Scarborough to Maddow: "[Y]ou've got the Clinton cackle down, Rachel. I'm proud of you"

Published: July 7, 2008, 2:22 pm

On the July 3 edition of MSNBC's Race for the White House, guest host Joe Scarborough said to Air America Radio host Rachel Maddow about her laugh: "[Y]ou might support [Sen. Barack] Obama, but you've got the Clinton cackle down, Rachel. I'm proud of you." Commenters on Democratic Underground and Daily Kos noted the exchange that evening. As Media Matters for America documented, after Sen. Hillary Clinton's appearance on all five Sunday political talk shows on September 23, 2007, political reporters and other media personalities seized on Clinton's laugh as a new subject of attention, with several media figures calling Clinton's laugh a "cackle." The media, including Scarborough and others on MSNBC, have also mocked Clinton on numerous occasions for the tone and volume of her voice. The fixation on Clinton's laugh has persisted on MSNBC. For example, during the April 22 edition of MSNBC Live, guest host David Shuster said to senior campaign correspondent Tucker

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