Clinton Bowls Over Media

[Beacool]

Clinton Bowls Over Media

PITTSBURGH — The things you learn about someone when they’re running for president.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton may have been joking Tuesday when she challenged Senator Barack Obama to a bowling match, but she’s no stranger to kegling.

In fact, she has her own bowling ball. And her own bowling shoes. She even has her own case for the ball.

Mrs. Clinton revealed all in a brief chat with reporters Tuesday night as her campaign plane flew here from Erie.

Earlier in the day, she had begun a news conference by stating, with gravity, that she and her rival, Senator Barack Obama, had to do something to clarify their competition for the presidential nomination. This created enormous suspense, since some people have been calling for Mrs. Clinton to concede the race. She then proposed a bowl-off, in what turned out to be an April Fool’s joke.

She said on the plane that she wished she had had a camera trained on the faces of the press corps while the joke unfolded. At the news conference, Chris Matthews, her sometimes-nemesis on MSNBC, had been sitting in the front row. “Chris Matthews looked totally like, ‘You mean I might actually be in the presence of real news?’ ” she said. “It was fun.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/clinton-bowls-over-media/#comment-834384

I would have paid to have seen Tweety's reaction!!!!

:rofl:

[LisaM]

1. The whole thing was hilarious.

Of course, I like deadpan humor anyway, but she really carried the whole joke through.

I wish people could understand that she is a very warm, funny person. I saw her in person, and it really shone through.

[Beacool]

2. Yes, she is very warm and funny.

It's a pity that at times it doesn't translate in public and some people think that she's humorless. Actually, she's quite the contrary and sometimes she has to bite her tongue to avoid saying something flip that will be misinterpreted by the media (she has a sarcastic sense of humor).

[LisaM]

3. Yeah, so do I. A lot of people don't get it (or me)

and think that I come on too strong. So I can sympathize!

[dkf]

4. You liked her delivery? I thought it was godawful!

Very unnatural sounding.

[LisaM]

6. I enjoy deadpan humor.

I am like my father in that way.

[SoCalDem]

8. yep.. stiff and rehearsed..

the writers probably yukked it up when they wrote it, but it went THUD..as far as I was concerned..

It would have been better as a press release..written

[anamandujano]

5. Tweety hearing news, instead of making it up. The mere idea almost

put him into shock.

At the news conference, Chris Matthews, her sometimes-nemesis on MSNBC, had been sitting in the front row. “Chris Matthews looked totally like, ‘You mean I might actually be in the presence of real news?’ ” she said. “It was fun.”

[zulchzulu]

7. So why won't she go on Tweety's College show?

I think she's scared. No? Any reason why she would balk at a chance to be on the teevee for an hour?

:shrug:

[ErinBerin84]

10. ok, Hils...

Matthews is idiotic, but he's not as hard on her as some people would imagine. In the press conference, the one question that he did ask-if she could promise people that their jobs could come back without further education- she gave a complete non-answer to, and he didn't comment on it at all when he showed it on his show.

[Adelante]

9. They should have a bowling challenge

And a basketball challenge ;)

[BlueIdaho]

11. You think that was funny...

You should have heard her tell the one about the boy and the barn full of pony shit - no wait - that was Reagan's joke. Not only did she steal the joke (Ray Gun's favorite) but she slaughtered it in the telling. It was like watching Bush try to remember the "shame on me - shame on you" bit. Ouch.