Dyed Hair? A Politician Never Tells

Thursday, 10 February 2011 | by Pat's Picks

There’s one thing you’ll never get a male politician to cop to says the Washington Post: whether or not they dye their hair. President Obama’s suspiciously darker hair prompted a does-he-or-doesn’t-he debate on the “Today” show yesterday. Even though science tells us that most men start going gray around 50, pollsters say that voters tend to view politicians who dye their locks as “vain and somehow less manly.” The Post says the authenticity of Ronald Reagan’s inky black hair inspired so much attention that reporters collected clippings from his barber and had them tested for hair dye.

Here’s Michelle Obama’s full interview with Matt Lauer yesterday. She gets to the hair question around 11:44:

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