Well if she is not, then why does she know so much about fashion, hmm? Simon Doonan (window dresser; homosexual; short) meets the First Lady for White House holiday decorating: "Her long-standing interest in style makes the process easy: She likes the 'softer, more Romeo Gigli colors.' She agrees with my suggestion that we should use 'a Lanvin-ish antique-looking glitter' instead of anything too sparkly. While Mrs. Obama loves the idea of 'the Wish Tree,' an interactive piece created by a Hoboken-based company named Cardboard Design, her most enthusiastic response is reserved for the 800 recycled silver balls that are proposed for the monumental Blue Room Tree. Together we decide that decoupage, rather than painting, is the way to go." Then Doonan lays into that nice man, Andrew Breitbart, who runs that nice website for conservatives. Related: enjoy all this further fodder, teabaggers!

If I were to go raiding among the stacks of the National Gallery and the Smithsonian Institutions to decorate my White House, I'm not sure I could have done that much better than the Obamas have done-without provoking controversy, at least. I would have pulled from the government museums a Willie Cole and a Kara Walker, for more black artists, but then the press would flip out. Let's take a look at their home decorating artist list, and propose a few substitutions. READ MORE