timhau
8th January 2008, 03:33 AM
From USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-01-07-clinton-iron-emotion_N.htm):
SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, "Iron my shirt!" during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.
Clinton, a former first lady running to become the nation's first female president, laughed at the seemingly sexist protest that suggested a woman's place is doing the laundry and not running the country.
"Ah, the remnants of sexism — alive and well," Clinton said to applause in a school auditorium.
Of course, it could be an awfully convenient coincidence that this happens just when Clinton's campaign hits a rough patch and she starts losing women voters to Obama. However, I could easily believe that the incident was an inside job that was planned by the Clinton campaign. Why is this more plausible than all the 9/11 inside job stuff?
It's a simple plan. All you need is someone coming up with the idea, getting it okayed by a couple of people, and hiring two out-of-town jocks to do the job.
The execution is simple. No complex machinery where independent parts work together with clockwork-like precision. Just two jocks getting loud in the audience.
It's cheap.
It's a low-risk ploy. Even if they get caught, you can always explain it as a prank, as a way to remind women voters how important it is to vote for a woman when you can, or whatever else you could think of.
You don't have to break state, federal, or physical laws.
SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, "Iron my shirt!" during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.
Clinton, a former first lady running to become the nation's first female president, laughed at the seemingly sexist protest that suggested a woman's place is doing the laundry and not running the country.
"Ah, the remnants of sexism — alive and well," Clinton said to applause in a school auditorium.
Of course, it could be an awfully convenient coincidence that this happens just when Clinton's campaign hits a rough patch and she starts losing women voters to Obama. However, I could easily believe that the incident was an inside job that was planned by the Clinton campaign. Why is this more plausible than all the 9/11 inside job stuff?
It's a simple plan. All you need is someone coming up with the idea, getting it okayed by a couple of people, and hiring two out-of-town jocks to do the job.
The execution is simple. No complex machinery where independent parts work together with clockwork-like precision. Just two jocks getting loud in the audience.
It's cheap.
It's a low-risk ploy. Even if they get caught, you can always explain it as a prank, as a way to remind women voters how important it is to vote for a woman when you can, or whatever else you could think of.
You don't have to break state, federal, or physical laws.