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Mika B: Doesn't Bother Me if Cleavage Coverage Helped Hillary
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/30/2007 4:19:05 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Mika Brzezinski is so outraged that people are discussing Hillary's cleavage . . . that she hopes it helps the Dem prez candidate.

The topic arose at 6:18 A.M. EDT on today's "Morning Joe." The affable Willie Geist, a frequent panelist, is serving this morning as guest host for the absent Joe Scarborough. He broached the subject.

MORNING JOE GUEST HOST WILLIE GEIST: One of the other big stories that everybody is talking about is this Hillary Clinton cleavage thing.

MORNING JOE NEWSREADER MIKA BRZEZINSKI [in an exasperated tone]: Oh my gosh.
GEIST: . . . There's a shot of it right now; that's not so bad, I've seen much worse.

BRZEZINSKI: Are you kidding me? That's a great outfit. But what annoys me is that people wrote about it and talked about it. And if has helped her in any way I guess it doesn't bother me because that was ridiculous.
Mika's statement strikes me as a non sequitur. She's angry about the coverage, and therefore hopes it helps Hillary? I suppose Brzezinski's logic is that since poor Hillary has had to suffer to outrage of having her cleavage discussed, it's only fair that, in compensation, she should benefit politically from it.

But it seems an odd juxtaposition to me; something that would only occur to someone who, in the first place, is looking for reasons that Clinton's candidacy should be advanced.

Willie obviously wasn't as outraged as Mika, since he chose to roll David Letterman's riff on the subject. The late night host said Hillary "looked so hot":

And yes, there was a rim shot.

MIKA, flashing that sense of humor: That's terrible. I will not [laugh].

Here's why I think it's fair to discuss the case of the senatorial cleavage: Of all the candidates in the prez race, Hillary is the most scripted. Seemingly not a word she says or a gesture she makes has not been carefully thought through by her brain trust. In that light, it's difficult to see how Hillary turning up on the Senate floor in a pink top and flashing some cleavage could possibly have been other than a deliberate decision to achieve some goal related to her campaign. Appeal to younger women, show her feminine side -- who knows? I think it's reasonable for people interested in politics to try to decipher what Hillary was hoping to achieve, and whether she attained her putative goal.

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cleavage; hillary; mikabrzezinski; williegeist
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To: abb
A pair of cement tombstones is more like it.
41 posted on 07/30/2007 6:29:39 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hill doesn’t have cleavage.

People are trying to make a mountain out of molehill.


42 posted on 07/30/2007 6:31:25 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Dems '08 choices are a Manly woman, a Womanly man, or a Child Senator)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
And if has helped her in any way I guess it doesn't bother me...

Hussein Obama has larger breasts that Hillary.

If it was a conscious act on her part, thinking that she would display part of her flat chest, it was The Most Ridiculous Thing Of The Day!

43 posted on 07/30/2007 6:37:02 AM PDT by GFritsch ('All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved'." -)
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To: abb
I have no idea what you're talking about...

...so here's a statue of Hillary Clinton with glazed donuts on her breasts.

44 posted on 07/30/2007 6:40:29 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Izzy Dunne
I thought it was "Mammarex".

So help me, God-- that's exactly what occurred to me, too. I figured some wag here would point it out...

45 posted on 07/30/2007 6:45:12 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

And looking at those pictures also causes acne and will make you baldheaded!


46 posted on 07/30/2007 6:46:27 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

You may be right. The bald-headed part is starting to come true.


47 posted on 07/30/2007 6:49:29 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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unnngh...

48 posted on 07/30/2007 6:53:39 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Be glad it wasn’t butt cleavage with a thong.


49 posted on 07/30/2007 7:06:35 AM PDT by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It feels like junior high all over again...

not that there’s anything wrong with that.


50 posted on 07/30/2007 7:57:39 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Carolinamom

“Hillary doesn’t have very much to cleave.”

Unless you are talking about her behind!


51 posted on 07/30/2007 8:36:23 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: ken5050

Teddy’s was butt cleavage though.


52 posted on 07/31/2007 6:33:57 PM PDT by PinkDolphin (Darwin: Because Some People Were Not Meant to Breed.)
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