{"id":16260,"date":"2008-07-17T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16225.html"},"modified":"2008-07-17T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:15:28","slug":"it-has-come-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-has-come-to-this\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It has come to this’"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more painful aspects of the media’s coverage of the Democratic presidential primaries was the ridiculous coverage of Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits<\/a> and cleavage<\/a>. Now that the primaries are over, we’re less than four months from the general election, there’s an endless stream of substantive news stories to report, and Hillary Clinton isn’t even a candidate anymore, I’d hoped the media would be prepared to move on.<\/p>\n

No such luck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yes, on MSNBC yesterday, host Monica Novotny and congressional correspondent Mike Viqueira did an entire segment on Hillary Clinton’s new hairdo. Seriously.<\/p>\n

If you watch the clip (Media Matters has the entire transcript<\/a>), you’ll notice that neither Novotny nor Viqueira seem especially pleased to be doing the story. Viqueira, apparently laughing at the absurdity of his own network’s broadcast, said, “It has come to this.” To which Novotny responded, “Welcome to mid-July.”<\/p>\n

Sorry, but that’s not going to cut it. “Welcome to mid-July” suggests the news cycle has become so outrageously slow, poor cable news networks have nothing else to put on the air. What nonsense.
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\nAnd lest anyone think I’m just picking on MSNBC, I noticed that the New York Daily News devoted an entire news article<\/a> to the direction of the part in Clinton’s hair.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton is moving to the right.<\/p>\n

The longtime lefty is making a dramatic change – not in her policies – but in her hair style. <\/p>\n

Clinton revealed her new ‘do, with the a part on the right, Tuesday when she gave a speech on Capitol Hill praising her Senate colleagues for overriding President Bush’s veto of a Medicare measure. <\/p>\n

A historical review of Clinton’s myriad hair styles revealed she’d previously been a devotee of the left-side part – although in college she wore it in the middle.<\/p>\n

Clinton’s representatives did not return calls for comment on the new look to her blond-streaked coif, cropped short on the sides and collar length in the back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is that so. A reporter called Clinton’s office to get a comment about the senator’s hair<\/i>, and staffers didn’t rush to return the call. I can’t imagine why.<\/p>\n

ABC’s Jake Tapper also had an item<\/a> about Clinton’s hair — which I think\/hope was tongue in cheek.<\/p>\n

So what does this all mean for Hillary Clinton? She has made the reverse switch — from left to right — but then again, she is a woman, and the Walters’ theory would seem to indicate that this makes more sense for her.<\/p>\n

Her new do will evoke visual, artistic, and musical skills, nonlinear tasks traditionally culturally attributed to femininity, right-hemisphere stuff.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it is just a hair part, for the love of Pete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About a dozen times a day, I notice something I find important and think, “The media should pick up on this, but won’t.” And the reason is simple — “stories” like this one get media oxygen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more painful aspects of the media’s coverage of the Democratic presidential primaries was the ridiculous coverage of Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits and cleavage. Now that the primaries are over, we’re less than four months from the general election, there’s an endless stream of substantive news stories to report, and Hillary Clinton isn’t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}