Clockwork: Hillary tears up again on the eve of a big primary?
posted at 11:42 am on February 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
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They must be genuine. Because given the abuse she’s going to take for this remarkably coincidental display of emotion the day before a do or die election, there’s no way she’d do it on purpose.
How remarkably coincidental is it? ABC predicted it when the event started.
ABC News’ Kate Snow, Eloise Harper and Ann Compton Report: On the morning before the New Hampshire primary, we Reporters Who Cover Hillary found ourselves at the Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth, N.H. Senator Clinton was sitting at a large rectangular table, surrounded by 16 undecided voters. All were female except one.
You’ll remember that morning as the morning Clinton got emotional and teared up while answering a question about “how she does it”.
On the morning before Super Tuesday, we Reporters Who Cover Hillary find ourselves at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. We are in a nicely appointed conference room. And in the center is a rectangular table. Seated around the table are 12 voters. All are women. Clinton organizers say the goal was to have them all be “undecided” voters (though a local organizer says some may be supporting Clinton coming in).
The title of the post? “An Interesting Clinton Coincidence.” Heh. Indeed.
Like KP says, women voters are her biggest concern right now. Are they this gullible and easily swayed, though? I repeat what I said last month: “[S]he’s going to have to make doubly sure she doesn’t cry again anytime soon, and probably for the rest of the election. To go years and years without offering a look behind the emotional curtain and then conveniently start to go gushy after a surprise tear-fueled win would be fatally cynical, even by Clinton standards. The contrast with Captain Authenticity would simply be too stark.”
Big winner: Obama, who now has a handy excuse if his huge late surge in California fizzles.
Update: Curiously, the ABC piece linked above doesn’t mention her tearing up even though it quotes her line to that effect. NBC is at the event too and they’re not reporting anything unusual either. Did the Trib, lured by the prospect of a surefire Drudge link, see what it wanted to see?
I’m guessing no. Note the caption.
Update: Hillary vindicated? See here.
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…its my party and I’ll cry if I want to….
Whatever happen to electing a strong woman?
RobCon on February 4, 2008 at 11:44 AM
Cross your fingers and hope that it works.
Vizzini on February 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM
This is in response to all that follow…
You heartless bastards…can’t you see she is “feeling the pain”.
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she is pathetic, but her supporters that are duped by her, are even more pathetic.
right2bright on February 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Alligator tears, and a crocodile smile. Hillary Clinton is a parody of a real person.
blankminde on February 4, 2008 at 11:47 AM
From that photo. I feel so much better now about my crappy typos.
William Amos on February 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Why yes, yes they are. And don’t forget those idiot males that support her. Pantywaistes.
robblefarian on February 4, 2008 at 11:51 AM
From the link at Yahoo! News:
“emmotional”? Jeepers! Are they morons over there? This is supposed to be a professional news org, yes? Learn to spell you idiot.
MikeZero on February 4, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Got dat right.
And I gots none.
Frozen Tex on February 4, 2008 at 11:52 AM
If this hurt her campaign I’d expect the media to already have the headline “Maybe someone was chopping onions?”
pb5000 on February 4, 2008 at 11:53 AM
It was probably just fumes from the blonde crap she puts in her hair.
RushBaby on February 4, 2008 at 11:55 AM
It cant be! Maybe the first was fake, and this is real. Or the first was real, and this is fake. Or they were both fake! Or, both real?
Good gravy, if this works, Senator Crybaby may bawl herself to the Oval Office.
Dash on February 4, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Hillary’s manipulations always reminds me of that old Billy Joel song:
“She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child, but she’s always a woman to me
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She’s frequently kind and she’s suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases, she’s nobody’s fool
And she can’t be convicted, she’s earned her degree
And the most she will do is throw shadows at you,
But she’s always a woman to me”
forest on February 4, 2008 at 11:56 AM
We are talking about the same Hillary right?
And are you feeling sorry for her again?
Smiles on February 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM
If you have a box of tissues handy and if you scroll through the slideshow, there is a picture of the event itself. I know the sight of which will cause many, many Americans to cry with her.
Guys, she just so wants to
take overmake our lives so much better. It would mean so much if we would just submit.simon on February 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Fixed it for you.
Frozen Tex on February 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM
I agree. I think she is going to be criticized for this and I don’t think she purposely did it.
terryannonline on February 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM
The real question is whether tyrants like Adinnerjacket and Hugo will be gullible and easily swayed by her tears.
Rick on February 4, 2008 at 12:00 PM
I was crying too, when I read that there is no chance of her being eliminated after tomorrow’s vote due to the way Dhimms allocate their delegates.
Any my tears, unlike hers, were sincere.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 4, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Allahpundit your cynicism is just getting the better of you. These tears are the natural reaction of a strong, capable woman who just cares so very, very much.
Why can’t you see that.
Also I believe we should negotiate with terrorists so they won’t hate us so much.
billy on February 4, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Or sly? Keeps the reference from popping up in google/LexisNexis searches later on?
RushBaby on February 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM
William Hurt, Network. Take 2.
wordwarp on February 4, 2008 at 12:03 PM
I’d love to see someone ask Sen McCain if he’s teared up like Hillary. “Oh yeah. I’ve cried a lot-far more than just a crack in my voice. ‘Course, I was being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp, and Sen Clinton was getting stoned at the time, but hey, we all have our moments of weakness, right?”
scottm on February 4, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Tomorrow, it will be Romney that will be reaching for a kleenex to dab at his eyes.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 4, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Sigh. She’s a menopausal woman and is exhausted. She probably mists up a fair amount when she is at her most tired. It doesn’t make her stupid or weak, just hormonal.
Fake or not, who gives a damn?
funky chicken on February 4, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Sympathy for the devil. There are many names for pure evil. I call her The Beast. I wouldn’t let her touch you, the evil is contagious. Remember that weird Denzel Washington movie where the devil is passed from one unsuspecting host to another by touch? I bet that was HRC’s ‘life’ story, or maybe Soros’s.
Whatever…Mitt could stop her if we all get behind him.
I’m praying for a miracle.
Christine on February 4, 2008 at 12:10 PM
A facinating thing about this whole dynamic is that making fun of or criticizing her tears only makes them more powerful. The women (and that includes men) who will fall for this will only increase thier attachment to their suffering leader if they see anyone persecuting her. I guess it only reminds them more of how they have suffered for their gender identity at the hands of unfeeling hurtful men.
snaggletoothie on February 4, 2008 at 12:11 PM
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt, but you’re an idiot if you base your vote for her (either in New Hampshire or tomorrow) simply because she showed she is capable of crying
Dudley Smith on February 4, 2008 at 12:14 PM
My comment from another page fits here too !
OBX Pete on February 4, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Hillaary cries when she is close to losing. The rest of us cry when she is close to winning.
William Amos on February 4, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Thats a good one William and Oh so true !
OBX Pete on February 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM
We’re sure to get a red-faced, angry Billie boy wagging his finger in front of a camera before the end of voting tomorrow!
SouthernGent on February 4, 2008 at 12:25 PM
I think they should call themselves the Vetted Reporters Who Cover Hillary, or VRWC-Hillary for short.
James on February 4, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Barry’s catching up and/or surpassing her in the polls so it’s time to break out the Ziplock™ bag with the onion or look into a bright light to bring on those tears.
kimsch on February 4, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Disgusting.
petefrt on February 4, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Awww. She’s just gonna sob her way to the Oval Office.
mattyj86 on February 4, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Entelechy on February 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Vince Foster was unavailable for comment
Wade on February 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM
The tears of a clown.
Hening on February 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM
She can always blame it on menopause.
Esthier on February 4, 2008 at 12:39 PM
She can always blame it on men
William Amos on February 4, 2008 at 12:40 PM
The media love all liberal and Democrat candidates (in that order) – in a platonic sort of way.
But the media LOVED Bill Clinton, to the point of overt sexual desire, because he was able to use them exactly the way they wanted to be used. Bill Clinton cried real tears when he “apologized” for raising taxes and then ran for re-election in Arkansas. And, years later, Bill Clinton’s voice cracked when he was “falsely” accused of doing things he actually did. But there was a long stretch in-between those tirades.
Now Hillary’s getting hysterical every other week. The media can try to cover this up, but they know they can’t keep doing that forever.
Meanwhile, B. Hussein Obama keeps his eyes clear and his voice at a level, compelling, and utterly vacuous pitch. I think the liberal media may have found a new love interest.
logis on February 4, 2008 at 12:46 PM
davidk on February 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM
davidk on February 4, 2008 at 1:04 PM
GWB gets teary-eyed when he hugs a child who lost her mother on 9-11, while Hillary gets teary-eyed when she contemplates losing an election. But I get clenched jaws when I contrast how the scummedia treats these two individuals.
drunyan8315 on February 4, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Yes.
Christoph on February 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Has politics entered the final phase before armageddon?
regal on February 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Onions.
She rubs onion juice in her eyes to cry.
madmonkphotog on February 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
[madmonkphotog on February 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM]
If she wins the nomination, onion futures will be like pure gold.
Dusty on February 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM
The only time that I think Hillary truly cried was when she read the Starr Report. I suspect she read this softcore porn and said :”Did I really make a deal with the devil? In return for access to power and the presidency itself, how did I ever choose to be married to such a letch? How did I sell my soul for a man with such bizarre tastes?”
Larraby on February 4, 2008 at 2:20 PM
I’m with you, Vizzini. A Hillary win is a lot less scary than an Obama win. Since either Dim is likely to trounce Juan McCain in November, I’d prefer to have Hillary atop the Dim ticket. At least with her, you know exactly what you’re getting — and there’s a good chance to get rid of it in 2012.
AZCoyote on February 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Someone should explain to Her Shillness that this weepy-weepy thing works only once. Second time around, I’d be looking for the onion she has concealed under the podium.
pilamaye on February 4, 2008 at 2:27 PM
[AZCoyote on February 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM]
It will be a headline writer’s dream:
President Elect Takes Foreign Congrats Tearfully
Watery Eyes Dominate Clinton’s First SOTU
Wet Hankie Wins Cabinet Nominations
Constant Rain Marks An Otherwise Sunny First 100 Days
G8 Summit Brings A Water Fountain To Rome
Tsunami Alert: Clinton To Attend ASEAN
….
Dusty on February 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM
She can’t handle the truth!
Ann on February 4, 2008 at 3:19 PM
When has she ever been known to be “a champion for children”!?!
greekinfidel on February 5, 2008 at 12:26 AM
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