MSNBC interrupts interview with Hillary Clinton for sneezing panda video (VIDEO)

Washington Examiner ^ | Naomi Lim

[simpson96]

MSNBC interrupted its interview with failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday for a video of a baby panda sneezing.

"Welcome back," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said after a commercial break. "My interview with Secretary Hillary Clinton is subject to an interruption because of this important video of a sneezing panda."

Maddow then narrated the footage, estimated to have been seen worldwide about 200 million times, chronicling how the panda cub sneezes, scaring its unsuspecting mother.

"Madam Secretary, one of the things that you deal with in a surprisingly straightforward way in your new book is that people are obsessed with your human nature," Maddow continued over sounds of Clinton chuckling at the clip.

Maddow explained that in Clinton's campaign memoir, What Happened, the former U.S. secretary of state refers to the phenomenon as "The Panda Principle," a term coined by Philippe Reines who played Trump in her debate preparation sessions.

"Pandas just live their lives," Maddow said, reading an excerpt from Clinton's novel. "They eat bamboo. They play with their kids but for some reason people love watching pandas hoping for something, for anything to happen."

Clinton admitted "she was slow to accept" people's curiosity about mundane aspects of her life.

"It is true, people ask me these questions all the time," Clinton said. "And I thought well, you know what? I just want to embrace it and go ahead and tell you what I have for breakfast and all the rest of it and maybe it will give people a little bit of satisfaction that they know me better than they thought they did."

[simpson96]

Yes, Hillary, you are now less important than watching a video of a sneezing panda.

[jacknhoo]

Yes, and a very pretty sneezing panda video at that.

[shelterguy]

She is nuts, Jim.

[9YearLurker]

All this does is show how closely her interviews are scripted.

[simpson96]

Hillary probably was reading a cue card that said “chuckle during video”.

[exDemMom]

"Madam Secretary, one of the things that you deal with in a surprisingly straightforward way in your new book is that people are obsessed with your human nature," Maddow continued over sounds of Clinton chuckling at the clip.

While true that Hillary *does* almost seem human at times, this in no way strikes me as obsession-worthy. As with any human-like object that exists in the nadir of the uncanny valley, this is something best avoided for its sheer creep factor.

[DonkeyBonker]

The high point of the show!

[mason-dixon]

Insertion of a video-tape segment??? That has to be covering up something wrong with Hillary.

Did she start yelling at her "staff"?
Did she have a seizure/fainting spell?
Did the show producers need to consult with her "staff" to get OK for questions?

[\/\/ayne]

We don’t understand the mentality of people who are so into their own ambition and what they want that they are willing to literally sacrifice thousands of people. We don’t have thoughts like this, we don’t have fantasies like this, and so therefore we don’t understand when such foreign and dark forces motivate others, especially when they have such a cultivated and civilized exterior.

The danger of this is that in Americans’ innocence or naïvete, we give other people that are truly in the grip of evil, we give them a pass, because it’s not on our radar – we don’t see it in ourselves, we don’t understand criminality. I think people don’t understand Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.

- WND Managing Editor David Kupelian guest-hosting the “The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show.”

[Sacajaweau]

I tried alternate nostril breathing yesterday thanks to Hillary's demonstration.

Then headed straight for a bottle.

Anyone that demonstrates this on TV is very sick. I do believe she IS sick.....and that something bad is going to happen soon.

[Sacajaweau]

I was a communist even when I was little girl. The girl next door had two sand pales. I didn't have one so I took one of hers. She told her mother that she gave it to me because I was deprived.

But the truth is I said I would take her to a park and tie her to a tree and a wolf would eat her. I remember her name...Marcy.

[rlmorel]

My wife mentioned to me this morning (after I said I was going to probably dump Netflix because of their increase in natively produced leftist fare and decrease in available relevant movie titles) that she thought I had watched more television in the last three years than she had ever seen me watch before.

I corrected her by pointing out I watch movies, not television.

I don’t watch any television at all except for an occasional football game, and haven’t going on twenty years, and this silliness is why.

Granted, I think a sneezing panda is more relevant than Hillary Clinton, but the fact they felt they had to take a break in her interview to show the video indicates to me they did not have faith they could hold the attention of their viewers long enough to let her make her points.

Their deep arrogance is astonishing to me.

[nclaurel]

If I slummed at MSNBC, I would have preferred the panda video to Cankles whining!

[Doogle]

"....less than a year Jim, and she's down below panda snot on the earth"

[euram]

it was during one such moment that she revealed she carried hot sauce in her purse. What a moron.

[pa_dweller]

failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

Has a nice ring to it, no?

[Dixie Yooper]

Deceiving headline... Interrupts? Starts a segment by making her guest and audience watch a short stupid video. Fox and all the all day news shows do the same exercise with their guests. With all the great crap that Hillary has said and done in the last few days, this headline and story, aren’t worth sneezing at.

[xp38]

Sweeter words on this website are hard to find.

[WKUHilltopper]

This is all scripted BS to show how “human” this demonic witch is...its the MSM. They’ve been known to create BS and fantasy.

[Delta 21]

FReeRepublic.com's Delta 21 interrupted its thread about the MSNBC interview with failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday morning being one upped by a baby panda sneezing by posting a much more interesting video of a sneeze.

Video follows.