Bringing receipts means showing up with proof. The phrase has its roots in a 2002 interview with Whitney Houston, who, when confronted with a question about how much she allegedly spent on drugs, demanded proof: 'No, no way. I want to see the receipts.'
"'Bring the receipts' means 'I demand accountability.' That is part of [Klobuchar's] persona," said Nicole Holliday, a linguistics professor at Pomona College who focuses on political speech."So it's very useful for her because she gets to paint herself as the accountability candidate and also cool, in a mom way ... a certain kind of cool."
Superstar entertainer Whitney Houston sat down with Diane Sawyer for a revealing one-hour interview at her home in suburban Atlanta back in 2002. Some of Houston's comments from the interview have survived as memes in the social media age.According to Holliday, the phrase caught on among members of the black community, many of whom saw Houston as an icon and likely adopted the metaphor after hearing the interview.
Tammy Vigil, a communication professor at Boston University who studies women as political communicators, said she remarked to her husband about the"quirkiness" of the phrase when she first noticed Klobuchar using it in an earlier debate."Receipts are physical proof of something, but it's usually [of] somebody else's bad behavior, not of somebody's good behavior," Vigil said.
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