Posted on 08/17/2006 5:18:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
August 17, 2006 - 08:07
Hillary is on the air! There I was on the couch this morning in full pajamahadeen mode, searching for nuggests of MSM bias with which to titillate NB readers, when for the first time a Hillary campaign ad popped up. It's all pretty standard stuff. The theme is 'Standing Up': Hillary standing up for jobs, for military bases, for health care. As I type this, a freeze frame shows a nicely-coiffed Hillary in a striped pink shirt and sporting a single strand of pearls. On a desk in the background you can discern family photos: Bill, Hillary and Chelsea in one, what looks like a young Chelsea as a ballerina in another.
But there was one moment that captured just what a tough job the advertising media folks face in warming up Hillary's chilly image. As the voice-over tells us that Hillary is "standing up for children's health care," we see Hillary in a little girl's hospital room. For the record, the girl is wearing a pink robe, and a woman standing bedside [presumably the mother] is also dressed in pink. There's a lot of pink in this ad.
Anyhow, Hillary strokes the little girl's hair. But she does so in the wan, tentative way with which you might pet someone else's cat, not quite sure you won't be bitten. It was a classic bit of Hillary trying - and not quite succeeding - to show a warm-'n-fuzzy side that just might not exist.
The ad closes with the choked-up father of another ill child for whom Hillary "stood up" [getting the hospital to pay for a certain treatment]. "How do you thank someone for saving your child's life?", he asks. Of course Hillary has the unstated answer: by voting for me!
Interestingly, while the ad says it is "approved by Hillary Clinton" and "paid for by friends of Hillary," it makes no reference to the only office for which she is an announced candidate: Senator from New York. This might really be looked upon as the first Hillary for President ad. We wish the ad makers good luck in portraying Hillary's human side. They're going to need it.
Hillary/NewsBusters ping to Today Show list. Must-see screen grab from Hillary campaign ad.
same as Mrs. Bill Clinton?
....didn't work.
Going for the Katie Couric look?
Hillary's voice is pure acid
"Standing up?" Ain't no way. Makes me flaccid.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
ewwwwwwww!!
This is just more of the old, "I feel your pain" B.S. that we got from the other Clinton all the time.
I care so much I must remain an arm length away.
Hillary's voice is pure acid
"Standing up?" Ain't no way. Makes me flaccid.
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Thanks for the great laugh !
Soften Hillary?
Are they going to use sledgehammers?
Ah yes Chelsea, the perfect prop.
Hillary looks like she's afraid of catching something from the child.
I very, very much look forward to the beast running in '08. It's going to be a whole LOT of fun! She's going to fall and shatter and:
All the MSM's horses and all the MSM spin, won't put the Hildebeast back together again.
They could give this woman plastic surgery and a heart transplant and it wouldn't help. We know so much about this harpy and endured eight years of her, already, in the White House. Do they REALLY think we don't know EXACTLY what she is?
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear and you canNOT turn Hitlery into a decent person.
A staged photo if I've ever seen one. Note the parents just standing there, looking, not smiling. And as for the father's quote, Hillary spent NONE of her own funds to pay for the child's treatment.
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