Hardball Gang Talks ... And Talks ... And Talks ... About Hillary's Voice
December 27, 2007 -- 5:06 PM EST // //
Okay, I'm going to do something that's admittedly a bit of a cheap shot. But desperate times, desperate measures, and all that.
In light of today's news about the Bhutto assassination, which reminds us how profoundly important the decision voters are about to make in choosing the next President, I'm posting a discussion from last night on Hardball in which some of the on-air talent gathered there perhaps didn't treat this question with quite the gravity it deserves:
As you can see, the Hardball gang spent precious airtime talking about how grating Hillary's voice is. The assembled pundits pretty much stated as outright fact that the Hillary campaign didn't use her voice in its latest ad because of internal campaign recognition of this fact. First we had the cackle. Then we had the wrinkles. And now we've got the voice.
"I know this sounds like a small point," Newsweek's Howard Fineman observed, in a fine moment of unintentional self-parody, "but it grates on a lot of people."
Now, I don't have any idea why Camp Hillary decided not to use her voice in the ad, though I wouldn't suggest that I did if I didn't have direct knowledge of it, the way these guys did here. Either way, Hillary's voice is a pretty inane topic to waste valuable airtime on, considering that we're talking about who to put in control of the most powerful military on the planet at a moment as critical as this one. Maybe today's news will drive this home to some folks.
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