Posted on 07/28/2007 6:35:25 PM PDT by seanmerc
Hillary Clinton's handlers are so outraged - outraged! - at a newspaper story musing over her showing a little cleavage that they're urging equally miffed supporters to fight back by stuffing cash into her coffers. "Would you believe that The Washington Post wrote a 746-word article on Hillary's cleavage?" senior campaign adviser Ann Lewis said yesterday in the fund-raising e-mail.
"Frankly, focusing on women's bodies instead of their ideas is insulting. It's insulting to every woman who has ever tried to be taken seriously in a business meeting," Lewis wrote.
The offending Post article appeared last week in the Style section after Clinton delivered a higher education speech on the Senate floor that was carried on C-SPAN2. The story's focus wasn't student loan policy.
"She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary," The Post reported. "There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable."
A longtime Democratic operative who is no Clinton fan said it wasn't surprising that Team Hillary would try to generate a sympathy backlash - and then ask for cash to help ease the pain.
"She looks for every opportunity she can get to be the victim. It's her playbook," the party source said. "The question is whether Hillary-as-victim leaves her looking more like a martyr or a whiner."
A Republican operative mocked the controversy as "a tempest in a B-cup."
Others believe Team Hillary's pique is justified.
"They're right to object," said feminist author and activist Naomi Wolf. "It's so trivial for the press to waste its time on this while our sons and daughters are dying in Iraq."
The campaign's anger over the article "is a natural reaction," added Georgetown University linguistics Prof. Deborah Tannen, author of "You're Wearing That?"
"She might as well turn it to her advantage, and it is an advantage - and it is also maddening," Tannen said. "It's a real double bind that men don't face."
But the press did giggle this week at John Edwards for wearing skintight Lycra cycling shorts while riding with cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.
Clinton, meanwhile, was back in her standard uniform yesterday: dark pants suit with a ruffled, frilly shirt that bared nothing.
Flat chested, big in the rear, that’s her.
You have been warned............
Yes, I can believe it. Thank God they didn’t show a picture of the beast and her cleavage. The thought of that is sickening.
You have been warned............
I went to Toronto last summer and check out the CN Tower....
Oops! Forgot the barf alert.
There it is again an epected statement “Clinton hot and bothered over cleavage!!!”
LOL!! I guess Hillary didn’t like all that press that Jeri Thompson was getting. She had to get in on it herself.
Camille Paglia on Naomi Wolf
“If you want to see what’s wrong with Ivy League education, look at The Beauty Myth, that book by Naomi Wolf. This is a woman who graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a Rhodes scholar, and cannot write a coherent paragraph. This is a woman who cannot do historical analysis, and she is a Rhodes scholar? If you want to see the damage done to intelligent women today in the Ivy League, look at that book. It’s a scandal. Naomi Wolf is an intelligent woman. She has been ill-served by her education. But if you read Lacan, this is the result. Your brain turns to pudding! She has a case to make. She cannot make it. She’s full of paranoid fantasies about the world. Her education was completely removed from reality.”
Wolf btw is divorced from a former x42 speechwriter.
Yeah, but wrong Clinton, wrong cleavage.
One of these days, the MSM is gonna figure out that Hillary is indeed just as big a bimbo as Paris Hilton. Paris’s claim to fame is her good looks. Hillary’s is her idiot savant husband (savant in being able to fool the gullable, idiot in that he actually cannot do anything that anyone would pay for in the real world). Come on. That woman would be asking “Would you like to supersize that?” were it not for Bill. She’s an idiot. Liberal arts “education” from a pay for it university. Never had an original thought. Never will. Even her cleavage sucks.
If her chest was relatively proportionate with her butt, she would have cleavage like Anna Nichole Smith.
I know but I just couldn’t resist.
You know what this reminds me of? Do you remember when the Clintons were furious about the picture of them dancing alone?
It went right by everyone, but when they came out “furious” everyone went and looked for it. It was an answer to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
This is an answer to the “Hillary is a man” bit.
She’s afraid someone will look closely and realize they mistook a wrinkle for cleavage.
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