Tina Brown Defends Hillary: She Was Just Having a Bad Hair Day

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My husband is not the Secretary of State. I am. You ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.”

So said Hillary Clinton at a town hall meeting in Africa Monday when a college student through an interpreter asked her what former President Clinton thought about the economy (video embedded right).

According to The Daily Beast editor Tina Brown, Mrs. Clinton was just having a bad hair day:

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Contrary to received opinion, I am told Bill's wife was not a bit miffed at her husband's bounding back into the limelight with that glamorous Team America rescue of damsels in distress from evil North Korea. On top of Hillary's own punishing State Department schedule and painful broken elbow, she has to cope-like any wife of a dethroned big- deal spouse-with a moody, irritable alpha male at home who chafes about being sidelined (and, in this case, smarts from the campaign's wounds more than by now she does herself). Because she loves her man, she wants to see him appreciated. She was thrilled when he got the call that put him back in the game and grateful that Obama, for once, let him do something.

She loves her man and wants to see him appreciated? Isn't this piling it on a little thick, Tina?

Apparently not:

News cycles of this sort are supposed to last at most one week, not two-and this one, this latest Bill comeback narrative, was now bumping into hers. She didn't mind in Kenya, South Africa, Angola, or even Congo that Bill's Korea trip was grabbing the news. But when it looked as if his limelight might pursue her all the way to Nigeria-well, that was a country too far.

Madam Secretary was doing so well at grabbing back the spotlight, delivering hard messages to devious, corrupt African strongmen, issuing warnings to Somali militants, busting a move on the dance floor at a gala dinner in Nairobi. In Congo she was particularly stressed. She had spent a day touring a refugee camp, hearing harrowing stories of rape, persecution, and female subjugation, issues she has long made hers. I suspect she'd just about had it with having to tiptoe around so many big-dog male egos-Obama, Bill, Africa's Messrs. Kibaki, Zuma, and Kabila. And p.s., was it necessary for Bill to be yukking it up on his birthday with the old adoring pals at such a fancy, high-priced restaurant as Craftsteak?

And here's the delicious punch line:

And not only that, but (and I say this in solidarity, not belittlement) the African humidity had wreaked havoc on her hair. It had gone all flat and straight, which puts any woman in a bad humor. (Let's not forget: It was a sympathetic reference to the female-specific chore of keeping perfectly coiffed that made Hillary's eyes fill with tears back in New Hampshire.) Plus, the grueling State Department schedule means these days she can never get to the gym.

Wow!

So should America expect more petulant and erratic behavior from its new Secretary of State whenever her hair doesn't curl properly or she misses a workout or two?

If that's the case, we should be thankful it ISN'T her receiving that call at 3 in the morning.

On the other, what if she's the one making the call, and she's having problems with her coiffure?

Heaven forbid.

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"I gave up being a U.S. Senator from New York for this?!"

That makes a little over

That makes a little over 6000 bad hair days since Campaign '92.

But I think you have to rate this one...

....in the top 10.

Personally, I don't mind a

Personally, I don't mind a little honest reaction from a politician once in a while. She was stuck in the Congo, for gosh sakes! I'm no defender of Hilldog, but were it not for the 24 hour news cycle, this would have easily been missed or passed over as not newsworthy. Of course, she did have a little bit of that "attitude" thing going...

stuck in the Congo

When I heard Congo, I thought, wow, I guess she's lucky she missed that last space shuttle/space station mission.

Being put out to pasture is one thing, but being put out to the jungle...?

Hillary Gets a Pass on This One

From me, anyway.  Having her position so overtly marginalized by Obama and having her role as Secretary of State so carved up and distributed to others, by design, was a cop out and an underhanded thing to do by Obama and those with whom he surrounds himself.  I don't blame Hillary for having a "moment".

And I think her hair looked absolutely adorable in this video!  The best cut/style I've seen on her in ages.  And, I thought she looked a helluva lot better in this video than she usually does; younger, bouncier, and more relaxed...  despite the difficult situation.

Agreed bond

I thought she looked pretty good in this video- definitely younger. Don't know if they blurred out her facial lines by accident, or maybe she had a little somethin' done- hence her diminished profile lately...

I don't agree - but coming from a woman, I noticed the

added pounds - or at least the appearance of same due to her poor posture in the chair.  Guess her mom never told her to sit up straight!  She sure can look frumpy...wow, that word certainly dates me ;-)

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Younger, bouncier, more relaxed???

Younger, bouncier, more relaxed????

You're joking, right?

I linked to that video in a different thread this AM.. because the transcript was bad enough, but when I saw the video, Holy Cow! 

That was a fuming Hillary....snarling and pointing her finger at the insolent questioner...

No comment on her hair or her weight.  Her attitude is what matters. 

This is our HEAD DIPLOMAT??

 

MB

'' . . . but when I saw the video, Holy Cow!''

There is not a religious bone in Hillary's bovine body.

I dunno know, I'm not getting the "bouncy" thing either

I dunno know, I'm not getting the "bouncy" thing either - if you watch the whole clip, she was so slouched back in the chair she looked like she was about to fall asleep... before she erupted.

But hey, who wouldn't want to be at a conference at a Holiday Inn in the Congo watching Powerpoint presentations in Congoese while your husband was doing Vegas with the (Democ)Rat Pack? 

Didn't you get a kick out

Didn't you get a kick out of the look on her face when she realized what had been said,. and suddenly bolted upright and took the earbuds out???

Oh, my, that was rich!!

MB: How you say, "WTF?!" in Congolese?

Oh yeah, that woke her up. Then her sitting there with the earbuds and wires laying there on her lapels was funn-eee.

If she lasts a year as SOS I'll be amazed.

I agree - her posture was very off-putting - as if she was doing

them a HUGE favor by honoring them with her presence...and that they should have been bowing before her, not questioning her!

I'll bet she is throwing a few ashtrays/lamps/whatever now that she sees her video has gone viral ;-)  Good for you, Hill!  Let the whole world see the real woman hiding inside that 'cool' exterior ;-) 

And finally...Don't EVER let a student ask a question (which had been 'lost in translation') and be gracious in your response...we wouldn't recognize you ;-)  That ought to show that little NK shrimp you aren't a frumpy old lady!

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→ Cape

I'm trying to figure out if she was showing her school girl personna, or maybe her pensioner needing to go shopping side.

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Cape Con:

You are very benevolent in your description of her posture as "off-putting."

I don't know zip about Congoese culture, but if I'm sitting there at audience level looking up at that on the stage, I'm either politely excusing myself from the festivities or reaching for the nearest thing that could serve as a barf bag. 

→ SOL

Given her history with Bill's philandering, she probably couldn't be described as "out-putting".

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Out-putting? Cool: I just threw up in my mouth... A LOT

I've been desperate at times (many, many years ago), but there was always a farm within driving distance.

Some times the sheep need a

Some times the sheep need a little help getting through the fence, eh?

Ah, the ole' stump broke

Ah, the ole' stump broke horse days....

→ Brokeback Mutton

Keyser! come ba-a-a-a-ck

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Dear BondPlainBond

Please take your medication!

Talk about a backhanded

Talk about a backhanded defense.  

Of course, if she were POTUS, we'd all of us, male and female, be called sexist.  The press would note more men than women showing up to protest Hillarycare; that opponents just don't like her because she's a woman, and "socialist" would become the new right-wing code word for "bitch."  

And so on . . . 

Agreed!!! Victimhood rules in liberal/Democrat circles! And

'we who caused all the problems should just sit in the corner and be quiet' while 'the one' and his liberal SOCIALISTIC buds clear everything up!

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Methinks Hill was a tad upset about Bill flying home with two

sweet things & GETTING ALL THE 24/7 GLORY and then, to top that, spending his birthday in Las Vegas.  I'm sure there were a few sweet things around there, too. 

All the while, she's stuck in the depths of Africa sweating and making a spectacle of herself doing a boogie dance and having to deal with 'bad hair'.  Thanks, Tina...that was a good one!  At least you didn't throw in 'that time of the month' or 'hot flashes' as further backup to the unleashed fury of HRC :-)

Once again, the true Hillary Rodham Clinton surfaces!!!!

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There's some confusion out

There's some confusion out there, so to clear this up once and for all..
 
I am NOT the Secretary of State.
 
Bill... I mean Hillary Clinton is, nah nah, nah nah, nah.

On a side bar: clock the hatchet faced Hillary in that Lilac pantsuit, scowling with hair and makeup straight out of the Rocky Horror Show.
 
Man, I almost felt sorry for the harpie. At least she didn't get up and dance to tribal drums.

So bongo, bongo, bongo
I don't wanna leave the Congo
Oh no no no no no
Billo, bangle, bungle
I'm so happy in the jungle
I refuse to go
Don't want no bright lights
False teeth, doorbells, landlords
I make it clear
That no matter how they coax Bill
I'll stay right here

Thanks Barack: from post-racial to most-racial in just six months!

I feel Hill's pain...

biting lower lip....She gets a new hairdo just to look good for her man Bill and he still upstages her.  Thanks for pointing that out Tina.

Vanity of vanities.....all is vanity.

You know Hillary wouldn't be

You know Hillary wouldn't be calling at 3:00 a.m. because of trouble with her husband, with whom she no longer lives nor shares a bed. But we won't talk about that, after all, everything must look good.

Hillary's Lament

I wish I was somewhere other than here
Down in some honky tonk, sippin' on a beer
Yes I wish I was somewhere other than here 
Cause this Bullshit SOS job 
Cost me two good years


h/t Jimmy Buffett

Tina Brown is full of

Tina Brown is full of it!

Hill not only had a bad hair day, she had a bad choice of her attire, bad choice when it came to her posture, bad make-up day...and a bad attitude day...but hey, what can we expect...it's Shrillary!

I give her until Jan,1st if that to remain in her position...she gets no respect...heheee

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

bt - where do you suppose she'll end up once she hits the

sidewalk?  Doubt she'll run back up to that wonderful 'home' state of New York.  I don't think she's been up there much since they bought the house.

CARPETBAGGER EXTRAORDINAIRE!!!

I think she paid for the DC mansion with her book sales but I wonder how she can stand to live within shouting distance of all the In Crowd and no longer be IN ;-)  Couldn't happen to a more deserving individual, in my humble opinion!

I do hope once she left the senate she was required to dissolve the second largest senate office in America!  I am positive she set that thing up for exactly what she used it for...NOT for Senate business but to coordinate her presidential run.  Though lavender / rudeness / bad hair aside, I am beginning to wish she had succeeded rather than 'the one' if we had to have a Democrat in the White House.  I don't think she would have taken us straight to Socialism...and maybe we wouldn't have lost Congress either!

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CC...I don't know, but I

CC...I don't know, but I wouldn't doubt if she didn't run against O again if his poll numbers are still sinking and remain in the tank.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

              

               Not a bad hair day, she has been taking lessons from Ma'am Boxer.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

It's 3:00am, and ...

Rrrring!....Rrrring!....Rrrring..<click>-<whirr>---

Obama: Uh, hello [yawn]. Who's this, and why are you calling me now {under breath -- those damn Secret Service agents are going to get their asses handed to them tomorrow}

Clinton: Oh. Hello, Mr. President. I, uh, I don't know quite how to say this, but, well, it's difficult to put into words, but you need to know..

Obama: Hillary! Is this another one of your stupid 3:00am "test the president" calls??! This is the 4th one this summer. How many times do I have to tell you, I CAN HANDLE THE 3:00AM PHONE CALLS! {where are those agents. I clearly told them -- no more calls from Hillary}

Clinton: Umm, Mr. President -- we may be at war soon. Maybe any minute now.

Obama (sitting up straight now): What!?

Clinton: Yeah. I was having breakfast with one of those stupid little bumpkin ambassadors from the Congo just now, and the Russian President happened to show up. I was tired, jet-lagged, you know -- and he commented on my blue dress I was wearing. BLUE DRESS. You know how that sets me off. So I smacked him, right in the kisser. Drew blood too. You'll see it in the morning papers. Well, things went downhill from there, and == just be prepared.

Obama, hanging up the phone: OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG....

Clinton, hanging up the phone: Hehehehehe, that'll teach you to send me to Africa while Bill gets the headlines. We'll see pretty soon who can really take these 3:00am phone calls in the White House. Heheheheh.

Ain't it fun to have party unity and total competance in our national Government?

___________________________________ 

"Tax the rich" is a basically unstable way of governing - The NYT

TnT - that was SUPERB!

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Why the hostility? Things get mistranslated all the time.

  Anyone remember the Russians getting bent out of shape over the Big Red Reset Button?

Clinton presented Lavrov with a gift-wrapped red button, which said "Reset" in English and "Peregruzka" in Russian. The problem was, "peregruzka" doesn't mean reset. It means overcharged, or overloaded. 

And Lavrov called her out on it. 

"We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?" Clinton asked Lavrov.

"You got it wrong," Lavrov said. "This says 'peregruzka,' which means overcharged." 

And then he beat her about the head with the Big Red Reset Button.

 I did not read that either.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Feminaziism does NOT fly in other countries..

As anyone listening to the crowd can hear clearly..

Ha Ha Ha yea a bad hair day... In a country where the temperature and the humidity race each other every day  to 100...

Reagan VS Liberalism

defending Hillary

Her reaction to the question was appropriate in my view, and I don't blame the lady at all, though if it did all come about because of a translation error, that's a shame.

The Tina Brown article is just a waste of time.

When I (often) marvel at the horrible media bias and its conservative victims, I occasionally remember that Hillary is also a victim.  Though unlike the conservatives, she gets no sympathy from me. 

Not really any surprise here

I think Hillary was just being Hillary. This is the person the FBI assigned to the WH spoke of. Nasty, snarling, condescending, rude, self important. I think she was stuck in the Congo doing jive dances (very classy btw for SoS to being doing that) meanwhile, Old Wild Bill swaggers in and steals the damn show without even breaking a sweat. He makes it look easy and for him it is cause he just don't give a damn what others think. He rides into the scene, rescues the two damsils in distress, pulls it off in less than 24 hrs, flys out of there like one of the Flying Tigers, stops off in Hollywood for a photo op all the while smooth as Creme de Mint, big old s**t eating grin on his mug and Hillary is just "working it" with no fanfare or any notice until she pops her cork. He looks like GQ while she looks like cold oatmeal.

"Some say" Bill hosed up her chances of being PotUS when he played the race card in SC. Now that I think about it they are all probably luck Hilliary did not go postal on them and start whooping some butt around there. Im sure some Aide or lacky close enough got reamed out for GP.

To top it off, Bill has a big old b'day party for himself in Las Vegas a week early than his official birthday and everyone knows what happens in LV stays in LV.

I clicked onto the today show this morning (gag me), and...

andrea mitchell and the fems there were commenting on hrc's loooong trip, and how exhausted she must be, and therefore her guard was down, and that's why she went off on her  poor, hapless, innocent victim. They totally excused her behavior. No observations on unprofessionalism, badly representing the United States of America, etc. When I first saw that clip of her, I went, ooo myyy goddd !!! Are you effin kiddin me??????????

 anybody else see this?

traderj:

Yup, I unfortunately saw that, too, and had the same reaction. Vintage Mitchell, too... not 0.0001% of criticism.

WTF did Clinton think the job involved, sitting on her fat ass in her West Wing office?

I just wish I had been there as a fly on the wall when she got her orders... "THE CONGO??? Are you effing kidding me?"

It does my heart good to

It does my heart good to see the Obama Administration restoring our standing in the World Community!

What a bunch of punks!

Yes, Sven - we are now at the top of the LAUGHINGSTOCK

of the WORLD list ;-)  Such class - makes me want to believe all those stories I've heard about the turmoil in the family quarters of the W.J.C. White House!

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the African humidity had wreaked havoc on her hair

I'm sorry, but I've never been a big fan of dense leg hair on a woman, straight or wavy.

In her case, pants suits are mandatory. 

She's One Classy Lady

What a class act!  I don't recall Condoleeza Rice having a tantrum while on the world stage.  Someone should tell our matronly Secretary of State to sit up properly, do something with that mop on her head, and wear more flattering clothes - the pantsuit makes her look like the Pillsbury Dough Girl.  I know, I know - sexist double standard.  But c'mon - she's supposed to be representing our country.  Hillary will just have to accept the fact that she will always walk in Bill's shadow, and her angy feminist screeching is not going to change that.

Meet the Real Hillary

It's common for anyone who is tired or stressed out to let down their guard and let their true self show.  America - this is the real Hillary, the one hidden behind that phony smile and cackle we're used to encountering.

You're right on both posts, northone!

The real HRC has been EXPOSED and, like Humpty Dumpty, all the King's Men can't put her back together again!  We KNOW ;-)

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 "The real HRC has been

 "The real HRC has been EXPOSED ..." Aw, C'MON, CC.  There isn't enough brain bleach in the world to remove that mental picture!  I think I just barfed up next week's meals.  For shame!

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

sexist

Leave it to a woman on the left to be sexist about another woman. Would she have commented on a man's bad hair day?

Hillary has got to be missing the love as her husband becomes a hero for rescuing two journalists from North Korea. She must wonder what she can do to compete since she's Sec of State and he's just an ex-President.

Q: Soooo, why did Lady

Q: Soooo, why did Lady Pantsuit press the red button and trigger a nuclear war?

A: She was having a bad hair day.

 

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The Truth is..

Maybe is wasn't Hillary's hair that caused her to be so surly.  Perhaps the simple fact is that the woman is a bitch!

Every once in awhile her

Every once in awhile her true colors come shining through.

If Condi had did this, any of this, from posture on down the line the press would have been all over it in the attack mode.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

bt - wasn't Condi Rice someone to be proud of!! She was always

FIRST CLASS!  We never would have witnessed such a lack of control in her time!  She made sure protocol was ALWAYS followed during her visits to foreign countries. 

The current administration seems to be lacking ANYONE with a sense of protocol.  You feel 'dirty' witnessing the Chicago-thug politics exhibited constantly from the top right on down to each of the czars!  And we can throw in tax-cheat Geithner from the cabinet, too!

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CC... Look how she

CC...

Look how she handled that fake blood splattered on her by Code Pink...

Can you imagine if this had happened to Shrillster in any way with the opposition party during a hearing...I can still hear screech, along witht he msm 24/7 etc.

Hypocrisy plus with the SRM..

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

His Lucky Day!

The student who asked the question is lucky Hillary didn't throw a lamp at him!  You know she's really ticked when she does that.  Ask Bill.

What the college student should have asked Hillary, about Bill

What the college student should have asked Hillary, about Bill Clinton.. was to request an answer to a former US Congresswoman's charges made about President Clinton - and his role in Blood Diamonds, civil war and genocide in the Congo and a few other hot spots in Africa. In 1997 Cynthia McKinney (D) who had been sent to Africa in 1996 to carry out President Clinton's policy in the Great Lakes region, stated:

'I accused his (Clinton) Administration of having acted as accomplices in the war crimes in (DR) Congo and instigating a genocide.'

'What my government wanted,' Ms. McKinney explained, 'wasn't in the best interest of the Congolese people: (President Bill) Clinton kept me there because he wanted an African-American whom Kabila trusted. Even though Mobutu was, technically, the President of Congo, it was Kabila who was in charge of granting the mining concessions.'"

In other instances, the national MSM, is anxious to report what McKinney has to say. (OK, everyone. Hold your breath - Katie Couric will lead with that...)

But seeing as how the student wanted to know about the economy, why not just send him over to Dissent Magazine for the leftist view of Clinton and the economy: The Legacy of the Clinton Bubble.

Chickens Come Home to Roost - HISTORY SHOULD deal harshly with Bill Clinton.

I wonder what sort of "hair day" Sec. Hillary Clinton would have if she was asked real questions?

(;~/ gary 

 

→ Bad hair day?

So what's Carville's excuse?

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hair on the brain

When someone is truly hair-brained, having a bad-hair day can be devastating.

(While one beset by debilitating daftness is actually hare-brained, this is one setting where the common mis-quote seems more appropriate...)

Makes one sick to think...

this could have been POTUS.  Hard to imagine that someone could be worse than comrade Obama, but Hillary's temperment could stop the Earth's rotation.

Daily Beast...isn't that a

Daily Beast...isn't that a pseudonym for Hillary?

Amazing that this whining sack of #$%# could have been president.  Bad enough she fanagled her way to a senate seat (BTW, does she still wear that NY Yankees hat?) and was made SoS.

Can't either party come up with sane, competent people any more?

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Wrong Hillary thread

*

→ Bad Hair day

Good thing Hillary's a Dem.  Otherwise the press would be pointing out that Hillary reacted the way she did because the questioner was black.

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