Why is the Washington Post Interested in a 60-Year Old Woman’s Breasts?

calling bullshit, hypocrisy, media July 28th, 2007

For the second time in a month, the Washington Post is focusing on Hillary Clinton’s breasts. I have no idea why.

There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.

She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary. There wasn’t an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable.

This is from Robin Givhamns original article, which was funny for two reasons: number one, the sheer vapidness of the article. For this kind of work, Robin Givhan wins Pulitzer Prizes? I’m obsessed with women’s breasts too, when do I get mine?

The second reason was the sheer hypocrisy. Why does Robin Givhan care about who catches a glimpse of Hillary’s geriatric cleavage? It didn’t take more than 5 seconds to type “Robin Givhan” into the Google, select images and see Robin’s cleavage displayed for all to see.

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Her slip is showing too.

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Cast an eyeball at THOSE bazoombahs, eh?

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What will Howard Kurtz say? What will we tell the children?

Givahn says “I would never say the column was about a body part… It was about a style of dress. People have gone down the road of saying, ‘I can’t believe you’re writing about her breasts.’ I wasn’t writing about her breasts. I was writing about her neckline.”

Oh, I see. Well, this post isn’t about Robin Givhan’s titties either. It’s about Givhan writing an intellectually vacant, information-free article about a 60 year old presidential candidates breasts neckline, which tells us nothing about her candidacy, her ideas, or background. It’s about a Washington Post writer squandering her prime real estate. It’s about the Washington Post itself, which is squandering its own credibility by further hyping the story.

And finally, it’s about the juvenile, junior-high-school mindset of the Beltway journalmalism set, which harbors the same attitude about breasts that I did when I was twelve.

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