After Hillary Clinton said “sigh” at an event last week her campaign brushed it off by saying this was a deadpan ad lib. A similar defense was deployed after a congressman was worried a military deployment would flip over Guam.
Clinton was responding to Donald Trump’s attacks on her Methodist faith at a rally on June 22 when she said “sigh.”
Buzzfeed describing it has Clinton “dead-panning.” A campaign aide also told Buzzfeed that her saying “sigh” was in fact ad-libbing and not her mistakenly reading a cue from the teleprompter. (RELATED: Buzzfeed, Politico Can’t Get Enough Of That (D))
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In 2010, Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson said due to a deployment of Marines “the whole island [of Guam] will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.” His office later said it was a “tremendous deadpan — and that he was using a facetious metaphor.”
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