Hillary's tactic of laughing was picked up by Jon Stewart days ago...

It annoyed me on Sunday but seeing Stewart pick up on it made me realize that a LOT of people are annoyed with this seemingly new tactic. Here's the clip from The Daily Show:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/9/26/82945/2972
(Could you imagine any of the male candidates laughing at every question?)

she has the best laugh? Didn't he say that in an interview right BEFORE she started on her laughing kick?

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I have a very similar reaction when I'm asked questions that are insincere

and she laughed at serious questions, too. "Insincere questions"? How 'bout her insincere answers and insincere laughter?

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If someone approaches me with something I know is crap I usually respond the same way she does. I think she is being herself...like it or hate it, I think shes just confortable enought now to be who she is.

And are all the other candidates allowed to break out in sustained laughter when asked questions they don't like? How is a question about her Lieberman vote a BS question?

and one that is intended to make political points based on misdirection.

And yes, I think it would be much better for them to highlight, in any fashion they choose, any question being posed as a means of "punking" them.

Asking her about her vote is one thing, trying to make in into something it isn't is another.

I think it's a very SERIOUS question. They're ALL asked "BS" questions. If she doesn't want to answer them, she shouldn't go to the debates.

She is comfortable enough to say what she wants, I am an Edwards supporter but the truth is the truth. I was a Bill supporter in both his campaigns.

a warm or approachable person and this might be a way to address that. Also, it might be a way to disarm a pointed question and put it back on the other guy. However it is, it bothers me genuinely. I don't find much in public life worth laughing over. She needs to ditch this crap.

Humorous remark detected.

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I hope people watch the clip!

"And your little dog, too!!"


There's never a bucket of water around when you need one...

that laughter has the same tone as the cackles of the witch!

I went to college at K-State and Little Hill brings back bad memories of life on the Yellow Brick Road after a tornado . . .

I am going to plagerize that line (There's never a bucket of water around when you need one...) from now on when I am in the presence of a woman who is in touch with her inner bitch, er . . . I mean witch.

ABC!

ABC!

ABC!

Sometimes I feel it's called for, and other times it's not.

With some of the stupid leading questions people ask her, starting off her response with a good laugh tends to put it in perspective.

It was inappropriate to laugh at that.

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Apparently not. If I were in Congress, Bush would absolutely NOT get the benefit of doubt - not at all. He has proven himself unworthy time and time again. I'm sick of the bipartisan shit. It's time to stop playing their game.

And yes, in the example you mentioned it was not appropriate for her to laugh.

and I wish Obama voted no rather than not voting.

She prides herself on being experienced. She says she wouldn't have given Bush the authority for the IWR if she knew he'd abuse it then she votes for the same thing re: Iran?

and not on what she voted for?

but I'm not going to punish you. I think this stuff is true.

I can take it. I speak my mind. :hi:

I've got several issues with her positions, but picking on her laughter to BS questions by the MSM is going too far. Girls and women laugh a lot more than boys and men; maybe there's something to be learned.

It's sooooo irritating and contrived IMO and in many other people's opinions, too. So "girl" presidents are held to different standards than "boy" presidents?

some of the other candidates should laugh at the inane questions they are asked. What if I said that picture of Obama smiling gets on my nerves, now wouldn't that be petty.

And what's funny about it?

The 'good ol' boys' have fucked 'US' up royally.

She can laugh all she wants-that wasn't funny.

like I do on every single issue; until then it looks like I'm stuck with candidates that I don't/won't ALWAYS agree with.

is inappropriate. Especially since she voted FOR it.

even when the laughter at that moment may be inappropriate. 'WE' must concern ourselves with issues of substance; there are one hell of a lot of THEM.

only more annoying.

I'd like to see just one honest reaction from Hillary. She clearly practiced "the laugh" in front of a mirror before she rolled it out.

I agree 100%. :hi:

Just look at ALL the bad actors in the house and senate; the ABSOLUTE WORST actors in the world.

Not the sound of it but the timing. When you use it to avoid questions or soften the blow that's not the same as just being a bubbly person.

and I know it's my problem not hers, Norah O'Donnell's laugh. And,over the years, I have gotten to hate O'Donnell's laugh because of how she has interviewed Democrats ('Isn't it true that Democrats hate America' type questioning)

it IS very similar!

I was once asked if I still beat my wife. I just laughed at the question.

That's the point.

Sometime one gets to a point where it's either laughter or going insane. So yeah-- I pretty much laugh every time I'm asked a stupid, pointless question.

LOL

She, unlike you, is running for president and agreed to take part in these debates. I'm sure she practices answers for questions expected to come up. She laughed at questions which were NOT funny nor stupid nor pointless. Why should that be acceptable?

Stupid and condescending...

I think she should quit that.

How is it small and petty to be annoyed at a candidate laughing at inappropriate times?

Thanks to The DLC, the democratic party will FULLY be handed our political a** in 2008. :(

When will our democratic leaders SHED the poisonous DLC? Maybe after 2008?

Does anyone think most of the country won't be turned off by that cackle after it's looped a hundred thousand times by the RW machine?

They had to lie to attack Gore and Kerry. They won't have to CREATE an annoying trait for Hillary - she handed this to them on a silver platter.

She is annoying to US. Imagine what a motivating factor she'll be for the Repubs. to go out and vote for a pro-choice, pro-cheating on wife, flip-flopping Repub. just to keep her out of the WH!

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and how nobody else can. :D

thats pretty much what i get, she gets asked a serious question and the way to avoid doing the hard thing and actually ANSWERING, she BELITTLES it by laughing at the questioner...

the best example was when mike gravel said he ashamed of her for voting for that pseudo-iran-war-authorization, a very VERY serious situation, and she laughed at him...that showed to me how insincere she can be

That's why she does it, as well as to look confident at the same time. It ain't working.

Way way way fake and very obvious...

It's an old trick, like the candidate herself.

as they did the "Dean scream". Right now the Corp Media is promoting her as they did Dean because the RWing wants her as the Candidate. If she becomes the Candidate they will savage her with every trick in their arsenal.

I got a kick out of it when she did it the first time, laughing in the face of Chris Wallace on FOX Noise.

Then she did it to Mike Gravel last night, and that's when it got old.

Trust me, she'll want to lose that hideous laugh.

I guess we both see how ridiculous they are... :eyes:

that. So she or somebody else decided she should laugh more. What is the big deal? She's good at it. And it ligtens the load for a bit. Why not a feel good Hillary president? Why not? Any responce any of the candidates make to any question is well planned out before. She's no different than any other candidate. Except she is lighter.

It was silly.

Just thought I'd get out ahead of the mods on this one. :evilgrin:

B-)

But then I'll beg and let myself back in.

Ya know...alienate them right down to their very last moment on DU!

I think some folks require a reboot now and again. Either that or just turning off the computer and picking up a book.

I would suggest a funny movie for some. Nothing with a political theme!

She's stoned.

oh wait, that was Bill...

It's her "tell" when she's uncomfortable.

but she just started it. I think it's just another calculated move. And it's annoying.

I just love Jon Stewart! And btw, Hillary's laugh is not so bad. Definitely better than Norah O'Donnel. Her laugh is ridiculous.

I think her laugh is just LIKE Norah's, but Norah's not running for president.

If you were to play both their laughs, you would definitely cringe more at Norah's.

of laughing at a criticism--just to name two frequent abusers. I'm talking bogus laughter.

I admit that it is indeed funny to have Fox calling anyone "Too partisan", but I never saw the FOX broadcast, I saw Senator Clinton on two other Sunday morning shows.

She laughed at a few different criticisms on those shows, and it didn't work. I don't think it's a good plan to react that way, and it was clearly a decided upon plan.

It should be dropped, unless of course the Clinton team is hoping to appeal to right-wing voters. They love that technique of dismissively laughing at people for criticism as if it was some kind of answer. It may even be to the point of a Pavlovian response for some RW viewers. As a Friend of mine who was listening-in said, it's disrespectful.

I believe the initial FOX laughter might have been genuine. How could it not be? But laughing for her now has the appearance of being a planned reaction when it comes to confronting non-ironic criticism. It's not a natural human response. It's a manipulative technique.

If I were on her team, I'd advise her to practice the wry smile, not the forced laughter. Or maybe just maintain a respectful demeanor and eviscerate a criticism with actual humor--let us in on the joke.

But what is one to do when the criticism is a valid one?

Maybe laughing in folks' faces works after all. I'm sitting here trying to think of what the actual criticisms were in those programs, and can't recall!

I hate politics. I hate endless campaigns.

right-wing voters." Of course, she is appealing to Moderate Repugs & Swing Voters. She cannot win without a large % of them. She & her team take the Dems for granted because they know that most Dems will vote for any Dem candidate to avoid another Repug Pres. If she keeps that phony laughing going the Corp Media will play it ad nauseum, as they did the "Dean scream".

Hillary used the laugh thing on 60 minutes before the first Clinton election, when ask what she thought when she heard about Jennifer Flowers, I remember because at that time I was talking to the War room and told them that I was from the South, my dad had been a consultant, and that I had thought about what she should say, I said just say I laughed, she in a hesitant way said I just laughed, it was all ok with the rest of the program...until this day I wonder if that was my suggestion.

Every. Single. Time. She has her laugh scripted to the millisecond.

to January... :)

and then she did it again at the debate last night. You know an adviser told her she had to soften her image, but she used that laugh at some of the most inappropriate times. Strangest thing I've seen thus far in this race and Stewart nailed it.