The other day, Michelle Obama went full Wal-Mart in her outfit on the First Family's taxpayer-funded Grand Canyon excursion, and the journalistic fashionistas are having the vapors. I am almost, but not quite, sympathetic to the First Lady. It seems she wore short shorts and what might be charitably described as a casual top.Predictably, the NBC lickspittles went gaga over the First lady's daring, but they are fooling no one but themselves (if that). Robin Givhan of the WaPo, no conservative -- but possessed of enough fashion credibility to be worth defending, was more honest, though even she prefaced her remarks with softening comments, before delivering the real verdict at the very end of her article:Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.If the First Lady had not been sold to the American public as a fashion icon, a woman of elegance and...(Read Full Post)