Slog - Comments on The Grimace

Comment by bma

bma — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:59:16 -0800

It looks like she's really squeezing one out!

Of course, that's pretty much all that you get from her campaign lately... shit and hot air.

Comment by Aislinn

Aislinn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:07:58 -0800

I like her hair.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:09:03 -0800

And the Barbara Bush pearls, too.

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:13:40 -0800

Now I have to live with the image of The Hill pinching a fat loaf making that face.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:14:16 -0800

All the substative and demonstrative argumentas against Senator Clinton, but, no... let's be shallow and mock her appearance. (And I'm an Obama supporter.)

This only emboldens ECB's complaints about the ignorant sexism heaped upon Hillary, which is as lame as the ignorant racism flung at Obama.

Grow up.

Comment by Non

Non — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:14:26 -0800

Drudge needs to be careful about how tough he is on her. After all, he gains millions of miles of hits/fodder for 4 years of her in the White House

Comment by Non

Non — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:15:26 -0800

note: link does not open in new window

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:15:56 -0800

I like the way her hair looks with the eyebrows.

Drudge will go into the wilderness with the other Red Bushies for forty years too.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:17:14 -0800

The only pic I've made fun of her for is the one where I suggested she looked like Bat-Boy's mom.

And that's because she did.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:17:35 -0800

she actually looks pretty good there -- for such a cringe. spitzer could learn much from her.

Comment by patrick

patrick — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:21:12 -0800

I told you she was having her fangs removed.

Comment by Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:22:00 -0800

I agree with Andy @5. Please don't click on the Drudge link...you just send him more traffic and revenue, and why would you want to perpetuate this kind of douchebaggery?

Fuck Drudge.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:23:36 -0800

yes, the hair is nice. but so does her skin look great... and her teeth seem flawless.

Comment by Ziggity

Ziggity — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:26:09 -0800

I'm trying to imagine the context of this image, for real. I'm curious what she's wincing about. I agree with @5, though.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:32:38 -0800

Is there some kind of a down side to getting ECB riled up?

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:32:51 -0800

yes, i am with @5 as well.

but i also find it humorous that this "bad" face isn't really so bad. not compared to some classics we've seen from mccain or spitzer...

Comment by AMB

AMB — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:33:36 -0800

What makes the pic better is her colossal fuckup in repeating her ridiculous lies. CBS pwned her thoroughly. Now she says she "misspoke".

Comment by Mike of Renton

Mike of Renton — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:33:50 -0800

I agree with @5, but points off for the bushism (embolden).

OTOH, @1 got in a good one.

Comment by fluteprof

fluteprof — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:35:55 -0800

You bitches is evil.

Comment by Jason Petersen

Jason Petersen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:51:26 -0800

Hey 18 you pretentious prick, embolden is a word according to the OED.

"To encourage is to give active help or to raise confidence to the point where one dares to do what is difficult (: encouraged by her teacher, she set her sights on attending Harvard).
Embolden also entails giving confidence or boldness, but it implies overcoming reluctance or shyness (: success as a public speaker emboldened her to enter politics)."

I used to be a language nazi but have since reformed. Please do likewise; language is natural and changes: maybe Bush likes to use the word embolden, but he didn't invent it. Even if he did, that doesn't mean that if it enters common usage it isn't a word. Descriptivism FTW (in all but the worst cases).

As to whether or not the word is the right one in this case, I don't know or care; it's a bit iffy though.

Finally: Click the link everyone. It's not sexism to print a photo of someone. That is bullshit. So she grimaced and it looks like she's crying. Does the article/caption (if there is one) say she's crying? Has the photo been doctored? What is the context? Will you even know if you don't click? No? Then click; your pageview isn't that important; get off your high horse.

When Tom Brady cried in the endzone and papers published images of this, I doubt anyone called the photogs "sexist". Emotion is not a female monopoly, though by calling depictions of emotive females "sexist", you're perpetuating that bias.

Comment by brandon

brandon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:00:14 -0800

i have to agree, that's a pretty hot look for her [facial expression notwithstanding]. simple and classic, evocative of jackie o. now she looks and dresses like a lesbian gym teacher on parent-teacher night. where did she go wrong?

Comment by rexmundane

rexmundane — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:01:48 -0800

Doh!

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:09:26 -0800

@12 is right. don't click on drudge.

Comment by unPC

unPC — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:17:58 -0800

yeah she's selfish, and Obama's caucus is bigger than hers, and she looks ugly too!

Unity, change, hope, rah rah rah.

Comment by Jason Petersen

Jason Petersen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:38 -0800

I'm constantly astounded that people believe the internet economy works on impressions. I guess they're important, but aren't click-throughs more important? Unless you have link prefetching enabled, I'd hope you aren't stupid enough to click any ads.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:35:29 -0800

@18--

"Embolden" is not a Bushism; it's an actual word.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/embolden

Comment by tsm

tsm — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:38:03 -0800

@25 - impressions = higher Alexa rankings = more ad revenue. Obviously.

Comment by Let history show

Let history show — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:46:37 -0800

That was her expression when she learned that the pastor of their church in Arkansas was the Grand Wizard.

Comment by Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:55:42 -0800

I'm a gay Obama supporter, but I think HRC looks pretty good in this pic.

Comment by Hot for Hillary

Hot for Hillary — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:18:31 -0800

That is a nice photo, almost looks like she's having an orgasm. But maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:10:19 -0800

I had the same thought, @30. On the end of my big Polska Kielbasa. We all see what we want to see.

Comment by bree

bree — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:37:48 -0800

i think she looks a little elegant. i like it, sort of.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:54:49 -0800

It's a cool pic.

Um, @30, ... no. It doesn't. Or if it does, she's faking it ... you're doing it wrong.

Comment by Hot for Hillary

Hot for Hillary — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:39:26 -0800

Will @33 - I'm not doing it wrong, well, unless you consider anal sex wrong.

Comment by photogreg

photogreg — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:29:40 -0800

Had she just told another lie?