Clinton Responds To Coulter Support With Coughing Fit

Candidates on the campaign trail are frequently faced with any number of tough questions and confronted on all sorts of difficult and divisive issues. But only Hillary Clinton has had to face down the harrowing prospect of earning the support of wackadoodle dandy Ann Coulter. When asked to respond to the news by George Stephanopoulos, Clinton was either forced to choke back a dollop of gorge or else found the prospect so amusing that it prompted a coughing jag. Anyway, who can blame Clinton for reacting the way she did? It definitely "humanizes" her!

Comments

[CanSoc]

If that was a "coughing fit" I hope I have such a fit the next time I have bronchitis. I know the MSM has been exaggerating politicians' reactions lately (Hillary's "emotional meltdown/crying", Bill "lashes out", Mitt "erupts" etc.) but now even the HuffPost is doing it? As Charlie Brown (and the other members of the Peanuts gang) would say, AAUGH!

[testerwebbdemocrat]

Hillary has never done a single thing to any of you.

If you hate her anyway, it says more about YOU than about her.

[Bushgirlsgonewild]

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I don't think that 'coughing fit' was a negative comment. One definition of 'fit' is "a sudden outburst of emotion".

By that definition, it was a fit. She was caught off-guard, as one might be by the punch line of a joke, and reacted with a sudden outburst of emotion, which she immediately stifled.

Hillary can't win.

Oh, she can win the general election, but she can't 'win' whatever she does, because some people can’t tolerate a woman being as purposeful as a man in a game as dirty and tough as politics.

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[researcher]

hey in a dumbed down brainwashed society like america someone like mc cain who fought in that other illegal war was shot down and now is called a war hero will eat hillary up on national defense.

all mc cain has to do is sing bomb bomb iran. note his poll numbers went up after that song. most americans in their hearts are war mongers. few know that they are.

and of all things the worst war mongers are the evangels. go figure. didnt jesus have problems with the religious right in his day?

I heard one evangel state we will know when jesus comes back because if he accepts us than that is the true jesus but if he rejects us then we will know it is not jesus. hows that for a rational mind.

I am no ron paul supporter but he is the only one that tells it like it is with our imperialism and the cost of maintaining our empire.

does anyone know where ron paul's economic theorys work?

[oshpd1]

With the right-wing conspiricy now supporting the Hill and the Bill who will Ms. Clinton blame things on now. It appears the far right will support her. Does that mean she is a closet Republican? And I did hear that she said secrity of America in not one of her priorities. Number one on her adjenda is Hillary and what Hillary can get.

[LisaGiocondo]

" Fit " ???

What fit?

If Obama coughed at the moment he began to answer a question, would he be described as having a "fit"?

The thinly-disguised misogyny that's barely contained under the skin of Hillary Clinton's critics is reaching fever pitch.

[BillyCioffi]

Idiotic what's your point Jason? Anything to turn a screw on Clinton. You guys are impossible even the stupid Coulter you use. How low can YOU go.
oops sorry I asked that!

[illinoisan]

I thought she was cramming a Twix in her mouth to stall.

[Kane]

I just fell out of my chair! Did anyone else catch what Clinton just said?

"And although security is not foremost on the agenda, there is no predicting what the agenda will look like come next fall."

Is she f-ing nuts?!? When is security not foremost on the agenda? If Clinton gets the nomination, get ready to watch this clip over and over and over again.

[zreeb]

Does not compute, enable voice modulator.

[gdaerin]

I think it's pretty obvious that she was about to go into her stage laugh, you may recognize it from every other time she does a short tv interview. She always uses it on any tough questions as a way to segue into a dodgy answer.

If you hadn't already noticed this, just pay attention and you will. In fact, you might never be able to Not notice it again, and if so, I'm sorry. But, it's not my fault she is so predictable and all her responses are rehearsed. In her defense, this wouldn't be a problem if Obama wasnt so natural and authentic. Unfortunately, she seems fake compared to him.

Anyway I think she tried to use the stage laugh, but it triggered a cough.

Did anyone else notice that she was coughing during the debate?

She must be getting sick, that must suck!

[isis]

Got to admit that she looks kind of cute when she coughs.

[theuniversal]

Obama supporter here. But that was not a 'coughing fit'. Sounded like she may have a cold.

[sklfcats]

Who ever told Ann she is something?

[nellie]

I thought her reaction was completely appropriate. She laughed.