Squaring the Culture

Somebody call the Waaaambulence…

Hillary Clinton got misty-eyed for the camera during a “spontaneous” interview from a New Hampshire free-lance photographer, reported by ABC News:

“My question is very personal, how do you do it?” asked Marianne Pernold Young, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She mentioned Clinton’s hair and appearance always looking perfectly coifed. “How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?”

Clinton began responding, jokingly. First talking about her hair: “You know, I think, well luckily, on special days I do have help. If you see me every day and if you look on some of the websites and listen to some of the commentators they always find me on the day I didn’t have help. It’s not easy.”

But then, Clinton began getting emotional: “It’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country just don’t want to see us fall backwards,” she said.

Her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, she said, “You know, this is very personal for me. It’s not just political it’s not just public. I see what’s happening, and we have to reverse it.”

Two questions:

1. Is there really anybody left who believes this woman’s public displays of emotion are anything but acting? It frightens me that people that naive are eligible to vote. The question was planted, and the response rehearsed. And
2. Can anybody reading this imagine such a softball question getting lobbed toward any of the other candidates, particularly the Republicans? Honestly, the fawning over this woman is outlandish. I wish my favorite candidate took adoring questions like this from time to time, but I know it just doesn’t happen. And yet, I’ve heard fawning like this at least half a dozen times for the Clintons, two of what have to be the worst human beings ever to appear on the American political stage.

Captain Ed over at Captains Quarters revives Tom Hanks from A League of Their Own: “There’s no crying in baseball!” And Michelle Malkin isn’t having any part of it.

I guess some people are so desperate to have a savior that they’ll deliberately blind themselves to the worst sorts of corruption and insincerity. That’s the only way I can explain it. The woman’s insincerity is transparent to most of us.

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Update:Wow, a prophetess. The Anchoress predicted a Hillary “public cry” moment 5 days ago. Remarkable.