National Review on Hillary Clinton’s agit-prop
The National Review piece on Hillary Clinton is here. Something pops out at me as incredibly hypocritical, and kind of stupid.
Ladies and Gentlemen… from the Top… the Creation of Agitprop:
A single memorable photograph from Hillary’s years in the public spotlight illustrates the intimidating determination that marks her political ambitions. It was early January of 1998, and her husband was preparing for his deposition in Paula Jones’s sexual-harassment suit. During their New Year’s vacation in the Virgin Islands, the presidential couple were “caught” dancing together on the beach. In Bill’s arms, Hillary gazed lovingly at her affectionate husband, her 50-year-old body revealed in all its bathing-suited glory. Most middle-aged women dread leaving a dressing room in a bathing suit, yet Hillary readily posed for a photo bound to grace front pages around the world. It was a perfect façade of normal matrimony, and succeeded brilliantly in distracting attention from the Jones suit. I remember thinking, “Wow, it’s true that she will do absolutely anything for the sake of political survival.” In the months ahead, after Monica Lewinsky had been exposed as Bill’s latest paramour, Hillary would endure even greater public indignities. But she stuck with her husband — and, in the end, she had her reward: a seat in the Senate.
Now then. Bill and Hillary in a bathing suit. Dropped to the press like so many celebrities drop these things to the press. I was going to do an extensive google search to drop it here, but now that I think of it, nobody wants to see Bill’s fat pasty thighs.
Now if I may present to you a slightly creepier, more obnoxious piece of staged agit-prop… as presented in the news just last week:
The first photograph comes from footage that accidentally made it to the press, the mic was mistakingly on. It was preparation and a run-through of the script for the footage that the second image comes from: a candid conversation between Bush and the troops about how great things are going in Iraq.
An interesting factoid: what polls there are about Bush’s impeachment show a greater pull for impeachment amongst the American public than the polls for Clinton’s impeachment. (But maybe that comes with an approval rating that for the last month has been below the 40% baseline.) The focus on their agit-prop may help explain this phenomenom.