2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary seems manic [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)Look, I agree that it seemed out of character, but our commenting on her "tone" is a losing strategy here. If I had the friggin energy I'd start on OP on this.
And frankly, and the CT accusers on the HRC side will be all over me for this one, but if there were ever a trap it'd be this--intentionally coming out on stage and being loud and animated and passionate and then people accuse her of yelling or whatever.
Were I her consultant and someone had assigned me to do Machiavellian tricks I would analyze his voice cadence and volume clip for clip and tell her exactly how fast and loud she could go while still within his parameters.
Then, after the fact, you play the clips side by side with a speech analyst on CNN and voila, it proves to the research-wonk-leftists they indeed they've been rejecting her because of unconscious sexism. THAT would be the gotcha and if I were her paid analyst I'd be screaming it to the rooftops.
Frankly, and this is hard to do because I find her manipulation of feminism for personal gain so odious, her critics almost got me sympathetic last night.
People need to be quiet about her tone and focus on her comments. There's plenty to rip apart there.
We both support the same candidate and I dislike having to openly disagree like this, but does this make sense?