Hillary and the “Access Hollywood” Factor
Hillary and Access Hollywood host Maria Menounos: Say cheese.
Women made up 57 percent of the Dem vote in New Hampshire. Turning around her Iowa loss, Hillary trumped Obama among the female folk this time–claiming 46 percent to 34 percent. How’d she do it? How’d she take back the women vote from Obama?
I flippantly mentioned soap opera watchers last night.
But I think there’s another answer: The “Access Hollywood” Factor.
In case you’ve never heard of it or watched it before, “Access Hollywood” is an Entertainment Tonight-style knock-off. The show peddles celebrity gossip, music, and fashion. Hillary appeared on the popular program in an “exclusive,” two-part sitdown with Access Hollywood host (and Hillary suck-up) Maria Menounos that aired over the last two days before the NH primary vote.
What did they talk about? Not foreign policy. Not health care nitty-gritty. Not housing bailouts. Not Iraq or Iran.
They yammered instead about body image, housekeeping, and “Dancing with the Stars” (which she claims is her favorite TV show). The watery-eyed moment in Portsmouth alone didn’t seal the deal. It was most likely follow-up interviews like the “Access Hollywood” segments targeting the Boniva set that were the clinchers:
Asked if she, like many other women, is concerned about her weight and body image, Clinton replied, “Who isn’t, really?”
However, the former first lady said she can count on her friends to help her deal with those insecurities.
“I have such a great group of friends — friends that I have going back to literally kindergarten. Sometimes we have the same conversations we had in high school or college. I am still being kidded by my friends because I am hopeless when it comes to doing my own hair,” she revealed.
The Democratic U.S. senator from New York said when she has a few moments to herself, she likes to catch up on her sleep, spend time outdoors with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and even occasionally take in a movie by herself.
She also confided she likes organizing spaces in her home, adding, “I find cleaning closets and drawers to be extremely gratifying because you know there is a beginning, a middle and an end, unlike a lot of what I do which seems to be much more long term.”
Giggle, giggle. Just one of the gals. Are older women silly enough to fall for this horse manure? Apparently so.
Watch the interview for a closer look at Hollywood sycophancy in action.
So much for that “breathtaking disadvantage,” eh, Bill?
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I think such interviews help people to warm up to the candidates. Let’s face it, most of the general public tend not to know what each of the candidates stand for or what their character is like. In fact, one of your major criticisms of Hillary is how she always seems aloof, cold and distant – sorta out of touch with the common voter. Appearing on a program like that, just giggling and being one of the gals can go a long way to making people warm to her.
I think it was a smart move by HR
HC and it was a dumb move by the electorate.Oh and seriously Michelle, posting articles at 2:22 AM? You need your sleep lady. At least I’ve got an excuse, I live across the pond
I don’t get it. I don’t get any of it. Even in liberal Mass all I here is how bad she is. Of course the people I know are very aware of where I stand so they may be feeding me a line.
It happened during the last governor’s race, I didn’t run into many people voting for Patrick at all. He won in a landslide. Maybe I just have a good circle. Or they’re all liars.
This 3AM thinking is way to deep for me.
Don’t know how you do it.
here=hear self edit was not done well sorry
Best suggestion posted here as to what movie(s) Hill likes to watch alone ought to get a prize (Michelle, anything in our prize vault?).
I’ll start:
“Mommie Dearest”?
I’m thinking The Godfather trilogy. She got a lot of ideas about how to run a campaign from that run.
She likes “Dancing with the Stars” because those female costumes turn her on.
She, like her has-been husband, are so insincere. I find it hard to believe a single word either of them says.
Thanks gayle, Now I know the witch and I have something in common…..
Did Hillary find any Whitewater documents or papers related to the Whitehouse travel office while cleaning out the drawers and closets?
Manchurian Candidate with Meryl Streep borrowing Hillary’s persona.
Not a morning person Michelle? Posting at 2AM!!
Well today I’m a ‘mourning’ person from that “tearful” victory by the witch from Wellesley. Bush dividing up Jerusalem, opening the borders and now this. Too much for an old man. I’m leaving for Thailand in 7 days. May not come back
The “Boniva set”, as you refer to those of us who are unfortunate enough to have bone density problems, includes this 51-year-old conservative and her 74-year-old conservative mother. Some older women obviously fall for Mrs. Clinton’s horse manure, but please don’t lump us all in that category.
Say “Barf!”
(1) How much is she paying them?
(2) Just like a Dem, no new ideas.
When is she going to get around to putting Bill in a closet?
Oh…I forgot…..her closets are too full of skeletons at the moment.
Silly me!
Ugh. Nothing like a little pandering. I am appalled that anyone falls for it, but there you are.
I thought a mud puddle was pretty shallow until I learned these riveting facts about “she who must not be named.” If this evil woman becomes POTUS it will be time to start investing in canned goods, guns, and ammo (as others have posted on other threads you can never have to much ammo).
It’ll be too late if she gets elected, she’ll be coming after your guns. Start now and find a good place to hide them.
Shouldn’t it be “Guurl Power”?
Or maybe
Hurl Power
No, just plain old “BAAAARRRRRRRFFFFF!” thtbttbtbtbtbtb…
She actually said she liked cleaning closets. Why do I immediatly think of Rose Law Firm billing records. hmmm
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Blitzing_the_morning_shows.html#comments
It was the Bradley effect. New Hampshire was one of the last states to make Martin Luther Kind day a holiday. The state has lots of Massachusetts transplants and Massachusetts was big in the school busing controversies of the 70’s.
White Democrats can be pretty racist. I half expect to hear Bill Clinton call Obama a “boy” any day.
At least she doesn’t iron shirts
I still don’t understand how the polls could have been so far off on the Dem. side. They were fairly dead on on the Rep. voters. I may be wrong but something stinks here.
Almost all of the clips that i saw yesterday were of people using paper ballots, Clinton had a lot of supporters brought in from out of state for her rallies. The running out of ballots, the fact that N.H. was the state were Bill made his come back.
I just don’t trust the Clinton at all.
By all means, come get my guns. I’ll send the bullets out first– one-by-one and well aimed.
Clinton is such a liar. I can’t believe people are falling for it.
I used to have just an instinctive, visceral, gut level aversion to Hillary Rodham Clinton; but after Bush, hey, she looks pretty good. Who would you rather have a beer with, a cold female lawyer of overweening ambition or a semi-dictator who thinks the Constitution “is just a piece of paper” and who already knows what you are going to say because he is illegally monitoring you with an NSA Narus Semantic Traffic Analyzer installed at your local phone company?
Hillary reminds me of a woman I worked for once….she was better then all of us other women because she was the boss and more like a man (her words) because of where she was, but when it came to wanting something from us she was just one of the girls. We saw through that act just like most women I know sees through Hillary’s act. I have some pretty savvy girlfriends. Does anyone believe she has cleaned a closet in the last thirty years?
#26 asks:
Answer:
A semi-dictator who thinks the Constitution “is just a piece of paper” and who already knows what I am going to say because he is illegally monitoring me with an NSA Narus Semantic Traffic Analyzer installed at my local phone company.
Those two look like they should get married. Oh yeah, that’s right. You’ll be able to do that (almost) in NH soon!
Hillary just gives women a bad name…boo freakin hoo….her unfavorables nationwide are still in the high 40’s so screw her….libs might vote for her but independents and Republicans will not.
Menounos is all kindsa hot, but seeing her next to Hillary makes her look downright tragic. Are these TV appearances considered campaign contributions? How about Bill’s appearances? Can’t they be considered contributions in the cost of what he generally charges for a speech.
How could you not be in love with Menounos. . . but why would she want to be seen thisclose to Hillary is beyond me. It must be that whole Hollywood thing.
To almeehad #12. Thailand is the best place to get over Hillary’s victory. I was there just a few months ago. In Bangkok, be sure to go to polo fried chicken, to my mind the very best fried chicken in the world! And in Phuket, be sure to check out Club Rio. Nobody who looks like the wicked witch will be inside, I promise. Whenever I think of Hillary Clinton, I am immediately reminded of the scene in The Wizard of Oz where the wicked witch glares at Dorothy and says “I’ll get you my little pretty”. I am sure that this is what is like backstage at the debate when Hillary met Barack.
As the “tears-card” has a limit of one use per-candidate per-election cycle, what will Hilary use the next time she is stuck in a state primary jam?
Thank goodness Hillary didn’t attend a figurative kindergarten.
Just wondering how many of these kindergarten friends she told about her plans to run for President.
I’d choose Dick Cheney, even though he’s monitoring my brainwaves from an undisclosed location near the core of the earth.
The mistake liberals make is that they think other people actually care what they have to say. Who would go through the trouble of eavesdropping on their rantings?
First of all, does anyone buy the claim that Hillary likes “Dancing with the Stars”? Second of all, it will probably work with a lot of the dummies who watch that show, as disgusting of a thought as that is.
Now, Maria Menounos is hot, but also a moron. I wouldn’t expect a very hard hitting interview… but again, that wasn’t what it was a bout.. it was about Hillary getting out the moron vote. Who else watches that garbage? Morons (aka, liberals). If you’re a Democrat, you’re either a fundamentally dishonest person or stupid… and Hillary knows this.
But the lack of talking about real issues is my problem with Obama more than anyone. I mean, it’s not shocking for a Dem to behave this way, but he is so general. He never answers specific questions or does tough interviews. He’s riding the likability wave and it makes me sick. He stumbled when Kilmeade asked him if we should fight Al Qaeda in Iraq since he (Obama) wants us fighting them in Afghanistan. It was like he’d never been asked a very simple question before… and it’s because largely, he hasn’t. Obama is used to a bunch of idiots and college kids chasing him around because he’s “likable”. You’ve also got the contingent who feels like they’re part of something (similar to bond between Truthers) by voting for “a black guy”. They feel like they’re part of history, it makes them cool on campus, and they feel like they’re rebelling against their white parents who’s white privilege gave them everything they have.
errah, my drawers need a good cleaning . . . .
Not just older women, I’m afraid. It just goes to show how the power of emotion over intellect in the electorate. If Hillary and Huck and a few others have their way, we’re approaching the equivalent of a high school popularity contest next November. (You know – from the Foreign Affairs article where he likened our stature in the world to being the nice kid everybody liked in HS.)
My sister, who is otherwise able to sniff out a phony from a mile away and will then emphatically proclaim her opinion from the housetops, shocked me the other day when she said she favors John Edwards. I asked her why and she said because of his upbringing in a poor family. Apparently she hasn’t had much time to watch the news lately. (Or maybe she has, but has been watching the wrong outlets!) Anyway, her perception of Edwards is based on the same premise as this Clinton tactic. There are too many Americans tuned out of or fed up with the political process, and too many Americans who believe everything they see or hear on the news. Heaven help us!