Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?

SpicyTaint@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve heard that before too but being an old bastard, I’m pretty certain Clinton didn’t do it until after he was debating Bob Dole. Bob Dole used this gesture because he held a pen during debates. And he held a pen in his dominant hand because he had an injury in WWII and the way his hand curled made him look weak.

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  • wclinton93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember it as a Dole gesture originally, too

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