Why does the media give Melania the kid glove treatment compared to Michelle?
Commentators instantly excused Melania on the grounds that she wasn’t a political person – only a spouse. She couldn’t possibly be blamed for the plagiarism.
And maybe they’re right. Maybe she was ill-served by someone in the campaign.
But imagine the reaction if Michelle had plagiarized Nancy Reagan. Or if she’d had a history of posing nude on a bearskin rug. Or if she was the third wife, a “trophy” wife.
What is so different about the two women, that makes the media treat Melania with so much more deference?
Like Melania, Michelle was a reluctant campaigner.
Like Melania, Michelle preferred to concentrate on her own successful career.
But unlike Melania, Michelle never did anything wrong, yet she faced far more criticism.
Both women are tall, striking, and of similar age. But only the sight of the white “supermodel” reduces much of the media into googly-eyed submission.
The Don knew this, of course, when he swapped his second wife for his third. That was part of the attraction. He knows white women like Melania turn many men into mush-brains, and that he’d benefit from some of her reflected glory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama
Although she has campaigned on her husband's behalf since early in his political career by handshaking and fund-raising, she did not relish the activity at first. When she campaigned during her husband's 2000 run for United States House of Representatives, her boss at the University of Chicago asked if there was any single thing about campaigning that she enjoyed; after some thought, she replied that visiting so many living rooms had given her some new decorating ideas.[87] She reportedly turned down requests by the campaign for her to attend fundraisers.[88] Obama was against her husband's run for the congressional seat and after his defeat would have preferred her husband tending to the financial needs of the family in what she deemed a more practical way.
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In May 2007, three months after her husband declared his presidential candidacy, Obama reduced her professional responsibilities by 80 percent to support his presidential campaign.[20] Early in the campaign, she had limited involvement in which she traveled to political events only two days a week and rarely traveled overnight;[94] by early February 2008 her participation had increased significantly, attending thirty-three events in eight days.[65] She made several campaign appearances with Oprah Winfrey.[95][96] She wrote her own stump speeches for her husband's presidential campaign and generally spoke without notes.[28]
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