Why is Hillary performing in "skits" for her supporters anyway?

[surrealAmerican]

It sure makes it look that much more like she's their puppet or something.

[basselope]

1. She works hard for the money?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Skits are pretty common campaign "entertainment." The better question

is, why participate in a skit that is (a) extremely lame and unfunny and (b) has racist overtones?

[merrily]

3. I think it all goes back to Nixon on Laugh In. At the time, that was unlike anything

that politicians did. If they were live on TV, it was for something considered dignified then, like MTP (which now would be properly classified as farce).

His popularity went up after he appeared. No one looked too deeply into the difference between causation and correlation. It seemed to have helped him and, apparently, that is enough for any politician. So, pols don't refuse to appear on comedy shows anymore, even if Tina Fey is present and dressed to look like him or her.

The theory was that the appearance "humanized" him.

[surrealAmerican]

6. I understand it in a public forum, like a TV show ...

... but this was a private event - all supporters.

It seems like a bunch of power-tripping moneyed interests effectively saying, "See how powerful we are. We can make political leaders literally preform for us."

[merrily]

7. From the standpoint of the politician, I think they are trying to seem like good sports, like

someone you would really like to have that beer with.

[thereismore]

9. Yes, she will perform for money, seems to be the message. nt

[northernsouthern]

4. You are missing the bigger question.

I saw the skits and she was quite scripted and fake, why is she pretending to be bad at it? I am on to you Hillary, playing as an outsider candidate that is "not a politician" but has more experience and is more qualified acting in a play and acting like you can't act! Best performance ever! If she doesn't win the election she gets my vote for an Emmy! I kid, I kid. What I really don't like is the fake laughing, it matches her laughing in debates and such that seem fake, and it does make it harder to ignore. So I do think it takes away from her a bit. No one had topped Obama in his ability to actually come off as real and as funny. I will miss that part most. Nothing made the day better than seeing him on Colbert or the Daily show, or Between Two Ferns, or Maron (that one was less funny and more just honest and real).

[Kip Humphrey]

5. by performing skits she can hide her lies behind a claim of performance art... maybe?

[RoccoR5955]

8. Because she cannot parrot any more of Bernie's issues. n/t

[Duval]

10. Actually her supporters are the puppets?

[Lone_Wolf]

11. Standard Operating Procedure to "soften her image"

and make her seem more human. It comes across about as genuine as her fake laugh.