It was Michelle Obama, not Barack Obama who appeared last night on Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Report“, seeking the well-known and now documented “Colbert bump.” It was her first appearance on a late-night TV talk show.
“Everybody knows you and your husband are elitists,” Mr. Colbert said right off the bat. “Tell me about your elite upbringing on the South Side of Chicago. How many silver spoons in your mouth?”
“We had four spoons,” deadpanned Mrs. Obama during her late night talk show debut.
She added: “And then my father got a raise at the plant, and we had five spoons.”
“That sounds posh,” replied Mr. Colbert.
And he continued to flatter the potential first lady at nearly every opportunity.
“You’re a very good-looking lady,” he said, comparing her style to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. (And, we have to say, Mrs. Obama was looking rather chic in a bright blue sleeveless boatneck dress.)
Mrs. Obama, though, did not return the compliments. After imploring Mr. Colbert to serenade her (to make her husband “a little jealous”) — which he obliged, crooning “L is for the way you look at me” — Mrs. Obama said her husband “has a better voice.”
She also used her late-night appearance as a platform to talk about why women voters are turning to her husband. She said that folks who pay too much attention to polls showing Hillary Rodham Clinton with a large percentage of the female vote in Pennsylvania are making “a mistake.”
“Many women like myself who are independent, strong, focused, who care about family values, who know that Barack is special, that he has something unique to offer the country, and that his perspective is really gonna change the lives of working women, he understands because he’s living with me,” Mrs. Obama said. (More.)
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