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But Hillary and Rudy are in a fake-laugh league of their own.
Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume Clinton thought the "socialized medicine" question was funny because it was so predictable. But how about her tittering answers to Bob Schieffer, Harry Smith, Diane Sawyer and others? When she got YouTubed on it, her aides canned the laugh overnight.
By Chris Matthews's count, Giuliani laughed 15 times during his "Meet the Press" appearance, one of the great TV grillings of all time (e.g., Russert: "Would it be appropriate for a president to provide Secret Service protection to his mistress?"). Because certifiable phoniness is apparently preferable to looking wounded or overly defensive, we can expect to see Rudy circling the laugh track anytime anyone goes after him. It reminds me of the caption Esquire routinely used under a picture of a smiling Richard Nixon (the "new Nixon") when he ran in 1968: "Why is this man laughing?"
So we'd better get used to that google-eyed chuckle when reporters bring up his hostile attitude toward dissent in New York, his placing of the emergency command center in the World Trade Center after it had already been bombed in 1993, his use of on-duty police officers to take his mistress shopping and walk her dog, his attempted unconstitutional power grab when his term ended, his recommendation that Bernie Kerik, who was associated with people who themselves had suspected mob links, protect the nation from terrorism, his still-undisclosed profiteering off of 9/11 and whatever else might be relevant to predicting the temperament he would bring to the laugh riot that would be his presidency.
One of the questions that the 2008 handlers in both parties will likely discuss when they all get together is whether laughing works. Should it go into the damage-control toolbox with spin and counterattack?
Right now, the answer looks like no. Clinton actually has a nice sense of humor in private, but her fake laugh just reinforces the rap that she's inauthentic. Giuliani can also be funny with friends (especially if you like your humor with a nasty streak), but he's not a good enough actor to yuk his way through the muck.
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