Hillary shows a sense of humor; L-dotters are unamused

Whether Hillary Clinton wrote it herself or had others do it for her, her impression of a flight attendant making an announcement on her campaign plane was funny. But the L-dotters, who can be brilliant in their anti-Clintonism, don’t know when to let it go. When an opponent, even a hated opponent, does something funny or charming, well, this is America, you’ve got to give him or her credit for it or at least lay off the hatred for a minute. The L-dotters are unable to do that. Below is a sampling of their resentful, low, uninsightful, unfunny response.

Reply 1—Posted by: texsupreme, 1/16/2008 8:48:44 PM

Barf Alert???

Reply 3—Posted by: 1940s guy, 1/16/2008 8:55:50 PM

Egotistical maniac playing cutsie.

Reply 5—Posted by: raydog, 1/16/2008 9:01:09 PM

I would rather suck on a tube of CS residue than be stuck on a plane with that creature.

Reply 7—Posted by: vinwire, 1/16/2008 9:09:57 PM

I’m surprised she could get her fat behind down the aisle.

Reply 8—Posted by: Bazi, 1/16/2008 9:10:24 PM

She’d fit right in at North West Airlines.

bow wow

Reply 10—Posted by: olivercromwell, 1/16/2008 9:13:01 PM

We need air sickness bags—aisle 1 through 47 inclusive……….and please hurry

Reply 12—Posted by: olivercromwell, 1/16/2008 9:18:23 PM

Over head click..seek attendant…..We need air sickness bags aisle 1 through 47 inclusive….48—52 is fine…….press area

Reply 13—Posted by: JLoophole, 1/16/2008 9:21:53 PM

Now there’s a fantasy for you, guys. Us ladies will just sit back and let you imagine.

Reply 14—Posted by: rightguy, 1/16/2008 9:38:55 PM

Really, not a bad attempt to ‘humanize’ her. But, of course, she doesn’t do this sort of thing spontaneously. This was so obviously staged, rehearsed, and scripted, that I give her zero credit.

Reply 20—Posted by: schwalbe, 1/16/2008 9:55:47 PM

Was it a C-5? About the only plane that can fit her huge ego and wide butt. I’m glad the MSM lap dogs enjoyed the act. We’re not amused back here in economy seats.

Reply 21—Posted by: ynaught, 1/16/2008 9:56:42 PM

:Ladies and gentlemen, your captain, Bill Clinton, requests that all good looking women on this flight line up outside the cockpit for his inspection.”

Reply 22—Posted by: Betty Jean, 1/16/2008 9:58:24 PM

She must really think she’s the cat’s meow! Aaargh. Cutesy is not her.

Reply 27—Posted by: Father of Internet, 1/16/2008 10:29:03 PM

”And for those of you seated over the wings, look out your windows and you will see my flying monkeys following the plane on either side as an armed escort.”

Then, she cackled and the press corps swore she had a greenish tinge to her skin.

Reply 29—Posted by: Douglas DC, 1/16/2008 10:37:01 PM

Nurse Ratched as a Stew…

Reply 30—Posted by: Peacekeeper_US, 1/16/2008 10:41:15 PM

I thought it was “Broomstick One”?

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Roger G. writes:

I don’t know where you’re getting this “strange new respect” for Hillary, but I think you should give it up. The Clintons are very bad people—in fact, monsters—for reasons that you know very well.

LA replies:

I approach her phenomenologically. If she manifests in a less inhuman, more human way than seen before, that is so striking that I notice it. If she says something funny, I notice that. The phenomenological approach also applies to myself. If I notice myself having—for the first time since I laid eyes on her on TV 16 years ago saying something about not staying home and baking cookies—a positive reaction to her, that is something so unusual and amazing that I notice it and feel I ought to say something about it. I’m not justifying that reaction (at least I don’t think I am); I’m reporting it objectively, as something that is to me a remarkable phenomenon, as though I were a specimen under a slide. Maybe if someone who has been as negative toward her and has hated every aspect of her progress toward the White House and has called her the walking, breathing abolition of politics, has this type of reaction, just a human reaction of not totally detesting her but finding something likable about her, then maybe other people are having that reaction too. (And in fact some of them have posted at VFR and also communicated with me privately about this.) Shouldn’t we know about that? And what is the meaning of this? Am I being mentally manipulated by the Clintons? Has Hillary found some new way to disarm her opponents? Or could it be that she actually is showing a human side of herself that has not been seen before? Or what if she is still the manipulative power-seeker she’s always been but also has a human side, a less unnatural and malevolent side? Maybe that makes her more dangerous than before.

So there’s the situation. Someone who has always detested Hillary Clinton is having positive reactions to her. I think that that is something worth discussing, rather than suppressing. Something is going on here. What does it mean?

In this connecton, let’s also remember Keat’s idea of Negative Capability: “that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.”

There’s also the fact that on the very weekend that I began having positive reactions to her, I also saw the negative side of Obamania. I began to feel that she would be less harmful to the country than Obama. At the very least her victory in N.H. cut short Obama hysteria that was about to take over the country.

So that’s one side of it. Another side is, if people such as the L-dotters are so consumed by hate at the very thought of her that they even have to spill bile on her when she says something funny, that indicates something amiss, something that, as I said, could lead the conservatives into the same kind of madness of hatred that has afflicted the Democrats for the last seven years.

I don’t think that’s the same as respecting her. At the same time, we are living in the same country. The Republican have not declared civil war on the Democrats. Republicans are not sending out hit squads to kill Democrats and vice versa. So it doesn’t make sense to be consumed with hatred to such a degree that one cannot take a positive or even a neutral stance toward any aspect of Hillary Clinton. In fact, the type of hatred of which I speak will not tolerate even a neutral position. Simply to describe something she said or did without attacking her for it, or to observe that others are attacking her unreasonably, is already unacceptable.

I observed the same type of thing re the Lincoln haters from lewrockwell.com in discussions at VFR years ago. Once when I simply described something Lincoln had done, not praising it, just giving an account of it, one of the Lincoln haters called me a Lincoln worshipper. Hatred will not tolerate even objectivity. It will approve only of hatred.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 16, 2008 11:27 PM | Send