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WaPo's Kathleen Parker Suggests People with Southern Accents Not 'Smart' or 'Sophisticated'
Breitbart ^ | 6 Apr 2014, 9:11 AM PDT | Pamela Key

Posted on 04/06/2014 3:23:19 PM PDT by Hoodat

After NBC's "Meet The Press" host David Gregory ran an anti-ObamaCare ad targeting Sen. Mark Pryor from Arkansas featuring a couple with a southern accents questioning the confusing nature of the Affordable Care Act, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker objected to Americans for Prosperity using people with southern accents in political ads running in Arkansas:

"I think you could find someone who doesn't have a southern accent who is confused by this act," Parker said. "We always seem to find the character who seems a little countrified, who can't just fathom this. You know there there are plenty of smart sophisticated people equally hazy about what is really going on."

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To: Black Agnes

LOL Winter Haven, Florida is definitely the south. I lived there for 12 years or so. It’s a small town, right in the middle of the state. Lots of agriculture, citrus, phosphate mining in nearby Bartow, and it is a very long way from Miami or Disney World or beaches or whatever it is non-Floridians think of when they think of Florida.

It was a nice place to grow up, frankly.


61 posted on 04/06/2014 6:14:58 PM PDT by daltec
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To: gwjack

Ha ha.


62 posted on 04/06/2014 6:17:02 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: GOPJ
Cool - maybe Parker resents southerners being unfairly stereotyped. That would be a pleasant surprise...

Actually, Parker is one of the worst about stereotyping Southerners. In her case, her neighbors.

She doesn't much like where she's from...

63 posted on 04/06/2014 6:17:48 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: tet68

That’s what I thought. But I’m from the South - what do I know?


64 posted on 04/06/2014 6:29:57 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Hoodat

Why does she have to put ‘Southern’ speakers down, when trying to make the point that people other that those who speak in a ‘countrified manner’ are just as confused about Obamacare?


65 posted on 04/06/2014 6:32:35 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Hoodat

Well bless her heart.


66 posted on 04/06/2014 6:44:56 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Hoodat

Parker is setting up any potential southern candidates from the Republican Party who will run against the Hildebeast. Senator Ted Cruz, with his Texas accent, comes to mind. I wonder what kind of Alinsky demonization will also come from the Left about Cruz's Cuban roots if he does run?

67 posted on 04/06/2014 6:49:06 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: ottbmare

I hate deceptive titles.


68 posted on 04/06/2014 6:49:18 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

I can turn my Southern accent off easily and speak with a clear Midwestern pronunciation. It’s very interesting and amusing to see how people from different parts of the US respond. Yankee women are the worst. They assume you’re slow and stupid. The Yankee men may make the same assumption, I’m not sure, but they don’t care; they love all that sugar.


69 posted on 04/06/2014 7:07:40 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: relictele

“But look at the Yankee triumph of Detroit! Dayton! Chicago! Toledo! Buffalo!”

In New England we don’t consider those cities Yankee territory.

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70 posted on 04/06/2014 7:15:31 PM PDT by Mears
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To: jonrick46
So Parker is a Hillary supporter? Go figure.

Hillary Adopts a Southern Drawl

The fact that Hillary did this does not bother me nearly as much as the fact that she actually thought it was the politically savvy thing to do. You would think that after all those years in Arkansas she would know better than to be that condescending to her audience.

71 posted on 04/06/2014 7:50:31 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Hoodat

Well, she is obviously a Racist, several times and demographics over.


72 posted on 04/06/2014 7:52:42 PM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Hoodat

It’s been my experience that people from the deep south are a lot smarter and more sly than they are given credit for.


73 posted on 04/06/2014 8:03:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: relictele

Schenectady comes to mind....


74 posted on 04/06/2014 8:07:21 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: PapaBear3625

If a democrat said something like: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” They’d probably make him Vice President.


75 posted on 04/06/2014 9:08:25 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: tet68; Hoodat

Kathleen Parker....not my favorite

Did not...to be honest ...disparage my kinsmen like title implies

Geez Breibert....get it accurate youse guys


76 posted on 04/06/2014 9:10:48 PM PDT by wardaddy (the real battle is what do we replace America as we knew it with....and will we fight..literally)
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To: jstaff

Freepers like one size fits all and no nuance and their fingers are ways on the trigger hammer cocked

Kathleen said nothing wrong... in fact she was defending us

But what the hell....why let the facts muddy up a good beat down of a NeoCon


77 posted on 04/06/2014 9:28:07 PM PDT by wardaddy (the real battle is what do we replace America as we knew it with....and will we fight..literally)
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To: daltec

Winter Haven...Lake Wales....Frost proof....Haines City
All Dixie

Frankly most truly rural Florida is quite southern

From Everglades City to Clewiston to Okeechobee up 27 and 41 to the panhandle

The Mouse and Cubans and Snowbirds changed it but when I lived in Miami...80s....there were still southerners in MyAmUh proper....


78 posted on 04/06/2014 9:35:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (the real battle is what do we replace America as we knew it with....and will we fight..literally)
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To: Mears

New England doesn’t get to choose!


79 posted on 04/07/2014 3:57:35 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: Delta Dawn

Speaking with an accent has nothing to do with being intelligent or “smart”. Ever listen to someone from Nuyoork, or Kalifornia, or Oklahoooooma or Nortdakoota?


80 posted on 04/07/2014 5:13:14 AM PDT by DaveA37
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