A few years ago, superstar satirist Sacha Baron Cohen, in the character of moronic Ali G, interviewed Newt Gingrich.

“Do you think a woman will ever be president?” asked Cohen.

“Absolutely,” Said Gingrich.

[…]

“But ain’t there the problem that if he [Saddam Hussein] declares war she’ll just start crying and everything?”

“The kind of woman who would rise to be president I think would be very comfortable saying if you really want to fight we’ll do what it takes.”

Hillary Clinton is about to declare victory in the war on satire. Blogger Jason George reports that she turned on the waterworks today at a speaking event in New Haven Connecticut:

Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up, leading Clinton’s eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye. At the time, Rhodeen was saying how proud he was that sheepskin-coat, bell-bottom-wearing young woman he met in 1972 was now running for president.

“Well, I said I would not tear up; already we’re not exactly on the path,” Clinton said with emotion after the introduction.

Every time Hillary “cries” it should be noted that that “bell-bottom-wearing young woman” is not only running for president, but for commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces—during war.

To make matters worse, like the Corsican brothers, who suffered each other’s pains while apart, the Clintons have embarked on a program of coordinated crying. Victor Davis Hanson reports that yesterday Bill Clinton went soft and blubbery at an LA Church:

[W]e got the swollen, teary-eyed reminiscences about his impoverished parent. His voice was at times barely audible. His pauses went on for a few seconds, as he carefully drew his breath and like Ajax in his soliloquy solemnly went on. He bit his lip enough no doubt to require minor surgery.

That the crying is calculated is an old story. But someone should tell the weepy twosome that when a nation is at war, its leaders’ tears have the same effect, fake or not.

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