Comments on: Hillary and cookies

By: ellaella

ellaella — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:31:13 +0000

Interesting about the eye contact. I’m not sure how much store I put in body language, but that one is a classic evasive gesture. I’ll watch for that! Good catch.

As for the why in your penultimate sentence — I think McLuhan was right — the medium is the massage.

By: rhbee

rhbee — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:49:06 +0000

Funny you should mention the eye thing. When she was being interviewed about the hostage situation, the main thing I remember is the fact that she refused to make eye contact with the tv camera. It made her responses seem devious even though they weren’t. The thing I was referring to above though is that that video and all the other little nit-picky things that the candidates and the politicians throw at each other are gossip. And my response to gossip is to refuse to repeat it. My choice about the mall shooters et al, is to treat them by refusing to give their stories air time and by keeping their names out of the news. Yes, we are a nation, and no doubt world, that will do anything to be on/in the news. Why this is, I don’t know, except that apparently familiarity does breed contempt.

By: ellaella

ellaella — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:40:16 +0000

Sad? I would never presume to speak for the other commenters; that’s rude.

The kids were scripted. If they are the first Americans to be guilty of wanting to be in a media spotlight, then let’s forget about those who spill their guts on national talk shows or people who call newsrooms and say, “My husband/brother/wife/son/daughter/whatever was just killed. Do you want to interview me?” It happens.

I’m not here to sway anyone’s vote, unless it’s a vote against hypocricsy. (And I happen to believe not all politicians are equally hypocritical.)

I remember well the day in 1992 when the tea and cookies remark escaped her lips. I remember the furor as the Clinton campaign scrambled for damage control.

And remember her “Stand by your man” crack?

(I also remember the nothing-amusing-about-it Swift Boat Campaign from last time around, from which the title derives.)

I also remember well the day, as First Lady, she very deliberately wore a pink, feminine, softly-innocent suit to answer reporters’ questions about her massive investment gains. When is the last time you recall her wearing pink?

I remember a lot and a lot of it is not flattering to her.

While it’s obvious whoever made the video is anti-Hillary, I am anti-hypocrisy, anti-pandering, anti-glib, anti-play-us-for-fools.

Have you ever asked her an uncomfortable question and looked her in the eye? I have. If you have, I’d love to hear what your experience was.

By: rhbee

rhbee — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:54:11 +0000

So kids say the stupidest things that their parents will let them because, after all, what’s more important than being tv/youtube. If anything can swing my vote towards Hilary more swiftly, I don’t know what it would be. What I don’t understand is why your commenters and you think this so funny when really it is so sad, sad, sad.

By: ellaella

ellaella — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:46:31 +0000

@bluesmokeofparadise – I’m glad it brought a smile. I’m waiting for a take-off on her equally infamous “Stand by your man” line.

@Jim – I would pay to see that duo! What’s really sad is that after all these years, I can still see Flowers in my mind’s eye. Her long blonde hair and short black roots… (Cattiness – ai haz it )