Posted on 09/25/2016 6:39:20 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Entire Title: "Hillary Clinton to use larger podium than Donald Trump at first debate to make up for height disadvantage: report"
Hillary Clinton says that we’re “stronger together,” but even she can’t deny Donald Trump is taller.
The Democratic nominee, who is 5-foot-4, has apparently enlisted the help of a raised podium for the first presidential debate against Donald Trump, who is 6-foot-3, Monday night, photos of the two podiums show.
According to WABC’s Rita Cosby, one of the two podiums inside the debate hall at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., is larger than the other.
It is believed that the larger one was built at Clinton’s request to make her appear taller than she is.
“Clinton is 5'4" and Trump 6'2" and her team wanted the podium modified or a box added so she won't look short next to Trump,” Cosby said in an email.
“One is clearly larger … than the other,” Cosby said.
Photos taken by Cosby appear to show two podiums of two different sizes.
The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to questions about whether the Democratic nominee would be using a raised podium at Monday night’s debate. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the debates, did not respond to questions either.
However, multiple outlets had reported last week that the Clinton campaign had asked the CPD if the Democratic nominee could use a raised podium to avoid appearing 10 inches shorter than Trump.
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I didn’t build that. It was the Earl of Taint - https://earloftaint.com/
Oh yeah, Nickey! I couldn’t think of his name.
That show is still so funny! Just this morning I was thinking about whom Trump should park in a front row seat tomorrow along with Gennifer Flowers. Of course I thought of Jerry and his Pez dispenser doing some tiny clapping. Lol.
“to avoid appearing 10 inches shorter”? She IS 10 inches shorter.
I hope she gets dizzy and falls off the damn thing.
Will her African-American handler be allowed to be near her at the podium were she to get an uncontrollable coughing attack or worse?
And she will be allowed a glass of vodka instead of water.
all three...
I thought of it a few nights ago and emailed it to myself in the middle of the night.
Oh wow, the fact that it’s a “Fixit Original” makes it even cooler!
So...the criminal liar wants to fool the public about her height? Size matters!!!
I think the larger podium would be for Trump, because most of the time the camera will be on one candidate, not both. If the camera operators frame each podium in the same proportions, it will look like they are the same size. Only the shots where they are together will the audience be able to see the height difference.
I’ve been trying to figure out HeRCy Jerky, but I don’t think enough folks associate HRC with ‘ole pantsuit MCGee.
Larger butt, larger podium.
2. It's not entirely clear that the difference in appearance is not a photographic effect.
Watch for the camera shots to not show her climbing up into her high chair
Well, yeah, I have to agree with you there...I don’t make the pantsuit MCGee connection, either. If I saw HeRCy Jerky written I’d probably think it was a reference to her bobbling head!
I call that one “Kim Jong-Illary.”
Will he be to her right or left? She needs a means to make uncontrolled eye appear normal.
David Copperfield will have her double hidden in the box ready to pop up when she goes bobble head.
Ha ha!
And the title does sound rather backward—since indeed the planned trick is to give her the smaller podium as part of a carefully crafted optical illusion.
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