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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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21 posted on 09/29/2007 7:50:01 PM PDT by kennedy
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22 posted on 09/29/2007 7:51:53 PM PDT by gunservative
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To: AmericanMade1776

“what’s behind the laugh...”

only the shadow knows.


23 posted on 09/29/2007 7:53:05 PM PDT by ripley
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To: ozzymandus

I saw the clips from her cackling in the interview with Chris Wallace. He didn’t ask her anything that would have required a laughing humorous response, he was seriously asking his questions. She is deranged.


24 posted on 09/29/2007 7:53:15 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42 - 12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: kennedy

man, we were thinking the same thing!


25 posted on 09/29/2007 7:53:20 PM PDT by gunservative
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To: AmericanMade1776

Evil.


26 posted on 09/29/2007 7:54:38 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
In case you missed Monday's Factor:

The O'Reilly Factor body language of Hillary Clinton
27 posted on 09/29/2007 7:57:52 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I really hate sarcasm. We do not allow it in our family. Wouldn’t that be nice to have a sarcastic President? Who cackles? And has legs like kegs? And ...

oh NO....


28 posted on 09/29/2007 8:01:01 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Get Greta van Blovusteren on this RIGHT NOW! WE WANT TO KNOW!...and, NO ISLAND DUTCH INEFFICIENCY EITHER!! An undefined laugh, the evil tip of an ICEBERG that will CHILL US ALL!!!

Or, maybe just a malevolent closet psychotic with an outbreak of internal humor of unworldly origin?


29 posted on 09/29/2007 8:01:25 PM PDT by givemELL (http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept07/rot-within4.html)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I think you’ve got it. She’s a total phony, always has been. The demonic, fake look of bug eyed surprise, the hideous “laugh”.

Everything is practiced and repeated over and over again. She’s such a total phony as so much of the left is.

What’s disappointing is that so much if not all on the left and the media (same thing) just don’t get it.

Amazing how blind so many people can be.

30 posted on 09/29/2007 8:01:54 PM PDT by garyhope
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To: Straight Vermonter
Apparently the pantsuited one thinks abortion is murder.

I think not. Anyone who supports Roe vs Wade does not think that abortion is murder.

31 posted on 09/29/2007 8:02:07 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: AmericanMade1776

new meds?

Or

new personality makeover....trying to convince the world that she’s a fun-loving, wonderful person. (not the nasty battle-ax everyone thinks she is)


32 posted on 09/29/2007 8:11:04 PM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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To: AmericanMade1776

This is some “handler’s” failed attempt to make Hillary Rotten Clinton appear to be a normal human being. But she is an abnormal being.

The woman is a cold, soulless wicked witch, hence the cackle.

Hillary Rotten Clinton does not know how to act like a normal person, because she is not one. She is a mentally disturbed megalomaniac, and that is why she appears maniacal.


33 posted on 09/29/2007 8:14:30 PM PDT by SerpentDove (See you at the bill signing. NOT.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

This is some “handler’s” failed attempt to make Hillary Rotten Clinton appear to be a normal human being. But she is an abnormal being.

The woman is a cold, soulless wicked witch, hence the cackle.

Hillary Rotten Clinton does not know how to act like a normal person, because she is not one. She is a mentally disturbed megalomaniac, and that is why she appears maniacal.


34 posted on 09/29/2007 8:14:35 PM PDT by SerpentDove (See you at the bill signing. NOT.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

This belly laugh was the last thing Vince Foster ever heard...


35 posted on 09/29/2007 8:18:20 PM PDT by spyone
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To: llevrok

>>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.
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That’s a good point. Up until now, she has NOT had to face any tough questions. Now they are unavoidable.

Looks like the strategery was to cackle, but it blew up in her face, big time.

Wonder how she will try to tapdance around questions now?

Hope she keeps cackling.


36 posted on 09/29/2007 8:20:09 PM PDT by SerpentDove (See you at the bill signing. NOT.)
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To: Miss Didi

On the YouTube comments, someone suggests using the Cackle as a ringtone. Yeesh!


37 posted on 09/29/2007 8:21:06 PM PDT by AZLiberty (President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"Jon Stewart skewered Mrs. Clinton on “The Daily Show” last week with a compilation of her outbursts from the Sunday morning shows."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72Cq7AgjSQ

38 posted on 09/29/2007 8:22:07 PM PDT by kennedy
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To: gunservative

Great minds ...


39 posted on 09/29/2007 8:24:03 PM PDT by kennedy
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To: freekitty
Maybe we should laugh inappropriately at her.

Wouldn't that be funny?! Would probably get tasered, as well.

40 posted on 09/29/2007 8:24:59 PM PDT by rabidralph
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