NO? Then why did she dress like one in that press conference with Maj, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal?
I can’t even recall anything she said! That damn jacket, half pink and half grey, totally dominated the preceedings!
Could you please tell us who Victoria Clarke is?
Isn’t she the wife of Shane MacGowan?
Pentagon spokesperson.
Julie
Do you mean Sideshow Mel?
I realize you’re referring to the “silent sidekick” phenomenon, and yes, Bob was silent in the early Simpsons episodes. I just want to make sure that you don’t mean that Victoria Clarke is going to become a verbose madwoman with an unhealthy obsession over destroying Bart Simpson and/or Krusty the Klown.
Sorry, I should have made that clear.
She is Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. She gave a press conference at 4PM today with Army Maj. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal which was broadcast by CNN.
Man, but that jacket was minging !
That jacket was just screaming…
THIS IS NOT A UNIFORM…THIS IS NOT A UNIFORM…I DON’T WEAR A UNIFORM
THIS IS NOT A UNIFORM…THIS IS NOT A UNIFORM…I DON’T WEAR A UNIFORM
THIS IS NOT A UNIFORM…THIS IS NOT A UNIFORM…I DON’T WEAR A UNIFORM
legion: “minging”???
Is that like blinging times ten? Tell this white boy, what is “minging”?
Minging is a doragatory term currently popular in the UK. I don’t know where it originated from. Like most of these things, it just suddenly appeared in the national lexegon one day.
It is pronounced “ming in”. Another usage is minger “ming ur”.
It is used to describe anyone/thing that is ugly.
Warning: Fashion alert!
Here’s a photo of Ms. ‘Torie’ Clarke today with that jacket on
Damn. That is a fashion emergency.
Now I’m relieved I just heard her on the radio. Seeing that jacket animated would be too much for me.
Julie
I’m sorry, but that was way past “fashion emergency.” That’s disgraceful; a sane adult should not be wearing clown clothing in a professional setting. Why didn’t her superiors send her home to change?
If you were a mucky-muck at the Pentagon would YOU want the armed forces represented by someone dressed as a circus performer? Neither would I. So why the holy hell was this idiot allowed in front of a camera?
What about professional clowns? 
Julie
Okay, so there’s ONE exception. 
Am I the only one who thought that it was a carefully crafted fashoin statement?
Even if the statement was “Hey, I’m a scoop of neopolitan ice cream!”?
E’gad! That’s a hideous dress!
She must be colorblind, because there’s no other reason anyone would wear that crime against humanity.
LOL! As soon as I saw her on TV I thought, “people are going to be talking more about that jacket than anything she had to say”, and sure enough.
No! No! No! It was product placement for Baskin Robbins!!! This war isn’t about oil, it’s about ice cream!
Victoria Clarke is not merely a Pentagon spokeswoman, but the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. I’m no fashion expert, but besides yesterday’s atrocity, the red zip-front jacket she’s wearing in the photo with her official DoD bio is not exactly what I’d choose to represent myself as the government official heading the public affairs apparatus of our military.
Her expressing the DoD’s condolences for the combat losses in that pink, gray and blue get-up was particularly jarring.