The two big weekend media stories demonstrate that smart women can make very stupid choices. Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton...two sides of the same coin…a naked ambition that subsumes all else…the uncanny similarity of their willingness to submit to public humiliation to achieve their ends.
The Hillary interviews and resulting media dog & pony show, the forced cheer, syrupy sincerity, the sheer contrivance and falseness of it all just seemed sad. I can’t even work up a mild case of indignation over the careful parsing of language...the lie-by-omission...the enabling...it has become a Clinton M.O. We expect no less and no more.
The media demanded that Hillary wrestle the infidelity python in a glass tank before a slavering, boorish audience and she obliged, for a price. What does that say about her? Can you imagine living Hillary’s life? Hers is not a story to be admired, to provide inspiration… it is a bad bargain that must be lived through, endured.
One can't help but wonder what Hillary thinks of the choices she made and if she had foreknowledge, would she choose differently?
Would you?
UPDATE: Warning: may cause acute nausea...Slate plants lips firmly on HRC's ample rump.
UPDATE: Laurie and Lance Morrow dish it cold.
Posted by feste at June 9, 2003 11:34 PM | TrackBack
For $8 million, I hate to think
what I would be willing to do.
:)
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or to be the leader of the free world?
yeah, like that's gonna happen.
Posted by: feste at June 10, 2003 09:38 AM