“They’re ready to go,” First Lady Michelle Obama declared to reporters traveling with the First Family. The Post covered that effort in February 2012, dutifully noting without a hint of disapproval that Sasha and Malia would soon be part of their father’s re-election campaign. It was nothing that the Obama’s hadn’t done with their own daughters.
It gave Cruz an opportunity to remind viewers of how he’d read Green Eggs and Ham to his daughters while filibustering to stop Obamacare, and gave voters the glimpse of family that they desire. With Cruz and wife Heidi bookending their two daughters on a couch, the little girls each had a line of their own in the campaign ad. Cruz and his family pretended to read from Christmas “classics” like Auditing St. Senator Ted Cruz prepared a 90-second television spot that aired on NBC’s Saturday Night Live this past weekend, a short film that parodied mass-market ads. This week, The Washington Post finds itself at the center of another attack on a Republican public official’s children. Even before Roberts uttered a word before Congress, Givhan criticized his childrens’ apparel to justify her knee-jerk opinion of their father. Never mind that Americans had an expectation to see Roberts’ family supporting his bid for the Supreme Court, and that it was Roberts and his judicial expertise on which the Senate hearing would focus. “These clothes are Old World, old money and a cut above the light-up/shoe-buying hoi polloi.” They are not classic they are old-fashioned,” Givhan sneers. “Separate the child from the clothes, which do not acknowledge trends, popular culture or the passing of time. “t was hard not to marvel at the 1950s-style tableau vivant that was John Roberts and his family,” Givhan wrote. Related: Ted Cruz: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Him The Washington Post’s fashion editor Robin Givhan once notoriously criticized the wardrobe of the children of then-Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in order to paint the jurist as out of touch with everyday Americans. Bush presidency, getting a level of scrutiny that Chelsea managed to avoid even after the Clintons left the White House. Jenna and Barbara Bush got plenty of media scrutiny and criticism for their alleged partying while young adults during the George W. When it comes to Republicans, though, the media has a somewhat spottier track record. The press followed the rule with near perfection when it came to Chelsea Clinton, and so far with Sasha and Malia Obama as well. Well, at least that has been the ground rules when it comes to Democrats at the national level. That has been the ground rule in American politics ever since the Clintons moved into the White House in 1993.
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