Did she or didn’t she?
Everywhere from New York to New Zealand to Ghana to most places in between, folks from all walks (and blogs) of life are still talking about last week’s Democratic presidential primary. Of course, what’s coming up most often is the question of whether front-running Senator Hillary Clinton has had botox work done to her face.
With most reports noting “her fresh-faced appearance” at the debate and typically accompanied by the requisite “before” and “after” shots, it now seems taken for granted that accusations from John Spencer, Clinton’s competition for the New York senator’s seat, have a grain of truth to them.
Interesting it is to see the sort of spin various news outlets put on the non-story. London’s Telegraph derisively described botox as “derived from a lethal poison that forms in rancid sausages, is injected into the face – at $500 (£260) a shot – to eliminate wrinkles by paralysing the surrounding muscles. In 2004, John Kerry, the Democrat presidential nominee, was accused of using the substance to remove wrinkles from his forehead.”
Conservative pundit David Blum of the New York Sun took his shot in writing that “It’s fun to have these loopy lefties shape the conversation around their positions. Their pokes over Iraq and immigration even get a slight rise out of Hillary Clinton, whose Botox injections have otherwise rendered her expression disconcertingly blank. (I miss her late-1990s scowl.)” Meow!
The Boston Herald, however, was willing to challenge the accepted notions of Clinton’s “work,” by giving all the credit to Kriss Soterion of Kriss Cosmetics in Manchester, N.H.
Soterion, “a registered Republican, a former Miss New Hampshire and a Hummer driver […] transformed the would-be president in about 15 minutes before last Sunday’s CNN debate, so wowing the TV audience that everybody from New Hampshire voters to Yours Truly to the ladies of ‘The View’ to Jay Leno started speculating: Did Hillary get a face-lift, Botox, what?”
Soterion, in turn, was quoted as saying “She just had normal skin for a woman her age, no sign of anything at all.”
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