Re: Mr. President, you dress like a girl...and throw like one.

In the blog post, "Mr. President, you dress like a girl...and throw like one," my colleague denounces select news sources for focusing on President Obama's attire when he threw the first pitch in the MLB All-Star Game. My initial reaction was complete concurrence, as very few things make me sicker than major news coverage of petty matters, especially when there are more weighty issues at hand. However, there's a difference between major coverage and minor, 30-second clips noting a peculiar event of the day. The news coverage of the president's pitch is hardly major coverage in comparison to the seemingly infinite stream of Anna Nicole Smith reports or the recent, abounding coverage of Michael Jackson's death. When it reaches that kind of caliber, then start complaining about wasted media resources; otherwise, I don't mind taking a few seconds to watch the president throw like a "girl wearing his mommies jeans."

Not only does my colleague criticize the media for concentrating on President Obama's jeans, but he compounds his argument by reprimanding the media for not expounding the fact that our president could be better spending his time trying to help our economy and the ensuing unemployment rate. I'm sorry, but I honestly don't think that taking a day off to watch a baseball game with Michelle and the kids is going to detrimentally affect the state of our nation's economy. We didn't elect a robot into the Oval Office.