Obama 'Fancy Pants': Fox & Friends Criticizes President For Oil Spill Outfit (VIDEO)

The gang on "Fox & Friends" debated Obama's oil spill demeanor yesterday and Gretchen Carlson spoke up about President Obama's ensemble: a button down shirt and dress pants. Except she called them "fancy pants":

"Also, did you see, President Obama is being criticized for what he had on. When he was standing at the shoreline there, he had on fancy pants and a fancy shirt. Look, what other critics are saying, is that 80% of public perception is image. Not what you say. And he should have had on, like what Thad Allen has on next to him. Something that looked like he was a little bit more at the scene."

Obama has also been called out for his footwear, donning sneakers instead of shrimp boots to visit the gulf coast. What do you think? What should the President wear to an oil spill?

Skip ahead to 2:45 to check out Carlson's sartorial commentary.

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Comments

[Julia Hanna]

04:33 PM on 06/14/2010

Tired of people proclaiming how they think president should wear this and that. I have always grown weary of people telling me I should not wear a skirt when they think I should wear jeans. Actually I have worn skirts more in the past when certain people tried to be dictatorial about how I dress.

[swampmom]

10:03 PM on 06/08/2010

With her funky hair do Gretchen has NO room to talk! The President can wear whatever he wants ~ you don't have to don shrimping boots if you don't want to!

[cezannebonjour]

07:28 PM on 06/08/2010

Obama should have been wearing denim shorts and a wife beater, and blowing his nose and weeping.

[260Parkway]

07:21 PM on 06/08/2010

If the president passed gas Fox would complain that it was an elitist fart and didn't resonate with the everyday man. Those people are CRAZY on that network and they hate this president.

[JaneDoeHere]

11:31 AM on 06/08/2010

Are you kidding me?
And these people want the front seat????

[noaxe397]

09:28 AM on 06/08/2010

Today on Morning Joe they made fun of this Fox comment by showing a picture of Winston Churchill touring the devastation of bombed out London during WWII wearing a superimposed Packers jersey and sweat pants.

Remember early in the Obama administration when Fox tried to make a big deal about the fact that he removed his suit jacket in the oval office, something Bush and Reagan NEVER did, until similar photos of those two without their jackets on in the oval office were produced?

And remeber all the anxiety at Fox over the First Lady's sleeveless dresses?

I guess he's not considered appropriately dressed unless he's wearing a belt buckle the size of a license plate, a hat modeled after the the toilet seat and foot wear that can kick the coackaroaches out of the corners.

[patriciacaldwell]

02:56 PM on 06/08/2010

This comment made my day!

[Chise67]

09:45 AM on 06/09/2010

LMAO!!! Fanned, Faved & sent out in my E-Mailing list!!

[llovejim]

06:46 AM on 06/08/2010

I think she makes a valid point...well, not her so much, as the top of her head. This is probably the dumbest comment made about some sort of imaginary perception about Obama being too snooty or elitist or well-dressed, since Hannity accused Obama, apparently in all earnestness, of using fancy mustard on his hamburgers....

[ECB]

11:28 PM on 06/07/2010

Fox and f00ls strike again !

[Nutcase]

08:55 PM on 06/07/2010

Perhaps Obama should have put on a flight suit and declared mission accomplished.

[pb31]

01:09 PM on 06/07/2010

I have much experience in visiting spoiled beaches; I live near Galveston.

Galveston, a historic city, has had tarballs and oil washing up on its beach for decades. We are told that it is from "lightering" off-shore (transfering oil from tankers to smaller vessels).

I generally go barefoot and wear an old, inexpensive bathing suit when frolicing among the tarballs. I wouldn't recommend that to President Obama, however. I can just hear what the airheads at Pox News would make of that attire.

Meanwhile, I wish that some media attention would go to the areas damaged by Hurricane Ike. Money appropriated for relief is still tied up at the state level (way to go Gov. Good Hair!), and the only reportage of the situation that I have seen is in The Economist, of all places.

[Yurdelite51]

09:02 AM on 06/25/2010

My son moved to Spring, Texas after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his house in Kenner, LA. I have never been to the beach in Texas but it is my understanding that Florida got the best of the Gulf coastline. Those beaches were pristine and beautiful and calm. I absolutely love the Gulf coast beaches and I hope they survive this calamity.

[MaeScott]

01:00 PM on 06/07/2010

Fox News and their ilk would deride Jesus Christ's sandals and robe saying he was overdressed.

Superficial, thy name is rethug.

[Willie12345]

10:57 AM on 06/07/2010

Obama appears to be fiddling while Rome burns. He socializes with Sir Paul, while people anguish over foreclosures and lost jobs. He is not a "man of the people" in spite of his claims to be "one of us". His elitist behavior at times such as these hurts him. He certainly is not the man to have in office during a crisis.

[MaeScott]

01:01 PM on 06/07/2010

He is exactly the man for this time in the nation's history. I shudder to think "what if McCain had won?"

The stuff of Nightmares.

[llovejim]

06:50 AM on 06/08/2010

Willie makes a good point....a president can figure out how to stop oil leaks on wells a mile underwater and how to contain million gallon oil slicks bigger than Rhode Island if he is on a shrimp boat out in the ocean, looking at it, where he can figure out these answers that all of BP's oil experts apparently cannot. He is not going to be focusing on these type of oil related problems if he is listening to Paul McCartney insult our country. The BP experts should have been presenting that award to Traitor Paul and Obama should have been out in the Gulf ponderin'.

[truthmachine]

02:19 AM on 06/08/2010

Yeah. Obama's "elitist" because he wears pants. And he's "elitist" because he's the President and we're not -- so he's not "one of us".

That's how unintelligent people -- Fox News watchers -- think.

[beemerbiker]

11:14 PM on 06/06/2010

Fox News will eventually over play their hand and their gullible audience will see they are no better then an American Pravda. That is why I watch PBS News Hour and source news from internet sites with many perspectives.

[lynettema]

10:01 PM on 06/06/2010

You gotta be kidding!

[patriciacaldwell]

02:44 PM on 06/06/2010

It's time to take this down, HP. Clusterpox has had enough attention.