Posted on 08/15/2009 6:19:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton snapped. It was unfortunate, because she is our secretary of state, and she blew a fuse while abroad; but it's only human to unload now and again, and it was all a misunderstanding, in any case. What I find dispiriting is how the media's treatment of situations like this has a decided partisan bias.
Unless you were on vacation and avoiding all media, you probably know the story. During her seven-nation tour of Africa, the former first lady lashed out at a student in Kinshasa, Congo, who apparently asked her a question about her husband's views on China and the Congo. (According to reports, the student claimed it was a mistranslation and he was asking about President Obama's views.)
Our secretary of state reacted: "Wait, you want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state. I am. You ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband."
As it happens, the student's query wouldn't have been the most inappropriate thing to ask. Clinton's husband, we must recall, is a former president of the United States. And his own mission to North Korea to secure the release of two imprisoned journalists had just eclipsed his wife's trip to Africa.
In reporting the incident, NBC's Andrea Mitchell explained on the Today show: "A lot of jet lag, clearly. By then she was at the half point in a 12-day trip, seven countries, very difficult travel. She had done 22 speeches and five interviews and she was exhausted -- and clearly, some would say, having a bad hair day. So not an easy day for Hillary Clinton." Later in the morning, she repeated the bad-hair day observation and excuse.
If bad hair days account for international incidents, perhaps Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson needs to be nominated for the country's chief diplomatic position next time. Rogaine prohibited.
One liberal columnist, in defending Clinton, took the occasion for an additional defense of President Obama and his assessment of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. In a line that became increasingly familiar in media circles, both the secretary of state and the president were coyly condemned for their authenticity, as if they were being "too real" for the sensitive, ethereal world of politics.
The alternative explanation is that both Clinton and Obama behaved unprofessionally and got called on it. Both succumbed to a very human error -- falling victim to pride -- but they did so in a very public manner. Democrats are not alone in flubbing it in such unfortunate ways. But it's not typical for NBC reporters to defend a Republican the way they'll defend Hillary Clinton or the president, even weeks later.
Things were not the same for another live-wire female politician. On NBC's sister network, during the presidential campaign, Newsweek's Howard Fineman declared: "Sarah Palin makes Barack Obama look like John Adams. I mean, it's just, it's no contest." Also during the campaign, NBC's Chris Matthews declared: "The fact of the matter is, the comparison between (Sarah Palin) and Hillary Clinton is the comparison between an igloo and the Empire State Building!" And just this month Matthews led a conversation on whether or not it was racist for Palin to raise concerns about health-care reform and end-of-life issues.
But that's nowhere near the most biased media coverage of the former governor of Alaska: An otherwise well-respected magazine has allowed a prominent writer on its Web site to regularly question whether her youngest child is actually hers. So Palin obviously knows by now what the uneven playing field looks like in politics. I've even seen MSNBC commentary on Palin's daughter's rhetoric. So Hillary Clinton gets a pass but Bristol Palin doesn't?
Outbursts have consequences. There will be tabloid coverage, and there should be criticism. But then we all move on and maybe spare a prayer for people who serve. It's hard to exist in the spotlight.
Article “buried” for the inappropriate slam of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. No need to bring The Rock into this situation.
Doesn’t Hillary always have a bad hair day???
Hillary Clinton is just a fat, dumb cow. And a nasty one to boot.
Sarah Palin was the only person in the last race even qualified to run.
Well Hitlery ALSO said America’s democracy was still “evolving” because in the 2000 election Jeb Bush was the governor of the state wherein the result was decided.
She basically told the Africans Jeb altered the election to let his brother win.
She is an idiot.
Hussein is an idiot.
This entire administration is an exercise in bullying of the American people, and making us look like BOOBS to the rest of the world.
“Place a bag of dog doo doo in front of a Democrat and they step in it every time” ~~Rush Limbaugh
You don't hear the "bad hair day" excuse used about men. It's funny how everything dissolves into a "girl thing" excuse when women lose it in public. It's always the "raging hormones" excuse.
Double standard.
It never changes.
Biden always has a bad hair (plug) day....those trips to Barry’s woodshed must be tiring.
Imagine HILLARY! as president, in the frazzled state she was in ..........
On September 11, 2001 and following.
Look at Nazi Pelosi ..... er .... no .... strike that.
Anyway, zero has taken all the pressure off of everyone .... they're no longer needed.
He has a czar for everything and everything has a czar.
Imagine HILLARY! as president, in the frazzled state she was in ..........
On September 11, 2001 and following.
Look at Nazi Pelosi ..... er .... no .... strike that.
Anyway, zero has taken all the pressure off of everyone .... they're no longer needed.
He has a czar for everything and everything has a czar.
Just a shot across the bow from the O team. They want the K’s to know that they will hit back, and hit back hard.
“But then we all move on and maybe spare a prayer for people who serve. It’s hard to exist in the spotlight.”
Oh, I pray for Hillary! alright. I pray that God turns her evil heart and mind.
Hillary is touchy about being reminded that but for Bill she would still be, at best, a second rate lawyer in Arkansas.
What you said.
This is a pretty interesting article, but it just doesn’t seem to match up with the headline. “Bad hair day” doesn’t quite equate with nervous breakdown.
I think it’ll be her...*19th Nervous Breakdown*
I noticed that line too.
I am thankful this woman is not president. Her recent crap about Florida 2000, the lame excuses by her synchophant media, her dumb ‘I can handle the 3am decisions’; now the continued ‘channeling’; there is nothing there to admire, nothing at all.
Hillary is a typical narcissist of the left who loves the attention brought by political power but unable to deal with foreign nations as she lives in the la la land bubble of elitist marxist vanities and lies and has long been disassociated from the needs of Americans and the truth that most nations envy and hate America and that words will never bridge the gap created by the blessing of God on our once Christian nation. Like most politicians and leftists, she denies truth in pursuit of utopian fantasies that do not exist in a world given over to hatred. She is of them who say there is no God and whose works are corrupt and who do abominable iniquities.
Botox injections are not available there.
This is a pretty interesting article, but it just doesn’t seem to match up with the headline. “Bad hair day” doesn’t quite equate with nervous breakdown.
She let her inner bitch slip out.
I’m sure the poor people that have to work around hear much worst every day.
Inner bitch, I like that. Democrats are @ss wipes
She's not psychologically breaking. She is a volcano of rage at not being president with only a thin crust of civility hiding it. She wants to be the 800 pound gorilla, but she ended up being the second banana.
Hillary is a ‘used-up, has-been’ of the league of Soros plants that he has been using to destroy America from within!
She finally sees the writing on the wall and has figured out that she is no longer useful to Soros’ demise of America.
Soros has been using the Clinton’s for years and it seems to be a very hard adjustment for Hillary to accept that she is no longer of use to him. Obama has booted her to the curb and she can’t do a thing about it.
I’m guessing Obama will offer her “the pill” for her suffering since she is no longer a help to his anti American agenda. Hillary...what goes around... comes around.
The tabloids at the checkout counter are saying that the Palins are getting a divorce. I don’t believe it because they are also saying that Michael Jackson was murdered. They must be slipping. Don’t they know that Jackson is not dead? That he has been spotted playing tennis with Elvis and both JFK’s?
If they are so wrong about Jackson, they can’t be right about the Palins.
The tabloids at the checkout counter are saying that the Palins are getting a divorce. I don’t believe it because they are also saying that Michael Jackson was murdered. They must be slipping. Don’t they know that Jackson is not dead? That he has been spotted playing tennis with Elvis and both JFK’s?
If they are so wrong about Jackson, they can’t be right about the Palins.
The tabloids at the checkout counter are saying that the Palins are getting a divorce. I don’t believe it because they are also saying that Michael Jackson was murdered. They must be slipping. Don’t they know that Jackson is not dead? That he has been spotted playing tennis with Elvis and both JFK’s?
If they are so wrong about Jackson, they can’t be right about the Palins.
The woman had to be coached on how to smile when she was running for president. She’s not as evil as my ex-wife, but close.
Marked for later
Maybe it was the "I did not have sex....." Oops, that turned out to be a false story.
What an awful platter to be given....walking in the footsteps of Madeline Albright. She could have danced with Kim....But Bubba got on the dance floor first....Think that had the optimum destruction that he wanted....."Bubba's Revenge".
I would like to know the details of Billy going to NK? Who called who? Who authorized his trip? When did Hillary find out? If this trip was planned/authorized without Hillary, then she has a serious problem as SoS...
Don’t forget the jet lag excuse.
Hillary watched helplessly as her media shills betrayed her and threw their support to Hussein. It cost her the White House—you know, her BIRTHRIGHT!! And now she is reduced to a pantsuit “listening tour” in darkest Africa. Reduce an ego like hers to such a state and it’s no wonder she snapped. AIN’T IT GREAT??!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
what this incident showed is that she’s desperately insecure and has no wit. If that had happened to me, I would have said “My husband...oh, thanks for reminding me. I’ll ask him when I get home.” Or “What does my husband think? He thinks whatever I think, if he knows whats good for him.”
2012! Out with the ugly and in with the beautiful!
We all know there is a massive double standard in the MSM when it comes to reporting on blunders from Democrats (the good guys) versus Republicans (the bad guys). Republicans, as the assumed heavy/villain, are never given the benefit of the doubt. Democrats, as the sometimes flawed but well-intentioned public servant, always are.
If it had been Sec Rice instead of Clinton, what would the media have said? Bad hair day? Jet lag? Somehow i doubt it. More likely they would be saying that she clearly behaved in an un-statesman like manner, that it reflects poorly on herself, on the Bush administration, and ultimately on the country as a whole, while moreover playing into the “ugly American” motif and making us even more hated around the world.
This is a result of living with the feminist/victim mentality. (Also with the black/victim, gay/victim, etc.). You walk around with a giant chip on your shoulder looking for any perceived slight, real or imagined. Then you predictably blow it up all out of proportion, ignoring protocol and diplomacy issues, because it is all about you and how ‘offended’ you are.
Can you imagine one of our past Secretaries of State-good, bad, or indifferent—Men like Cordell Hull, General George Marshall, John Foster Dulles, etc.. acting like a total wacko moron, and the presstards making excuses for them?—didn’t Tina Brown excuse Hitlery’s latest outburst on her HAIR looking bad in the hot, humid air.
There’s been a lot of talk about how “old white men” are on the way out—now is the time of “diversity” Good luck with that—I haven’t met 1 out of a hundred of the braying jackasses—either feminist or aggreieved minority, that would make a pimple on the rear end of most of whose place they’re taking. Then they always say “We’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far” Newsflash: I’ve worked with plenty of folks like that, and by any objective measurement, I’ve seen hardly any that were AS good, much less twice as good-90% were totally substandard.
All this cretin Hillary did was hook up with a sociopath who, in a more sane time, wouldn’t have been elected to a city council in Arkansas—she is even less qualified than him. President Obama, Sec. State H. Clinton, and Bubba, who, after he disgraced himself and was in the ashcan of history, got resurrected by the dumbass Bush clan—(The paper today described Bill as a “world class philanthrophist—he probably hasn’t paid for his dinner in 40 years, much less anything else) Senator Al Franken-My God, what’s next?
“(Sarah Palin) and Hillary Clinton is the comparison between an igloo and the Empire State Building”
My “green” interpretation of that statement would suggest that Palin would the most desirable person in that as an “igloo”, she is enviromentally “sensitive” and a champion of individual self reliance in the harshest of conditions. Hillary, on the other hand as the “empire state
building” would suggest that she is a hardened soul-less “rapist” of the air and land; a power monger of the worst order.(sarcasm on)
Hillary still doesn’t know what the hell hit her a la Obama’s Gangster Brigade. She’s been neutered, made powerless by Obama’s “foreign policy advisers” (more Chicago thugs he’s brought into the White House), and now made to look stupid. She is SO over.
Yes - Hillary has been very busy lately schlupping around the turd world and feeling fat, not to mention the broken elbow. Poor dear. It has dawned upon her that she was punked by Great Leader. If not silver, this is at least an aluminum lining to a very dark period in our nation’s history.
Imagine if she had won the election for president ... and having break downs like this.
Scary thought indeed.
I was very surprised when Hillary left the Senate to be Obama’s S of S. I thought she’d just lurk around in the Senate, waiting for the first signs of Obama weakness, then start to undermine and prepare to challenge him. Thought she made a mistake then, and still do. The move made little sense.
Nutty North Koreans say Clinton “by no means intelligent”, “a schoolgirl”, old lady “shopping”
http://www.ohnoyoudidntsaythat.com/nutty-north-koreans-say-clinton-by-no-means-intelligent-a-schoolgirl-old-lady-shopping ^ | 7/24/09 | SayWhat
Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 12:40:24 PM by SpeakToPower
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299945/posts
and there are more reports of this exchange of words Hillary had with the N.Koreans.
But nobody apparently was paying attention when this exchange was taking place and the N.Koreans pulled her chain by demanding it be her hubby that come on bended knee to retrieve those algore gals.
I had lunch with a minister yesterday, a really pragmatic and moderate guy. His too political comments were that our congresswoman was avoiding our district like the plague as she happily voted for the Obama agenda while calling herself a “blue dog,” and how Sarah Palin must be really something for the left and the media to hate her this much.
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