She Weeps

In her column for The Wall Street Journal that appeared shortly after the “Hillary moment” in New Hampshire, Peggy Noonan wrote, “Exactly 100% of the people who saw it on the news and on YouTube had one reaction. It was to ask the question: Is that real or artifice? With the Clintons you always have to ask…” With Pine & Gilmore you always have to ask: Is that Real-real? Real-fake? Fake-real? Or Fake-fake?

So watch the crying scene again on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVlwH7-05Fk&feature=related

Then apply the Polonius Test:
1. Being true to your own self
2. Being what you say you are to others

1. True to Self
Is: So, was Hillary’s getting choked up true to herself? Does her real-real or fake-real self really shed tears over whether her country “falls backwards”?
Not: Or, were her tears not true to her self? Were they not true to the otherwise self-controlled personality we’ve come to know?

2. What it says it is
Is: Were the tears what they (the tears themselves) said they were — sincere concern expressed at the end of a weary New Hampshire campaign? Alternatively, were the tears what they (again, the tears themselves) said they were — another Clintonesque contrivance to win at all costs? (You have two ways to see as “Is.”)
Not: Or, were the tears not what they said they were, not tears at all but a bad acting job? Alternatively, were the tears not what they said they were, not tears at all but a great acting job? (Here too you have two ways to see as “Not.”)

Finally, vote:
RR: Is-Is (we had to get a Clintonian “is-is” in here somewhere!)
RF: Not-Is
FR: Is-Not
FF: Not-Not

Like they say in Hillary’s hometown of Chicago: Vote early and vote often!

And if you’ve read chapter 6, you’ll know the approach the Clinton campaign takes to pursue the Democratic nomination rides on this assessment: Does she Go Faux? Create Belief? Reveal the Unreal? Or Get Real?