegance, and sophistication of Laura Bush.
Gahahahaha! I love how the guy standing to the right of him in the Baby Got Barack photo just looks like he’s about to enroll in roflcopter pilot training.
I think the biggest reason she’s seen as a fashion icon is because she’s got toned arms, and she isn’t shy about showing them off. That was the beginning of the hoopla, wasn’t it? Somebody spazzed because she went sleeveless to something and thought it was “inappropriate,” and everyone else said, “Psh, you’re just jealous you don’t have Battlestar Galactica worthy biceps.”
I think we’re expected to believe she’s regarded as a fashion icon is because she and Barry are supposed to be regarded as the new Kennedys, and the fashion thing goes with the rest of the package. So to speak.
Ahem. Delete that “is” from the first sentence. Think twice, post once. Think twice, post once. ARRRGGGHHH.
Yeah, well Jackie had class and elegance. Michelle “never been prouder” Obama does not.
Can’t she even try to pretend she’s a teeny tiny wee bit impressed to be FLOTUS? BO flashes that goofy grin–like a country boy seeing big city lights for the first time–indiscriminately, and she looks like a big angry g-r-l-a all the time. Frankly, it’s so embarrassing to have these two represent America. No fan of McCain here, but Cindy would have been a great FLOTUS.
@Koka…
If you’re having to buy uniforms, then your kids are probably in private school. I’d say you’re probably doing better than most of us.
You people are just disgusting… I was going to make a comment on her silly bag but you have turned this into some kind of ugly, racist diatribe. Calling Mrs. Obama a Klingon and a “g-r-l-a”? You sicken me.
Bye, MJ.
“You people are just disgusting… You sicken me.”
And yet, you are here with us…
Because she arrived to preach about one thing, and here we were doing something else. Which she didn’t bother to think about, because her knee already had that jerking thing down cold.
And, of course, we were immediately accused of being racists. It’s not our fault that she chose to flaunt a $6000 purse – that’s more than most people spend on groceries in 6 months…oh, I’m sorry, it’s a $1000 purse, that makes it so much better because that sounds like a reasonable price for a tiny and a completely useless clutch she’s never going to carry again, right? (Love this quote btw “If that’s what the White House is saying, then it’s a patent bag”). And don’t blame us, I mean, if it looks like a gorilla, walks like a gorilla and talks like a gorilla…
Buying school uniforms does not necessarily mean private schools. There are some school districts that require uniforms. And if Koka lives in a DMZ like I do, and doesn’t want her kids having to learn gang signs in first grade, it’s private school or homeschooling. Notice that I chose to defend Koka, because she sure as hell doesn’t have to defend herself to you.
And another thing – Bush and Prince Charles (both of whom I heartily dislike btw, especially Bush) are likened to monkeys and/or are called monkeys all the time and that’s considered okay for some reason. But MO is off limits because she is black. And WE are the racists now. Okay.
Mary Jane,
“I was going to make a comment on her silly bag but you have turned this into some kind of ugly, racist diatribe. Calling Mrs. Obama a Klingon and a “g-r-l-a”?”
Since Mrs. Obama’s race wasn’t brought up when she was referred to as a Klingon you could only be referring to racism against the Klingons (the only ‘race’ actually mentioned). Are you really implying that it’s so offensive to Klingons to refer to Mrs. Obama as one as to constitute racism? That’s an even more mean thing to say about her than anyone else here did, in my opinion.
But wait, reading these comments I have to wonder – who’s the hypocrite? I thought it was PETA for not complaining about the purse, but the comments here seem to mostly just insult Michelle Obama…
@ Swede
Ahahaha that Klingon comment made my day. I’d been wondering if anyone else had bothered to note the resemblance.
50 Cents is right.
MO could put on a butcher’s coat, hacksaw the croc or the cow or whatever (she’s certainly got the muscles for it), and fashion a codpiece for BO (or maybe herself) out of the hide, and ALL of this could be on YouTube, and PETA wouldn’t sound a peep. Because if they did, they know they would suffer the wrath of the Chicago thug. Because, you know, the “family” is off-limits.
Poor PETA, they could have had so much fun with this, if only FLOTUS’s hubby had an ‘R’ after his name…Ooops to bad, that magic ‘D’ best defense you can have when you are a gold-card marxist, hypocrite.
Yes there is one thing michelle cant do. 1. Look pretty, 2. Have class. And her husband is not half the man that she is..
PETA Sez: Do as we say not as we do.