Some weeks, when you do live television, you leave the studio mumbling what you should have said. And some weeks, you walk away thinking, “boy, every wacky one-liner that popped in my head today got a laugh.” And, I hope, illustrated my point…

KURTZ: Why does it take Jon Stewart to point that out [Hillary’s mechanical laugh]? GERAGHTY: Did anyone else’s eardrum just burst in pain of hearing that over and over again? No, you know, it’s one of those things where probably Jon Stewart can get away with it — with a comedian. I’m willing to bet almost every interviewer on Sunday morning said, “Oh, there she goes with that laugh again. Oh, Hillary’s so fun.” But if, you know, Tim Russert or Chris Wallace or one of these guys comes out and says this, you know, it will easily turn into a very hostile interview. You’re not supposed to assess your interviewee while you’re talking to them, as much as I hope you are not assessing me now.

Then on that spiked GQ article:

First of all, allegedly, the story is about infighting in the Hillary Clinton campaign. I read in “The Washington Post” and “The New Republic” all the time about infighting in political campaigns. This is nothing new or shocking or surprising. So there had to be something really good in that story for the Clinton campaign to really lean on them with this much pressure.
It must have involved pictures of somebody with goats or something like that. Something that would be a huge scandal.
Then the next thing is that the story of going with Clinton and his global initiative, is there anything in that story that’s going to be truly shocking or surprising?

My apologies if the goats line rubs you the wrong way, but the point stands — how seriously damaging must this article have been to get the Clintons to lean on GQ? This woman just took flak over taking oodles of money raised by Norman Hsu; what’s a story about mere infighting by comparison?

Then one of Hillary’s habits that I admit leaves me grinding my teeth – her tendency to dismiss any question about what she might face as president by insisting she won’t deal with hypotheticals.

GERAGHTY: No. Well, first of all, I think that was probably one of the better debates than what we saw — who on that stage was prepared, who on that stage was decisive, and who was willing to show leadership. Unfortunately, it was Tim Russert.
But it was one of those things where this is what he does, and it’s one of those things where I really didn’t like her dismissal of the, ‘oh, it’s a hypothetical question’ when he asked about Israel striking Iran, because Israel had struck Syria earlier this month. This is not like Martians coming down tomorrow or something.

Finally, on Hillary’s use of her husband:

KORNBLUT: You know, he’s going to be — he’s raffling off a night with watching a debate with himself as part of a fund-raising tactic — come with me, watch the debate, eat a bag of chips. I mean, it’s an incredible asset for her…
GERAGHTY: Yes. Well, first of all, I’d just like to say, I’d like to watch a debate with Mrs. Kucinich.