GOP House Chairman Apparently Auditions for Joan Rivers’ Job Hosting ‘Fashion Police’ – Criticizes Pres. Obama’s Tan Suit

Clockwise from top left: GOP House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King criticizing Pres. Obama’s tan suit on CNN; Pres. Reagan, in tan suit, with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Reagan in tan suit with Australian PM Jack Hawke; Reagan addresses the media on Air Force One in sweat pants and a tie

With Joan Rivers lying in an induced coma in a Manhattan hospital, her fellow New York Republican, House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King, appeared to be angling for her job as host on E!’s “Fashion Police.” During an interview on Newsmax, a birther news website, King offered biting commentary about Pres. Obama’s decision to wear a tan suit at a hastily called news conference last week.

Described by one source as “seething,” King complained that, “For him to walk out — I’m not trying to be trivial here — in a light suit, light tan suit, saying that first he wants to talk about what most Americans care about the revision of second quarter numbers on the economy.”

What do Americans really care about? Not the economy, stupid! Terror, of course.

“This is a week after Jim Foley was beheaded,” King reminded the Newsmax host, “and he’s trying to act like real Americans care about the economy, not about ISIS and not about terrorism.”

After being roundly criticized for reducing political discourse to fashion criticism, Rep. King appeared on CNN to defend himself. The tan suit was, “a metaphor for the entire lack of decision-making,” King said, “the lack of seriousness and the lack of addressing how vital and mortal this is to the United States.”

Notably, however, King was not wearing a tie during his CNN appearance. Talk about fashion “don’ts!”

Of course, other presidents have worn tan suits, most notably the tea party saint, Ronald Reagan. But speaking of “don’ts,” only Reagan has been photographed addressing the media wearing sweat pants. (See above.)

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  1. This man always cries terror, wish he would shut up, especially due to the fact that he used to be an IRA
    terrorist fund raiser.

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