Video: Hillary unleashes the mother of all cackles on Fox & Friends
posted at 9:15 am on December 17, 2007 by Bryan
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The Glacier broke the Democrat picket line against Fox News Channel this morning and appeared on Fox & Friends for the first time in the program’s 11-year history. Her appearance on Fox might have something to do with the polls, and might be a show of desperation in the face of the Obama surge. I’ll have a bit more of the interview edited to post here in a bit, but for now, here’s the Hillary cackle to end all Hillary cackles. Bill wishes, anyway.
Update: Here’s an edit of the interview. There is a second cackle, plus the odd line that if elected, Clinton will appoint qualified people to “some” government positions. But not all, I guess. Also, note the steel in her voice in the line “I will be president.” Resistance is futile.
Update: If I get a vote, the experiment in unveiling Clinton’s “likability” is a flop.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, trying to warm up an image some voters perceive as cold, starts a drive Monday to showcase her personal side with testimonials from friends, associates and constituents she has helped.
The online and in-person campaign, complete with a website called TheHillaryIKnow.com, comes a day after Clinton won a key endorsement from The Des Moines Register and her chief rival in the Democratic nomination race, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, was endorsed by The Boston Globe.
Fundamentals here: If you have to get reporters to write stories about your “likability,” you’re not actually all that likable.
Update: Johnny Dollar has the entire Hillacackle interview posted here.
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I haven’t even clicked the link yet and already my instinct to run away grows stronger.
Coronagold on December 17, 2007 at 8:59 AM
haha
trailortrash on December 17, 2007 at 9:16 AM
She really must be desperate if appearing on Fox. I saw the interview this morning. Her skin looks better.
frreal on December 17, 2007 at 9:17 AM
A horrible
laughwoman.leanright on December 17, 2007 at 9:18 AM
Appearing on Fox…man, those polls must really be nasty. Crossing picket lines, and appearing on Fox…desperate is too mild of a word.
right2bright on December 17, 2007 at 9:18 AM
Sounds like she laid an egg.
Rode Werk on December 17, 2007 at 9:20 AM
That sound is a simulation of laughter. Like some alien life form who has never before encountered laughter, and is trying to copy it and pass as human.
RushBaby on December 17, 2007 at 9:21 AM
I’ve never seen that Fox news show before. They don’t seem to ask real questions.
JiangxiDad on December 17, 2007 at 9:23 AM
I saw some of this this morning. Her answer to combat terrorists is to revamp FEMA. I don’t know if that particular exchange is covered in yur video, (can’t view it from work)but another HUHHHHH moment.
LakeRuins on December 17, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Did anyone catch the white eyeshadow smeared all around her eyes? It was smeared above and below. Maybe Miss Ice Queen went skiing and has snow goggle eyes.
Dunno, don’t care.
SouthernPride on December 17, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Desperation is the worst cologne.
moc23 on December 17, 2007 at 9:27 AM
Did I hear her right? Now she’s claiming not 8, but 35 years’ presidential experience.
Can you imagine anything like this coming from Laura, Barbara, Lady Bird, Rosalyn, Pat…
If she’s managed anything beyond HillaryCare and Bimbo Eruptions, she’d unlock the documents that might show it.
petefrt on December 17, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Apparently everyone’s make-up looks like arse on Fox.
By the by, I like the channel.
Jared_MA on December 17, 2007 at 9:30 AM
Good grief! That cackle sends shivers down your spine, doesn’t it?
Almost makes me feel sorry for old Bill. Well, almost.
RMR on December 17, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Second clip….there it is…she is counting on the big guys to put her in. Same in the general. Who needs Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming, and Rhode Island when you have New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. Yep….her plan is to be the President of the United City States.
Limerick on December 17, 2007 at 9:31 AM
So, uh…what I take from that answer is there’s no need to worry about terrorists before they attack, she’ll just wait until they do and then rely on FEMA to do a heckuva job helping everybody that’s been blown up. Great.
CP on December 17, 2007 at 9:32 AM
Gosh gee willikers, she’s so authentic, I don’t know why people think she’s a ruthless power-hungry demanding bitch.
Golly! She’s funny!
DUH!
benrand on December 17, 2007 at 9:32 AM
Perfect. Cue the bit where Schroeder plays the rinky-dink toy piano version of Jingle Bells and Lucy yells, THAT’S IT!
Seriously: what’s the easiest way to find audio clips of Hillary? I’d like to — seriously — run them through a spectral analyzer and find the frequency at which her voice resonates in my pain receptors. She gets going and her voice rises to its top pitch, and then she just gets louder.
There was a news story a couple months back about deeper voices (e.g., Fred!) having a political advantage, so I’m not the only one who’s interested.
saint kansas on December 17, 2007 at 9:34 AM
I think the first are people the Don Clinton has blackmail on, the second are henchman, and the final category is plants.
How much is someone willing to bet that one of the constituents she showcases is a Black man who worries about Obama’s authenticity but is glad to be voting for the first black female President?
Any takers?
BKennedy on December 17, 2007 at 9:36 AM
A huge belly-
laughcackle over the word “Hilli-copter”. Sorry, Comrade Hillary. It’s just not that funny.flipflop on December 17, 2007 at 9:36 AM
I get the feeling from the Democrat side that being President is just some thing to be acquired like a trophy, or in her case, a large profit from insider information.
I don’t she respects the US government anyway, she’s of the leftist mindset that it’s a vile construct.
There’s never any reverence in her voice for the office of the President.
benrand on December 17, 2007 at 9:38 AM
Oh, and BTW…I caught the segment live when it aired, and it was preceded by a similar segment with Fred.
Beauty And The Beast (I’ll leave it to you to decide which was which).
flipflop on December 17, 2007 at 9:38 AM
AAAH– UM— AAAAH— UM—- CACKLE CACKLE AAAAH– A–
UM– I believe– CACKLE CACKLE I– I– Cackle Cackle–
Bicyea on December 17, 2007 at 9:46 AM
This is so catty but I just can’t help myself. I wonder what kind of spackle she uses under her eyes?
Qzsusy on December 17, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Henhouse politics.
Griz on December 17, 2007 at 9:47 AM
I know it is unfair to hold women candidates to higher grooming standards than men but, geeze, her makeup was hideous. Two long streaks of red on either side of her face, her eye shadow a most unpleasant color. I saw it live and actually wondered if there was something wrong with the color on my TV set.
Babs on December 17, 2007 at 9:49 AM
I just can’t bear to watch.
JammieWearingFool on December 17, 2007 at 9:50 AM
She’s dragging along people who will tell what she’s done for them? What happened to “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”?
Qzsusy on December 17, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Wow! Women can be as big of gas bags as men. Equal rights for that has been claimed by Hilla-zeppelin
I actually lost a few IQ points watching that.
Hening on December 17, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Yeah and its already cold.
She always sounds like somebody just pulled her string.
Speakup on December 17, 2007 at 9:51 AM
As usual, I’m some what of an oracle…. I emailed the guys to let them know that she’d be on about an hour before she was, stating simply:
Of course, it’s really not much of a prediction… She brings it everywhere now. You’d think her advisers would have told her to stop. Clearly they told her to laugh to seem like a real person, back when she unleashed an entire Sunday of cackles on all the Sunday shows a couple months ago, but we’ve continued to hear it since. And obviously on Fox she’d be nervous and also trying her hardest to be “nice”, knowing it’s not a friendly audience. That cackle was pretty much the first thing out of her mouth after exchanging pleasantries.
RightWinged on December 17, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Ah, here it is… a full screen of Bin Laden and CNN asks “Where’s Obama?”
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/01/question-of-the-day/
And here was Yahoo! captioning a photo of Obama with “Osama bin laden and al-Qaida”
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/03/yahoo-captions-obama-photo-with-osama/
I know there are other examples (again, aside from drunk Uncle Ted).
The funny part about all of this, is the left has always whined about the right trying to smear him by linking his name to Osama and Saddam Hussein, etc. etc. But the examples continue to come from lefty MSM outlets.
RightWinged on December 17, 2007 at 9:58 AM
An egg called Hillarycare.
Frozen Tex on December 17, 2007 at 10:06 AM
She doesn’t pay a lot of attention to Obama? Then why has she dragged her dropping-in-the-polls butt onto Fox & Friends?
[Insert cackle here]
Yeah, that’s believable.
As for the cutesy “Hillicopter” thingy, they got it wrong by one letter.
It’s a Hellicopter.
fogw on December 17, 2007 at 10:09 AM
It’s early, but I hereby nominate that as Comment of the Day.
steveegg on December 17, 2007 at 10:11 AM
I’m with you JWF.
Talon on December 17, 2007 at 10:13 AM
The sanctimony of Hillary Clinton is breathtaking. Only about two months ago, Hillary thought she would win with ease so she said to an audience: “I am so proud of the way my campaign manager Howard Wolfson stood up to O’Reilly…”.
Well, if O’Reilly was so bad, why did Wolfson go on The Factor with O’Reilly? And Wolfson hardly “stood up to O’Reilly”. It was a friendly interview and most of the time it was just two old pals joking around. Wolfson has been on O’Reilly many times and is always treated respectfully and usually just jokes around with O’Reilly. Yet when Hillary Clinton talked to her audience, she made it seem that Wolfson had gotten into a dogfight with O’Reilly and left O’Reilly in tatters.
Now that Hillary desperately needs to make her case in Iowa and will take any audience she can get, she is suddenly back on Fox and everything is peaches and cream.
Maybe tomorrow Hillary will be a guest on Hannity and Colmes and she will refer to Mr. Hannity as “Sean”.
Larraby on December 17, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Ugh. What a laugh.
Spirit of 1776 on December 17, 2007 at 10:17 AM
The most important questions coming out of Iowa…
Is the helicopter painted black and is it registered with the U.N.?
Limerick on December 17, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Ya know, clenis says that if hil can just get more exposure people will warm up to her.
But she’s like a vampire and greater exposure (and that wicked witch of the north industrial strength cackle) will wind up destroying her.
I hope she gets LOTS of screen time. Just like she stuck her foot in her cackling mouth in the last debate, she just can’t help herself. That viscious vindictive core of her being is going to show. Not possible to hide it.
techno_barbarian on December 17, 2007 at 10:24 AM
So is she going to put on white cake make up, dye her hair green, and blow up Gotham?
Nethicus on December 17, 2007 at 10:25 AM
No, she’s going to take off the flesh-colored cake makeup, undye her hair, and blow up Gotham :-)
steveegg on December 17, 2007 at 10:26 AM
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but I think that the clintoons are the U.S. version of chavez. They certainly seem to have many of the same objectives.
techno_barbarian on December 17, 2007 at 10:27 AM
Okay, I thought the “Hill-acopter” thing was just a joke someone made on the Ron Paul blimp thread. She really is flying around in a black helicopter?! Next, Edwards will start riding around in a short school bus and McCain will make his campaign stops in a tank painted red white and blue.
aero on December 17, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Bwhahahhahaa! That’s great. Short bus politics.
techno_barbarian on December 17, 2007 at 10:34 AM
I’m sorry but for Hillary Clinton to come off as warm and likeable she has to actually be, well, warm and likeable.
What is most interesting to me is how quickly her “supporters” are jumping ship now that there is a sense of vulnerability in her campaign. The pundits who just a few weeks ago were still talking about her inevitable nomination are now questioning her ability to beat a three-year Senate veteran with absolutely zero experience in foreign affairs.
highhopes on December 17, 2007 at 10:35 AM
So wait…are we calling her Cackles or Cankles now?
James on December 17, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Did anyone catch the white eyeshadow smeared all around her eyes? It was smeared above and below. Maybe Miss Ice Queen went skiing and has snow goggle eyes.
Not that it’s important, but i certainly noticed it. I thought it was light blue eye shadow at first, but then I thought it must be that concealer stuff that has a blue tinge. It was awful! And she had way too much blush on as well. She usually doesn’t make mistakes like this.
Rightwingsparkle on December 17, 2007 at 10:38 AM
And your little dog too!
drjohn on December 17, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Forget water boarding. Prolonged exposure to that laugh could crush anyone’s will to resist.
meandchi on December 17, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Earlier this year I happened to hear a speech from a dem strategist guy named Lackoff, evidently some guru on the left, and the he said the dems don’t really want Hillary anymore. They appreciate her past service, yada yada, but it’s time for fresh blood. There’s a lot of lawyer money behind edwards, but they REALLY want obama.
Cackling Cankles isn’t the inevitable dem choice.
techno_barbarian on December 17, 2007 at 10:43 AM
She does an excellent job of mimicking the actions and emotions of an Earthling. We will all be assimilated.
DrW on December 17, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Guess I wasn’t the only one who noticed she bought her own canned laughter to Fox. What a fake! Anyone else notice the overdone orange blush on her cheeks ?… lipstick on a pig so to speak.
heroyalwhyness on December 17, 2007 at 10:48 AM
As we’ve established before, Hillary’s cackle is her “tell.” She does it when she’s nervous or uncomfortable. Her cackle should be music to our ears–it means she’s stumbling badly.
(I’m being rhetorical, of course. That “laugh” of hers is horrifying. I’m just pointing out that its root cause is actually reassuring. Might make it more tolerable for the time being.)
aero on December 17, 2007 at 10:48 AM
I thought she made one, but apparently she made two trips to China for women’s rights conferences, right? She made a point of those at one of the debates, so that accounts for, like, three or four days of the 35 years.
They also accomplished nothing but meant well, so it’s a perfect liberal credential.
saint kansas on December 17, 2007 at 10:57 AM
I’m with Rush in hoping that Laura Bush will jump into the race with her eight years of experience in the White House and four plus years as first lady of Texas. ;-0
Seriously, I’m not complaining but Hillary doesn’t do herself any favors when she claims all this “experience” because nobody is buying it. From a strategic point, she’d do better to focus on her education and actual credentials instead of bogus logic about how logging rack time at 1600 Penn. Ave is the same thing as being co-President.
highhopes on December 17, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Run Toto, run.
Ernest on December 17, 2007 at 11:10 AM
This was an obvious result of desperation to appear on Fox. If she ever shows up on The Factor, we know she’s firing her last bullet.
volsense on December 17, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Oh for crying out loud, she went on Fox & Friends. It’s hardly a sit-down with Brit Hume…
D2Boston on December 17, 2007 at 11:17 AM
You know, I really don’t think it’s going to be Hillary, but then who’s it going to be?
Ernest on December 17, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Such a sweet lady.
/sarc
moonsbreath on December 17, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Knocking on doors in Iowa?
I don’t think so.
The cackle tells all.
Hillicopter.
Now I’ve heard it all.
Christine on December 17, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Roger Ailes got the word out: only softballs to the Cowntess.
Christine on December 17, 2007 at 11:23 AM
That’s true enough but for a woman who is used to going on the Today show and given free reign to control the “interview”, it’s clearly an act of desperation.
highhopes on December 17, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Ernest,
This is all good fun, but make no mistake about it. It will be Hillary.
Rightwingsparkle on December 17, 2007 at 11:34 AM
I heard that too. I don’t if she’s claiming “presidential” experience but I don’t know what particular kind of experience she is talking about, unless it’s 35 years experience at being older than 25 years old…
I think she was talking about not paying attention to polls but that’s just as cackle worthy. I told the dog, “That’s a bald-faced lie. Just a bald-faced lie, that she doesn’t care about polls.”
kimsch on December 17, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Anchor: “So, what do you think of the Obama surge?”
HillBeast: “I don’t pay any attention to that…”
I declare BULL$HIT
Timothy S. Carlson on December 17, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Des Moines Register editorial? Oh yeah - that’s all it takes to wash away 3 decades of scandal, deceit and repellant personality traits.
I’m not convinced.
kooly on December 17, 2007 at 11:45 AM
Omigod! I think I’m having a heart attack!
Bill and Hillary Clinton - the more
youI see them the moreyouI hate them. The king and queen of slime !!OBX Pete on December 17, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Lol.
Zach on December 17, 2007 at 12:06 PM
24/7, All BS - All The Time!
rockbend on December 17, 2007 at 12:12 PM
I have a couple of questions that I wished they had asked:
How well is it going to play with the voters that she is zipping around the state in a H*llicopter and they are stuck shovelling out their cars?
And why did she have that giant clown smile painted onto her face?
pedestrian on December 17, 2007 at 12:27 PM
Re: my eye makeup comment and the other comments about Hildog’s a.m. makeup routine…..here’s why:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
YIKES! A new Hil pin-up pic for Allah & Brian!
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid!
SouthernPride on December 17, 2007 at 12:35 PM
That laugh. That insincerity.
And she wants to be my latex saleswoman.
PowWow on December 17, 2007 at 1:12 PM
Except that liberals don’t work that way. They will look at this as treason to their Party. This might just be the end for her after Huffpo, Kos, and DU get through with her.
Gregor on December 17, 2007 at 1:22 PM
I.just.can’t.watch.it!
freebird on December 17, 2007 at 1:31 PM
I’m not a Hillary supporter, but I saw the show and thought she gave a respectable performance considering that she was probably a bit wary of how Fox would treat a liberal. They were pretty easy on her so maybe we will be seeing more Democrat candidates on Fox soon. The cackle is unseemly but she probably can’t control it.
MRegine on December 17, 2007 at 1:37 PM
The boycott never had anything to do with how they treated guests. It is because Fox doesn’t obey the urgent action alerts issued by Kos.
pedestrian on December 17, 2007 at 1:43 PM
I nominate all of fogw’s posts “comment of the day”.
May you be right Rightwingsparkle. She’s the easiest to beat in the general.
You will be, but not of the U.S.A.
On the ‘charm-offensive’ - it’s so much fun to watch. People either are charming, or not. It can’t be transformed. With a chastity belt on, I’d have lunch with Bill. I wouldn’t want to spend one with her if I had a tank surround me.
Entelechy on December 17, 2007 at 2:09 PM
The sound of desperation…
I don’t see how people can listen to her laugh off these questions and still want to vote for her. Is this the personality America wants to send to represent us and answer questions on the international level?
She’s a disgrace.
thesheesh on December 17, 2007 at 2:16 PM
Its appropriate for her to get a broom to ride around on since we know that where ever she lands she’ll be telling some Hillawoppers.
Speakup on December 17, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Her behavior might be acceptable if she were applying to be a clown, but she wishes to be the President of the United States. A little more maturity and professionalism is needed. God forbid she lets out one of these horribly fake laughs when the UN asks her a question regarding Iraq or US foreign policy.
thesheesh on December 17, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy asked Clinton useless questions and allowed her to spin on and on without challenging her in any way. Carlson’s last question was beyond ridiculous and was better suited for a beauty pageant contestant. They were both so easy on Hillary that it was embarrassing for viewers to watch.
What a wasted opportunity!!!
sinsing on December 17, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Here is an interview that didn’t go so well for H*llary:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/12/17/gregory-grilling-turns-hillary-grin-upside-down
http://clinton-legacy.org/humor/hillary_aka_sopranos.jpg
pedestrian on December 17, 2007 at 3:13 PM
sinsing on December 17, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Doocy has turned out to be nothing more than a village idiot that is completely sold on himself, and it does not surprise me that he could not do a serious interview.
He is too old to act like a fool and not look foolish in the process. However, that doesn’t seem to have occurred to him as of yet, perhaps when he matures.
leanright on December 17, 2007 at 3:15 PM
It would be really mean to not let Hillary have her Presidency, it would be just mean.
She’s done SO MUCH to deserve it, we should let her have it and not be so mean.
benrand on December 17, 2007 at 3:21 PM
And by the way, Carlson needs to be hosting a cooking show. She made it quiet obvious that she is way over her head in the news room.
leanright on December 17, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Hillary’s foot, meet Hillary’s mouth.
A presidential candidate who says she pays no attention to her adversaries is not someone I want in charge of our national security.
fogw on December 17, 2007 at 3:27 PM
It amazes me, from a purely strategic standpoint, that she seems to think her laugh is just fine.
Does she even listen to herself?
The continuing use of this blood curdling, ridiculous laugh defies all reason.
Even SNL made fun of it, for crying out loud.
The final line of today’s column from Dick Morris sums it up quite nicely:
“Hillary’s experience has been limited to the insider back biting of Washington where she is an expert at using her secret police — a small army of private detectives — to unearth negatives about her or Bill’s opponents. (Even former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young recently admitted that Hillary ran the effort to discredit women who might come forward and accuse Clinton of misconduct.) But, when it comes to campaigning, advertising and winning an election, these folks and this candidate don’t have a clue.”
Indeed.
Hawkins1701 on December 17, 2007 at 3:44 PM
That’s one scary B . .
ill’s wife.
Anyway, I’m sure she just said campaign’s are like a box of chocolates.
- The Cat
MirCat on December 17, 2007 at 3:50 PM
Listen: never underestimate the Clintons and what they are willing to do to get back into the White House. The fact that she is willing to go on Fox makes her look reasonable. The laugh, though canned, is still a laugh. And she wants to lower expectations for Iowa so that she can be the “Comeback Kid”, the underdog, just like BJ before her. I tremble, not so much for her being in the WH (though that thought is terrible!), but I tremble at the thought of reprobate Bill trolling the halls looking for fresh meat. Bush should have thrown out that sink in the oval office washroom as his first act as president!
gajaw999 on December 17, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Steve Doocy reminds me alot of the Chauncey Gardner character from the movie “Being There”. Doocy interviewing Hillary Clinton is a little like Gomer Pyle interviewing Goober Pyle.
Larraby on December 17, 2007 at 4:29 PM
To who?
1. Fox’s normal viewing audience will not find anything remotely reasonable about the Hildebeast. They saw her performance as the circus act it was.
2. People who would be inclined to think her appearance came off as reasonable, never tune in to the evil Fox News channel, so she never reached her potential voting block who know exactly what they are getting anyway. Cackles and make-up do not a kind princess make.
3. Hillary went on Fox to look like the gal next door. She failed miserably. She’s as transparent as air itself.
She’s the 300 lb gorilla next door. Just ask anyone who’s crossed her, and still breathing.
Hang in there gajaw999, she’s only seen tracer fire so far. Wait till she runs in the general.
fogw on December 17, 2007 at 4:42 PM
I hope that Hillary appears on as many shows as possible. She says reasonable things, but her tone and body language are all wrong for someone who claims to be authentic.
I am convinced that she will sink like a rock as more persons begin to pay attention to her. Obama may be raw and not ready for the presidency (as Bill clinton rightly claims, although he sounds like a self-serving a** for stating the obvious), but he is real and appears to have a fundamental decency lacking in her royal highness.
ptolemy on December 17, 2007 at 5:16 PM
gajaw999 on December 17, 2007 at 5:25 PM
I’m convinced…all hail President Rodham
The next decade will be a daisy
Ochlan on December 17, 2007 at 5:44 PM
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