La Scalitas fake"crying spell"... and how some DUers misread the evidence.

[Richard Steele]

To begin: it was FAKE, anyone who doubts that FACT
needs to take 2 steps back from the Koolaid.

And it was PLANNED in advance;
this was made clear when EVERY
media-whore on the B*shCabal™ payroll
was on camera within 15 minutes,
repeating the SAME "Evil-Democrats-made-her-cry-oh-I-am-so-outraged"
talking points.
Almost as if they had rehearsed their 'outrage' far in advance of the
incident they were OUTRAGED about.

She clearly mouthed the word "yes"
just before she summoned up those fake tears...

And some of us have been misinterpreting her reason for doing so.

She wasn't AGREEING with anything being said, when she silently mouthed "yes".
She was just replying to the person who gave her the signal to start crying!"


Doubt me? Look at the tapes.
Take a day off, and scan them frame by frame.
Look at the FIRST day of the hearings, and keep a log of the minutes SHE appears
on camera.
And LOG where her eyes are pointed at any given moment...

THEN, compare the next day: she exibits the same behaviour all morning, until they take a break.

AFTER the break, we see a difference.
Her head moves less, she makes fewer of the odd Zanax smiles...
but her EYES start looking in a different direction.

And they keep going that way alot,
while she deliberately does NOT move her head in that direction...

Until the VERY LAST time,
when she HOLDS the focus briefly, and she silently says 'YES'
to whoever she has been VERY POINTEDLY "not" looking at...,

And THENshe looks DIRECTLY at the nearest camera
and starts her crocodile tears.

"I'm ready for my Close-Up, Mister DeLay!"

[T Town Jake]

1. "I have in my hand a list of..."

Oh, wait...

[fooj]

2. Creepy Stepford Wife!

Boo fucking hoo!

Peace.

[greyl]

3. If it was orchestrated,

why didn't she cry when a Dem was talking? That makes no sense.

[Karmakaze]

8. Actually it does...

because they couldnt control what the Dem would be saying. For example most of the so called "attacks" were very mild, UNTIL they were re-worded and made harsher sounding by the Repubs.

Better to have her cry at the list of "unfounded accusations" being read by a Repub. That way they can control the spin better.

[rodeodance]

10. and recall it was Grahm who used the word 'bigot"

[Swamp Rat]

13. BINGO!!!

I'll bet that was the code word! ;) :applause:

[DemonFighterLives]

28. The codeword set things in motion

Her chip picked up the code and immediately filled her tear ducts and instilled the notion to run from the room.
Mind control at it's best.
:rofl:

[Chipper Chat]

4. Della, get in touch with Paul Drake, and I need to talk to Lt. Tragg.

And tell Gertie to send Mrs. Alito a case of Kleenex, and send the bill to Mr. Berger.

[EST]

5. Looks like you are having fun.

I was particularly drawn to her expressions indicating her obvious dislike of and total disrespect for Sen. Kennedy. I have no doubt she and her "moue" are a direct result of many hours of conversations about the evils of liberalism and Ted.
The politicization of judicial selection and the hatred of all things progressive are so much a part of the r/w agenda that the the hypocrisy of their denials is simply astounding in its transparency! The disrespect for alternative points of view and the dehumanization of those who hold those views is patently obvious, as well.
Those oafs think we are too stupid to understand them and their biased thinking.
This could be a very useful tool, if taken advantage of.

[malaise]

6. Also check who is in the group chatting during the break.

No one who breaks down when the 'so called' wicked Dems are asking questions is looking straight at the camera. Also watch the hand from behind around her shoulder.

[flordehinojos]

7. wouldn't her reply to whoever gave her a signal to start crying be,

"okay!" rahter than "yes"? it seems to me that the Yes response was one that she gave, unawares of her ownself, to lindsey graham's question to samuel alito, "are you a closet bigot?".



PEACE.

[KittyWampus]

19. not if the question was "are you ready"

[rodeodance]

9. she barely ever looked around (Barbie Doll stance)--I watched a lot of

it

.......And they keep going that way alot,
while she deliberately does NOT move her head in that direction...

[Skidmore]

11. For pity sake, the Rs are trying to ramrod this appointment through

and some of you are going to sit here arguing over a sideshow at worst or an overwrought wife at best. Who effin' cares? Believe me, this is not the issue. The Senate is on the virge of sending to the floor for vote a nomination of a man that is dishonest, possibly a racist, mysogonist, and a tool of the coporations and *. How about a little focus? On the issues maybe? If that was staged, ya'll fell for it hook, line, and sinker because they knew you would spin you wheels over there while the pull off the big one over there.

FOCUS!

[Richard Steele]

14. I agree. I don't do this sort of analysis because I imagine anyone cares..

I am MUCH more cynical than most DUers,
I consider that current events are spiraling downward toward
a foregone conclusion, which I began to prepare for YEARS ago.

But there can be no true faith without works;
so I fully intend to keep filling sandbags until
the moment I am forced to board the ark.

KnowhutImean, Vern?

[AtomicKitten]

12. the performance was positively rovian. n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

18. "Parlockian" is more like it...

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/09/bogus-assault-father-freeper-of-year.html

The Bogus Assault -- Father Freeper of the Year (should buckhead not be able to serve)

Serial Republican Victim complains for the THIRD straight presidential election of being assaulted and has his family assist.

Unbelievable.
</snip>

More at link...

[Cults4Bush]

31. I think damn near the whole thing was staged.

Whenever any Liberal or Progressive sees a child crying and especially if that child is crying because a fellow acted despicably... I know most of us would be all over the guy who did it. That is the common way it works in this kinds of protest crowd scenes, almost without fail. Guys like that severely damage causes and thats why the reichwing employs them... and thats why there is always a bunch of us looking for such operatives. The man disupting and the faux victims would have most likely been asked to leave or pointed out as bad guys and shunned. Telling the police does nothing most of the time (except for in Camp Casey which was just a whole different scene altogether).

[zippy890]

15. She goes by the name Martha-Ann Bomgardner

not Mrs Alito,

just thought this was kinda interesting

and yes, it was all fake, just like bush's backdrops for his photo ops

[glitch]

32. The ultimate backdrop: cry on cue wife. Oh it's Rovian all right, not his

best. As above poster said: Parlockian. Without the b-team cheerleading squad (AKA the corporate media) it would've gotten eyerolls.

Actually, eyerolls is probably the majority result even with the cheerleaders.
I am very pleased that they think they needed this sleazy tactic.
Bodes well for our side.

[meegbear]

16. From Newshounds: Did Samuel Alito's Wife Cry on Cue?

George Schlatter, the creator of the '70s television show, Laugh-In, was a guest on Your World w/Neil Cavuto today (January 12, 2006). Schlatter appeared in a segment that concluded an hour-long Democrat bash -- "Will Vicious Dems Pay for Driving Alito's Wife to Tears?" -- about Democrats supposedly "driving Alito's wife," Martha, "to tears" during yesterday's confirmation hearings. During his "discussion" with Cavuto, Schlatter asked Cavuto if he noticed that, "about 15 minutes before she started to cry, an aide came in and moved him slightly to the right because he was covering her, and ten minutes later she started to cry. So, fortunately, he'd moved enough so we could see it."

Comment: Hummm. Makes you wonder. Lindsey Graham coached Alito before the hearings and he was speaking when Martha began to cry. Could moving the chair have been the signal for Martha to start crying when Graham began to speak?

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/01/12/did_samuel_alitos_wife_cry_on_cue.php

[KittyWampus]

17. Remember the fake outrage when kerry mentioned mary the lesbian daughter

pathetic the only emotions these reptiles can muster is fake.

[KayLaw]

27. That was my first thought

I'm sick of this juvenile crap and think they should be called out on it.

[lonestarnot]

20. Who gives a fuck about bawl bags. She gives me the creeps.

[malaise]

22. None of us gives a fugg but

MSM has made this an issue and it needs to be debunked.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1148113,00.html
<snip>
Conservatives seized on the incident to complain about Democratic "bullying," and said they plan to make the incident a cause celebre. "When will the media shame these people for their behavior?" Sean Rushton, executive director of the administration-friendly Committee for Justice, asked in a blast e-mail to journalists. The always-alert Creative Response Concepts, a conservative public relations firm, sent this bulletin: "Former Alito clerk Gary Rubman witnessed Mrs. Alito leaving her husband's confirmation in tears and is available for interviews, along with other former Alito clerks who know her personally and are very upset about this development."

Edit - sp

[lonestarnot]

24. I prefer to stick to the topic of filibuster Alito and impeach bushitler

and not waste much time with bawl bags.

[malaise]

26. I agree - that is the main focus

but the Dems should have debunked it by publishing that email and the Swift Boat links and adding what are real reasons for tears..
Edit -add.

[Neil Lisst]

21. I couldn't agree more, and made a cartoon about it today.

It's on this topic, so I'll mention it for those that might not catch it on the GDP board.

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/neillisst

I am some kind of pissed about this. I agree with the OP 100%. This was a set up, and Lindsey Graham, a former trial lawyer, set it up.

Cry for all the people the sorry, no good bastard has screwed with his rightwing politics the past 30 years!

I think they pumped her full of barbituates, which tend to make crying easy. I am disgusted that she's there and that her mental state is even talked about by media.

Hell, even the cameras were ready for her "close up."

[dogfacedboy]

23. She has those beady eyes, just like Cheney and Fleischer.

I've seen other righties with those eyes, as well. What's up with that?

[oasis]

25. I remember Graham being next to tears during the impeachment hearings

as he begged Clinton to 'fess up. In his impassioned plea, Graham hinted that if Clinton came clean, he would consider not voting for impeachment.

What a show. :puke:

[PATRICK]

29. When Thomas would have been sunk

naturally by improper sexual conduct- as had happened to a Nixon choice once before, they outed the issue in such a way as to incredibly spin it against Dems. While the Repukes were spilling the sordid details the cameras played on Kennedy(Chappaquidick Kennedy) to make HIM the villain. Martyr Thomas like Bill O'Reilly is with us still.

Again it might be instructive for the confused masses to have a list of times this tactic has been successfully used. If NOT a conscious tactic it is still amazing to behold how vice and crime rewards the perp and punishes the critic in GOP world. But in fact something this daring has to be planned or else believe the hypocritical GOP is completely insane- or both. I can live with both being the case.

Sometimes it is best seen on a local level in a more routine application. Randy Kuhl, our esteemed GOP Rep. won his seat a lot more easily simply by having a Hillary protege get caught in an embarrassing way "outing" a scandalous divorce incident. Of course the campaign people fell all over themselves and the struggle was uphill anyway, but all the playacting- even by Dems who trade favors with Kuhl- was nauseous
and obvious. Matryr Kuhl. Bad bad Samara. The popular reaction working for the GOP being- "look what those mean people have done to this poor guy, those dirty politicians- and making his family suffer too!" In fact this trap was set for strong primary challenger to Kuhl who balked at the bait and went meekly to defeat right after going after the same evidence left lying conveniently open to scrutiny. A naive campaign op for Samara Barend took it to the greener campaign manager and the "incident" blew up faster than the Raw Story account of Kuhl's gun waving bout. It was like flipping a switch on a light that turned out to be a smoking buzz saw.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Hah, made you throw a stone and hurt this poor poor victim, you evil sinner. Sometimes they drag themselves out to the square just to get the drama co-opted.

[KansDem]

30. It's the sympathy, stupid!

Hey, it might have been the way I got some dates in my youth, but hardly the basis for Supreme Court confirmations!

[blossomstar]

33. You are right on with this one. So FAKE and so OBVIOUSLY a photo op.

[helderheid]

34. Yes!

[greiner3]

35. I agree;

But it's too late. She'll be forever remembered as a frail woman honoring her hubby in his hour of need. As I used to read, I'd like to give her something to cry about.

[Emit]

36. Gotta link to the video of her crying? Never saw it. TX n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

37. My own theory is that when they were taping the moot sessions

they realized that her maniacal laughter and haughty demeanor while she knitted the names of Dem questioners was not getting the sympathetic reaction they would have hoped for. When she inadvertently sat on a pincushion and began crying and they saw it in the monitor, they jumped up and said "Eureka!"

It is, sadly, a one trick pony that probably cannot be utilized again. The next nominee will have to bring in a hound dog that bays on cue.

[Junkdrawer]

38. Hey dicksteele, did you see this?

Why are Swift Boaters -- the folks who smeared John Kerry's war record in the 2004 election -- now trying to promote Alito's nomination by capitalizing on yesterday's bizarre incident?

We're referring to this release sent out yesterday by Creative Response Concepts, an Alexandria, Va., based PR firm with deep blood lines on the far right:

The always-alert Creative Response Concepts, a conservative public relations firm, sent this bulletin: "Former Alito clerk Gary Rubman witnessed Mrs. Alito leaving her husband's confirmation in tears and is available for interviews, along with other former Alito clerks who know her personally and are very upset about this development."

.....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=123140&mesg_id=123140

[Richard Steele]

39. Yes, I sure did! Everyone should read that story.

I often mistakenly assume that everyone spends as many hours
here at DU as I do, so I just thought everyone had seen that one as well.

That story is a PERFECT example of how the RW spin machine
was ready to jump on this BEFORE IT HAPPENED.

I'm kicking myself in the butt for not including that
link in my OP!

[nicknameless]

40. What a circus.

[Richard Steele]

41. Thanks for adding that! It's surely no secret that I loves me some TOONS!

Pictures being worth a thousand words and all....

[upi402]

42. Stepfordian tears of doom are very dangerous

don't get any on you!