Article on MSNBC on the Bush* twins. Surprisingly, sounds SKEPTICAL.

[LittleApple81]

about the new, can-do-no-wrong image being portrayed.
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The president's daughters have emerged from their media-free zone of comfort into the flattering spotlight of Vogue.

The August issue of the fashion magazine includes an interview with the recent college graduates as well as two portraits by photographer Patrick Demarchelier. The opening picture features the two young women in strapless ball gowns. Jenna's ruby red dress is by Oscar de la Renta, a designer favored by her mother. Barbara is wearing a similar ivory gown by Calvin Klein. They are accessorized with an array of borrowed diamonds. The dresses are classic designs -- styles that a designer would keep on hand in the showroom but wouldn't bother to put on the runway.

Public debut
The 22-year-old twins look like debutantes, minor royals, or that particular New York species of well-groomed, pedigreed and socially connected woman known as the "Bright Young Thing." For much of the time their father has been in the White House, they were kept under wraps. Occasionally they emerged from their protected world to be snapped attending a fashion show or traveling with their mother. The only significant ink on them has been on police reports detailing their ill-advised underage drinking.

• A hair's-breadth to the presidency

snip..

Both the president and first lady have seen the story and the accompanying photographs and "they like it," Johndroe says. "They think their daughters look great and it's a nice article."

What's not to like? The story notes that the daughters' post-graduation plans include Jenna's desire to work for a charter school and Barbara's interest in working with AIDS-afflicted children in Eastern Europe and Africa. Both girls have surrounded themselves with a group of good friends who say such nice things about them that readers might be led to believe these young women have never burped publicly, let alone had a grumpy day.

much more at link..... Pretty skeptical if you ask me.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5433110/?GT1=4244

[bleowheels]

1. Seems like one giant propaganda push to me as well. I especially..

laughed when I heard that Jenna wants to teach in Harlem. :puke:

[SemperEadem]

2. where's the hideous picture of them sprawled on the street

with one of them with her legs open for a unfettered view of the "bush treasury"?

Minor royalty my foot! They don't possess enough grace and discipline to even rank. Gutter rats!

[LittleApple81]

3. I saw that picture here on DU two or three days ago. Who will have the

courage to publish it now? Maybe the Enquirer?

[Grown2Hate]

4. What picture?

I'm in the dark here... sounds ridiculous though...

[Sub Atomic]

5. this one.

[LittleApple81]

6. No. There is a worse one. In that one she is on the SIDEWALK with

her legs open... and the photographer got more of her "private parts" than I would ever want to see.

[ronnykmarshall]

18. Is that one REAL??

I've never though that was of the twins.

[Bunny]

21. Neither did I, ronnyk

I think it was photoshopped or something, too.

[LittleApple81]

19. OK, the DUer that posted the other one a few days ago, please post it

again. I cannot find it by searching in DU.

[LittleApple81]

22. I found it myself. It was in DU, LBN thread.

This apparently comes from a place called www.bettybowers.com

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=685009

It is post #4 in the thread.


edited to correct link to thread.

[lectrobyte]

7. Wow. No wonder they sent anthrax to the Enquirer after running

pics like that...

[Scairp]

10. Hey!

Did anyone notice the cigarette in her hand? Hmm..do nice young debs puff away on fags? Aren't they being put forward as role models or something?

[buycitgo]

11. that isn't really THEM, is it?

I've seen that, and thought it was just a photoshop job

if it's real, say goodbye

[lectrobyte]

13. that's really Jenna, after falling on someone else at a party <nt>

[West Coast Democrat]

8. Appearing in August Issue of Vogue?...

August is the tiniest, least important issue of the year.

[PA Democrat]

9. "The twins wear Italian and American labels but no French."

Did Karl Rove instruct them to say this?

Ha! Ha! I'll bet they freedom kiss too!

[West Coast Democrat]

12. I read that too. How lame!

[SemperEadem]

14. Good... the French wouldn't want two mad cows in their clothes anyway

[vetwife]

17. What was it that was said "Fair Game"

They are now. They entered the arena..They are Fair Game.

[JHB]

15. I love the description of the dresses

The opening picture features the two young women in strapless ball gowns. Jenna's ruby red dress is by Oscar de la Renta, a designer favored by her mother. Barbara is wearing a similar ivory gown by Calvin Klein. They are accessorized with an array of borrowed diamonds. The dresses are classic designs -- styles that a designer would keep on hand in the showroom but wouldn't bother to put on the runway.

It looked as if whoever made the dresses also made the draperies behind them. (Which, of course, conjurs the image of Carol Burnett as Scarlet o'Hara... :headbang: )

[West Coast Democrat]

16. Republicans don't wear the latest styles....

everyone knows that!!

[JHB]

20. That applies across the board.

The first time I heard of "The Macarena", politicians were dancing to it. Republican politicians.

I knew at once that there was no possibility I was missing something by not knowing "the Macarena".

[West Coast Democrat]

23. Oh my god! I saw the photo on ABC News! Ugliest Dresses Ever!

I can't believe such horrible attire would appear on the pages of Vogue...this article can't possibly make the twins look good in the public eye.

[DeepModem Mom]

24. This is a very gutsy piece by the Wash Post fashion writer, Ms. Givhan....

I applaud her.