Best color commentary about Bill Clinton

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 20, 2009 11:20 AM

Amid all the dreary, colorless cliches clogging inauguration coverage, Brit Hume elicits a triple-snort from me:

Hillary and Bill Clinton came into view.

Hume: “Bill Clinton always looks like a man searching for the proper expression to put on his face. It’s always been this way as long as I have covered him.”

Lip bite? Feigned solemnity? Slight impish grin? What to do? What to do?

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  1. #596842
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:22 am, b-cat said:

    Well said, Brit.

  2. #596845
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:22 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    As soon as color and Clinton were mentioned…. I was thinking Blue…

    As in Blue Dress….

  3. #596857
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:25 am, bear1909 said:

    The dilemma of a petard with ears.

  4. #596867
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:28 am, cbwv99 said:

    Where’s the “Oh” face?

  5. #596868
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:28 am, tim zank said:

    The Clenis has an unnatural ability, almost chameleon like, to change expressions in just milliseconds.

  6. #596871
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am, BrianNY said:

    Memories of Bubba leaving Ron Brown’s funeral.

    That funeral video of Clinton’s “I feel your pain” performance was the opening argument in my eventual summation that – too many liberals have to pretend to be somebody or something that they are not.

  7. #596874
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:30 am, right4life said:

    he looks like a man who knows POWER has eluded his grasp, never to return…

    oh the horror!!! :oops:

  8. #596875
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:30 am, DagneyT said:

    He’s trying not to look smug, as usual!

  9. #596876
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:30 am, chapoutier said:

    I would think “barely-pent-up-rage-red-face.”

  10. #596895
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:35 am, Hangfire said:

    It’s the “Why does my Presidential Library look like a giant mobile home?” look.

  11. #596899
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:37 am, DBNinKY said:

    Bill Clinton always looks like a man searching for the proper expression to put on his face.

    Perhaps the only good thing about an Obama presidency: Hillary will never be President and Bill will never again have influence in the WH.

  12. #596925
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Best color commentary about Bill Clinton

    Wasn’t that in the South Carolina primary? ;-)

    That “color commentary” certainly didn’t help his aspirations of returning to the White House.

  13. #596932
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:47 am, flmom said:

    BrianNY said:

    That video is classic Clinton.

  14. #596937
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:48 am, bear1909 said:

    The classic “I-will-always-be-trailer-trash” look.

  15. #596964
    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    On January 20th, 2009 at 11:48 am, bear1909 said:
    The classic “I-will-always-be-trailer-trash” look.

    As trailer trash, I take offence to that remark! ;)

  16. #596982
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, warden said:

    The last 5 elections have given much hope to all the pot-heads and coke-heads out there. I predict a crack-head president in 8 years.

  17. #597003
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Sara is most certainly NOT a crack-head!

  18. #597065
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I would think “barely-pent-up-rage-red-face.”

    Dick Morris tells about Clinton tackling him on the porch and being ready to beat the stew out of him…

  19. #597126
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, bloodhound said:

    What a perfect description of Der Schlickmeister by Hume! I’m going to miss him on FNC.

  20. #597130
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, bedje said:

    How about the “I told Algore to ride my coat-tails and he came up with some lame lock-box crap” and the ever popular “I can’t believe you people did not vote for Hillary knowing that I’d be the one at the helm” looks.

  21. #597131
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, El_Guapo said:

    I’ve been smacked and accused of checking out chicks many, many times over the years (on occassion I deserved the whack), even when I was looking at a clock or something INSTEAD of a chick.

    …however, no wife or girlfriend has ever thrown a lamp at me.

  22. #597138
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm, El_Guapo said:

    Caption for this picture: BUSTED!

  23. #597174
    On January 20th, 2009 at 12:59 pm, ChicagoRobb said:

    The sad point is that after four years (hopefully) of Obama, Clinton may look good in comparison.

  24. #597185
    On January 20th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, rambler said:

    Have some sympathy for the guy, afterall, he’s gotten to the point where young and pretty interns aren’t attacted to him. Now he has to settle for looking at Hillary.

  25. #597227
    On January 20th, 2009 at 1:28 pm, right_on said:

    …And don’t forget the last words out of his mouth, moments before enters the public view….(In my best Bill Clinton crackly voice!)“Where’s the cameras?”

  26. #597229
    On January 20th, 2009 at 1:28 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:

    It’s his “How can I make a buck off of this?” look

  27. #597277
    On January 20th, 2009 at 1:48 pm, maine yankee said:

    I did not have sexual relations with that woman,— yet;— or that one over there , or that fine lookin’ one over there, who’s intern is that ?

  28. #597311
    On January 20th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, right_on said:

    I did not have sexual relations with that woman,— yet;— or that one over there , or that fine lookin’ one over there…

    Did you notice how he kept ogling the Bush twins? That was creepy.

  29. #597417
    On January 20th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, GraniteMan said:

    Brits the best!

  30. #597468
    On January 20th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, rocketman said:

    “B.J.” Clinton Caption, “WHERE IS THAT MONICA WHEN I NEED HER?”.
    ***
    John Bibb

  31. #597604
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:25 pm, thegreatbeast said:

    I take solace in the fact that Clinton lives in a perpetual hell knowing that he had achieved his lifelong dream and blew it rather badly. You’ve seen what how that realization has embittered Carter but it will completely ravage Clinton as time goes on. Carter, at least, has some personal dignity which regulates and tempers his behavior but Clinton doesn’t have those governors on his worst instincts.

  32. #597643
    On January 20th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    It was funny when Oscar Madison wondered if he should be “humble” or “cocky/funny” but it’s sickening when you know a politician is just a bad actor.

  33. #597711
    On January 20th, 2009 at 5:47 pm, secondsight said:

    Gee, Brit, honesty in commentary is usually more welcome when it’s not twenty years old.

  34. #597894
    On January 20th, 2009 at 9:21 pm, torabora said:

    Gee Bill, just make like you’re really getting into a cigar.

  35. #598279
    On January 21st, 2009 at 10:16 am, MarkD said:

    Yes, but Bill received the honor of being snubbed by Jimmy Carter.

    Clinton is a self-serving lightweight, but the loathsome anti-semite Carter is positively evil. Thanks, Jimmy, for the Islamic terror state of Iran, for the thousands of dead because you didn’t keep your oath of office.

    George W Bush got almost nothing right except the tax cuts and terrorism which makes him infinitely better than Carter. Enough Carter, history will judge him.

  36. #598477
    On January 21st, 2009 at 12:44 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Snubbed by Jimmy Carter? I have to find that story! Drudge?

  37. #598528
    On January 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pm, Marc said:

    I wonder if video is still available of the time when Brit Hume asked him about why it took so long to nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the SC. Clinton went absolutely nuts, wagging his finger, face reddening, voice cracking with rage, body heaving. It was full body delirium, with robotic Al Gore next to him with his “lockbox” gaze. Gosh that was funny as all heck. Sad that it is probably lost to history.

  38. #599722
    On January 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm, Cosmo said:

    I can think of one time and place when he most assuredly had the lip-bite expression on his face…

    Oval Office…
    um…
    er…

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