Can you believe it? The media "kool kids" have come up with a new schoolyard diversion: critiquing Hillary Clinton's laugh. (I happen to enjoy her laugh myself.)
I first caught wind of it the other day at Talking Points Memo. See here. Then today we have the following. This from Frank Rich, in a piece titled "Is Hillary Clinton the New Old Al Gore?" (uh-oh, here we go again):
Then there was that laugh. The Clinton campaign's method for heeding the perennial complaints that its candidate comes across as too calculating and controlled is to periodically toss in a smidgen of what it deems personality. But these touches of intimacy seem even more calculating: the "Let's chat" campaign rollout, the ostensibly freewheeling but tightly controlled Web "conversations," the supposed vox populi referendum to choose a campaign song (which yielded a plain-vanilla Celine Dion clunker). . . .
And the perennially puerile Maureen Dowd had this (in "The Nepotism Tango"):
That’s why Hillary is laughing a lot now, big belly laughs, in response to tough questions or comments, to soften her image as she confidently knocks her male opponents out of the way. From nag to wag.
These people really are pathetic.
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