Posted on 07/20/2007 1:27:14 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
Breaking News: Cleavage on Display
"There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton... There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable," the Washington Post reported.
NEWSFLASH: Hillary Clinton has breasts.
And apparently that "news" merits coverage in the Washington Post.
In a Style section cover story on Friday, fashion "reporter" Robin Givhan notes that Hillary Clinton has taken a brazen step for a woman politician by wearing a low neckline. "Showing cleavage," says Givhan, "is a request to be engaged in a particular way. It doesn't necessarily mean that a woman is asking to be objectified, but it does suggest a certain confidence and physical ease."
Shock! Horror! A prominent woman showing confidence and physical ease!
Givhan goes on with her psychobabble: "It means that a woman is content being perceived as a sexual person in addition to being seen as someone who is intelligent, authoritative, witty and whatever else might define her personality. It also means that she feels that all those other characteristics are so apparent and undeniable, that they will not be overshadowed."
This article about the frontrunning candidate for U.S. president caused quite a stir in the NOW office this morning, eliciting reactions ranging from "You've got to be kidding!" to "What century is this?" The piece is definitely outrageous, but it's also hilarious. Absurdly hilarious. And it's an indictment of our society's lingering archaic notions of femininity, assumptions about breasts and sexuality, and fears about powerful women.
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Lol bump!!
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I knew the Google Webcrawlers would start picking up the .gifs and ranking the hits
I image many are all over Google - We just don’t look for them
It’s a good thing your SIG on those does not ID you!
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Hard to say what “Strange Politics” will use
They are after traffic and hits so they might be likely to use it
“U-Tube” posts anything - Until “some people” scream
Yes, I know U-Tube will use anything.
I had seen my same Jihad graphic posted on a forum with the name taken off but the one on Google had the name on it.
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I think U-Tube and others will do a lot of damage to the democrats in 2008 and beyond
The number that view it far exceeds anything on network TV or political candidate’s websites
It also gets around CFR right up to and including election day
With Reid and Pelosi limiting information, debate, ammendments in Congress U-Tube and FR and Lucianne.com and Powerline and the Drudge Report and Newsmax pretty well causes big headaches for the libs
If Mudoch gets his deals thru the left will have more than FNC to scream about
Titillating? I think not!!!
Really, and Hillary might have a very large set.
Yep - she does have a pair, doesn’t she.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The wide load and the pantload. Hillary has a huge fat butt, I'd like to see what piggy weighs in at.
I think the Washington Post mistakenly identified her cellulite for cleavage. I wonder if they'll make a correction in an upcoming issue?
NOW isn’t interested in defending real women.
Great choice. A man with girlie hands himself trying to persuade us that Hillary isn't a man. Her hand's are more manly looking than his.
Good job!!
Nude photos of Hillary? Did she pose for Field & Stream?
I still remember the time a bunch of butch-looking NOW members testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Old Strom Thurmond closed the meeting by thanking the “lovely ladies” for their testimony. He was just being cordial (obviously) but the NOW hags ran for the nearest microphone and began howling about how “sexist” and disrespectful it was to be called “lovely ladies”. Why, it was as if the Senate Republicans were only lusting after their bodies, not their minds.
This was hilarious, all the more so since these gals were about as pretty as an NFL linebacker.
I haven't heard what N.O.W. thinks of Hillary, Webb and Vince regularly going to lunch at a strip joint when they were Rose Law Firm partners.
they are both so entertaining aren’t they? I’t’s amazing.
Aw hell. Now it's in my brain.
I may never have sex again.
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