Cleavage & the Clinton Campaign Chest

Washington Post ^ | Saturday, July 28, 2007 | Howard Kurtz

[indcons]

A journalistic assessment of Hillary Clinton's cleavage became the most improbable presidential campaign controversy yet as her team yesterday rolled out a fundraising letter calling a Washington Post column on the subject "grossly inappropriate" and "insulting."

One week after the piece, by fashion writer Robin Givhan, took note of the Democratic candidate's relatively low neckline during a speech on the Senate floor, senior Clinton adviser Ann Lewis urged donors to "take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture."

Givhan, who won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism last year, said she disagreed "that there was anything in the column that was coarse, insulting or belittling. It was a piece about a public person's appearance on the Senate floor that was surprising because of the location and because of the person. It's disingenuous to think that revealing cleavage, any amount of it, in that kind of situation is a nonissue.

"It's obviously not the most important thing in the campaign. It's obviously not the most important thing Hillary Clinton has ever done, by any means."

Stories about the physical appearance of candidates, from Al Gore's earth-tones wardrobe to John Edwards's $400 haircut to a bathing-suit shot of Barack Obama in a People spread on "Beach Babes," have long been an entertaining sideshow. But since no journalist has plunged into this particular territory, given the predominantly male nature of past White House contests, Givhan's Style column has sparked plenty of reaction, much of it negative. Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman wrote yesterday that Givhan "managed to make a media mountain out of a half-inch valley."

[ExTexasRedhead]

Hillary’s shriveled cleavage is enough to gag a maggot! Give me a break. The media needs Prozac.

[Vision]

I may throw up if I actually throught of Clinton's cleavage.

Ann Lewis urged donors to "take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture."

Or we'll kill you.

[Darkwolf377]

Clinton adviser Ann Lewis

Oh my God, you mean we're gonna have to see HER again this election cycle???

This is the big one, 'Lizabeth! I'm comin' ta join ya, honey!

[monkapotamus]

[Bogtrotter52]

“shriveled cleavage”

I prefer the term “whithered dugs” myself

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hillary just wanted to prove she doesn’t have chest hair.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"Hillary’s shriveled cleavage is enough to gag a maggot! Give me a break. The media needs Prozac."

Lol!

[llevrok]

Here is a reference baseline

[Gay State Conservative]

The Former Twelfth Lady’s attempt to convince *me* to vote for her by showing her boobs has failed miserably.

[Mrs.Z]

“Hillary just wanted to prove she doesn’t have chest hair”

Doesn’t prove a thing.

She gets that waxed when she has her upper lip done.

[gov_bean_ counter]

LOL!!

[FastCoyote]

You should title your pic “Hooking For Hezbollah!”

[LibLieSlayer]

They talk about cleavage because they do not want you talking about that bulge in her pants... ‘cause dis b!tch has a brass pair... with the crap that she says!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Such a lovely baseline at that!

LLS

[Darkwolf377]

Senator CLinton says, “LOOKIT MY SH*T!”

[Mr. K]

"A journalistic assessment of Hillary Clinton's cleavage ..."

EEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeewww~! thats as far as I could get

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

you had me at cleavage, you lost me at clinton.

[Michael.SF.]

Clinton adviser Ann Lewis urged donors to "take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture."

Kind of like the stories you guys are planting about Fred's wife?

[cardinal4]

They are the ones keeping the story alive. This is another transparent Clinton trial balloon..