In a column that inadvertently reminds us of the 'liberal' media's assault on reason -- or obsession with weighty issues such as John Edwards’ hair, Hillary Clinton’s cleavage and Al Gore's sighs, longtime liberal pundit and Al Gore basher Frank Rich joins in the media whining about Hillary Clinton’s laughter.
Turns out, Rich sees Hillary as just another automaton like Al Gore:
What I saw on television last Sunday was the incipient second coming of the can't-miss 2000 campaign of Al Gore. . . Like the former vice president, she often came across as a pontificator and an automaton — in contrast to the personable and humorous person she is known to be off-camera. . . 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. . . Now Mrs. Clinton is erupting in a laugh with all the spontaneity of an alarm clock buzzer.
Yeah, cause who could possibly find the U.S. media laughable?
This from the liberal pundit who helped put Bush in the White House in 2000 with mindless commentary such as:
Frank Rich (3/11/00): Eight months to go—but hey, who's counting?—and we're stranded with two establishment, tightly scripted, often robotic candidates who are about as different from one another as J. Crew and Banana Republic.
Frank Rich (11/4/00): In 2000, the fool is the guy who works 24/7 and lets us see all the sweat. That would be Al Gore, who is a hyperventilating fount of worst-case scenarios and details we don't want to bone up on (Dingell-Norwood, anyone?). He is the truly stupid one.
Frank Rich (11/18/00): Collectively Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush have succeeded in uniting the country in exactly one bipartisan belief—that neither of them deserves to be president. While Mr. Bush may spare us Mr. Gore's insufferable, schoolmarmish tone, his “affable” alternative is to speak to us as if we've all been held back together with him in grade school.
Gee, I can hardly wait for the general election.
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