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REVERSE MORPH FOR HILLARY
Washington Post via Free Republic ^ | 03.01.06 | Mia T

Posted on 03/01/2006 9:53:45 AM PST by Mia T

REVERSE MORPH FOR HILLARY

by Mia T, 03.01.06

 

 

As the inaugural study in the Washington Post-Political Communication Lab collaboration, we studied attraction to familiar faces. A considerable body of research in social psychology derived from the classic studies of Stanford psychologist Robert Zajonc demonstrates that people evaluate objects they have encountered previously more favorably than novel objects, even when they do not consciously recognize the previously-encountered objects. In other words, "mere exposure" is sufficient to increase an object's likeability.

We are interested in the question because in the political arena, there is ample evidence of a familiarity bias in voting behavior. The fact that incumbents habitually win re-election by convincing margins may be attributable, in part, to the higher level of recognition of the incumbent's name and face.

We used digital face morphing technology to create relatively familiar and unfamiliar faces. More than 2,200 individuals participated in the study, a part of an ongoing collaborative effort by Stanford researchers Jeremy Bailenson, Nathan Collins, Shanto Iyengar, and Nick Yee.

What's in a Face?
Testing the Familiarity-Likeability Connection
By Shanto Iyengar and Richard Morin
Sunday, February 26, 2006; 5:04 PM





hat a remarkably representative baseline photo of missus clinton.

My, my. Is there anything the lefties won't try to make this creature acceptable?

They've tried morphing hillary into Condi by way of Geena Davis and that didn't work.



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STEP 1



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STEP2

 

So now they're experimenting with reversing process.

Good thinking!


'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?

by Mia T, 02.02.06



The clintons, as is their wont, are now taking this proxy scheme to even more outrageous extremes.

The latest: an actual hillary clinton proxy presidency, populated on both sides of the camera by assorted rodham and clinton ex-staffers, sycophants and should-be felons, witness the latest hire.

'Commander-in-Chief,' a show that sets out to crown a 'queen,' instead exposes the kitschy simplemindedness of Hollywood fantasy and the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego.


Mia T, 10.27.05
THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)



unning vicariously, as we have argued, has its risks.

What was supposed to be Hollywood propaganda to make a hillary presidency marginally palatable has instead become a parable about missus clinton's own dystopian future.

ABC announced the other day that it is pulling "Commander-in-Chief" off the air "until spring." Missus clinton's proxy presidency, you see, has been in a ratings free fall ever since "American Idol" took it on.

In a perverse life-mirrors-art moment, support for the real-life missus clinton's presidency has plummeted, too. This even sans Rudy, her real-life "American Idol" opponent.

'Ars artia gratis.' Please!

Samuel Goldwyn must be turning over in his grave....


 

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

 

... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.

These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real.

Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration."

It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief."

Mia T, 10.02.05
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)



January 9, 2006
Reviewer: miat22 (Mia T)


CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE WORST KIND

... to borrow a phrase, perversely, from a Spielberg flick about benign intelligence.

Munich -- Spielberg fantasy wrapped in sober documentary -- with its false premises, phony pieties and outright lies, is a verisimilitudinous contrivance that is pernicious, especially now, especially here, especially if we understand Spielberg's real motivation.

Truth matters not at all to Spielberg, and courage matters even less. To advance his fallacious argument, he has Golda Meir speak words she never said, never would have said and, obviously, cannot now disavow. Posthumous misappropriation is a preferred tactic of the abject coward.

Munich is less about Meir avenging the Munich massacre than it is about Bush waging the War on Terror. The historical (Munich) allusion is key to understanding Spielberg.

The core of his anti-war argument:
By fighting back, we become our enemy. Ironically, with Munich, the same can now be said of Spielberg.

Is Spielberg humanizing the terrorist really any different from Riefenstahl humanizing Hitler? If anything, Spielberg is more contemptible. Whereas Riefenstahl symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils, Spielberg is self-actuated and aware.

Hollywood is DreamWorks, fantastical and unthinking and solipsistic by definition.

To mitigate its danger, people capable of critical thinking must take on Hollywood... and must do so in Hollywood venues.

The printed word, sad to say, no longer carries the day.



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ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARY
THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT

by Chris Matthews, Anne Kornblut + Dana Milbank

(with annotations by Mia T), 01.26.06



EXCERPT:

This is HARDBALL on MSNBC.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[NOTE: My comments in blue.]

MATTHEWS:  We're back with Anne Kornblut of "The New York Times" and Dana Milbank of "The Washington Post."  Let's talk about Gotham's candidates for president.

First, Rudolph Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gay rights, former mayor spent today, or the day in Orlando speaking to a conference of Evangelicals. 

Dana, he's up to it, isn't he?  This is below the radar.  This is Rudy campaigning for president in the south. 

MILBANK:  This is about as convincing as Jerry Falwell at the gay pride parade. 

MATTHEWS:  You don't buy this? 

MILBANK:  Well, he can try to do it.  But, look, he faces an awful uphill battle in winning over the typical Republican voter in a primary.  Now, if the election was fought on national security, he is fine.  But he's never going to convince them that he is one of them, that he is a religious conservative. 

KORNBLUT:  Right and not only that, but he's going to be in a death struggle with John McCain for the exact same constituency. 

MATTHEWS:  Let me tell you something.  I'll say it here a thousand time.  Watch Rudolph Giuliani.  Watch him.  Security is the issue in this country.  Whoever is the next president is going to be seen as more on the ball than even this president on security and terrorism.  This country is not going sort on terrorism.  We are going to get smarter on it is my hunch.

And Rudy is the guy to do it.  And he can be an SOB in many ways.  But this country may really want an SOB, a really tough cop as the next president.  So watch Rudy, I'm saying it.


Now here is Hillary Clinton, that other New Yorker in the subway series.  A new Gallup poll just came out.  "USA TODAY" Gallup poll, it shows that 16 percent say that they'll definitely vote for Hillary right now, 32 percent say they might vote for her. 

But here's the dagger in the back.  Fifty-one percent say they would definitely not vote for Hillary Clinton already the campaign hasn't begun. 

KORNBLUT:  I mean, this is exactly what Democrats are worried about is that already people have made up their minds.  I would argue, I guess, that it is awfully early.  We all know how early it is to be talking about this. 

MATTHEWS:  Definitely. 

KORNBLUT:  Definitely?  What does definitely mean?  [Definitely means DEFINITELY.] You know, you would have to see how is the question exactly phrased, all that stuff.  It is early. [Actually Anne, it is late. In fact, it is too late. The country knows exactly who this woman is, Anne.]

MATTHEWS:  But there's lot of tooth behind that.  If somebody tells a pollster, I've already made up my mind definitely. 

KORNBLUT:  And, look, I know more Democrats who believe this though than Republicans.  A lot of Republicans say that this is a deceptive number, that once she gets out there with all of her money running against who, Giuliani or McCain, the numbers may not be that weak.  [She has 100% name recognition, Anne. You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. Even when the sow isn't hillary.]

MATTHEWS:  How much of that is don't throw me in that briar patch, Dana?  We're so afraid of Hillary.  Please don't run her against us.  She'll kill us. 

MILBANK:  Anne is right that these polls are completely useless because you don't know what the alternative is.  But the fact is that she...  [Earth to Dana: 51% would vote for their mother-in-law before they would vote for HER.]

MATTHEWS:  OK.  McCain against Hillary.  Who wins? 

 

MILBANK:  Well, that's fine.  If you can tell me that's how it is going to turn out.  But we don't know. 

MATTHEWS:  Well, let me ask you about these definite numbers in a poll.  Do you believe the definite?  Do you believe somebody right in 2006 knows how they are going to vote in 2008?

MILBANK:  I think they definitely think that's what they are going to do right now, but they have no idea what they are going to be doing in a couple years.  And Hillary is going to have the opposite problem of Rudy.  And that is she's absolutely fine with her base if she decides to run.  But she is seemingly incapable of crossing over. 

MATTHEWS:  The poll was taken over the week right through Sunday, the Gallup poll.  And the Gallup poll is, of course, the most prestigious poll there is right now and has been for years. 

Dana, do you think she's paying the price for her plantation remark last week? 

MILBANK:  Probably not.  Because, once again, plays very well the base.  The people who were objecting to it were never going to support her in the first case.  And I really think the only thing that this is right now is do people recognize her name.  [What is it you don't understand, here? We recognize her name, yes. And we abhor the person attached to that name. Get it?]

KORNBLUT:  And I would add to that.  It's 51 percent say definitely not.  Remember the margin that's we've been talking about in the last few presidential races, 51 percent is terrible, but all she would have to do is bump it by a few numbers, a few percentage points and be OK.  [I can see why Pinch hired you, Anne. Your Alice-in-Wonderland illogic is quintessential New York Times. With 100% name recognition and roughly 10% corruption recognition (thanks in no small measure to your rag), missus clinton has only one way to go. And it isn't up.]

... Anyway, thank you Anne Kornblut of "The New York Times," Dana Milbank of "The Washington Post." 

Join us again tomorrow night at 5:00 and 7:00 Eastern for more HARDBALL.  Right now it is time for "THE ABRAM'S REPORT" with Dan.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

Copy: Content and programming copyright 2006 MSNBC.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 

HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS
January 25, 2006


December 7, 1941+64

AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO

RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton



Dear Concerned Americans,

Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive.

We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will?

In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst?

Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival.

What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times.

COMPLETE LETTER

December 7, 1941+64
Mia T
AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton


'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?


IS REUTERS SENDING A MESSAGE ABOUT A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY?


HILLARY'S EXPOSED LEFT FLANK 'SCARES THE HORSES' (VIDEO)
(MISSUS CLINTON SUPPORTS ALITO FILIBUSTER)


ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARY
THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT



CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION'


SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)


GONE WITH THE WIND
(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)


WHY HILLARY MUST NOT WIN. WHY HILLARY CANNOT WIN.


IMPERIOUS HILLARY
(THE REPORTS OF HER DEATH ARE GREATLY UNDERSTATED)



WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
(Please see post 65)


REDACTION LOOPHOLE: ACCESS TO THE BARRETT REPORT


HILLARY CLINTON KNEW ABOUT THE RAPE: HEAR JUANITA BROADDRICK


ROCKEFELLER SEDITION: WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS?


THE ABSURDITY OF A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY


CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS:
Justice Undone in the clinton White House


clintonCORRUPTION: the more things change. . . .


Alien Abductions, Flying Saucers + Other Weird Phenomena, c.1992-2000


THE 'BOARD,' BEFUDDLED POLITICS OF JOHN KERRY RETURNS
CALLS FOR ALITO FILIBUSTER FROM 'SKI SLOPES'



IT TAKES A CLINTON TO RAZE A COUNTRY

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillary2008; hillaryclinton; morph
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To: Sic Luceat Lux

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21 posted on 03/01/2006 11:00:35 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

ping


22 posted on 03/01/2006 11:01:28 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: malia

ping


23 posted on 03/01/2006 11:31:22 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T
"Hillary's facial features helped" ...................... scare away the pigeons hanging out on the old Gulf Bldg. here in Pittsburgh.

Young conservatives have found a way to keep the concrete clean................ frightening picture's of Hillary under glass, and a family of peregrine falcons has defied nature by building its nest on top of the Gulf Building. Peregrine falcons prefer to live on the edges of cliffs, but in this case, these magnificent birds-of-prey find the Gulf Building to be an adequate substitute nesting area and the resident pigeons plentiful prey.

Hillary lurks also.

24 posted on 03/01/2006 11:33:32 AM PST by beyond the sea (Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media.")
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To: Mia T
Great job as usual, Mia T.!!

I think you're the only person who dislikes Hillary MORE than I do :-)

If you really want to have some fun, let's consider Hillary's V.P. choices if the democRATS decide to commit political suicide by nominating her.

For starters: John Edwards? No. He's prettier than Hillary and has a better figure, and better hair.

Governor Richardson? No. He's actually duller than Hillary

Evan Bayh? No. He'd make Hillary look stupid, and even more liberal than she is. And, he would out shine her, and make people wonder why Evan Bayh was not the nominee. Hillary would NEVER stand for that.


Any other potential scenarios?? Let's have some fun here!!
25 posted on 03/01/2006 11:34:38 AM PST by GeorgeW23225 ("Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal.")
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To: beyond the sea
Hillary's facial features

Actually, this 'experiment' was a setup.

Social and experimental psychologists had determined decades ago that there is a correlation between facial features and presumed character traits.

The facial features in that idealized photo of hillary (e.g., wideset blue eyes, (surgery-assisted) absence of a frown) is consistent with positive presumed character traits. Conversely, McCain's features, e.g., the beady eyes, the frown) correlate with negative assumptions.

26 posted on 03/01/2006 12:10:15 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: beyond the sea; All
CORRECTED LINK TO THE CLIP

BILL MAHER WARNS DEMOCRATS:
HILLARY WILL TAKE YOU OVER A CLIFF IN '08



First of all, she will never win the presidency. The people who are worrying about that should stop worrying. She will never be elected president of this country. The democrats should buddy up to that concept before they walk over the cliff with her in 2008.

 

Bill Maher
Hardball with Chris Matthews
February 14, 2006


27 posted on 03/01/2006 12:24:14 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: GeorgeW23225

thx :)

My guess would be Warner but for the 'corruptible' variable. clinton minions are invariably corrupt or corruptible.... Warner strikes me as neither.


28 posted on 03/01/2006 12:35:06 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: GeorgeW23225
"Governor Richardson? No. He's actually duller than Hillary"

Dull is not my fear!!!

I do think Richardson will be the VP - he's already grooming himself for the job.

The only change might be - if the wind says we aren't ready for hillary - then Richardson runs for Top Job and hillary for VP - and in that case I would suggest Richardson never turn his back, his front, his side, or better yet just count how many days it took to rid themselves of Foster!!!

29 posted on 03/01/2006 12:59:50 PM PST by malia (The Impeached x42 clinton - a Paper Tiger President! MSM - bottom feeders! What a team!!!!)
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To: Mia T
"First of all, she will never win the presidency. The people who are worrying about that should stop worrying. She will never be elected president of this country."-------------

DISINFORMATION FROM THE LEFT !!!

Trying to stop up from concentrating on the enema......... oh, enemy. ;-)

Just like the baseball coach of the opposing team who tells you his pitcher has a sore arm and won't throw well in the game.

BULL!

I've been there against the Mets' John Matlack and others!

30 posted on 03/01/2006 1:09:19 PM PST by beyond the sea (Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media.")
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To: Mia T
My keen Spideysense (c) registers some initial resistance to Hillary's campaign...

Making Hillary acceptable to most American voters will be like sucking 5 gallons of snot through a soda straw. But they're welcome to try.

31 posted on 03/01/2006 1:27:04 PM PST by pabianice (contact ebay??)
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To: Mia T

bump


32 posted on 03/01/2006 3:03:30 PM PST by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: Mia T
ABC announced the other day that it is pulling "Commander-in-Chief" off the air "until spring."

Never watched it once. / Bttt

33 posted on 03/01/2006 3:17:13 PM PST by Sic Luceat Lux
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To: Sic Luceat Lux

I watched the first episode... for research purposes. ;)


34 posted on 03/01/2006 4:21:33 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: beyond the sea
 

 

I think
David Geffen
and
Bill Maher
and
Harold Ickes
and
Chris Matthews
and
Maureen Dowd
and
Molly Ivins
-- and
Susan Estrich
before she was
coerced, paid off
or whatever --
truly believe
that missus clinton
is bad new
for their party.

 


35 posted on 03/01/2006 6:11:24 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: pabianice

While I wouldn't put it quite that way, I think you've nailed it. ;)
Anyone else with her baggage, repulsiveness and mediocrity would be laughed off the stage.


36 posted on 03/01/2006 6:19:24 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: malia

Richardson is certainly corruptible enough and obsequious enough and dull enough and fat enough (and hispanic enough?) ;)


37 posted on 03/01/2006 6:24:15 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: UWSrepublican

ping


38 posted on 03/01/2006 6:26:51 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: All
 

HEAR CHRIS MATTHEW + MAUREEN DOWD DEVOUR HILLARY

(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)


39 posted on 03/02/2006 2:38:31 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

Criminals and their enablers are smarter than us. They have nuance and deception.

/sarcasm


40 posted on 03/02/2006 4:24:52 AM PST by PGalt
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