"But you loved it when Ed Muskie did it?"
Posted on 12/13/2010 2:27:08 PM PST by chessplayer
Via Greg Hengler, behold as the master of the weepy celebrity confessional interview, who’s been turning emotional problems into “news” for decades, suddenly discovers how off-putting tears can be. She’s right that there’s a different standard for crying when women politicians do it, but I’m not so sure that that difference benefits men. If Pelosi cried, she’d risk being branded as “soft” but she’d still be well within the bounds of acceptable female emotional display. Hillary’s tears just before the 2008 New Hampshire primary were a media sensation, but she suffered no real damage from it; on the contrary, some analysts speculated afterward that they helped her in the voting booth by humanizing her. When a male pol cries, he’s so far outside the paradigm of strong, stoic masculine leadership that not only does he come off as weak, he risks looking like a head case. (Muskie is, of course, the ultimate example.) No one here explicitly calls Boehner weak but Whoopi’s mockery makes her opinion of him clear enough, and of course Barbara’s got the “head case” narrative covered. You’d think Joy would seize the opportunity to call him a wimp or worse, but poor woman, she’s so stuck on her image of Republicans as heartless monsters that she can’t escape it even during a segment about a Republican who cries at the drop of the hat. In fact, her argument here — that Boehner only cries for himself — is contradicted by the bit that opens the segment, when he tears up at the thought of protecting the American dream for schoolchildren.
Strong and stoic. Qualities libs, especially female libs, claim to despise in a male. But here they are calling him a wimp for shedding some tears, with Walters suggesting that a male who sheds tears is psychiatrically unbalnced.
I thought that is what metro-sexuals do?
Who would have thunk it?
Walters may have a mental problem.
The man cares deeply about his country and what is happening to it! He is a patriot in my book.
Liberal men show they’re not afraid to cry... they’re real men, the kind that the hot chicks swoon over.
Conservative men do the same... they’ve got emotional problems, are probably unstable, could be dangerous nut-cases.
How much has the fellow been tearing up?
Is it a couple times in a year or has be been on some kind of tour doing it as of late?
Doesn’t build confidence in him from others if he does it a lot.
How frequently has it been going on?
PS Walters is a leftist who would suck Castro’s something or other IMO, so I am not surprised at this attempt to call the man unstable at all.
Like most lefties, she is certifiable.
that’s “an emotional pwobwem”.
I actually agree with her.
The crying BS has to stop, including Beck’s.
"But you loved it when Ed Muskie did it?"
It’s just a signal for the rest of the media types to start making a big case out of it. Wait until Boehner becomes a threat.
Never mind the context or the rest of the interview...
the vipers must be petty, it’s what they do best. I mean, come on, they couldn’t handle a debate with Bill O’Reilly. Of course, it wasnt “emotion” that caused the Whoopster and Joyless to walk off the set. Maybe they just had to pee and they need someone to go to the bathroom with.
"There's no crying in baseball."
“I actually agree with her.”
Me too. Tammy Faye Boehner needs to act like a man. If a woman politician cried I would say the same thing.
Baba’s a disgusting cougar slut. He probably didn’t return her advances, wisely brought his wife for protection. LOL.
Hopefully this will cure John Boehner if he has ANY notion that Libs play fair, are reasonable or ‘mean well’. May this be the tipping point that pisses him off enough to declare war and end compromise.
"You can act like a man *slap* What's the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finochio that, uh, cries like a woman? 'What can I do? What can I do?' What is that nonsense? Ridiculous."
Walters is an 81 year old bitter krone,just like Helen Thomas. Both of them cast stones arbitrarily and irrationally against those they hate. Old hag Barbara should be farmed out now.
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