Man, I feel like such a dingus for being like HEY ACTUALLY about some embarrassing Jeb! moment, but: it's clear form context and a different camera angle that the lady behind him started to clap haltingly before he actually got to the beat on his applause line, and so then people were psyched out a little about clap-or-not, and he was sort of jokingly acknowledging that clapping was okay.
Did so awkwardly and the optics are terrible and it says not much about his ability to fire folks up that halting-early-clapping is what he got instead of, y'know, a runaway pile of applause, but it's also a small group and close quarters so people are more self-conscious than they'd be in another setting.
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@joshmillard The video says some of what you're saying, but he still should have just said "It's okay to clap" or "yes, you can clap". Still could turn out cringeworthy but still not as bad as "please clap". http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc...
@joshmillard I think it speaks for you character that you refuse to join a pile on. Even when the pilee is a Bush dynasty member. So maybe there's a time and place for 'well actually' dingusness.
@mashcan (#1) I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
@machaus I always thought that was one of the more ridiculous "offenses" to take decent man down via the Court of the 12-Hour News Cycle. I don' t think Dean would ultimately have been the Dem candidate anyway, but that seemed a particularly shallow reason for his undoing.
This, on the other hand, is the oddest combination of schadenfreude and pathos I think I've ever come across.
@joshmillard The assessment provided by the National Committee For Please Let The Election Be Over Now I've Clearly Been At This Way Too Long How Is It Only February is absolutely correct, but this is still hilarious
Did so awkwardly and the optics are terrible and it says not much about his ability to fire folks up that halting-early-clapping is what he got instead of, y'know, a runaway pile of applause, but it's also a small group and close quarters so people are more self-conscious than they'd be in another setting.
This pedantic analysis of an otherwise rich vein of schadenfreude brought to you by the National Committee For Please Let The Election Be Over Now I've Clearly Been At This Way Too Long How Is It Only February.
So maybe there's a time and place for 'well actually' dingusness.
@machaus I always thought that was one of the more ridiculous "offenses" to take decent man down via the Court of the 12-Hour News Cycle. I don' t think Dean would ultimately have been the Dem candidate anyway, but that seemed a particularly shallow reason for his undoing.
This, on the other hand, is the oddest combination of schadenfreude and pathos I think I've ever come across.