Katharine Rust
Recently by Katharine Rust
Aug 6 2009, 4:48PM
While We Were Down...
While the world of Twitter feverishly tried to catch up with itself after being down for the majority of the day, you may have missed some of the more poignant and important tweets being posted by top pundits. Never fear, we've scoured the Atlantic's twitter feed from 4 hours ago up until now to give you a sense of the news-worthy items being tweeted from the world of analysts and commentators. See below.
John Dickerson:
@jdickersonDuring Twitter outage I wrote a novel and built a kit car. You?
Allahpundit
@allahpunditAlex Jones's next video. Enjoy, Ron Paul fans: http://is.gd/24Rxj
Ana Marie Cox
@anamariecoxCute. Overload. http://tr.im/vJye
John Dickerson:
@jdickersonDuring Twitter outage I wrote a novel and built a kit car. You?
Allahpundit
@allahpunditAlex Jones's next video. Enjoy, Ron Paul fans: http://is.gd/24Rxj
Ana Marie Cox
@anamariecoxCute. Overload. http://tr.im/vJye
Jul 22 2009, 11:12AM
Bringing Frumpy Back
If he can't calm down chatter surrounding the health care bill, at least President Obama can attempt to silence his fashion critics. When asked in an interview on NBC yesterday about his Major League debut outfit choice at last week's MLB All-Star game, Obama responded by referring to his "fabulous" wife/international fashion icon, stating that, despite his better half's classy J.Crew-cut threads, he's "a little frumpy."
The president then went on a denim defense, admitting that not only does he hate to shop, but "up until a few years ago, I only had four suits.... Those jeans are comfortable. And for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I'm sorry. I'm not the guy."
So Scott Schuman won't be promoting the commander-in-chief as a style icon anytime soon--but at least Obama owns up to his fashion short-comings instead of touting himself as a homely soccer dad whilst wearing Armani.
The real issue now: Can you trust a man in mom jeans?
The president then went on a denim defense, admitting that not only does he hate to shop, but "up until a few years ago, I only had four suits.... Those jeans are comfortable. And for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I'm sorry. I'm not the guy."
So Scott Schuman won't be promoting the commander-in-chief as a style icon anytime soon--but at least Obama owns up to his fashion short-comings instead of touting himself as a homely soccer dad whilst wearing Armani.
The real issue now: Can you trust a man in mom jeans?
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