The Clinton Cackle
Former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris recently described Hillary Clinton’s laugh as:
“loud, inappropriate, and mirthless. A scary sound that was somewhere between a cackle and a screech.”
Known for her sarcastic putdowns, Democrat presidential frontrunner Hilary Clinton is changing tack to what commentators have dubbed ‘the Clinton Cackle’. She’s accused of bursting into mirthless laughter to deflect aggressive or uncomfortable questions from reporters or rivals. It works – up to a point. Interviewers are left flummoxed, wondering if they’ve missed a quickfire Clinton joke. But the increasing frequency at which she despatches the cackle has left her open to accusations that its deployment isn’t only in good humour. Conservative radio hosts routinely play Clinton’s “cackle” on their shows and the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme recently hauled in a political analyst to discuss similar uses of unjustified laughter. However, her lead in the polls shows Americans are listening to her words and not to her belly laugh.
In the London mayoral contest, maybe we’ll see Livingstone unleash the Ken cackle, it’d probably do him more favours when pitted against the genuinely funny Boris.
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