“Diana Reams (the old radio show bag who sounds badly constipated / like she’s pushing out a crueller) is Finally retiring.”
Haha...........haha.......i almost ‘pushed out a crueller’ myself!
Though I really disagree with NPR hosts being blatantly leftist and worthy of ridicule, I now feel poorly poking fun of her voice.
Apparently she suffers from a neurological voice disorder.
http://www.npr.org/people/2101067/diane-rehm
In 1998, Rehm’s career nearly ended because of spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological voice disorder that causes strained, difficult speech. Rehm sought treatment, returned to the show, and called attention to the condition. The National Council on Communicative Disorders recognized her work with a Communication Award, and ABC’s Nightline devoted an entire program to a conversation with Rehm about her disorder. In 2011, Rehm was awarded the Voice Education Research Awareness (VERA) Award from The Voice Foundation for her sustained contributions to the field of voice communication.
Rehm is a successful author of three autobiographical books: Finding My Voice (Knopf, 1999), in which she describes her childhood, marriage, career, and voice disorder;