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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One of Hillary’s artist buddies made the original “bust”!
What a great FR FReepathon Fundraiser thread intro graphic!
Oh come on...after Elizabeth Edwards said she acts like a man....now old hildabeast shows off her boobs. To prove she’s a women...LOL...how obvious is this...and how perfectly stupid it is. Just a really stupid stunt...give be a friggin’ break...the games these crooked politicians play...
[What a great FR FReepathon Fundraiser thread intro graphic!]
Your mind works in mysterious ways.
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The orginal and the “sagged” version photo were both posted on FR threads and never pulled or deleted
I just used a Javascript Slideshow to use them as 2 frames, then a transitional middle images was made
It’s a 1-2-4-2 slideshow and then “somebody” made it into an animated 4-frame .gif
It’s a panic
Brit Hume will never close his FNC sho with that mini-video
It should somehow get up on U-Tube
Until they delete it!
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Bet the thread would get mega-views!
[It should somehow get up on U-Tube]
Lol, that’s an idea!
As many as it cold get before it was removed, lol.
You made that bust, where she looks just like Jimmah...
interesting and funny!
I didn’t think that was possible! lol
I don’t see Brit using it, but YouTube sound GREAT!
Rumor has it that her breasts are like ice cubes, and we all know that there is nothing colder than........
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Someone on the internet made the morphed single photo
The trick was to resize and crop it to the same dimensions and proportions so it would work in a 2-frame slideshow
The 3rd “trasitional” frame I made by experimenting with the morphed frame and then resizing, cropping, etc
The Slideshow is a great way to pre-test animated .gif ideas while being able to try different frame delays/speeds
A little Flash .swf of that with an .mp3 used in the .swf and a U-Tube cartoon would be ready
U-Tube sure gets a ton of hits!
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The Arkansas Mafia might come after us!
That is the kind of parodygraphic that can destroy careers and “legacies”
Lots of hard work, snicker!
Well, at least you didn’t put Ahmadinjahad - whatever’s head on yours, lol
Didn’t N.O.W. get the memo?
Clintons are exempt from feminism.
Ordinarily “no means no”. Except when it’s Bill Clinton, then “no means you better put some ice on that”. And then of course N.O.W. is obliged to defend such conduct.
Why should his husband be any different?
[She’s so hot.]
Only in her own mind, lol!
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I know -
It went thru several updated versions
It was so funny when we saw how well it worked - esp. to Disco music
I wonder if “Strange Politics” would dare post the .gif version as a featured graphic as it has several others
Then the genie would be out of the bottle
Don't feel better yet ................ FRegards
I never look on that site, do they post pretty explicit things?
Funny thing, when I was doing a Google search for Kangaroos my graphic of Pelosi and the Jihad men was on the first page??? I did it for animated kangaroos.
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