Hillary to Bieber: Don't Get Your Hopes Up

Hillary Clinton, about to begin her second week as a citizen so private that apparently paparazzi have been unable to track her down, remains a hot item.   Articles evaluating her performance and legacy at the State Department continue to proliferate on the internet,  speculation about her future abounds,  and her name pops up regularly on cable talk shows.  All of that might have been expected since she strategically, for more than a year, has avoided specifying what she might choose to do next besides rest, and due to her recent health issues, she is now doing that under doctors' orders.  What was unexpected was the way her name popped up on Saturday Night Live last night.  That also was the subject of several headlines today, and I will not bother to link to any of the articles. 

I am not a prude, but I do believe in a certain amount  of propriety.  Before and after the blizzard, local news  - especially NBC - was  covering the young girls who were #freezing4bieb outside 30 Rockefeller  Plaza.  SNL writers and producers knew who the audience was.  Most parents probably thought, as I did, that Justin Bieber is a nice kid, so OK, this one Saturday night, yes, you may stay up to watch.  So Bieber's imitation of a crotch shot was bad enough.  That is my gripe #1.

Then he went on the urge Hillary Clinton to check her email.  That crossed another kind of line with me.  We know Hillary is hot in a number of ways.  If it was meant as a compliment, it seemed a rather left-handed one.   SNL's Seth Meyers nominating her to GQ Magazine as the sexiest woman of the 21st century was one thing. An unsolicited crotch shot from a tween idol is something else.  To me it had the earmarks of a kind of virtual sexual assault.

You can say it was all in fun, meant in jest, or that I am taking it too seriously, but when you put it in the larger context of people, Democratic Super-delegates included, practically begging her to run for POTUS in 2016,  it contains a kernel of the sexism we saw waged against our girl in 2008. 
Having said all that,  I am sure that our HRC would never make as much of it as I just did.  If she were granting interviews, she would brush it off with her signature good humor as she did the famous Jon Favreau (Obama head speech writer) "Hill-Grope"  around the time she accepted the SOS nomination. 

She thanked him for his interest in the State Department and sent word that they were reviewing his application.  In Bieber's case I can imagine her making a meme, which I can't do, but it would be something like this.

Bottom line, our Queen of Class deserves better than juvenile crass.