The Art of John Boehner Clapping

By JM Rieger

Posted January 22, 2015 at 7:36pm

During Tuesday’s State of the Union address, it often wasn’t about how many times Speaker John A. Boehner clapped so much as how he did it. HOH is here to document the many styles of the Boehner clap.

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