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Media Trying Really Hard to Make First Lady Funeral Jealousy Happen

Photo: AP Photo/Matt Dunham

Not content with making assumptions about Michelle Obama based on contextless facial expressions captured in photographs, the tabloid media is attempting to concoct marital strife between George and Laura Bush out of even thinner gruel. Behold the Daily News’s interpretation of another completely innocuous photo, also from the Nelson Mandela memorial. Not only is Laura Bush not giving her husband a “look” for chatting with Jordan’s Queen Rania, she’s literally not even looking at himLaura Bush Flashes Neutral Facial Expression While Sitting in Chair and Looking at Stuff — Will the Marriage Survive?

Media Concocting First Lady Jealousy Stories