While the news media have focused like a laser beam on what Hillary Clinton said on the Tyra Banks show Friday, MRC's Michelle Humphrey and Kristine Lawrence each suffered through pieces of the interview to find the other angle: How soft and silly was Tyra Banks? Plenty. The show opened with the supermodel bowing deeply and gratefully to Hillary for appearing:
I am so honored that you are here. I am so -- aren't we like happy? (Cheers and applause)... This is a glorious moment, and I gotta tell you, I was intimidated at first, and I was intimidated because I feel like you are this -- there's an image of perfection, a polished diamond and I was like, oh, my gosh, what am I gonna say? And then I started doing all this research, and I started reading your book and just really digging into articles and I found such an honesty, vulnerability that I didn't know was there and I don't think a lot of people know is inside of you.
A few minutes later, Banks pulled out the "tough" questions:
TYRA: What about you? Do you ever get lonely, sit in a room by yourself and just feel lonely?
Story Continues Below Ad ↓HILLARY: I don't feel lonely but I do feel sometimes isolated. Because when you are in these positions that I have been in, it can be very isolating.
They also found these gems from Tyra:
– "You guarded her (Chelsea) like a crocodile mama in the jungle."
– Tyra talks about body image, says she looks in mirror, sees ‘new cellulite dimple on my leg. Do you see that?'
– Tyra to Hillary: "I always say a woman who can rock short hair is a truly beautiful woman."
– On a segment called Never Been Asked, the question is "Do you know how to text message Chelsea?" Answer: "Yes."
– If you were a contestant on a reality show, would you rather be on Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, or America's Next Top Model? True to the host, Hillary said Tyra's Top Model "in my dreams," but probably more realistically Dancing with the Stars.
For the real substance of the program, Tyra went to a box of "Issue Tissues," where audience members wrote questions on Kleenexes, and Hillary pulled them out one at a time, but none of them were contrary. They were Democrat-friendly, like how would we fix how other people in the world see America as arrogant.
Hillary talked about sending emissaries around the world, Republican and Democrat, to change the global perception of America. That would include her favorite "roving ambassador," her husband Bill.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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What were you expecting,
January 18, 2008 - 15:41 ET by balboaWhat were you expecting, Tim? It's Tyra Banks for cry-aye-aye.
HILLARY: I don't feel
January 18, 2008 - 15:48 ET by bigtimerHILLARY: I don't feel lonely but I do feel sometimes isolated. Because when you are in these positions that I have been in, it can be very isolating.
Hey Hillary...you are gonna' need a boatload of those Issue Tissues when you are really isolated which will be at least by Nov. 4th...then again it could be much sooner.
What a bunch of cry me a village idiots that watch or go to these blithering blathering shows.
Tim, I could handle the
January 18, 2008 - 15:56 ET by LeonTim,
I could handle the insane number of articles about the View, but this is just too much.
Tyra?
Come on.
What's next? Highlighting the anti-Mitt comments of a transexual dominatrix on Jerry Springer?
Transexual dominatrix???
January 18, 2008 - 16:52 ET by motherbeltDissing Romney??
Wow! Did I miss that????
LOL
Haha MB, Yes you did.
January 18, 2008 - 17:00 ET by LeonHaha MB,
Yes you did. It was intense.
I'm not sure what was more shocking, it's whips and chains or the fact that it knew who Mitt Romney was.
On that note I'm going to
January 18, 2008 - 15:57 ET by Free ThinkerOn that note I'm going to call it a week and go have a beer.
Make it a couple...
January 18, 2008 - 16:01 ET by Prester John...and have one for me.
...and me too...
January 18, 2008 - 16:05 ET by bigtimer...and me too...
I'm having a nice cigar to
January 18, 2008 - 16:28 ET by rbosqueI'm having a nice cigar to go along with that drink. Robusto size, maybe an Arturo Fuente with a maduro wrapper. Cheers.
Tyra??!!! Please!
January 18, 2008 - 15:59 ET by c5thenAs if she would even have any idea of what "perfection" or "Honesty" was if she tripped over them.
Tyra, a hint: Hillary ain't either one.
Is someone going to be reporting what Brittany thinks of Obama next?
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
She knows what "perfection"
January 18, 2008 - 16:53 ET by motherbeltShe knows what "perfection" is.....anyone "who can rock short hair."
I kid you not, anybody who
January 18, 2008 - 16:03 ET by rwesleyI kid you not, anybody who watches Tyra automatically loses 10 IQ points for every half hour they watch. This has been scientifically recorded, so I caution my fellow NB posters to stay far far away from this idiot who has somehow wrangled a talk show onto syndicated TV. If you watch this show, you will go stupid, real quick.
Oh jeez ... the very idea
January 18, 2008 - 16:44 ET by zhombreOh jeez ... the very idea that a "supermodel" would have a talk show, and that a Presidential candidate would appear on that show and answer questions from a box of "Issue Tissues" is puerile and repulsive beyond belief. Satire is dead. Reality strangled it.
You know, you're right. Not
January 18, 2008 - 16:55 ET by motherbeltYou know, you're right. Not only can you not make this stuff up...it's even impossible to parody it any more.
Satire is dead. Reality strangled it.
January 18, 2008 - 16:56 ET by Prester JohnI like it.
Tyra Banks makes me feel
January 18, 2008 - 16:50 ET by Lame Cherrylike I just ate tainted potatoe salad, hot oysters dug up from a Cape Cod sewer and ice cream with mold growing on top........while drinking 3 bottles of wine with a label, "Do not drink as grapes were stomped by Fidel Castro when he has a toe fungus infection".
Tyra Banks makes my stomach recoil, my head swim and it is not because I think I love her.........it is being astounded that a no talent, rather large female, rude and brainless actually thinks anyone would listen to her.
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Wasn't someone floating the
January 18, 2008 - 16:57 ET by motherbeltWasn't someone floating the idea, last year, of an American Idol-type show called "America's Next President"???
Doesn't sound so far-fetched any more.
I repeat...you can't even parody this tripe.
Despite you guys dissing all
January 18, 2008 - 17:03 ET by Chris NormanDespite you guys dissing all of this, I'm from the Tyra Banks wing of the Republican Party, so her opinion does mean a lot to me.
You can't polish a turd.
January 18, 2008 - 17:03 ET by AntiMediaYou can't polish a turd.
That's not entirely true, if
January 18, 2008 - 17:05 ET by Chris NormanThat's not entirely true, if it's old enough...
Chris... LOL...
January 18, 2008 - 17:07 ET by bigtimerChris...
LOL...
Chris, thnx for the Friday night
January 18, 2008 - 21:55 ET by drillanwrROFLMFAO!!!!
Chris, just how large is
January 19, 2008 - 12:43 ET by MikeBChris, just how large is your polished coprolite collection? I'll bet you named each polished coprolite after an aging Democrat. Which is the largest specimen in your collection? The "Ted Kennedy" or the "Frank Lautenberg"? Or, perhaps the "Harry Reid"? There are so many possibilities to choose from.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
OK, I gotta admit...I was
January 18, 2008 - 17:17 ET by motherbeltOK, I gotta admit...I was waffling, but now that Tyra's endorsed her, my mind's made up. HRC for me!
Anyone who can rock short hair like she does is the bomb!!
"Tyra - Hillary's
January 18, 2008 - 17:56 ET by EvilCon555"Tyra - Hillary's Oprah, with half the fat."
You forgot one
January 18, 2008 - 17:34 ET by fitzfongTyra: Mrs. Clinton, all the world's dying to know. Is it boxers or briefs?
Vomit.
Tyra "the spokes model?"
January 18, 2008 - 18:12 ET by RMRTyra the model speaks, and the world listens. Wow!
It's obvious that years of traversing those runways have done wonders for her IQ. You go girl!!!
I'm not sure when this
January 18, 2008 - 18:36 ET by MikeBI'm not sure when this bimbo was born, but the 60's were really good to either her or her mother. Making statements like that proves that one really can function without the cerebrum developing during gestation...you still can't cogently think, but you can be a model. Poor girl. I almost feel sorry for her.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
She sold you the same bill
January 18, 2008 - 20:04 ET by docbShe sold you the same bill of goods she sold with 'almost' tears. Tyra she needs young black women and she played you as she did us in the '90's. She is such a good mother she said it was okay to stay with a serial philanderer if it suited your ambition , such a feminist that she stood up for the women her husband had used, abused and slandered with great gusto those same woman, tried to bust a union that protects the rights of woman. Yes, she is as hard as a diamond but there is no polish--the cracks and fisures prevent it from being anything but industrial grade.
Hair Majesty Queen Hillary.
January 18, 2008 - 21:25 ET by Jack BauerIs this woman one tedious, shallow candidate or what? Though I'm sure this is all Tyra needs to know before voting!
Princess Katie Couric has been asking various candidates about "the worst advice they've ever received--and given."
HOW ABOUT THE FRACKIN' HEALTHCARE DEBACLE HILLARY? OR DID YOU THINK IT ALL UP BY YOURSELF AFTER ALL?
Nah... that's not the bad hair day that leaps to her "mind." Like. I mean. Y'know.
Is this woman a self-absorbed narcissist to almost rival her husband, or what? And check out the inarticulate, slovenly way she speaks.
She makes George Bush sound like George Bernard Shaw.
You meant "Queen
January 19, 2008 - 07:00 ET by motherbeltYou meant "Queen Hillarious", right?
Tyra's Blue Dress
January 18, 2008 - 23:41 ET by desertkdHas the irony of Tyra wearing a 'Blue' dress been lost on everyone?