Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts

Sunday, March 8, 2015

A Drudge screen-grab.

This jumped off the page at me:



Elements that caught my attention: 1. Cropping the photo to give the impression that the big word over Hillary's head is "universe," as if she's running for Mistress of the Universe, 2. The crushing banality of a daughter defending her mother, 3. The atrocious green "housecoat" Hillary has on and its contrast with Chelsea's studiously youthful get-up, 4. Hillary's grandiose hail-to-the-people wave in contrast with Chelsea's little-girl ooh-I-see-somebody-I-know-in-the-crowd wave, 5. The subtle similarities and differences between Chelsea's big toothy grin and Warren Beatty's famous smile, 6. The sense that Warren Beatty stands in for and represents all of the Lotharios of this world, including the (Bill) Clinton fool, 7. I wrote "the (Bill) Clinton fool" because the words, as cropped, behind Chelsea's head are "the Clinton fou," and fou = fool, 8. And now I'm getting into weird flights of possibly over-educated fancy, but the Swedish playright August Strindberg wrote an autobiographical novel in French that was titled "Le Plaidoyer d'un fou," which translates to "The Defense of a Fool." Wikipedia says (somewhat ineptly):
As his stormy marriage to Siri von Essen was coming to an end, August Strindberg feared there was a secret conspiracy between the women of Europe, and they were planning to silence him by conducting a campaign to make people believe he was insane. Strindberg therefore decided to hurridly write a book revealing the truths about the marriage.
Oh, what fun we would have if Bill Clinton came to believe there was a vast female conspiracy that was planning to silence him by convincing us that he's insane and he had to hurriedly write a book to reveal the truths about his marriage.

Hillary Clinton "is one of the most finest, most upstanding, most honorable people � always trying to do the right thing."

Said Chuck Schumer on "Face the Nation," doing damage control on the Hillary email story. And, yes, he did say "most finest." That was the tell.

ADDED: If you're wondering why I'm not blogging more this morning, it's because I got side-tracked into watching the Sunday shows. I've got notes on various things I want to say, but I need the transcript to do it properly, since transcribing everything is difficult. But that Schumer line set off my urge to transcribe. Schumer, by the way, has been the best defender of Hillary Clinton this morning. He is able to maintain emotional control and keep that smile he always has on his face.

By contrast, Lanny Davis (on "Fox News Sunday") was the definition of flop sweat. Far from smiling, Davis bared his huge, overwhite, fake-looking teeth so aggressively I feared he might take a bite out of Chris Wallace. Davis swung wildly, attacking Wallace for interrupting and for misreporting, and that brought out the fighting spirit in the usually mild-mannered Wallace. More about how that played out when I get the transcript.