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Friday, July 27, 2007
Clinton Flashes Cleavage Story For Cash
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign used a recent Washington Post story about the New York senator’s cleavage in an appeal for donations Friday.
“Clothes? Make up? Cleavage? What’s really important in this race?” campaign adviser Ann Lewis wrote in an e-mail soliciting donations to Clinton’s presidential campaign.
“Frankly, focusing on women’s bodies instead of their ideas is insulting,” Lewis added. “It’s insulting to every woman who has ever tried to be taken seriously in a business meeting. It’s insulting to our daughters — and our sons — who are constantly pressured by the media to grow up too soon.”
Lewis urged the e-mail recipients to “take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture” by making a financial donation to Clinton’s campaign.
The Post story, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion writer Robin Givhan, noted that there was “cleavage on display” during a speech Clinton made on the Senate floor July 18.
In the article, Givhan wrote that “to display cleavage in a setting that does not involve cocktails and hors d’oeuvres is a provocation. It requires that a woman be utterly at ease in her skin, coolly confident about her appearance, unflinching about her sense of style.”
Said Lewis of the article: “I’ve seen some off-topic press coverage — but talking about body parts? That is grossly inappropriate. … By now, the media should know better. But they don’t.”
To read the Washington Post story, click here.
White House: Dems on a “Crusade” Against Gonzales
The harder the Democrats go after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales the deeper the White House digs in to defend the president’s longtime friend and aide.
On the morning after Senate Democrats called for a special prosecutor to look into whether Gonzales lied in congressional testimony, Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino today said the Dems are on a “crusade” against the AG.
What some folks don’t understand, Perino said, is that there are super-secret programs Gonzales can’t talk about in public. And, she said, that can make his testimony look bad at times.
Here’s the full quote:
“I believe the attorney general’s statements to the committee were true, and I think that when the committee relentlessly asked questions about a subject that they know that he is going to have difficulty answering because he has one hand tied behind his back, that they — they have deliberately had this crusade against him to try to destroy the attorney general. And we are standing by the attorney general for his statements.”
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Not A Pretty Sight
The White House vs. Michael Moore battle got a bit more personal this morning.
At a morning briefing, Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino was asked about Moore’s Thursday night appearance on The Tonight Show when he said the administration had subpoenaed him about his trip to Cuba. The visit came while he was making “Sicko,” a film critical of health care in the U.S.
“I didn’t go there like Cameron Diaz and get a tan,” Moore said by way of defending his trip.
“That’s probably a visual we don’t need,” the petite Ms. Perino said of the image of the rotund Mr. Moore soaking up the rays.
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