It's amazing what a few gallons of Spackle, a few hours with a hair dresser, and a few more hours with a makeup tech can accomplish.
Posted on 01/29/2018 10:12:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
People with “I’m With Her” back tattoos don’t seem to get how wince-inducingly pathetic it was for Hillary Clinton to attempt to rub Donald Trump’s peccadilloes in his face at the Grammys last night, so picture this:
A year after blowing a 28–3 lead in the Super Bowl, Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Quinn appears on national television, his eyes full of mockery, to read aloud that gossipy Sports Illustrated story about troubles within the New England Patriots organization. With a victorious smirk on his face, Quinn reads these words: “Brady always knew the hits were coming during Monday morning film sessions — ‘The quarterback at Foxborough High could make that throw,’ Belichick often would say after replaying a Brady misfire.” The audience guffaws in approval.
Except Quinn would never dare do that even if he wanted to, for one simple reason: He does not get to make fun of Tom Brady, because Tom Brady beat him. You can’t do an end-zone dance if you haven’t scored a touchdown. Your trash-talk license is revoked when yours is the losing side, especially if you happen to be the teammate who fumbled the ball on the goal line.
Leave aside the indignity of Hillary Clinton, a former first lady, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, appearing in a cheap throwaway gag at the Grammys during which she reads a bit from the book Fire and Fury about President Trump’s love of junk food. Leave aside the fact that her husband was also once notorious for his love of McDonald’s. Leave aside the fact that she and her husband have, like Trump, been the subject of scurrilous, vicious, largely made-up junk-journalism that doesn’t even pass the laugh test, much less a rigorous fact-checking process. She lost; she has no standing to make fun of the man who beat her.
I say this with no emotional stake in the matter, because I didn’t vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump: Clinton can’t dunk on Trump after the game is over and he has won. He’s the president; she’s not and she never will be. Losers don’t get to taunt winners. This isn’t a matter of sportsmanship, but a matter of dignity: A loser humiliates herself by poking fun at the guy who beat her. Half a day later, Trump, the most irritable man on earth, hadn’t deigned to respond to Clinton’s taunt. He didn’t have to. It was too pathetic to merit a response.
Clinton should take the advice of J. J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success: “You’re dead, son. Get yourself buried.” Every time she reappears on the national stage she simply reminds us all that she’s a bad politician — ungainly, unnatural, unctuous, forced — and that it is this lack of political skill that resulted in the Trump presidency. A Christmas-time poll by Gallup put Clinton’s approval rating at an abysmal 36 percent. You’d have to be emotionally invested in her to find stunts such as her Grammy appearance anything but woeful for her image.
I may have written once or twice before that awards shows and similar pageants of celebrity self-congratulation would be less boring if the entertainers put their efforts into being entertaining instead of declamatory, angry, and huffy. But like this month’s Golden Globes ceremony, which introduced various left-wing activists in an attempt to change the subject from Hollywood’s sex-abuse problem to its progressive bona fides, and like the Emmys, during which host Stephen Colbert brought on Sean Spicer for a gag that fizzled, the Grammys indicated an alarming new trend of further politicizing showbiz frippery by roping in actual political figures. The awards shows are turning into Meet the Press with sequins and cleavage.
Since the average person is tired of Hillary Clinton and wouldn’t know Sean Spicer if passing him in the street, the entertainment industry would do well to avoid designing glitzy shows around hopes of baiting Trump into sending a few tweet-bombs in response. Based on initial ratings from key markets, the ratings for last night’s extravaganza were down a massive 20 percent from last year’s politically charged festivities, to what may be an all-time low. If Hollywood’s goal is to reach Meet the Press’s ratings level, it’s on the right track.
— Kyle Smith is National Review’s critic-at-large.
Clinton tried to "dunk on Trump" but all she's been throwing up is bricks since she lost.
This is a good column and is correct, Hillary should fade away. The Grammys last night were predictable, some decent performances, mostly apolitical acceptance speeches, a decent number of anti-Trump comments (some slipped in by the show as filler between acts - those seemed out of place and not funny or creative), but mostly a music industry lovefest of themselves. I watched it and was not really offended by anything, just disappointed in the lack of depth the political commentary displayed (music has always been political and counter-culture, I expect that). I imagine most posting here did not watch any of the show, so they too should not show offense.
Back to Hillary, she lost and will not have another show. Appearing on shows like the Grammys makes her no less irrelevant.
I was wondering if Hillary was already in a military prison. Apparently not yet.
Hellary will do anything for a buck.
Keep it up, folks. Trump will be headed for a landslide in 2020.
Honestly. how many in the music industry supported Reagan? You could probably count them all on one hand.
Lowest ratings in a long time if not ever.
Hiliary is a pod-person, incapable of feeling embarrassment or shame. She’s just a bitch being a bitch.
All those Commies at the Grammys just proved to everyone that they are a bunch of pathetic LOSERS..seriously what were they trying to prove last night, that they all vote Democrat..yeah we already knew that..I remember a time when I actually watched The Grammys(And other award shows) and enjoyed myself..it was fun, hearing the top songs, etc..but for 8 years of Obama they never trashed him(They couldnt, they all voted for him), so instead they trashed the police..the same police that were outside protecting their sorry asses..this year, they all decided hey let’s trash Trump..they all live in a little bubble, where everyone votes Democrat, where everyone believes what they believe and anyone that thinks otherwise is a moron
Great article!
I voted for Trump.
I do not want or deserve a daily lecture from the left on how I am the problem.
Eight years of it from the Three Card Monte dealer from Chicago is all I ever want.
There is a blessing in her constantly resurfacing to whine about losing -- every time she does it, she drives another nail into the Clinton dynasty coffin. It may actually be dead for all time now. Maybe not just dead, but also so tarnished that people are repulsed by it. Of course, if you are old enough, you were repulsed by it when the Clintons first appeared on the national stage in 1991. Wow, that was so long ago.
Glad you liked it but I stopped reading where it said Hill and Bill were attcacked with vicious unfounded accusations. No credibility after that.
she is an ongoing embarrassment. She is so needy and egotistical a tough combination for someone who has been rejected on the largest public stage anywhere.
Kyle is an ass.
He is delivering a harrumph of which anyone would concur, at the same time he unapologetically announces he voted for neither TRUMP or Clinton.
This National Review putz thinks this little fact makes his simpleton view “special”, since he is such a fine and upstanding “neutral” source.
NR is pathetic, still.
So National Review thinks her Heinous is bad now?
April 26, 2016 http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/national_review_to_endorse_hillary.html
If NR’s near-sighted owners would clean house of its bitter, cheap labor, thousand-points-of-light nevertrumper neo-cons—Richard Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, presidential-candidate-for-48 hours David French, et al, and hire-on conservative writers, I might subscribe again. A lot of us might.
Until then, NR ... kiss mah grits!
Televised awards shows: A show about “US”, by “US”, and for “US”, where we give awards to “US”, and where we focus on what’s really important in the world...”US”.
Only because I’m a nice guy to I offer Katie Perry, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and the rest this great advice.
Shut up and Sing, leave politics OUT.
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