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ashling

(25,771 posts) Fri May 18, 2012, 07:09 PM May 2012

Why Is This Man Laughing? [View all]

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/18/mitt-romneys-laugh/

Everyone has noticed by now the non-laugh laugh of Mitt Romney, a kind of half-stifled barking. But what does it mean? It is blurted out as abruptly as it is broken off. Is it a kind of punctuation, part comma, part full stop, part interrogatory mark? What, if anything, is it trying to convey? Why does it seem more like coughing or burping than laughter?

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Romney would apparently like to resemble Dostoyevsky’s “Idiot,” but that kind of idiocy is beyond him.

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Why Is This Man Laughing? [View all] ashling May 2012 OP

It looks tortured and forced. aint_no_life_nowhere May 2012 #1

He's been doing it Crow73 May 2012 #4

His magic underwear is tickling his 'nads? tularetom May 2012 #2

Somebody in the audience just snatched a lollipop from a toddler. DCKit May 2012 #3

Because he's just 5 1/2 months from retirement!!! Scuba May 2012 #5

Because the joke is on the audience. ScreamingMeemie May 2012 #6

He just saw a blind guy walk into a closed door. Funny shit, eh, Mitt? 11 Bravo May 2012 #7

Because ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2012 #8

He loves Lakes. FSogol May 2012 #9

Faulty programming. Ikonoklast May 2012 #10

His carvelator doesn't go all the way to the top. n/t 2on2u May 2012 #11

He is laughing at the poor Rosa Luxemburg May 2012 #12

that is nowhere close to a laugh. spanone May 2012 #13