Comments on: Faked crying?

by: Erika

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:36:06 +0000

I’ve been mocked throughout my life for showing any emotion. So, I do everything I can to never show emotion. It’s counterintuitive, but I think this makes me more likely to break down when under a lot of pressure. If Hillary had cried, it would be completely understandable. When you bottle everything up, you’ll eventually get to a point where you can’t hold anything in. That’s my experience anyway.

by: William

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:15:25 +0000

I thought Hillary’s teary moment was really rather sweet.

Even if it was faked (which I very much doubt), then her presidential diplomacy will be simply splendid, if she can act that well.

She’s in bed with all the same people as her husband-

I’d sell that line to the GOP for an attack-ad, if I were you!

by: Cara

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:34:44 +0000

Cara, I wouldn’t write off all opposition to Clinton as nothing but misogyny. She’s in bed with all the same people as her husband, and given a chance to vote for Edwards or Obama over Bill Clinton, I would in a second.

Which makes me ask, “How the hell else would a woman in this country get so far?” It doesn’t have to be ALL misogyny to be enough misogyny that it’s beyond fucked. Does Obama not have any questionable people he’s “in bed” with? Is Edwards lacking in connections?

I don’t think Hillary or Obama are exceptionalists. I don’t think they’re going to sell the rest of us out. (I don’t think Edwards would, either). I maintain that the reason for such close scrutiny and mountains made of molehills, beyond the MSM usual bullshit, is that she’s female. If Obama gets nominated, he’s next (see ’shuck and jive’ and ‘cocaine use’). If it’s Edwards, see ‘hair’ and ‘forgotten your roots, boy’ and ‘wife sick, he’s too emotional to lead’.

by: Chaoticfluffy

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:15:03 +0000

@Emma #51: Yeah, speaking as another linguist here, I feel I can say with authority: “I do not think that word means what they think it means.”

by: Eric, Rejector of Memes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:14:39 +0000

Pablo, welcome to The Magic of Editing.

One of the things they should teach in “Media Literacy” is how we should insist on seeing ten seconds before and after any incriminating clip that gets heavy play in the media.

This idea obviously has problems, but at least we could say “withhold judgment until you see it ALL.”

by: pablo

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:03:15 +0000

This is so making me flash back four years to the “Dean scream”. REmember what a huge deal that insignificant 3 sec expression of joy was analyzed and pronounced the end of Dean’s presidential aspirations?

by: roger

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:04 +0000

Meanwhile, of course, the truly disgusting sentimentality gets a pass - I mean, the sentimentalizing of toughness. Being a tough decision maker. Once upon a time, if you were leading a horde or a phalanx, it might have required a little toughness - nowadays, decision makers are so insulated in their little bubbles that it simply requires a lack of imagination and narcissistic absorption - two qualities that are always in supply in the governing class - to make the “tough decisions.” The people who are really tough, in America, are those who have to get by raising kids and stuff on lowpaying, deadend jobs, living close to mass layoffs and debt collectors. There are no tough people in the glittery upper echelon world at all - they don’t exist there. This is a world that gains its virtues by proxy, though - it is brave by ordering soldiers to die for nothing, it is tough for decisions that will never effect it, etc. Whenever a politician or talking head starts talking about toughness, I reach for my bullshit meter.

by: JimB

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:00:22 +0000

Check out this video of Bill Clinton emoting for the camera immediately after the funeral of Ron Brown, Clinton’s United States Secretary of Commerce who died in a plane crash in 1996.

This has to be seen to be believed.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011008/home.guest.html

by: lou

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:45:13 +0000

Count me as another woman who cries when she gets angry and hates that she can’t control her physical reaction. Fortunately, I’ve never gotten the blackmail accusation but definitely gotten the “don’t be such a big baby” and “why the hell are you crying about such a non-issue” type reaction.

And Hillary wasn’t crying. If that was crying, then Mitt Romney was bawling like a baby on Meet the Press.

by: Amanda Marcotte

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:49:01 +0000

Cara, I wouldn’t write off all opposition to Clinton as nothing but misogyny. She’s in bed with all the same people as her husband, and given a chance to vote for Edwards or Obama over Bill Clinton, I would in a second.