dinner. did anyone go out? did they celebrate? did not hear back from them. it s interesting, though. this is, again, a first lady that has used social media. as we remember on saturday, the one-year anniversary of her husband s inauguration, she did tweet marking that occasion, but she did not use a photograph of herself with her husband. in fact, he was nowhere to be mentioned in this tweet, talking about her year of wonderful moments. nowhere did donald trump get a mention. and sort of this sort of faceless, if you will, military escort, i think it speaks to perhaps some loneliness or some isolation. again, it s reading the tea leaves with her. she s one of the most mysterious and private first ladies of modern history, and i think though she s getting high marks for subliminal messaging, what she s not saying is perhaps more interesting than what she would be saying. kate bennett, appreciate the reporting. up next, deadly shooting at a kentucky high school. two students dead. d
i m thinking back to hillary clinton when she famously went with president clinton to mar martha s vineyard at the height of the impeachment, the trial and things around it. it s a kind of power that a first lady can yield over her husband. we haven t had this kind of information fraught since the clintons, even going back to president kennedy and his wife with rumors swirled around their relationship. this is a really hard job for her. the first lady in the first anniversary of her husband s inauguration, she posted a picture that didn t include a picture of her husband and also said the past year has been filled with many wonderful moments but did not mention the president by name. it s unusual, and i think this goes back to a first lady we don t hear from a lot, but she is a-plus in subliminal messaging. not a mention of her husband, of
just that. it s startling unseriously diminishes real racism. real racism is self-evident. it doesn t require coding or subliminal messaging and it exists within both parties. in policies and in rhetoric and is perpetuated by people of all skin colors. the other problem is that it requires no homework, no fact checking, no sources, no citations. all it requires is someone to say it s so. the only way to know whether mitt romney is using welfare reform to brick up racist white people s ears is to ask him and hope he answers truthfully. or maybe someone will get lucky and stumble upon the secret e-mail files where this plot to dog whistle racist america into action is lied out. short of that, all that s required to promote the idea that romney and other republicans are racist, not a small charge, is someone simply saying so, using