2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJimmy Kimmel’s biting critique of people who accuse Hillary Clinton of ‘shouting’
Jimmy Kimmel had Hillary Clinton on his show Thursday, and he took the opportunity to mansplain a little to her.
Kimmel set Clinton up with a podium to give her stump speech and then relentlessly critiqued everything she was doing wrong -- from a male's perspective.
The takeaway is clear: Clinton's critics will see her as either shouting or not speaking strongly enough. They will judge her on her clothes and whether she smiles too much or not enough. There is no winning.
It was a somewhat risky premise. The bit could easily have fallen flat. As political satire goes, though, it worked.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/25/jimmy-kimmels-biting-critique-of-people-who-accuse-hillary-clinton-of-shouting/
MADem
(135,425 posts)watched this whole "double standard" bullshit unfold -- once again -- appreciated that someone finally called it out directly, with no fudging or "yes, but" -ing.
global1
(25,169 posts)doing it. I thought it was very embarrassing for her. She took it in a light-hearted manner -but it had more of a real feeling to the bit than a comedy skit.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)His most famous bits recently are when he shows us how stupid Americans (on sidewalks in Hollywood) can be. After dropping out of his second college, Kimmel went on to work with Republican Ben Stein and then got his cable show where he seemed to think sexism and other Republican traits were funny.
Overall probably a good audience for Hillary to go in front of because she has little support among Kimmel viewers so it was a chance to win some over.
RandySF
(57,661 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-carter-how-jimmy-fallon-848851
If 33% doesn't sound like much consider that only 29% of the population ID's as Republican.
And I'm being sincere when I say that it is good media strategy for Team Clinton. Shows GE thinking.
RandySF
(57,661 posts)And didn't he do 'The Man Show' with Adam Carola?
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)RandySF
(57,661 posts)0rganism
(23,856 posts)she doesn't take a lot of opportunities to speak humorously but she has excellent "straight (wo)man" timing, she could get some mileage out of it if she wants to.
relatability has been a problem for her; she could make up ground in that area (and get some free media coverage) through careful application of comedy.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Really good bit.
mcar
(42,210 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)but it came off. Just barely. Took some guts, though.
Peacetrain
(22,836 posts)Hair, dress, and its almost talibanish how some want her to keep her voice down.. (Hillary).. looks, clothes.. just gets really really old..