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Subject: [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: Larry King Sizes Up Hillary Clinton
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ACTION ALERT FROM FAIR'S WOMEN'S DESK:
Why Does Larry King Think Hillary Clinton's Hair, Legs, Smile and
Figure Are "News"?
June 14, 1999
The June 1st broadcast of CNN's "Larry King Live" show featured
celebrity reporters and fashion journalists discussing a famous
American woman's most salient features.
"She has a bad figure. She's bottom heavy and her legs are short,"
reported CNN's style editor, Elsa Klensch.
But, "she's making the most of it," by "seeking high-end fashion
advice which has really been helping," we learned from Claudia Cohen, the
entertainment reporter for Live with Regis and Kathy Lee.
Celebrity divorce lawyer and talk show host Raoul Felder was less
forgiving to the woman at the center of the discussion, saying, "I
don't know one good thing about her. She's got fat.... her legs are too
short, her arms are too long.... If your legs are too short how do you
evolve?"
Performance coach Anthony Robbins added, "When she gets angry, she
comes across as hard and bitchy and intense."
The only thing they could all agree on was that her warm smile is one of
her greatest assets.
Think these panelists were discussing a runway model or a Hollywood
starlet?
Think again.
Larry King brought together these image consultants and fashion
reporters to debate "how New Yorkers perceive the First Lady," Hillary
Clinton, in light of her potential Senate bid. The first question King
asked set the tone for the show: "Does she [Hillary] bring anything
style-wise to this?"
If these are the new terms for debating the New York Senate race, can we
expect a similar panel on Larry King Live addressing what Rudy Giuliani
"brings stylewise" to New York, with image gurus warning the Mayor that
his comb-over makes him look "smarmy," or debating how Rudy can "evolve"
beyond the liability of his spindly legs?
Earlier on the show King featured a panel of political insiders from
Democratic Representative Charles Rangel to Republican strategist Ed
Rollins for some inside-the-Beltway banter about whether Hillary Clinton
could win a Senate seat in New York. You might wonder why glorified
paparazzi like Elsa Klencsh and Claudia Cohen were called in to comment
on regional politics. As we learned in the early '90s, when newspapers
covered reports on Hillary's health care proposals alongside photo
spreads of her various haircuts, a woman's appearance and fashion sense
are just as "newsworthy" as her qualifications and her political
positions.
After assessing the potential candidate's body parts at length, you
have to wonder how, toward the end of his show, Larry King could keep a
straight face while asking his specially chosen, fashion-conscious panel:
"Do looks matter?" If women's looks didn't matter to King, he wouldn't
have booked CNN's style editor to dish up the scoop on Hillary's
hair-care choices during a talk show about her chances in a Senate race.
(Top story according to Klensch: Hillary "just had a $500 hair restyling.
Her hair is shorter, layered. It's recolored so it brings light to her
face. She's got a round face, and she's had it styled so her face looks
slimmer.")
Hillary Clinton is one of the most talked-about political figures in the
country. It is unfortunate that her politics are not given the same
scrutiny as her often commented-upon figure. With a Senate race almost
assuredly in Hillary Clinton's near future, let's hope that journalists
can think of a few more interesting things to focus on in future profiles
of the first First Lady to run for the U.S. Senate.
ACTION ALERT: Do you find the gratuitous focus on a political
candidate's looks more than a little disconcerting? If so, contact
Larry King Live directly:
Phone: 202-898-7690
Fax: 202-898-7686
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If you wish to "cc" FAIR with your letters, please fax to Jennifer
Pozner, Women's Desk Director, at 212-727-7668, or via email at
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
(For information on previous rounds of press coverage of Hillary
Clinton, read "Dissecting the Media Hype on Hillary" at
http://www.fair.org/articles/hillary.html . And, for an analysis of the
media coverage of Clinton's health care proposals, read "When 'Both
Sides' Aren't Enough" at http://www.fair.org/extra/9401/debate.html .)
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