Comments on: Cry Like a Man, Hillary!

By: Britt Foiles

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By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:31:51 +0000

I’m coming to this way late, but then again, it ain’t over…
Kerry, I saw you on Redeye for the first time recently (as a new viewer) and you were and are hilarious.
I’m actually tickled pink to see you’re also perspicacious and not afraid of the big scary F-word, or even the S or M-word (I enjoyed the way Redeye joked about not knowing the meaning of “misogynist” recently).

Sadly it’s all too true in the culture at large these days– as you point out, people know how to BE one, just not how to admit it, often even in humor.

Anyway, it’s great to find people who are smart, really funny, who sometimes even disagree, and who can still hang out.
What a revelation!
Love the title of your piece.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:43:40 +0000

I didn’t see the video of Clinton until the next day…just reading the headlines and listening to pundits I expected to see a sobbing Clinton. I didn’t even see her eyes get moist!
I cry more than that during Cubs games (but then again there are many reasons for that one).

I wonder if what gained Clinton some extra votes in the end was the fact some people, like me, grow weary of the meme that everything Hillary does is fake, engineered, or manipulative.

I wish I had the power to see into people’s souls like some many others seem to be able to do.

Then again maybe I wouldn’t want that.

By: Dr BLT

Dr BLT — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:36:24 +0000

It’s My “Party” and I’ll Cry if I Want to!
(The Tearful Hillary Song)
Dr BLT as Beverly Hillarybilly
http://www.drblt.net/music/MyParty.mp3

By: Kerry Howley

Kerry Howley — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:13:01 +0000

I guess you weren’t watching television last night, John. If you didn’t see any misogyny in the reaction to her tears, you’re determined not to see it.

Then again, “the white man is the Jew of liberal fascism.” So we should all be weeping for Edwards.

By: John Tabin

John Tabin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:57:02 +0000

You missed the boat on this one by a mile, Kerry. Look at the election results. The crying helped her. Compare to Ed Muskie’s 1972 meltdown. Sexual double standards cut both ways.

By: McDuff

McDuff — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:45:44 +0000

I’d like to congratulate all the commenters here who’ve managed to prove Kerry’s point for her. *golf clap* Bravo, ya schmucks.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:07:14 +0000

Whether the Hillarybot programmed a few tears into the facial program in order to fish for sympathy votes, or whatever, is completely irrelevant to me. All of the Democratic contenders are intelligent, sane people. That differentiates them from the Republican contenders, who are all, well, batshit crazy. Within the next two weeks I am going to fill out the absentee ballot which arrived in the mail yesterday and turn it in to the registrar of voters. It will have a Democrat marked on it. Next fall, a Democrat will be nominated for President. Next November, I will vote for that nominee. Which of the current candidates it will be… (shrug). Any of them would be 1,000,000,000 times better than the current pResident, so I’m not going to get too uptight about it. Some folks just need to learn how to chill.

- Badtux the “Sanity ‘08 Ticket” Penguin

By: Radio Head

Radio Head — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:21:31 +0000

Helter hits it. Hillary “welling up” because people were being mean to her for her lofty idealism is not something that stirs my compassion. My wife has a high-level corporate job that has taught her, despite her feminine inclinations, that it’s not all about how you feel about the inevitable conflicts that come up. With all her “experience,” Hillary hasn’t learned to suck it in crisis? And if you actually listen to what she is saying, it doesn’t make sense. She’s getting Fehrklempt because of how much she wants to help people? Why the day before a big primary and not last May?

So I give her credit for identifying a good tactic to steal a few precious minutes of media time that otherwise would have gone to Barack. She may even be right in thinking it will earn her some sympathy votes. Both her method and her message were bogus to me.

By: sherifffruitfly

sherifffruitfly — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:07:19 +0000

It’s so bizarre, too, because there are plenty of GOOD and FAIR reasons to be against Clinton. That people gravitate to these idiotic and sexist reasons indicates nothing more than the mentalities of these people.

By: Helter

Helter — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:16:20 +0000

All crying is not the same. Crying works best when you’re weeping for the sorrows of other people rather than your own. Listening to her talk as she chokes up, what’s making her sad is the thought that she’s exactly what America needs and, my god, not enough people understand that. Forgive me if I’m not welling up inside because she can’t inspire anyone beyond her hardcore supporters.

It didn’t help was that as she was overcome with emotion, she managed to slip in a standard talking point about Obama being unready for office.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:55:53 +0000

She wasn’t crying, her eyes welled up. But you can feel how everyone wanted her to crack; and if she’d cried she’d be toast right now. But she slipped into an emotional momment and it humanized her, something she desperatly needed. And it hurt John Edwards to come out hard against her like that; especially when you see the video how human the momment was really.

The fact is, through, that the response to her tears are the same reasons she can’t get elected. Half of the people I’ve talked to think they’re faked and the other half think that she’s an elitist snob who was crying for her own losses and note how she pivoted immediatly into an attack on her rivals and claimed they were “wrong” despite having nearly identical proposals and political experience.

I felt bad for the stress she’s apparently under; but she’s flat wrong all the way through. And this didn’t make me like her any better.

By: tom s.

tom s. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:46:18 +0000

great post.

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By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:12:46 +0000

The tittering dweebs in the press truly suck but there are better ways of handling their stupidity than treating them seriously when they go into pearl clutching mode. Laugh at them. Not every woman candidate is Ann Richards but a little ‘kiss my grits’, even if it’s inauthentic, is potent kryptonite for the Superdumb media. They see themselves as brilliant so when you make fun of them for being dumb they nervously laugh along — thinking you MUST mean somebody else.