# Did Clinton have outside help during the debate? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114 "2016-09-28T13:16:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/61 "2016-09-29T12:47:32Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > You should leave comedy to the people that can pull it off successfully. Be that as it may be, this seems excessive as a reaction to a couple of throwaway lines on a MB. Perhaps you’re smarting from some prior interaction that I don’t recall just now, but either way that does not indicate a healthy psyche. I imagine you may have some fine personal attributes that you can focus on, and it might be better for you to try to build yourself up that way. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/62 "2016-09-29T12:56:24Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Be that as it may be, this seems excessive as a reaction to a couple of throwaway lines on a MB. Perhaps you’re smarting from some prior interaction that I don’t recall just now, but either way that does not indicate a healthy psyche. > > I imagine you may have some fine personal attributes that you can focus on, and it might be better for you to try to build yourself up that way. I chuckled at your joke, **F-P**. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/63 "2016-09-29T14:54:50Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > …I imagine you may have some fine personal attributes that you can focus on, and it might be better for you to try to build yourself up that way. “Every day, in every way, I’m getting weirder and weirder”. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/64 "2016-09-29T15:10:21Z")
Right. No girl is smart enough to win a debate against a man without outside help. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/65 "2016-09-29T15:12:56Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > My theory is that Clinton had Donald Trump kidnapped and replaced by an actor, paid to act like an idiot. I’ll buy that, but based on his promotion of the Birther nonsense, the replacement would have to have happened before 2011. That Clinton sure plays the long game. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/66 "2016-09-29T15:23:59Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Right. No girl is smart enough to win a debate against a man without outside help. Especially a female girl. I had read that it was a sound suppression device for when she tooted. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/67 "2016-09-29T15:30:33Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > We’ll know for sure if she comes out with a solo album. Has anyone played her part of the debate backwards? “Goooo to church. Saaaaay your prayers. Tithe! Tithe!” ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/68 "2016-09-29T15:33:35Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I’ll buy that, but based on his promotion of the Birther nonsense, the replacement would have to have happened before 2011. That Clinton sure plays the long game. I don’t know about that. Truth is that the real Donald Trump is also something of an idiot. But the fake Donald Trump has taken that act to a whole new level. It’s like the difference between an ordinary run-of-the-mill idiot and a HHHHUUUUGGGGEEE idiot. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/69 "2016-09-29T15:39:27Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > It’s like the difference between an ordinary run-of-the-mill idiot and a HHHHUUUUGGGGEEE idiot. For Trump, that is the difference between reading the teleprompter script that KellyAnne gave him versus when he free styles. In other words, the coached Trump versus the actual Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/70 "2016-09-29T17:50:46Z")
Does Trump count as outside help? Because it sure seemed like he was shilling for Shrillary. I liked the alliteration, sue me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/71 "2016-09-29T18:04:43Z")
> [@Leo Krupe's link](#): > > The notion that Bush was wired wallowed for days in the corners of cyberspace. Wait! We discussed it HERE! Does that make the SDMB equivalent to some alt-right website? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/72 "2016-09-29T18:11:02Z")
She had Trump’s cocaine spiked with LSD. By the end of the debate, Trump was essentially in an episode of Adventure Time. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/73 "2016-09-29T18:13:48Z")
Anyway, her facial expressions and shimmies tell me I want to play poker with her. And Trump. Do they do anything that isn’t a tell? I’ll bring just enough money for the first ante and a couple raises. They’ll finance the rest of the evening. Oh, just not strip poker. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/74 "2016-09-30T19:55:06Z")
Clinton clearly cheated. She had outside help from her prep team, subject matter experts, books, media, objective observations or reality and other sources of information that she obviously spent hours using to prepare her answers. Trump relied on using only his own brain. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/75 "2016-09-30T20:06:20Z")
They’re not playing poker, they are putting on a show. You are judging them by standards they are not trying to meet. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/76 "2016-09-30T21:15:35Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Clinton clearly cheated. She had outside help from her prep team, subject matter experts, books, media, objective observations or reality and other sources of information that she obviously spent hours using to prepare her answers. > > Trump relied on using only his own brain. Which of those sounds better to lead the free world? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/77 "2016-09-30T21:47:00Z")
That bump under Hillary’s jacket was actually a [pygmy marmoset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_marmoset). It’s the smallest monkey in the world at just 3.5 oz. Her name is Dolly Madison, and she has been Hillary’s constant (if unseen) companion, going everywhere with her–meetings, hearings, Power Lunches, Town Halls. Why else would Hillary wear such shapeless clothes? Dolly actually knows everything that Hillary knows, and during the debates, she was tapping out answers and cues on Hillary’s back using Morse code. . ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/78 "2016-10-01T04:26:48Z")
Yeah, right, like girls know Morse code! Nice try! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/79 "2016-10-01T04:31:18Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Does Trump’s helping her by being a buffoon count as ‘outside help’? > [@marshmallow](#): > > If Hillary were a space lizard she wouldn’t be trying to stop global warming. We really need a “like” button. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/80 "2016-10-02T09:51:25Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Which of those sounds better to lead the free world? How about you use your brain and tell us? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114.md?page=5)