Last week Hillary Clinton overcame a double-digit deficit in the New Hampshire primary to surprise opponent Barack Obama. How did she manage to pull off the near-miraculous upset?
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Carey Roberts
Simple.
First, in a heart-warming display of female bonding, she indulged in a tearful moment at a Portsmouth, NH café. Then she traveled to Salem where two planted hecklers chanted “Iron My Shirt,” proving to the ladies the patriarchy is still plotting a return to the good-ol’ days of barefoot women.
So how do I know they were plants?
We know Hillary’s operatives worked this stunt twice before in Iowa. And think about it — does anyone believe that security would allow a couple of scruffy-looking guys to haul a 3-foot sign into the room?
Still, you have to admit the ruse was masterfully staged — the overweight baffoons who admitted to being Republicans, Hillary directing the lights be turned up so photographers could get a good angle, and the oh-so-slow response of the security detail.Hillary’s come-back was as polished as a slab of New Hampshire marble: “Oh, the remnants of sexism are alive and well.” (Cue laughter and clapping.)
Columnist Mary K. Ham wrote the incident was “almost too perfect.” New York Times writer Maureen Dowd opined that Clinton was forced to “fend off calamity by playing the female victim.” And Michelle Malkin called it plain “B.S.”
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