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The Clinton Conundrum: What’s Behind the Laugh?
The New York Times ^ | September 30, 2007 | PATRICK HEALY

Posted on 09/29/2007 7:12:28 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776

It was January 2005, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had just finished a solemn speech about abortion rights — urging all sides to find “common ground” on the issue and referring to abortion as “a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women.”

Stepping offstage, she took questions from reporters, and found herself being grilled about whether she was moderating her own pro-choice position. And suddenly it happened: Mrs. Clinton let loose a hearty belly laugh that lasted a few seconds. Reporters glanced at one another as if they had missed the joke.

But nothing particularly funny had occurred; it was, instead, a deployment of the Clinton Cackle.

At that moment, the laugh seemed like the equivalent of an eye-roll — she felt she was being nitpicked, so she shamed her inquisitors by chuckling at them (or their queries). But friends of hers told a different story: She has this fantastic sense of humor, you see, but it’s too sarcastic to share with the general public because not everyone likes sarcasm. (Mrs. Clinton, for example, sometimes likes to tweak people for missing an obvious point by saying to them, “Hello?”

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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintoncackle; communism; congenitalliar; hillary; insanity
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Cackling Cankles...
1 posted on 09/29/2007 7:12:32 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
So, the MSM writes about a 2005 (TWO YEAR OLD) laugh after a speech where she lies about her driving obsession (abortion ranks ahead of international socialism - which is only really a step towards power for her ...

But IGNORES the Soros funding of the DNC, the Chinese funding of the DNC, the corporate funding of the dnc, the international money funding of the dnc ....

2 posted on 09/29/2007 7:17:06 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
referring to abortion as “a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women.”

Is having a mole or a wart removed “a sad, even tragic choice"? An abortion can only be troubling if you admit it is killing a child.

Apparently the pantsuited one thinks abortion is murder.

3 posted on 09/29/2007 7:17:22 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Last Sunday...her laughter seemed heavily caffeinated.

It seemed terribly calculated. Fake. Inappropriate.

4 posted on 09/29/2007 7:19:02 PM PDT by NautiNurse (McClatchy News report: Half the nation's families earn below the median family income)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Well, there are two real reasons:

1) She's a total phony who rolls out a fake laugh when she wants to diminish tough questions.
2) She's insane.

5 posted on 09/29/2007 7:19:30 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
["What’s Behind the Laugh?"]

A vapid, mean-spirited, totalitarian, psychopathic, insufferable b*tch.

6 posted on 09/29/2007 7:21:21 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

She did that cackling thing in several different venues the other day. Apparently one of her handlers thought it would make her look like she had a sense of humor. It backfired big time, and she looked deranged.


7 posted on 09/29/2007 7:22:47 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: ClearCase_guy
Well, there are two three real reasons:
1) She's a total phony who rolls out a fake laugh when she wants to diminish tough questions.
2) She's insane.

3) All of the above.
8 posted on 09/29/2007 7:23:06 PM PDT by JayNorth
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To: AmericanMade1776
"deployment of the Clinton Cackle"

Cue the Wicked Witch of the West music because that is exactly what I think of whenever I hear Hillary Clinton Cackle..... "I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!" This from a woman who wants to become president of the United States. What dreck;

Da dum da dum da dum, dum, da dum da dum da dum, dum, REEeeee. Da dum da dum da dum, dum, da dum da dum da dum, dum, REEeeee.

9 posted on 09/29/2007 7:23:53 PM PDT by Jmouse007
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To: AmericanMade1776

Now they are trying to explain Hitlery; however, the true one keeps coming out; like how she holds herself above everyone else. Even her staff seems to admit that whether they admit it or not.

Maybe we should laugh inappropriately at her.


10 posted on 09/29/2007 7:26:00 PM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: AmericanMade1776
Either....

1.) She's on drugs.

or

2.) If she's not on drugs, she needs to be.

11 posted on 09/29/2007 7:26:38 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("We have met the enemy and he is us." -Pogo)
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To: AmericanMade1776

That’s not a cackle of amusement , you foolish reporters .

Suffice it to say that Stalin would be envious of her methods ...


12 posted on 09/29/2007 7:29:31 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (Stop Rudy - Vote Thompson - A vote for Hunter or Romney is a vote for Rudy and Hillary !)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Now sold with a double crotch strap
13 posted on 09/29/2007 7:33:33 PM PDT by Libloather (That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
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To: AmericanMade1776

There is no conundrum. Hillary’s cackle is quite common among blood-sucking maniacal sociopaths (e.g. Charles Manson, O.J., Dracula).


14 posted on 09/29/2007 7:37:11 PM PDT by ravinson
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To: ClearCase_guy

One of the Bi Polar symptoms.


15 posted on 09/29/2007 7:38:51 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: AmericanMade1776
I think we all need to cackle back every time she tries to make a not-so-salient point like the “suspension of disbelief” statement toward General Patreus, or the tortuous “Bill’s not here” statement to Tim Russert regarding President Clinton’s policy on torture. All together now “HAHAHAHAHAHAH”!!!!
16 posted on 09/29/2007 7:40:16 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: AmericanMade1776
OK, read the whole story and of course it needs translation from NYT-ese. A LOT of people noticed Hilary's bizarre horselaugh at Chris Wallace, which seemed inappropriate because there was nothing funny, and it sounded like the revelation of some deep resentment at anyone who has ever criticized Clinton and her husband.

So the NYT "covers" (read "covers up") the story by mentioning the laugh at Chris Wallace, the worst one, waaaaay down in the story and developing an anti-Fox explanation.

They did use the word "weird" somewhere in the story, so they can say they covered all this when she goes totally bonkers in public one day. In the meantime, they have promulgated a "sarcastic sense of humor" explanation for the fact Hilary is angry, resentful, dismissive and superior toward anyone who dares challenge her.

17 posted on 09/29/2007 7:41:54 PM PDT by Williams
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To: AmericanMade1776
I think Rush nailed it on his show Friday:

She has the witch laugh when ever she is nervous and has to answer an "unscripted" question. Watch Tom Russert's debate questions from last week.

Mucho cackles.

18 posted on 09/29/2007 7:42:48 PM PDT by llevrok (Born a ham and never cured.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Herein lies the proof of the success of emotional hucksterism on those whom we once believed to be the “vanguards of truth”, yet now bow obsequiously to someone who plays upon their their intellectual vacuity in a way that would make P.T. Barnum proud.

They worship her out of fear of her.


19 posted on 09/29/2007 7:43:17 PM PDT by Grateful One
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To: ravinson
She is sick and should not be seriously considered as a candidate to lead the free world. When a presidential candidate cannot answer a reporters question, but instead relies on a fake laugh which is intended to convey sarcastic dismissal of the questioner, they themselves need to be dismissed and not taken seriously.
20 posted on 09/29/2007 7:47:00 PM PDT by Balata
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