How is Hillary Clinton supposed to land the cover of Self or Shape if she doesn't tone up her arms? Brown is obviously just looking out for Clinton's best interests...
I was wondering why Tina Brown, whose successes are largely far, far behind her was being invited to opine on this matter at all. Then I hear that she is currently writing a book on the Clintons. I know can hardly wait to see what this slightly more upmarket version of Kitty Kelley has to say about them. This book will surely be as sober & incisive as her biography of Princess Diana.
I watched these this morning, and was bummed they didn't read my STFU, JOE (or similarly stated) email. I think the tone TB is taking is increasingly unnecessary - I do not think she was basically calling HRC fat but was referring to the idea of rejuvenating/getting your mojo back - and Joe really IS a fan of hers as SOS, even if he is a lunkhead. I gave serious props to Mika for calling shenanigans on this this morning and would love for us to be talking about echoing support vs. wtf is wrong with these people? I know, I know, we have to call BS when we see it, and Mika consistently raises the point of "if she were a man, this would NOT be an issue," let us underline that point!
@jezebelacious: Poor Mika has to constantly call crap on so much, only to be tut-tutted and laughed at by the menfolk. One day, I hope, she will have had enough of being treated like a secretary on Mad Men and start slinging boiling hot cups of Starbucks coffee into Scarborough's eyes.
@lionboy: @morninggloria: Punching Glenn Beck in his doughy (body snark on an a-hole) man-parts would return ANY thinking person's mojo. Mika's gonna effing burst one of these days btw Joe and Pat, I don't blame her...
@lionboy: Well, the boys might not tut-tut her if she made an articulate counter-argument. Her huffing and puffing sounded like the beginning of an anxiety attack. Are any intelligent, pulled-together women allowed on this shitfest of a show?
Part of HRC's effectiveness lies in her ability to focus on the task at hand. The opinions of window dressing like Brown, Dowd, et al. are never part of the calculus, and wishing won't make it so.
In the last six months I've just started to appreciate how smart and tough Hillary Clinto really is. She is so far above Tina Brown and Ann Coulter and their ilk, they can't even see her ankles from where they are.
Just keep on truckin', Hillary. You are awesome.
I think it's a shame that so many in the media would rather body-snark Mrs. Clinton than do some actual reporting on what she is in Africa about. What we need here is a moderator, Jeze-style, that will disemvowel them as soon as they start down that road. All subsequent comments will have to be reviewed before airing.
And I can name several commentators that ought to just be banned.
Nothing irritated me more than my republican co-worker celebrating Clinton's retaliation, marking it as break in her character. It was not. If I was Clinton and somebody asked me what my husband thought, even though I HELD THE POSITION OF POWER, I would have been a little more pissy than Ms. Clinton. I would have thrown things. Maybe a shoe. Maybe a microphone.
@Adreamerdreaming: Seriously. My husband isn't the biggest Hilldog fan (I am) and he yelled "Give 'em hell, Hill" and meant it. We thought it was AWESOME.
I mean, I am the breadwinner in our little family and if someone (or if a bad translation made it seem like someone) implied that I should get hubby's opinion on my job - I.would.detonate.
@Adreamerdreaming: Seriously -- why is it a "break in character" when she sets someone straight for asking an unnecessary question? She wasn't mean, she didn't curse him out, she didn't say anything insulting. What would Hillary have to do to please people, curtsy?
@NefariousNewt: Here's what I don't get-- how exactly does one mistranslate "Obama" and "Clinton"? Did they mix up the words for boss and husband, or what?
@EsmereldaFitzmonster: I don't think it was a mistranslation, per se, as much as a slip of the tongue by the translator, who made have gotten ahead (or behind) in the translation, and suffered an ill-timed Freudian slip.
@Anna N.: I didn't get it either. He said that she threw a tantrum. I saw it the way you did, setting someone straight. You see though, when a man gets mad - it's passion; when a woman gets mad - it's emotional.
@Adreamerdreaming: Even Jon Stewart called Clinton defending herself "dickish." For fuck's sake.
This is all just a mild replay of the anti-Hillary Clinton hysteria from last year. Crazy.
@AndalucÃa: "Even Jon Stewart"
This doesn't surprise me. He lambasted her well beyond the primaries last year. TDS is a bastion of self congratulatory sexist liberal dudebros.
My unsolicited advice to Hillary: move on. Forget it. Keep talking, keep traveling, keep pointing out problems and mending fences. In six months, no one will remember this.
@NefariousNewt: I'm sure she's trying to do just that. If it were up to her(or most of us) this incident wouldn't be occluding everything else that's going on.
I begin to wonder, if this was not part of North Korea's ploy? After all, when Hillary called them out, it must have ruffled Kim Jong Il's feathers a bit. So, he drops hints about Bill, gets Bill to come to NK, and thereby scores the double coup of a) having a President of the United States (though not sitting) come to him and b) causes Hillary consternation in the process, trying to diminish her power.
@yellow_dog: Au contraire, he has played his little game of saber-rattling and tantrum-throwing well. He has gotten five other nations to do a little dance for him, and he has kept Americans nervous. He's managed to stay in the spotlight for a while now, when frankly, we just don't have much to fear from his nation.
@CurtCole: I think that's what he would like people to think, but the games North Korea have played over the last 50 years are never simple reactionary things, but calculated moves, to keep people wary.
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Just keep on truckin', Hillary. You are awesome.
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And I can name several commentators that ought to just be banned.
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I mean, I am the breadwinner in our little family and if someone (or if a bad translation made it seem like someone) implied that I should get hubby's opinion on my job - I.would.detonate.
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This is all just a mild replay of the anti-Hillary Clinton hysteria from last year. Crazy.
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This doesn't surprise me. He lambasted her well beyond the primaries last year. TDS is a bastion of self congratulatory sexist liberal dudebros.
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