"Armgate" - as the stories have been dubbed by bloggers on the popular Web site Jezebel - is part of a long line of racially offensive stories about the first lady that began early in her husband's presidential campaign. Hand-wringing columns wondered whether the first lady belittled her husband. Subsequent articles have objectified the first lady by talking about her buttocks and hair. Some scholars say that Obama, with her law degree from Harvard, successful career and acute fashion sense, represents a type of black woman to whom some sheltered whites aren't exposed. She doesn't fit the loud and angry black female stereotype often presented in the media.