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SAHIL KAPUR APRIL 15, 2014, 1:10 PM EDT
Count Herman Cain among the "shoe truthers" who suspect that Hillary Clinton staged an incident last Thursday where a woman threw a shoe at her during a speech in Las Vegas.
In a tweet Tuesday, the radio host -- and former Republican presidential candidate in 2012 -- wondered if it was "fakery from the Clintons."
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Hmm...Fakery from the Clintons? RT @BestofCain: VIDEO: That Hillary shoe-throwing thing does look kind of fake, huh? http://bit.ly/P2R7DZ
9:21 AM - 15 Apr 2014
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liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Sock it to me.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)in Herman's pretenses of intelligence and rationality.
gottafly
(12 posts)Enough enemies without having to resort to "pretend" ones...
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)The Clinton's hired the psychotic woman who is in love with James Holmes and who controls her mind from jail. Maybe James Holmes is in on it as well. I'm sure he told the wackjob woman to go there and throw the shoe at her.
madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)Who has been bigger fake, fraud, imposter than this idiot?
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)That's Fakery.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,840 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)Gee, no. She didn't see the shoe being thrown. Of course, if she had ducked before the shoe passed her, you would say, "This is obviously staged because she ducks in advance." So let's not pretend this is an actual argument.
She doesn't put her hands up to protect herself as you would expect when something is flying at your head. She sort of claps them.
Ah, but if she'd put her hands up, you'd say, "She doesn't put her hands up until the shoe is already past her," as if that proves something.
Does that look like a natural reflex action of someone who has just realized an object is flying at them?
See above two.
Does the snarky grin on her face (check the screen grab above) look like the expression of someone who feels afraid, startled, alarmed or surprised?
It looks like a "what the hell just happened?" face. Snarky? Not so much. Bemused, maybe?
At first she asks, "Was that a bat?" Have you ever been in a room where a bat was flying around? Once the bat has fluttered past your ear, do you just calmly say, "Was that a bat?" Or do you try to figure out where it is and how to catch or kill the damn thing?
Never mind that. Why didn't she whip out her 9MM and just kill the damn bat right then and there?
Then: "Was that somebody throwing something at me?" Listen carefully to the inflection. I'm just asking: Did that sound sincere?
Obviously, a better line reading would have been, "Was that somebody throwing something at me?!?" accompanied by a howl of righteous anger. It would have been much more sincere. And then she should have caught or killed that damned bat.
The Cirque de Soleil comment? Does that sound spontaneous? Or written for her?
Yes, of course it was written. "Was that a bat? Was that a bat? Was that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?" is dialogue worthy of Mamet.
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)N.T.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Where's the boot certificate?
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,840 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)What an asshole
edbermac
(15,941 posts)It's all a conspiracy!!