Having gotten myself and others into a spot of bother when I wondered awhile ago whether there might have been some "trickeration" involved in an image appearing on Hillary's campaign website, far be it from me to suggest that there's anything altered in the photo displayed here. It turned up today in a Clinton fundraising email I received. Yes, I'm a duly member-registered member at HillaryClinton.com.But I do believe the photo raises another issue. Chris Matthews recently and repeatedly raised concerns that Bill's failure to "behave" could cause problems for Hillary's campaign. Hillary has now chosen an image making an implicit statement about the nature of her relationship with Bill. Since she has put the matter on the table, will the MSM do anything to verify -- or debunk -- the photo's unstated but unmistakable suggestion?
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And the fact that she wore su
February 21, 2007 - 12:39 ET by sembyAnd the fact that she wore sun glasses just proves how much of a *(&#$ she is! So arrogant is makes me sick!
I was also struck by Hillar
February 21, 2007 - 12:42 ET by Mark FinkelsteinI was also struck by Hillary's shades, but didn't mention it in the item because I didn't know quite what to make of it.
She wears shades becuase if she smiled, her face would shatter.
February 21, 2007 - 12:50 ET by Six String SpiffShe wears shades becuase she cannot honestly admit that her husband is this loving, tender person that he portrays himself to be, and therefore cannot express happiness. I'd wear sunglasses too...
Sure, I watch the MSM... Through a pair of crosshairs.
She's blind
February 21, 2007 - 13:46 ET by SportPoliticsShe's blind, blind to Bill's philandering.
Love that picture! The captio
February 21, 2007 - 12:40 ET by Mica the MagnificentLove that picture! The caption should read, "Monica, baby, you dyed your hair. Let me just cop a feel. . . Ooops.
Please don't do that when I
February 21, 2007 - 13:31 ET by Tom1969caPlease don't do that when I'm drinking coffee...
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Huggin Billary
February 21, 2007 - 12:45 ET by Six String SpiffAh.. I see you also received that repugnant email too. What a steaming load of crap they are. Imagine.. doing everything just for the politics. Disgusting. This screams of superficial farce. As is their entire existence. I am so sick and tired of these "image first" Democrat(ic)s. Out with them all. We need people in office who could care less what their image is and focus more on SUBSTANCE. I'll be waiting a long time.
Sure, I watch the MSM... Through a pair of crosshairs.
SSS, this might be the one we
February 21, 2007 - 12:54 ET by JABSSS, this might be the one we have all been looking for. h/t NB'er sarcasmo,
Thanks for the heads-up on this guy, sarc.
<edit> sorry SSS, forgot the link button.
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Oh, my goodness, thank YOU.
February 21, 2007 - 13:44 ET by sarcasmoOh, my goodness, thank YOU. (It's political admission-time, "Yes, I've already voted for Dr. Paul for president once, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat" but again, the important thing to me & my fave-journalist Mr. Balko is the quality of the debate this time!) And it's heartening to me, as a Libertarian American patriot, to see that Republicans who may disagree with some/many of Dr. Paul's views care enough about their party to want him in the "debate" anyway. If only the TV news media felt the same way...If I'm making a good-enough case here, maybe the NB blog can shame 'em (or at least Fox News, hell, you guys hired Radley!) into a bit of remedial-coverage to make up for all the Kucinich-airtime? (Yeah, I know, and I have fantasies about Pam Anderson & the rest of the female cast of "Baywatch," too!) But maybe, just maybe, five minutes spent on Dr. Paul instead of Anna Nicole's corpse won't kill them in the ratings-wars...
JMR
"Hillary has now chose
February 21, 2007 - 12:47 ET by Uncle John"Hillary has now chosen an image making an implicit statement about the nature of her relationship with Bill."
The statement being that he's a monkey on her back? That he's the ventriloquist and she's the dummy? Or maybe it's that he doesn't want to look at her face when they have, um, relations? LOL.
"It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
Seems to me the way Bill is g
February 21, 2007 - 13:01 ET by fosstenSeems to me the way Bill is grasping Hillary is probably reminiscent of how he grabbed Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick.
Who would give a dime to the
February 21, 2007 - 13:24 ET by truth_missileWho would give a dime to the chief apologist/enabler of a serial rapist?
David Geffen apparently won't be on that list.
Man, I don't know who I fee
February 21, 2007 - 12:50 ET by Dave in TexasMan, I don't know who I feel worse for in that picture. Bill or Hillary?
How about the photographer?
February 21, 2007 - 13:47 ET by Prester JohnHow about the photographer?
AH, PJ, there is no photograp
February 25, 2007 - 12:14 ET by Chicago RepublicanAH, PJ, there is no photographer here. This was a picture of Bill groping one of his trailer park babes from Arkansas that Hillary was Photo-shopped into. (h/t Mica and fossten)
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Another reuters special.JDW
February 21, 2007 - 12:53 ET by JDWAnother reuters special.
JDW
Wounded skier. Corrections have been causing time-outs so mistakes will be made.
New pro-adoption dems, what about replacing abortions?
hillary.com?
February 21, 2007 - 13:02 ET by derbal<blockquote>turned up today in a Clinton fundraising email I received. Yes, I'm a duly member-registered member at Hillary.com.</blockquote>
wanted to get my subscription also, went to www.hillary.com excited as hell, only to find out it's a software website...you LIED to me! i'm so sad. i'm going to go shave my head, then sit down by the pool and shave my legs.
Sorry about that. Try here.
February 21, 2007 - 13:06 ET by Mark FinkelsteinSorry about that. Try here.
whew
February 21, 2007 - 13:21 ET by derbalthanks mark. i really didn't feel like walking out to the pool. : )
Go ahead, rub it in. Yeste
February 21, 2007 - 13:27 ET by Mark FinkelsteinGo ahead, rub it in. Yesterday, the temp here in Ithaca finally got over the freezing mark for the first time in six weeks, and people started celebrating as if it were 80.
Indeed. Up here in Rochest
February 21, 2007 - 13:39 ET by Uncle JohnIndeed. Up here in Rochester, I toyed with the notion of going without a coat when I left for work today...
"It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
Billary.
February 21, 2007 - 13:04 ET by Dave RMark,
For two people so "enamored" with each other, they sure seem to spend a great deal of time apart, do they not?
As for the pic, I just had some top-shelf lasagna for lunch, so I'll be leaving that one alone for now. :-)
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Must...Not...Crack...Filthy
February 21, 2007 - 13:33 ET by sarcasmoMust...Not...Crack...Filthy-but-easy...Doggie-style-jokes which would no-doubt turn this into an impromptu "captionfest." Must focus instead on blatant & obvious antilibertarian mediabias which is possibly/probably affecting the entire political-debate, whether or not anyone particularly-wants to talk about it...
JMR
Caption: Step 2 of the Hei
February 21, 2007 - 14:16 ET by taznarCaption:
Step 2 of the Heimlich maneuver.
LOL!!! Good one."He wh
February 21, 2007 - 20:45 ET by kathleenirishLOL!!! Good one.
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My guess is that the picture
February 21, 2007 - 13:37 ET by midnight cowboyMy guess is that the picture was photoshopped. I suspect that Bill had his arms around either Monica, Kathleen, Juanita, Jennifer, Paula, and so on, but definatley not Hillary. What red blooded American male would dare embrace her. Bill may be swine, but he has standards. The last time they embraced like that they were probably alot younger. Sometime around 1969.
"Bill may be swine, but
February 21, 2007 - 14:02 ET by dabal"Bill may be swine, but he has standards."
Uh...reality check...one word..."Lewinsky".
You can't be serious. This guy would shag a carpet if he thought it would pleasure him.
This guy would shag a carpet
February 21, 2007 - 14:44 ET by midnight cowboyThis guy would shag a carpet if he thought it would pleasure him.
dabal,
We all know what pleasures Bill can dream up with inanimate objects. In the contexct of this post lets stay with the female sex, I never said Bill had high standards. If the Hildebeast and Lewinski were the last two females on earth (and of course your required pay and contribution of alcohol had no limit) who would you reluctantly pick. We all know what Lewinski is capable of performing. Hillary........I rather not go there, too painful.
"who would you relucta
February 21, 2007 - 15:17 ET by dabal"who would you reluctantly pick"
...I would write the eulogy of the human race. ;-)
Is anyone else in here a fa
February 21, 2007 - 15:14 ET by DyneIs anyone else in here a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000? I was watching the episode that featured the film, The Giant Spider Invasion, and just cracked up to pieces during a scene where a decrepit, grass-growing, law-evading, wife-cheating farmer from Wisconsin and his slutty, teenage sister-in-law are arguing, and Tom Servo makes the comment, "A young Bill and Hillary struggle to make it."
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby
MST3K and Saturday morning cartoons
February 21, 2007 - 15:19 ET by Eric TurnerMST3K...now there was a show that emphasized good ole fashioned family values. I loved that show. First it was the cartoons the communists took off the "big 3" on Saturday mornings, then it was MST3K....what's next? apple pie? mom?
The gall of those liberal democrats
On MST3K
February 21, 2007 - 22:27 ET by UnsaneThat show friggin' RULES!!!
I am a HUGE MSTie myself...
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
MST 3000 Is Priceless
February 24, 2007 - 23:25 ET by emjem24Darn, I missed that one, Dyne. I used to watch a lot of that show when I was in college. Me and a couple buddies would be in the dorm lounge laughin' our asses off. You can apply a lot of what dems and this couple in particular do with MST 3000 quips and zingers. The good old days...sniff, sniff. Is the SciFi Channel showing MST 3000 or any of its other reincarnations anymore? I've got to just suck it up and get 'em on DVD where I can laugh myself silly and my husband can look at me like I've finally lost my marbles. Maybe I have.
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Just what the country needs
February 21, 2007 - 13:51 ET by zhombreJust what the country needs: another Clinton co-Presidency. Which will enable Bill to make a mockery of the 22nd Amendment just as he made a mockery of Presidential pardons by granting one to Marc Rich, and made a mockery of the truth in his grand jury testimony, just as he made a mockery of cigar-smoking, well you know that one. Need I go on? I'm sure other NB'ers could provide other examples. I'd vote for Giuliani or Romney or McCain or Brownback or anybody else the GOP fields against a Hillary nomination. I don't want that couple anywhere near the Oval Office again.
Is it just me, or does that l
February 21, 2007 - 14:00 ET by rubylensIs it just me, or does that look more like a wrestling move than an affectionate embrace?
Not sure, but it sure makes
February 21, 2007 - 14:36 ET by heldmywNot sure, but it sure makes her look subordinate....
All nice and surrounded by her lovin' man's arms....<hurrrk!>
She doesn't seem to be recipr
February 21, 2007 - 14:58 ET by HypocriteHaterShe doesn't seem to be reciprocating the embrace. Where are her hands? Are they down at her side, or is she hanging on to his cahones to keep him in check?
LOL! That's a good theory, t
February 21, 2007 - 16:26 ET by rubylensLOL! That's a good theory, too. I thought it looked like he's pinning her arms down to her sides so she can't punch him in the eye.
That's a good theory. Bill's
February 21, 2007 - 16:46 ET by HypocriteHaterThat's a good theory. Bill's probably saying in his best bubba voice "Easy there, Hillary, I did not have sex with that woman. This time I mean it!"
Strange that she'd want to
February 21, 2007 - 14:46 ET by FlashmanStrange that she'd want to be seen wearing "Old Crusty" whilst soliciting donations, not to mention the black pant-suit either.
I think we're in for a ton of
February 21, 2007 - 15:19 ET by HumanEventsI think we're in for a ton of this stuff, esp. in 2008. The media will be glad to give these two reprobates plenty of photo-ops of embracing, smiling adoringly at each other, etc. Deceiving the public into thinking their "marriage" (business contract is more like it) is wonderful and close adds more votes to her from the dummies who go "awwww" at that stuff.
Fifty focus groups later, t
February 21, 2007 - 15:43 ET by dabalFifty focus groups later, that's the picture they came up with?
I think the words "spinster" and "old hag" came up at least ten times
in each focus group. Solution? Make her look like she's still married
and hide all those facial fissures....eh VOILA! Instant presidential contender. Sort of. Now if we can just bury that whole socialist thing....
Ten bucks says her breasts have gotten larger in the last three months, twenty CCs at a time....
I think the photo may be a co
February 21, 2007 - 20:45 ET by kathleenirishI think the photo may be a composite fake. Why haven't we seen this picture before? They are phony to the core, how else could it come off, no matter what? Most odeous.
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere" -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph
Not Very Convincing
February 24, 2007 - 23:03 ET by emjem24This whole pose isn't very convincing. Are they really trying to convince people they're the height of marital harmony? Look at the body language of these two. Hillary is stiff as a piece of dried up toast with sunglasses on, thinking to herself, "if I have to be embraced by this buffoon one more minute I think my head will explode." What about Bill? Either this is a real photo with Bill looking like he's gonna swallow poor, stiff Shrillary up or he's been photoshopped in. I vote for the photoshop thing. They don't look the least bit happy. Bill O'Reilly and his body language expert would have a field day with this one.
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. Air Force Motto
emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.
Yup, her inability to relax m
February 25, 2007 - 14:01 ET by dahliatraversYup, her inability to relax must have really shown in her eyes, which is why they had her put on sunglasses.
This is a fundraising mailer for Hillary, right? No one is better at raising Democrat money than Bill, which is presumably why they wanted to work him into the picture. But it comes across as quite odd not only because of how stiff Hillary is but also because of the widely known nature of their relationship/"marriage".
It looks somewhat like a PSA
February 25, 2007 - 11:58 ET by MikeBIt looks somewhat like a PSA poster on the incorrect way to do the Heimlich Maneuver.
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Control issue
February 25, 2007 - 12:09 ET by dagdaSymbollically, I think the photo is showing that Hillary is firmly in the grip of Bill or Bill will always be in the background directing Hillary. Interesting that she cannot stand alone.
Think how you would react to a photo of Edwards with his wife doing the same thing. Or Tipper Gore in the Bill Clinton position.
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