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Hillary Clinton on Iconic Sit Room Photo: ‘The Way I Usually Look When My Husband Drags Me to an Action Movie’

Hillary Clinton on Iconic Sit Room Photo: The Way I Usually Look When My Husband Drags Me to an Action Movie

In a preview of NBC’s rare interview with President Barack Obama inside the White House Situation Room, Obama shared some insight into the moment the room’s now-iconic photograph was taken.

“There’s silence at this point inside the room,” Obama said looking at the photo, taken during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden one year ago.

The one-minute clip also featured Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s reflections on the photo, in which she is famously covering her mouth — and once chalked up to her “early spring allergic coughs.”

Her thoughts on it one year later?

“That’s the way I usually look when my husband drags me to an action movie,” Clinton told NBC.

Watch below, via NBC. The full interview will air Wednesday.

Comments (87)

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  • Dodsfall
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:46pm

    I wonder if it’s the way she looks when Bill drags her to the theater and she realizes yet again that he snuck out to the car for a “Lewinski”.

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    • jzs
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 8:36pm

      Bush took his eye off the ball and focused instead on trying address the disaster he created in Iraq, something that history may view as a worse mistake than Vietnam. Now thanks to the invasion, Iraq is no longer counterbalance to Iran, a country that is now the supreme military power in the Middle East. Thanks Bush. As it turned out Iraq‘s WMD didn’t exist, and so their threat to the US didn’t exist, and now Iraq has no power in the Middle East. That left Iran the single most powerful country in the region. Iraq isn’t even on our side. Oops.

      Thank goodness President Obama is out there killing the bad guys, including Bin Laden, but others through every means available to the US. Bush dropped the ball, Obama picked it up and ran with it.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 8:40pm

      That photo is fake. Image of Obama is distorted and shows him as a tinny little kid. The fact must be that he was not really there and didn’t really know anything. Who does it look like is in charge, certainly not Obama.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 9:03pm

      JZS, Really, no WMDs? What do you call 7 tons of yellow cake in a single haul? Tons of chemical munitions? Granted, Iraq’s nuclear program was as near far along as Hussein bragged to the world. But, that bragging was a major part of his downfall. BTW, it was Bill, Hillary, Pelosi, Harry, and many, many other dems who screamed prior to Bush’s presidential win about how Hussein had to be stopped. But hell, it‘s nothing more than all Bush’s fault…right? Bush never took his eye off the ball, and he did nothing more than what all of the top dog dems were promoting prior.

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    • SingerGuy
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 9:28pm

      @Teamarcheson: I remember when this happened there was a deep throat source that said that Biden and Clinton pulled this off without Obama’s knowledge or approval in what amounted to a coup. He was supposedly dragged off of a golf course and into the Sit room right before things happened, but too late for him to call it off. If that story was correct then this isn’t a Photoshop, but you would be right that he wasn’t in charge. His face could support that version of events. He doesn’t look like someone who is running the show.

      _IF_ that story is correct it makes it laughable that the Obama campaign is now saying that Romney wouldn’t have ordered the raid, since Obama wouldn’t have ordered it either.

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    • On Eagle Wings
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 11:57pm

      Hillary Clinton is yawning, must of had a late night waiting for Bill again

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    • RGFROMTEXAS
      Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:49am

      Why is everything a conspiracy with you guys ??? This night was a great night for our country and we should have all been on the same side. The CIA, the Navy Seals and, yes, Our President
      should have all been given kudos. It’s OK to disagree with Mr Obama on key issues but on this we should haven been behing them 100%. There is no reason not to.

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    • RamonPreston
      Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:51am

      RGFROMTEXAS Why are you so ignorant? Two weeks after 9/11 bin Laden was in a Florida hospital and talked to CIA agents. I think that he was deliberately EXECUTED to prevent him from telling Americans that 9/11 was an American drop-flag operation. This government is NOT nice. Wake up, the NWO is coming soon!

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    • RGFROMTEXAS
      Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:49pm

      RAMONPRESTON. Thanks for your response to my post, however, I am not ignorant. The shame is I was in Florida about two months after 9/11. I must have just missed him. This is my first post ever on “The Blaze” and my first response calls me names. I didn’t see that coming !!

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 11:11am

      RJJinGadsden, stop it. No yellow cake was found (even the idea that Iraq was trying to buy yellow cake was false), and no chemical weapons. If you think that’s true, perhaps you could link to a source? No, sorry, you can’t because you or someone made that up, but you’re welcome to try.

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  • Sheepdog911
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:42pm

    Oh, this is so heroic of Obama. Sitting in a brightly lit room surrounded by equally heroic advisors while real men, real heros are out risking their lives. If he struggled over this decision or considers his actions heroic, he’s the fool we know him to be. Once the military and CIA said that they knew where he was and that they could put an end to Bin Laden, the decision should have been simple. Bin Laden was a rabid, feral Pig and the decision should have take all the effort of one synapse firing to make.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:43pm

      That statement alone disqualifies her for president. What a wuss.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:53pm

      I know really huh!

      What was so hard about making the decision? He did not have a hard time taking Muammar Quadafi down and killed plenty of innocent civilians along the way. His staying the course in Afghanistan has most certainly caused ever more bloodshed there. Didn’t seem like an epic decision here either. Ummm?

      This man and this leadership still believe a War of attrition can be won against the forces of Islam. With steady boot pressure applied to the neck of the snake all it will to is writhe until you cut its head off. Bomb Mecca and Medina, throw the bums off the Temple Mount (they never did belong there), cut the Saudis off by taking their oil. Egypt your next! Your entire War machine gets obliterated. Iran? Iran gets special treatment because their special people. Neutron Bomb (threat)! When the Muslims see this, they will submit to greater forces anything else is futile against them. We die every die by a thousand cuts, lets turn the tables here. Islam has got to go and anyone practicing it. Does anyone really believe that once the society pressure has been alleviated that the masses will still follow a false belief? Of course they will not, they will run gladly away from it. They just need to be rescued from it thats all.

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    • sealwifenyc
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 8:25pm

      I really have to comment here, since my husband is a SEAL. You are looking at things entirely too simplistic. It was a very difficult decision to do this type of raid for various reasons and your comment is naive because you assume the mission is entirely devoid of risk. They had to assess the risks of flying into a country we are not at war with and are forbidden from using air space. The risks are huge, the birds could break down (which is much more frequent than people would like to think), the Pakistani military could have intervened causing the SEALs to be captured or killed (a major international event), it was possible it was not in fact Bin Laden living in that house, they had to be certain it would not cause significant civilian casualties (as Pakistan would retaliate) and they had to evaluate the risk of the mission failing and Bin Laden escaping again. This is not a simple and routine mission. the risks were significant. Just because you don’t like Obama does not mean you should refuse to accept the reality of this mission. This is not the first time the CIA has tracked down Bin Laden, this was simply the first time a President gave approval for a mission to actually go in and capture him.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 8:32pm

      SEALWIFENYC

      Thank you for your perspective.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:37am

      Were they following a Bush mission or a Obama mission I have a hard time believing it was the latter.

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    • Arc
      Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:23am

      Bravo!!!!!!

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:07am

      NYC Wife – You misread what was said. Obama’s decision should have been simple. You descibe the military side of the decision as to whether to tell a President that it can be done. The Presidents job is to first give the thumbs up to plan for it the operational parameters, his next involvement is a thumbs up or down based on the military saying it is ready. In other words, your husband is a/the hero, not the President and his WH team.

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  • mcgrawactor1
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:19pm

    Shameless self-agrandizement for doing merely the right thing. This administration literally has NO SHAME!

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    • tennantusa
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:27pm

      Does OSLLZO think people don‘t know it’s a recreated photo op? I guess his people, are just dumb!

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  • this1can
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:13pm

    I think they needed a shocked look from everyone and right before snapping the picture they through up a photo of Obumer eating dog. Love/Pray

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:10pm

    It looks like they deflated 0bama and tossed him in a chair. I guess they just blow him back up when they need him for something.

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  • Sicboy
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:08pm

    I thought it was Conservative and Christ believing wives that are told what to do by their husbands? These people have no core and will lie about what ever they have to, to further their cause.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:04pm

    More likely the way she looked when she saw the blue dress…..I’ll bet when she got Bill alone after she found that out would have made for a good action movie.

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  • Red Bubba
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:56pm

    There’s 0 looking all serious for the camera – he didn’t even realize that there was a “boss chair” in the room and someone else was sitting in it.

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  • DevotedDad
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:16pm

    The only problem here is that it was totally debunked to be nothing more than a photo op. There was no live feed, and the people in the room were not watching anything.

    Good God man, this Adminsitration has no shame.

    So they supposedly killed Bin Laden and watched it live.

    Then they were exposed as lying about watching it live and retracted and said they were simply “on edge” while they waited for an update.

    This still does nothing to explain the staged photo op.

    And then we supposedly dumped his body to sea to comply with Muslim tradition.

    Then it was revealed that this is not Muslim tradition and is actually offensive and against Islam.

    Then another lame excuse was given….

    And the members of seal team 6 are placed onto a chopper that is way overloaded, breaks all operating procedure, and killed.

    Still not having a problem with any of this?

    If this is not bothering you, or your gut is not screaming that something is wrong, then you should not be allowed to remain an American citizen.

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    • babylonvi
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 11:35pm

      This, admittedly WAS a staged photo, they were looking at a blank wall. No difference, the REAL bin Laden had been dead for years(per a former CIA Physician) from chronic disease and renal failure. Any real operation would have taken him alive for intel purposes. Why kill him, he was a a DOD and CIA asset, just like al Awlaki. We invented them. Just think, please, if 911 never happened, would ANY American stand still for they tyranny, violation of rights and shredding of the constitution we have been experiencing?

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  • Gamaliel
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:15pm

    Isn’t that reassuring in a Secretary of State.

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    • That Guy
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:55pm

      Obama doesn’t even get a seat at the table. lol

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:25pm

      Really now, even if they were looking at the Bin Laden raid, what purpose does serve for them to view it in real time? What are they going to do, redirect the action somehow? It does nothing but further endanger our guys by making them wear stupid helmet cameras and microphones that could get them killed. It slows them down. All so some armchair commandos can get their voyaristic thrills. What a disgusting bunch of cowards. Oh look, even the secretarys get to play!

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  • demsaredumb
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:14pm

    ah did some research it was billiery that was edited out by The Hasidic newspaper, ever who that is.

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:13pm

    Seems hard to take credit for killing binLaden when you are sitting comfortably in the WH and the seals are doing all the work. Not hard to say, yes, sure, go ahead. I imagine this photo was staged. Come on everyone, look serious now, click.

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  • demsaredumb
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:11pm

    Wasn’t this photo that they edited someone out of when it first appeared? I believe it was the lady in the back.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:52pm

    Remember when liberals felt grandstanding over acts of war was uncivilized and contemptible?

    Who’s fooling who?

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  • llotus
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:51pm

    Biden looks like someone pealing a grape. Lotus.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:32pm

    What they don’t show is Jay-Z and Beyonce are just out of frame in the pic.

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    • ambrosia
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 9:41pm

      Let’s see-
      the hell with Photoshop.

      If I had me….a magic marker,
      I would draw a DUNCE hat on Oblameo,
      the “I can‘t believe it’s butter” CROWN on Hillary
      and Moms Mabley’s WIG on Biden.

      No matter the scene, no matter the situation-
      cheapskate, blowhard Biden always looks like,
      he‘s just hangin’ around, for the free refreshments.
      Pass the Goobers !

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  • 9635kari
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:21pm

    The biggest laugh is Hillary telling us she and Bubba go to movies together!!! What a laugh. They hardly ever see each other let alone going on a date. Everything that comes out of the mouth of a liberal is a lie.

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    • superhawg45
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 11:13pm

      True that, the Clintons constantly sell that lie, they have been essentially separated for years, the only time they are seen together is for a staged photo-op…..the media looks the other way, just like you hardly ever saw the savior smoking a cig.

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  • TheEDGE
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:18pm

    Bill and Hillary at the movies? Together? What action flick are we talkin’ here? The Towering Inferno?

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:13pm

    she looks like she just entered the real world of what war is…and she looks like she cant stomach it…i cant see bill dragging her anywhere…thats dung

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:54pm

    Oh brother. Here we go. Endless Obama high fives . ME. ME. ME. Look at what I did ! And then we have the movie due out in October right before the election ? Actually, this is just fine. Makes him look just like the narcissist that we have grown to know he is ! Makes a voter just more anxious to cancel the Obama Drama Show ! Bring it on, Mr. Teleprompter ! ( wonder when the 3 story face posters will be put out along Pennsylvania Avenue ?? )

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    • lbyrd26
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:06pm

      This is just NBC propping up their Master. Nobody is going to see it except the few epople who still watch NBC. It’s not going to do anything but be a feel good story for those who still believe in him and no amount of facts is going to change that.

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    • DAYWATCHER
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:49pm

      I am sure that the thirty foot posters are already on order and will go nicely with the new American flags with his ugly face on it. And let us not forget a new national anthem to go with it.

      I’m just saying…..

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  • Individualism
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:53pm

    wow we all know what happens when a leader is given the power to kill people without a trial, mass murder and it could be coming for all we know.

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    • imsteph
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:04pm

      2012: PATRIOTS LET’S MAKE SOME NOISE :)

      “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

      Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.”

      Frederick Douglas

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  • doomytram
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:53pm

    Whose the smallest man or woman in the room? Ears or Hill?

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    • lbyrd26
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:08pm

      I don’t know. I think Hil is a far bigger man than ears will ever be.

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    • 9635kari
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:20pm

      You are right on Doomytram, The first thing I thought when I saw this picture was how small he looked. We all know that he is rather insignificant and small. He looked nothing like a leader. Can you imagine George W. or Reagan looking like that? Hardly.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:50pm

    I cannot identity with this Group: If you order a person to be killed… just tell me that it is done… do not bring me Popcorn and a Drink to watch a SNUFF JOB!

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    • lbyrd26
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:10pm

      They were all just brought in that room to stroke his ego.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:48pm

    Wonder what they are going to do with the China Ghost cities? They are on the verge of evacuating Tokyo…all 40 MILLION of them…Yep…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SSpZHxDiUNc

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    • lbyrd26
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:11pm

      I never thought of that but I bet you are right. That makes perfect sense and it answers all questions.

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:00pm

      I watched the video. Agree & then some.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:11pm

    She always looks like a dog to me…a Female dog.

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