Posted by Damozel | The lovely and talented Ann Althouse thinks that Hillary should have done something
more during the temporary hostage crisis than "make ineffectual phone calls" and leave the police to get on with it. Althouse herself would doubtless have donned a fetching velvet cape, swooped down upon the hostage-taker, and in a trice reduced him to a puddle of grease with the sheer force of her censorious stare.
From Balloon Juice:
Apparently Hillary didn’t really do anything except make a buncha phone calls—and really, how can you expect to be taken seriously as a candidate when you won’t even save these interns with your bare hands? Leaving the whole thing up to local law enforcement shows Clinton’s inability to take charge. Or something.
Also apparently Hillary had the nerve to claim an attack on Reagan occured at a Campaign office rather than a golf course. This of course makes her a filthy liar, as opposed to unable to remember arcane trivia from 20 years ago immediately following a traumatic attack on her staffers. (A Moment of Levity)
But though I love Hillary, I always enjoy Ann Althouse when she lays into Hillary for being ineffectual (in failing to take charge in a hostage crisis), rips her a new one for being the opposite ("vengeful, aggressive, brutal, and ruthless"), or expounds on the inner and possibly just slightly discreditable meaning of a slight 'display' of cleavage or the symbolism inherent in an onion ring. And sometimes Althouse even surprises me by saying nice things about Hillary, along the lines of "...but at least she isn't as ugly as YOU are, nerds."
Because after all, isn't Hillary just like the girl who back in high school who---from sheer talent and a scary ability to charm everyone (including us)--- won everything: president of the class, yearbook editor-in-chief, valedictorian, and Homecoming Queen, plus the most popular guy in the class?
And Ann Althouse reminds me so much of the girl, also exceptionally talented, who won all the other prizes: vice-president of the class, managing editor of the yearbook, salutorian, and first runner up on the Homecoming Court. Remember that girl and her smiling commentary on her rival? She used to remark in an admiring tone on how the other would resort to any tactic to win the election for preisdent of the student body; how that mole on the other's face was so attractively positioned that you could almost take it for a beauty mark; how the other's prize-winning essay was almost as good as her older brother's piece for his law school newspaper on the same subject; how she wore the clothes her mother bought for her at Wal-Mart so well that you almost couldn't tell that they were sewn together by third-worlders and cost under $10, etc., etc. Remember that girl?
Though she was utterly transparent in her intentions when she started chipping at the other with her chisel, she was often surprisingly effective in making the rest of us feel less diminished by the successes of her rival. Furthermore, she allowed us to feel superior in dissembling our own envy at the much greater achievements of a female more gifted than any of the rest of us. She made us feel all right about secretly enjoying her own jabs at the other---for whom we always voted--- because of course we understood where it was all coming from.
So I am not going to deny my love for Althouse any more than I deny my love for Hillary Clinton herself.
When Althouse goes for Hillary, I long for a Hillary presidency. Imagine the fun we'll all have.
Or maybe not. As satirist Jon Swift commented on Althouse's post: "I have already dicussed how the election of Hillary Clinton could kill David Broder, but now I'm afraid we might lose you, too, Ann, if she's elected."
Memeorandum has amusing commentary here.
BONUS: Other bloggers on ALTHOUSE (so mean)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ann Althouse (Jon Swift)
Putting the Word 'Breasts' in this Title is a Cheap Ploy to Generate Traffic (Jon Swift)
PS. Say what else you will about Ann Althouse, she does take some kickass photographs: See Blue snow morning.
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Cleavagegate Part 2: Let's Just Get All of This Out of Our Systems Now.
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Cleavagegate: Hillary Clinton Rocks the Internets (and her V-Neck).
"She Thicks [Wo]Men's Blood with Cold" (Hillary Clinton, Part 2).
I was hoping for Hillary as SecDef and Bill as Chief Justice.
Think of the number of cases of apoplexy on the right that would cause.
Posted by: Charles | December 03, 2007 at 09:57 PM