No.

So why address it?

And FYI, there are journalists who are bloggers, but bloggers can be journalists only if they are developing leads, researching, interviewing, writing ledes and good copy, editing, fact checking. That means we've narrowed the field quite a bit. So CPL get off NABJ's ass. They're part of the solution, not the damn problem.

He still is.

Barack, for the most part, got a pass by Grigoriadis.

However, Grigoriadis seems convinced that Michelle Obama is not quite what she seems and is up to something. Grigoriadis studied every eye flicker, head turn, smile, laugh, breath, and piece of clothing of Michelle’s to get the “real story” of what made this Black, Black, Black, Blaaaaaaack woman tick.

But why?

It comes down to a phenomena that is not new. Someone who is an ethnic (say Irish, Italian, or GREEK) immigrant or the daughter of ethnic immigrants, arrives to North American. Immediately, to deflect attention away from their own ethnicity, they quickly “other” African Americans, in order to solidify their own ethnic identity with White identity. You Black People sure are strange to All Us White People!

Vanessa Griogaridis, she of the recently arrived to North America Greek heritage, has gone extremely far out of her way to “other” Michelle Obama, she whose ancestors have likely been North American since there was a North America. Griogaridis wants her readers to understand that Obama is a foreign, strange, Black creature who’s every movement and nuance has to be explained to terrified, helpless, clueless White America.

Fortunately, the latest Essence is out and reading that gave me an understanding of why Michelle Obama remains serene and upbeat despite reporting that would have driven another woman indoors.

Apparently, Michelle’s mother has a philosophy that just because someone calls you a dog, that doesn’t mean you don’t get down on all fours and start barking. No. You keep going and doing what you were doing before the idiot stepped to you.

So, truthfully, I’ve come to the conclusion that the article Grigoriadis wrote tells us MUCH more about Grigoriadis and her insecurity with her own identity, as a Greek and perhaps as a woman outdone when faced with a more powerful woman.

I think the reporting on Michelle will become more shrill, catty, and resentful as the convention draws near. It will take a woman pretty confident in herself to report on Michelle Obama… Grigoriadis is not that woman.

I'm glad you can laugh, but the reality of the situation is too painful for me to laugh. Obama should be should be just another candidate running for president and Michelle should be just another candidate's wife, but portions of white america stopped laughing at his desire to be president now that he is a serious contender and now nobody's laughing us – this is for real.

I told yall that NewYorker cover was about Michelle. Imagine this story and that cover together.

I don't know how to say that I admire the strength and dignity that I have read here, seen in the Obamas and beyond during this time. I don't know if I would be half as restrained. I have a lot of respect and a lot of sadness that we have to live the way we do.

I read the article in it's entirety. It is highly subjective and full of inconsistencies. She is a typical, narcissistic , racist white person who doesn't know that she doesn't know. I couldn't find any campaign contributions in her name, but she has written articles for Cannabis News, so that also explains some things. She has definitely had her share of insults from her peers. Here's one that doesn't attack her looks:

Best Vanessa Grigoriadis Retread
Tie: “Girls Gone Wild” and “Hey, There’s a Yoga Craze!”
This just in! Sex parties all the rage. It’s easy to have a crush on Vanessa Grigoriadis. We certainly did for a while. She’s mysterious and sexy, and she writes breathlessly about sexy subjects. In 1998, when she was just 25, her first major New York magazine piece was a flashy cover story about New York publicists. It read like a movie, so it was no surprise that the film rights Sony quickly bought for a reported $400,000. Wow, we thought, here was a young writer with verve to spare who cashed in right away.
Then we started to hate Grigoriadis because all of her magazine features sounded like movie scripts. Whether she was reporting on nightlife or Silicon Alley creative types, every story was a chance to update St. Elmo’s Fire or Less Than Zero. We couldn’t imagine that anyone would want to buy a story about New York bouncers or the founders of stupid shit like Feed, so we didn’t imagine she’d ever sell anything else to Hollywood. Maybe, we thought, she’d become just another one-trick magazine writer.
We worry that she’s tired of even being that. In 1999, Grigoriadis wrote about the growing popularity of yoga for New York, and followed it with a post-Sept. 11 story about yoga’s new importance. Then, when she essentially replaced Alex Kuczynski at the Times’ Sunday Styles section this year, she quickly settled in and wrote a piece about…yoga.
Despite spending so much time doing yoga and writing about yoga, Grigoriadis also turned out saucier pieces, like the features about Girls Gone Wild founder Joseph Francis that ran in both Rolling Stone and Radar.
The not-so-young-anymore Grigoriadis may simply be an opportunistic writer with a rare talent for reselling her work, but what if she’s just plain run out of ideas? Or what if she doesn’t want to write anymore? The New York Post reported in January that she was attending Harvard Divinity School. What if she takes her skills and becomes, oh please help us, a religious leader? Who’s going to be there when we want to read about feuds in the Hamptons or about club promoters doing cocaine or about a bunch of models who live in the same house and compete for the same jobs and men?
We don’t know, but we’re not worried. If she ever leaves, um, journalism, for something else, she’ll always know how to find a good publicist.

It is the middle of the night here in Indy and I have been reading everyone's comments and find that we all share the same frustrations. I must however interject for the first time and say this… Why are we so upset?

When you see an pig and you smell a pig, do you expect chicken instead? This is what we all knew would become the pattern of MSM behavior. I however am especially proud of the authors reaction. Before you all bash me, hear me out. When the lady on the elevator moves her purse, I laugh. When the salesclerk in the store watches me, I laugh. When a white man tries to bait me, I laugh. Why… becuase I find their situation hysterical. They are afraid of me!!!!

I am the hard-working mother, descendant of slaves, mother of future black women and men voters, female yang to my man's yin. I am powerful and I frighten the living shyt out of all of them.

We have always understood the power of the black woman in a man's life. They seem to think that power should come from someone white. Truth is, Barack knew that Michelle was his equal, if not his better, in every way and he did his parents and grandparents proud in choosing such a mate as her.

In their words they say that the worst thing for the presidency is him, but in their mind they know that the worst thing for their way of life is her. The longer that I have watched the two of them together I see the real strength in the relationship; It is Michelle.

They may have their misgivings about Barack, but the true fear is of that “angry black women”. The same woman that they covet and hate at the same time. Which is why they have allowed us to work alongside their men, while they silently cast aside ours. However, when they discover how intelligent and independent and strong black women really are, they panic. Many black men have been defeated by their system, but the vast number of smart, strong black women are still here fighting for their families, homes, jobs, and independence, while remaining faithful allies to our men.

I acknowledge the historical significance of the first african-american president but I desperately await the power of the first african-american FIRST LADY from the south side of Chicago who grew up fifteen minutes from me and truly understands me on that elevator and in that store, and I hope she's laughing at them right now,

I'm sorry. I can't read this article. I've read your excerpts from it, and your commentary, and that's quite enough for me.

It has a list and profile of Republicans who have endorsed him and voters and their stories. It's like a site within a site.

Actually, I think they have re-vamped the whole site.

D….I think he's trying to send you a couple of hints. That's ok. You still have a little time.

This entire email was illuminating, craig. Loved it where you first posted it, and loved reading it here.

When I read this, I go back to Yogo's observation from over a year ago:

IF Obama wins, it really will turn White Supremacy on its head.
NOT because a Black man won.
But, because a Black woman will be in the White House…
and she didn't have to sneak in the back entrance to do it.

'beside themselves'.