All of the late night comedy shows taped their Tuesday episodes before the polls closed on Election Day, so that meant that CBS’s Stephen Colbert had plenty of time to talk with former First Lady Michelle Obama on The Late Show about her new book on fashion. While gushing over the fashion choices of a former first lady may seem like an odd choice for a comedy show, it was somehow worse than that, as the duo hyped the idea that Obama’s sense of fashion allowed her to get ahead of her allegedly racist critics.
Colbert described the book thusly: “It is called The Look. It is about your style and the soft power of fashion. And, you know, American culture as a part of our soft power. And fashion is a part of our culture.”
He then asked, “How did you wield it?”
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