So finally, after nine weeks of waiting, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report were forced back on the air by the Comedy Central Network (Woohoo!), despite the fact that the Writer's Guild doesn't seem too keen on stopping their strike anytime soon. One of the main stories appearing on both shows last night was the new Hillary Clinton emotional breakdown video. Hillary in tears?? I had to watch...
The clip was played.
What the heck? Where were the sobs? The tears? The anguish? I was a bit confused. All that was present on the TV screen was a woman, exhausted from her strenuous months of campaigning, finally speaking to the voters like an actual human being. Now I'm not the biggest Hillary fan, but I am a bit confused why the media had such a large reaction to what really amounted to nothing. Here, from the media coverage, I was expecting the woman to release the floodgates and drown the room in her sorrow. What I saw was a pleasant change, Hillary speaking like a personable woman, not like the inhuman-cold-unfeeling person she sometimes appears to be. Is this change in demeanor a mark of weakness, of vulnerability? New Hampshire apparently didn't think so. Was it a ploy to gain support in the primaries? I don't know. All I can say is that from my perspective the media totally got everyone worked up over nothing.
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