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Laura Ingraham on Obama's Accent in NAACP Address - "That's Just Weird" - Video 7/17/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | July 19, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 07/19/2009 4:59:15 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of Laura Ingraham asking two guests, "What was going on with the accent that he was affecting? That was just weird." She was talking about President Obama's sing-songy, preacher-type accent as he addressed the NAACP on Friday. Below is video of his address to the NAACP . . . . . (Watch Videos)

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bho; lauraingraham; naacp; obama; obamaaccent

1 posted on 07/19/2009 4:59:15 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot

Maybe he wanted to sound southern? Or maybe he thought thats how black people are supposed to talk?


2 posted on 07/19/2009 5:01:30 AM PDT by GeronL (UnitedCitizen.Blogspot.Com --------- United Citizens Nation! ------------- Join Today!)
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To: GeronL

Obeyme was using a hillary “I’ve come to far!” accent?


3 posted on 07/19/2009 5:03:16 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Federalist Patriot

The idea that Obama is some great orator is absurd. He can’t even humanize reading the TOTUS. He’s a horrible speaker. I was analyzing some of his speeches from a purely clinical POV as someone who took two years of speech in college. He’s not that good. Remembering what I learned and the criticisms I got in my classes he would probably not get better than a “C” grade.


4 posted on 07/19/2009 5:06:08 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: newfreep

I loved her “I aint in no ways turd” speech. A classic!


5 posted on 07/19/2009 5:12:35 AM PDT by Jagman (You comport, We deride!)
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To: Federalist Patriot

That speech was ridiculous. An affected accent and a very poor one at that. It sounded as silly as I would if I affected a Welsh accent and tried to give a speech.

How embarrassing!


6 posted on 07/19/2009 5:15:36 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

I noticed that also.
Similar to “I ain’t no ways tired” Hillary Clinton.

A bit condescending I would think.


7 posted on 07/19/2009 5:17:01 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I agree with Rick..)
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To: Federalist Patriot

I’ve noticed before that he does this. Since Barry has no inner reality, he can fake whatever one he wants and thinks will make his audience love him.

It’s particularly condescending in the case of blacks since Obama is essentially just a white lefty yuppy with slightly darker than average skin and has nothing in common with his African American audience. But they seemed to be eating it up, so obviously it works.


8 posted on 07/19/2009 5:19:44 AM PDT by livius
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To: raybbr

You can’t analyze his speeches as you would in a college class. The speeches are full of statements that say nothing, but imply a lot. He’d be laughed out of a college speech class or a debating society with those speeches.

His oratory powers come from a combination of the hypnotic qualities of his voice, coupled with the fact that his audience has been prepared beforehand by the media and their own expectations. He says nothing, but they hear what they want to hear.

He could read the phone book for a hour and his Faithful would still swoon and swear afterwards that he had delivered a “powerful message”.


9 posted on 07/19/2009 5:27:10 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Question O-thority!)
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To: Federalist Patriot

That was his “Uighur” accent


10 posted on 07/19/2009 5:31:11 AM PDT by Blado (''crush the bourgeoisie...grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation'' - V.I. Lenin)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Don’t all Hawaiians talk that way?


11 posted on 07/19/2009 5:33:43 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Federalist Patriot

He was trying on his best Jesse Sharpton. It was comical.


12 posted on 07/19/2009 5:34:00 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Barack Hussein Obama: Scab picker in chief.


13 posted on 07/19/2009 5:35:47 AM PDT by csmusaret (If you like this economy, keep voting for Donkeys.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

No link to a video of Obama’s speech?
I didn’t really want to them just talking about it.


14 posted on 07/19/2009 5:36:50 AM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: livius

Recall how enthralled with himself he is as he pronounces Arabic words and phrases fluently to impress his other friends.


15 posted on 07/19/2009 5:58:28 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: Federalist Patriot

When in Austria, speak Austrian. When addressing the folks, speak Black. No one seemed to call him on his patronizing.
Where was that brave soul who smacked down Babs Boxer for racial condescension?


16 posted on 07/19/2009 6:10:40 AM PDT by silverleaf (If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
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To: visualops

Go to the article link and its right there down the page a little, all 36 minutes of it.


17 posted on 07/19/2009 6:14:30 AM PDT by John W
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To: Bluebird Singing

Yes, the key phrase is “enthralled with himself.” That’s what our Sociopath in Chief is all about. I just wish the rest of the country would wake up to the fact.

But sociopaths always have a strange ability to convince the people whom they want to use that they are alike, all on the same page, and speak the same language - regardless of any logic to the contrary.


18 posted on 07/19/2009 6:25:36 AM PDT by livius
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To: Federalist Patriot

Next he will sound like Kingfish talking to Andy.


19 posted on 07/19/2009 6:32:37 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: GeronL

Forty years ago Black Americans spoke better English than they do today. In their effort to dumb themselves down they have adopted Ebonics as their national language and the primal scream of the Black preacher as their rhetorical flourish. In giving his speech, Obama reinforced the reality that Blacks are separate, and that they choose to remain a minority apart from mainstream America.


20 posted on 07/19/2009 6:53:26 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: Bryanw92

The speeches are full of statements that say nothing, but imply a lot
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Remember his ‘quiet riot’ speech?


21 posted on 07/19/2009 7:30:53 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: raybbr

I teach college English, and you are correct. He does all the wrong things, like dropping off at the end of a sentence so that you don’t understand what he is saying. He also could use some speech therapy for that effeminate whistle.


22 posted on 07/19/2009 7:34:20 AM PDT by luvEastTenn
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To: Melchior

Preach it, bro.!


23 posted on 07/19/2009 7:34:57 AM PDT by luvEastTenn
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To: Melchior
they choose to remain a minority apart from mainstream America

That gives they victim status for as long as they remain that way.

24 posted on 07/19/2009 7:42:58 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is an illegal alien)
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To: Federalist Patriot

“.... I see your true colors. Shining through. I see your true colors....”


25 posted on 07/19/2009 8:07:39 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Federalist Patriot

As someone else has pointed out, Obama usually sounds like a mix of Captain Kirk and Ken from A Fish Called Wanda.

Bammy’s teleprompter-less sentences often are untrue, and usually begin a with phrase, then a few semi-staccato 2-5 word blurts spaced by “um” or “ah”, and then a bit of a longer finale, like this:

“I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for, um, 95 percent of all working families, because, um, in an economy like this, um, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”
- Barack Obama, at Dover, New Hampshire, 12 December, 2008.


26 posted on 07/19/2009 8:53:17 AM PDT by flowerplough (Sotomayor, during her hearings, on the Constitution: "It doesn't live, other than to be timeless.")
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To: Federalist Patriot

is that something he learned at Hahvard Law?


27 posted on 07/19/2009 10:00:46 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama's economy is "Shovel Ready".)
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To: GeronL

It wasn’t just wierd, it was scary for me! Was he channeling Rev Wright?


28 posted on 07/19/2009 10:01:45 AM PDT by tndarlin
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To: Federalist Patriot

It reminded me of that Al Gore talk before a black audience, except without the roaring theatrics.


29 posted on 07/19/2009 10:06:24 AM PDT by Exit148 (a)
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To: Federalist Patriot
Actually I thought it was a pretty good speech.

Now back to that big government (commie) takeover thing. H@ll no! No government people or bureaucracy between me and my doctor! Never. Keep your government long knives and crooks away from my freedom!

30 posted on 07/19/2009 11:11:27 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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