Posted on 12/17/2007 4:15:46 PM PST by RDTF
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RUSH: Now, this theory of mine based on this Drudge picture of Mrs. Clinton, with the headline: "The Toll of a Campaign." Now, it could well be that that's a sympathy photo, too, to make people feel sorry for how tough the campaign trail is. Now, I want to preface this by saying I know it's going to get out there. Media Matters is going to get hold of this and they're going to take it all out of context. We can expect that. It's a badge of honor when this happens, but for the rest of you, I want you to understand that I am talking about the evolution of American culture here, and not so much Mrs. Clinton. It could be anybody, and it is really not very complicated. Americans are addicted to physical perfection, thanks to Hollywood and thanks to television. We know it because we see it. We see everybody and their uncle in gyms. We see people starving themselves. We see people taking every miracle fad drug there is to lose weight. We see guys trying to get six-pack abs. We have women starving themselves trying to get into size zero and size one clothes; makeovers, facials, plastic surgery, everybody in the world does Botox, and this affects men, too. As you know, the haughty John Kerry Botoxed his wrinkles out during the campaign.
There is this thing in this country that, as you age -- and this is particularly, you know, women are hardest hit on this, and particularly in Hollywood -- America loses interest in you, and we know this is true because we constantly hear from aging actresses, who lament that they can't get decent roles anymore, other than in supporting roles that will not lead to any direct impact, yay or nay, in the box office. While Hollywood box-office receipts may be stagnant, none of that changes the fact that this is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks. The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen, who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand. Everybody's trying to make themselves look different -- and in that situation, in that case, they think they're making themselves look better. It's just the way our culture has evolved. It's the way the country is. It's like almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people. So the question is this: Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
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Christ. The fact that this is even being asked speaks volumes about this country.
All right, get out your flame-throwers, but I actually admire her for growing old gracefully in today’s society. And I think this pic is going to do for her what Cary Grant’s shove in the face did for the failing career of the until-then-unloveable Katherine Hepburn. Strange analogy, I know, but I think the pic has the same humanizing effect.
The reason the picture’s so striking is because there aren’t others like it out there, so far as I know. So she’s been doing a good job of hiding the wrinkles. By the time she does get older we’ll have gotten used to her aging, just as we do to other politicians. I don’t like the woman, but Rush is being silly here. The implication is that we wouldn’t put up with another woman candidate, someone like Margaret Thatcher, say, because of her looks and her aging, and that just won’t fly.
That is okay, the more it is written and talked about, the picture will be shown with it:)
Not every voter reads Drudge and FR.
There are corporates who’d probably spend the night with her and Ahmadigenocide to keep freight fuel prices down.
The Democrats picked Jon Carry last time cause he “looked” Presidential
“I actually admire her for growing old gracefully in today’s society?”
There is absolutely nothing to admire about this rapist enabling crooked woman who married a three-time draft dodging criminal who disgraced the highest office in America!
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
How does one grow old gracefully?????????
Do they make enough Botox to fix that ???
No, this particular witch deserves a prison cell, but what she deserves and what she gets will be two different thingys.
How can we tell now-a-days? LOL!!!!
She may be growing older, but so are we all. She can’t help that. But she can help having the attitude of a spoiled little girl. She’s a socialist Veruca Salt.
nah
Hillie makes the Breck Girl look like a piker.
anyway, "aging" meaning what?....growing older like we all are doing?.....
I am totally, emphatically, pathologically against Hitlery, but her age has nothing to do with it....
look, we saw a young and vigorous conservative man become an idiot and a socialist in 8 yrs, we certainly could handle a woman aging...
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