Video: Hill shill spins anything less than a double-digit defeat as “victory”
posted at 9:57 pm on January 7, 2008 by Bryan
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There is a town in Iowa called Waterloo. Just sayin’.
Strange things are going on with the Hillary campaign. She’s “boycotting” Russert, dodging not just O’Reilly but apparently most of the press, spending hours with a couple hundred people in a gym when she ought to be out making her case in stop after stop and giving the press all the time they want if it means she can reach more people, and she’s emoting in ways that make Data from Star Trek look more human. And on tonight’s O’Reilly factor, a paid Hillary ally attempted to spin anything under a 10-point New Hampshire loss to Obama as a “victory.” Larry Sabato gives that theory all the respect it deserves.
There’s a Waterloo, New Hampshire too.
More: I’ll leave you for the night with an appropriate image from our friend at Cry Havoc.
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“Leave Hillary alone, she’s human too”
d1carter on January 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Uh, it’s a victory if we don’t get an a$$ whoopin’ ?!?
Tango Xray Greg on January 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Is there a Waterloo, South Carolina?
ThePrez on January 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM
It’s bad when a candidate considers a 9 point loss a “victory.” Seems all the Hilldabeast can do for now is not allow the Obama juggernaut to pick up too much speed. Pathetic.
darii on January 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Wow, Hillary’s camp is playing the “how low can the bar go” game.
Verbal Abuse on January 7, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Yes, actually.
amerpundit on January 7, 2008 at 10:07 PM
O’Reilly is about as steady as John Kerry windsurfing. Just last week his “Talking Points” was saying “Hillary WILL be the Democratic Presidential nominee….” And now he sits there with a big grin like he can’t believe what he’s hearing from Hillary’s spin machine and he’d picked Obama from the beginning.
Marcus on January 7, 2008 at 10:09 PM
A celebratory cigar for everyone…..still in their wrappers of course.
JonRoss on January 7, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Ohio State’s motto going into halftime.
Sigh…
BadgerHawk on January 7, 2008 at 10:13 PM
This “emoting” episode will be a template for the next 30 days for Penn and Co. However, the mere fact that the press is questioning whether this is “real” emotion or not shows that Hillary’s brand is pretty much set in stone.
If Obama continues to take the high road and allow Hillary to hang herself, he’ll be in good shape. Face it, Hillary does not sell well once she comes from behind the curtain and she can’t cry at every campaign stop.
The final nail will be due to the fact that, I believe, she can’t rebrand herself effectively in the time frame that she has left. Her entire strategy for capturing the nomination depended upon sweeping the table, which ain’t gonna happen.
volnation on January 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM
O’Reilly disappoints here. To allow anyone to call a clear defeat a “victory”, is disgusting (Orwellian). Cutting one’s losses may be the successful accomplishment of an objective, but it is no victory.
petefrt on January 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM
I can see it now, Hillary goes back to the Senate chamber, sits in her seat, folds her arms and says “F***!”
ThePrez on January 7, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Sabato’s laugh…priceless.
SouthernGent on January 7, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Good lord,”never got to know her personally”,
where have these people been for the last
sixteen years!
canopfor on January 7, 2008 at 10:21 PM
So where will the divorce papers be filed ? Arkansas or New York ?
JonRoss on January 7, 2008 at 10:23 PM
2nd place is first loser. The country is tired of the Clintons! Now there are complaints starting to pop up in NY newspapers that she’s not doing enough for New Yorkers as their senator. The both of them need to go away and go away NOW!
farleyman on January 7, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Next stop ….. Sallover, South Carolina.
fogw on January 7, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Anyone else notice this town (Waterloo, SC, that is) is south of Clinton, South Carolina? Ah, the irony…
dmh0667 on January 7, 2008 at 10:28 PM
‘I did not lose to that man, Mr. Obama, in Iowa. I’m just playing rope-a-dope…’
eanax on January 7, 2008 at 10:30 PM
The comparisons to Britney Spears are rather fitting. There’s a meltdown coming…
Grayson on January 7, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Wow,Hillary’s camp is playing the
“How low can the bar go game”
Vebal Abuse on January 7,2008 at 10:05PM.
Verbal Abuse:It could go lower,like “Playing
handball up against the curb”! Hehe
canopfor on January 7, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Or would her reaction be more along these lines: http://twentysomewhat.blogspot.com/2008/01/clinton-no-exciting-music-just-figure.html
darii on January 7, 2008 at 10:34 PM
YES. . YES. .
Losing is a Victory. Dang them libs are sharp.
Texyank on January 7, 2008 at 10:37 PM
“If she loses, it will only be because they didn’t get to know her… the authentic, caring…”
Yadda, yadda. That was as bald-faced as it gets.
joewm315 on January 7, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Wow, she’s folding a lot faster than I thought she would. What happened to the vanted “Clinton Machine”
conservnut on January 7, 2008 at 10:38 PM
New Hillary slogan: “Not losing, just not winning……Really, REALLY badly!”
ThePrez on January 7, 2008 at 10:39 PM
This explains why the dems still believe that Gore won — President Bush’s margin of victory was less than 10 points!
rmgraha on January 7, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Ha, is she going to shave her head next???
conservnut on January 7, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Well bless Hillary’s camp’s hearts, taking time out from their busy schedules to serve us manure sandwiches.
Patrick S on January 7, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Watch out folks. She’ll come back. Yeah, I really think so. B. Hussein Obama can’t hold up his momentum forever. For our sake, I hope she DOES come back because our guys aren’t fareing so well right now in the polls against their Demotard competitors. Yeah, polls are polls, but our guys haven’t exactly been able to capture many Independents or undecideds. If Chillary is the frontrunner, we have a much better chance.
thedecider on January 7, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I am thinking congressional ratings.
On-my-soap-box on January 7, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Marcus on January 7, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Nice try at diversion. The Hillary minion’s stupid spin is the story. Quoting whatever O’R said last week is merely dissembling.
demsdelendaest on January 7, 2008 at 10:49 PM
“Don’t Get Cocky Kid”
If Hillary loses the first three and then cleans up on Super Tuesday in the states with the big numbers of delegates, we will be pounded over the heads of stories about how she is the new comeback kid and she wins the nomination. Could happen and is still the most likely scenario. Similar to what happened to Bill in 92.
The Opinionator on January 7, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Of Course losing is a victory that is why we have to get out of Iraq to qin !/Democratic rational
William Amos on January 7, 2008 at 10:59 PM
*win
William Amos on January 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM
It depends on what your definition of Victory is
heddly_lamar on January 7, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Goodness gracious, I’d hate to live in NY if she loses there too.
NJGOPOrphan on January 7, 2008 at 11:11 PM
idk bout victory, but she’ll be safe.
anyone who is discounting Hillary OR Rudy, needs to remember that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are all winner take all states and Hill Giuli are shoe ins for both…
Richard Bushnell on January 7, 2008 at 11:16 PM
I’m wondering if desperation in Camp Clinton might lead Clintonistas to tack hard left to regain the nutroots, then to set nutroots against Obama. It would be an all-out fight for the heart of the Dem Party, and it would be a blessing for America to see this battle openly engaged.
petefrt on January 7, 2008 at 11:16 PM
You can expect more of the same if Hillary, by some miracle, actually gets elected. She will take an imperious position, isolated all except those who support here every word and ignore the rest.
Her majesty Hillary will exude an imperial presence - complete with subdued contempt for the “mob” (that’s us).
omegaram on January 7, 2008 at 11:25 PM
what amuses me about hillary, is that there is nowhere for her to go. she wants to complain that words are not enough, but the entire liberal (socialist), progressive (neo-communist), democratic platform is based entirely on the idea that all that matters are words. if we all just really believed as hard as we possibly could that there were no bad guys in the world, then there wouldn’t be; if we just talked more, everything would be ok; if we just worked together, blah, blah, blah.
so she is stuck against someone who allows these people to live in their fairy tale universes much more enthusiastically than she, and if she tried to turn to reason, logic, and truth, then she would be talking to deaf ears anyway.
funny.
truecon on January 7, 2008 at 11:27 PM
While she checks the names off of the list that failed her in Iowa and New Hampshire.
They’re gonna have to increase the IRS and FBI staff by a couple of hundred to be able to audit and investigate her new “enemies”.
Role reversal. Now Billy Boy has something to do. He can coordinate the slaughter.
BacaDog on January 8, 2008 at 12:29 AM
Hil’s off her hinges. Send in Dr. Phil.
petefrt on January 8, 2008 at 1:15 AM
Prove it!
highhopes on January 8, 2008 at 7:53 AM
When I moved to this country 35 years ago an uncle of mine cautioned me that the US has no room or time for second place finishers. He was right and his caution served me well.
In the UK the attitude was “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game”. In the US the attitude is best summed up by “winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing”.
Trafalgar on January 8, 2008 at 8:05 AM
Now I know where Saddam’s PR guy went . . . he works for the Clinton campaign.
rplat on January 8, 2008 at 8:19 AM
That’s like saying if an NFL team covers the spread against the Patriots, they really won.
NoFanofLibs on January 8, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Speaking of “paid Hillary ally”……
Can FNC stop bringing on Lanny Davis under the ruse of a “democratic strategist”, please? He shills for “her thighness” every time he is on. This morning he insulted Fox and Friends viewers when 40% speculated that her crying yesterday was contrived. Has it really come down to this?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 8, 2008 at 9:48 AM
After Iowa, the Clinton spin was that Obama is from a neighboring state (they left out the fact that Hillary grew up in Chicagoland).
For Obama, NH is a long way from home; for Hillary, it’s just up the road.
Not even the Clintons can spin the unspinnable.
infidel65 on January 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Looks Like They are big fans of horse shoes and hand grenades.
thekingtut on January 8, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Exactly. There’s not another candidate out there that has been in the public eye so much over the past 16 years.
The problem is people DO know her personally……all too well. Hence, why Obama is winning.
AZ_Mike on January 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM
The Clinton campaign now has to rely on CNN and CBS News to do their bidding. Hillary had suckup interviews with John Robert at CNN and Katie Couric. The Couric interview was just like two “sistah” who could dish and share their man problems. Both Katie and Hillary agreed that Bill is really great.
Larraby on January 8, 2008 at 11:19 AM