Tyra Banks to play Michelle Obama on paper
This just in: The New York Post reports that fading superm
odel Tyra Banks is going to play dress-up and undergo an actual makeover to dress up to look just like the real rising political wife Michelle Obama.
It's supposed to be for the cover of an upcoming issue of Harper's Bazaar, given the overwhelming satirical success of the recent Michelle-Barack cover on the New Yorker magazine.
And then the side-splitting Vanity Fair satire of the New Yorker satire.
Talk about bazaar.
With the real Michelle out there for millions to see most every day really campaigning all over for her real husband, Barack, the magazine apparently thinks that a fake one will help sell copies. Maybe it makes sense in New York.
(UPDATE: Harper's Bazaar clarifies that while Banks will be on the upcoming cover, she won't be dressing like Michelle Obama there but will be on inside pages as a "homage" to both Obama and Jacqueline Kennedy.)
But why do we think this possible stunt has more to do with Tyra than the possible next first lady, who's already graced several other covers for real?
-- Andrew Malcolm
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
Subscribe to this Blog
Your spelling is pretty bazaar
Posted by: rlee | August 05, 2008 at 08:15 AM
President Britany/Paris and first lady Barney.Yep ! That's
what the pollsters and the MSM say. Hopefully the voters
are not under the same spell. What happened to Wright,
Ayers, Rezko,Hanoi Jane ,gov. Judas and the rest of his
true mentors?
Posted by: Britany,Paris and Barney ? | August 05, 2008 at 09:30 AM
'an error does not become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it...i'm confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be - free and independent.'
- jfk
so who's to play tyra banks while she plays michelle while michelle plays...?
the media people are doing everything they can to keep the people in a constant state of distracted confusion bombarding them with mindboggling nonsense, the more successful to pull the wool over their eyes. it is sad to see the media's barefaced compliancy in this attempted putsch to spin into office either of two handpicked 'puppet' candidates not only inept but illegitimate, battering the foundations of the american republic, and ethical values.
Posted by: dave | August 06, 2008 at 04:25 AM