Posted on 10/02/2007 6:58:02 AM PDT by presidio9
Chris Wallace brings out the real Bill and Hillary each time he interviews one of them.
For those who have ever visited Clintonland, it’s sometimes hard to recognize the slickly-scripted, post-White House media personalities of the Clintons: the affable, smiling Hillary seen on the campaign trial or the laid back, take-it-as-it-comes Bill who periodically surfaces for softball interviews.
But every once in a while, there’s a rare moment of clarity. That happened last year when Wallace interviewed the former president. At the end of the interview, Bill lost it. Suddenly the veneer was off, exposing the enraged, snarling, lunging Bill accusing Wallace of “do[ing] his nice little right wing hit job” when he forced Clinton to address his inability to capture or kill bin Laden.
Not a pretty sight.
And Wallace did it again in his recent interview of Hillary. Asked about the extreme partisan politics espoused by her and her husband, the real Hillary challenged Wallace. “Well, Chris, if you'd walked even a day in our shoes over the last 15 years I'm sure you'd understand."
Hillary preceded her passing moment of reality by a loud, inappropriate and mirthless laugh – a scary sound that was somewhere between a cackle and a screech. She was quick to follow it with a scripted recitation about how she wants to rise above partisanship. (Of course) But, in between, we saw a fleeting glimpse of the pervasive sense of victimization and self-righteousness that even now underscores the vicious partisanship with which both Clintons play the game of politics.
Amazingly, they seem to genuinely believe that they ar e still the targets of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” and that they are alone and under attack despite their manifest virtue and singular desire to do good.
You don’t see this authenticity very often. Hillary’s handlers have taken great pains to teach her the art of concealment, hiding her raw partisanship behind a smile and, when necessary, even a forced laugh. A laugh that’s often too long and too loud.
And so, at the beginning and the end of the Wallace interview, Hillary sounded just like a laughing hyena. Watch the video on FOX News or YouTube. You won’t laugh.
It’s part of the Hillary defense. Just as Hillary’s answers are scripted, so is her "spontaneous" laughter. This is truly learned behavior — laughing — or pretending to laugh at will. Over the past 15 years, she’s perfected the art of responding to people, questions and networks that she doesn’t like. In the past, she would sneer and answer sarcastically, as in, “Maybe I should have stayed home and baked cookies.” But those days are over. Now she smiles constantly and dissolves into a flood of loud giggles. It’s been a big part of her media training.
The mainstream media hasn’t had much to say about the laughing candidate. But can you imagine if Rudy Giuliani responded to a network interviewer by laughing loudly and hysterically for five seconds? No doubt The New York Times would seriously wonder about his state of mind. But they don’t find it odd with Hillary.
It’ll likely be a long time before we see the real Hillary again. So next time you hear her special laugh, think about what it really means.
Cackle here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZTB62AaH-4
Excellent observation - I hadn’t thought of that...SO TRUE!
Halloween doth come much too early methinks.
Rise above partisanship? Oh, please.
And how about that laugh of hers? Oy.
BTTT
It doesn’t matter: the American people still want the Clintons, warts and all.
Of course they're not going to find anything odd or wrong with her laughter. The Times is carrying her water.
Hollywood is crazy. The Oscar and the Emmy should have gone to the Clintons, not Owlgore.
cackle cackle cackle
The most alarming thing that I have heard on TV in years was the Toe-Sucker describing himself as “Conservative,” and then Alan Colmes being shrewd enough to get him to expand on that comment.
The CLINTON CACKLE. I like it...its got a nice ring to it.
The Clintons are the patron saints of “Progressiveland”.
“the American people still want the Clintons, warts and all.”
The portion of the American people who want Federal handouts, want the Clintons.
I hear it more as a derisive, contrived belly-laugh... akin to the one by DeNiro in the remake of Cape Fear. (Click)
Dick Morris said last night on Hannity and Skeletor that the first thing Hillary would do if elected President is either double the capital gains tax to 30% or completely get rid of it and have it taxed as ordinary income. He said in light of this, the stock market will crash due to the massive selloff and that the first week of her Presidency it would be “Black Wednesday.”
At the very least, something this dumb would simply drive more businesses out of the country and put the economy into a recession.
I truly believe these people have screws loose....They are very frightening. Talking a redneck saying” them peoples are one can short of a six pack”.
Don’t be so hard on Ms. Hillary as she is simply practicing for an audition for some role in the “Wizard of Oz” stage play. She already has her monkeys.
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