Excerpts have already leaked, with the most notable one so far regarding her Democratic nomination opponent Bernie Sanders — and the “seven-minute ab” scene in 1998’s There’s Something About Mary, of which, I guess, Hillary Clinton is a fan?
If that has you confused, let’s allow Clinton to explain not only the scene in question but how she managed to connect it to Sanders and their debate dynamic: “A deranged hitchhiker says he’s come up with a brilliant plan. Instead of the famous ‘eight-minute abs’ exercise routine, he’s going to market ‘seven-minute abs.’ It’s the same, just quicker. Then the driver, played by Ben Stiller, says, ‘Well, why not six-minute abs?’ That’s what it was like in policy debates with Bernie. We would propose a bold infrastructure investment plan or an ambitious new apprenticeship program for young people, and then Bernie would announce basically the same thing, but bigger. On issue after issue, it was like he kept proposing four-minute abs, or even no-minute abs. Magic abs!”