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Clinton holds beer with left hand, pundits grasp for meaning
Filed under: Hillary Clinton
It's almost pointless to mock Fox News at this point, since most have written off the network as a simple propaganda arm. But their latest gaffe is simultaneously the greatest and most ludicrous example of the "Hillary Clinton is calculating" meme.
Reporters caught video footage of Hillary chatting with the press corps while holding a beer. Innocuous enough, this plastic cup in her left hand. Until you consider ...
... Hillary Clinton is right-handed. [Cue ominous music]
Fox's body language expert Tonya Reiman explained that "it's a little bit awkward to drink with your nondominant hand," and suggested that Hillary "wants to give the appearance of being light and easy." Because nothing says "at ease with oneself" like planning to drink a beer with your awkward off hand.
The implication is that the Clinton team has polled the American voter and determined that Joe Sixpack prefers a southpaw drinker. Personally, I think if the Clinton political machine's attention to minute details is that intense, it's a good thing. If she knows what hand you want to see her drink a beer with, maybe she knows other minor details like the difference between Sunni and Shiite.
I'm not blind to the fact that politicians and contrived photo ops go together like the Bush administration and criminal malfeasance. And sure, Hillary's as strategic a pol as they come. But the scrolling text in this screen grab just comes straight from the dictatorship of dumb:
Is she really relaxed? That is the question that cries out for a response, after all, when evaluating a potential president. She is drinking a beer, but is she really relaxed? Which is it, Mrs. Clinton? Left-handed or right-handed? Or are you some kind of ambidextrous overachiever who is out of touch with the average single-hand consumer? And I'll ask you again, most importantly -- are you relaxed?
Probably not. If you had legions of pricks working their tiny brains 24/7 to find fault with the way you hold a beer, you might be a little tense, too.
Posted by Jeff Shaw at March 5, 2008 10:29 PM
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Comments
Tonya Reiman has demonstrated how little she knows. Apart from the fact that Hillary spends her entire day shaking hands so who wouldn't favor the left hand at the end of the day the "issue" is such a non-issue. Anything to suggest dishonesty I guess. LOL!
Posted by: Michael Dunne at March 6, 2008 12:41 AM
Poor Hillary. Picked on again. Reconsidering things, the woman really does deserve the Presidency. It's her turn.
Posted by: Sympathetic at March 6, 2008 8:54 AM
Maybe she is/was a smoker. As a right-handed ex-smoker, I had a much easier time drinking from the left and smoking from the right. Or maybe she's a pro-drinker and knows how to get shit done while drinking a beer. If your right hand is doing all the work, why shouldn't your left hand be holding a beer?
Posted by: Derek A at March 7, 2008 12:26 PM
Maybe she's too drunk to know better.
Posted by: Helm Matthews at March 7, 2008 3:58 PM
What I want to know is, what brand of beer was she drinking? Piss swill Budweiser or a nice craft beer, like Rogue's Uber Pilsner? Also, if you can't hold a cig and a pint both in the same hand, you should probably kill yourself. Seriously, if that's too taxing on your motor skills, then you have some real issues.
Posted by: dumb at March 10, 2008 8:24 AM
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