White House Press Secretary Jay Carney denied a badly-sourced British report that First Lady Michelle Obama went on an expensive shopping spree in London, and he said that “it’s irresponsible” for American media to report on the story.
“Its irresponsible for an American news organization to repeat this story even allowing that it could be true,” Carney said during today’s press briefing. “It’s utterly false,” he also said.
The Telegraph, a London newspaper, claimed that the First Lady spent $50,000 at a luxury lingerie shop, but didn’t identify a source for the claim. The store CEO “refused to be drawn on the stores’ closely kept ‘secret client list,'” The Telegraph said. “But he admitted the brand had attracted a high number of “unexpected famous names” – especially in the US, where sales have overtaken the UK.”
