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Why Do So Many People Hate the Sound of Hillary Clinton's Voice?
New Republic ^ | May 1, 2015 | Elspeth Reeve

Posted on 05/03/2015 6:47:04 AM PDT by lbryce

ou know Hillary Clinton’s voice, right? I mean, you know it. It’s just so loud and annoying. Or maybe it's like a nagging wife. Or inauthentic—that phony Southern accent! Those flat Midwestern vowels! Whatever it is, her voice is burned into your brain.

Now think of Jeb Bush’s voice. It’s so—wait, what does it sound like again? He sounds just ... like a guy, maybe? It's probably hard for you to recall distinguishing features about most of the Republican candidates. Maybe you don’t know what Ted Cruz sounds like, except that he sounds like a jerk. Why? In part it's because women’s voices are scrutinized more. It's also because Clinton has been in the public eye for far longer. The conventional wisdom about Clinton's character has fully matured, but it's still forming for her potential Republican competitors, like a cicada grub nestled underground. Despite our collective sexist tendencies, the Republican candidates' voices will eventually get some attention.

A politician's voice shapes how we see him. Take, for example, Lenny Bruce’s early 1960s imitation of Lyndon Johnson. "They didn't let him talk for the first six months," Bruce says. "It took him six months to learn how to say negro." He imagines handlers trying to teach Johnson to say “negro,” but the sound of the n-word keeps slipping through. In frustration, Bruce-as-Johnson yelps, "I cain't hep it! I cain't say it! ... Lemme show mah scar." Johnson had a reputation as crude and uncultured. Of course, he went on to sign landmark civil rights laws.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintoncash; clintonfoundation; hillary; hormonetherapy; pages; peterschweizer; theyhatehillary
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To: Col Freeper
Why Do So Many People Hate the idiocy and venom that comprise Elspeth Reeve's article?

Reeve is just another member of the Barbie Corps, like Harf.

121 posted on 05/03/2015 11:13:17 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

You’re welcome (with booming announcer voice)


122 posted on 05/03/2015 11:22:59 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: MinuteGal
I'm born and bred in the Chicago suburbs.....Chicago/Chicagoland/middlewestern folks DON'T talk like that at all !!!

Whatsamadderyou?

Leni

LOL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ2wRSzQ2ws

Dis is what I'm talkin' about.

123 posted on 05/03/2015 11:25:48 AM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: TomGuy
She has already done the “I don’t feel no wayz tard” and the plantation.

I've since learned that she was reciting a poem known to her audience.

124 posted on 05/03/2015 11:32:45 AM PDT by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Will Imperil America...)
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To: Sparticus

Well, he sounded a little “tough guy” but he pronounced all his words properly (with the exception of Illinoise)

However, he doesn’t sound like he has a speech impediment like Bawney Fwank or Mumbles Menina.

Your average Midwestern farmer pronounces words exactly like that, except for the “tough guy” inflection.


125 posted on 05/03/2015 11:43:15 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Sparticus

Additionally, Hilary talks more like the farmer.


126 posted on 05/03/2015 11:44:22 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I’d love to hear the sound of her whimpering while kept in solitary confinement in a Fed SuperMax.


127 posted on 05/03/2015 11:46:41 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Sort of a secret “hil-cam”.


128 posted on 05/03/2015 11:49:20 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: lbryce
Three reasons:
I'm sick and tired.
Southern accent, post turtles.
Ain't no waze tarred.
129 posted on 05/03/2015 12:48:39 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

You deserve a big LOL!


130 posted on 05/03/2015 1:16:35 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I have long thought that Cruz’s high, nasal voice could be his undoing.

And he has been my favorite candidate for a long time.


131 posted on 05/03/2015 1:22:07 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: JLS

No. BOs voice is horrible. Uh ..Uh...blah blah blah, uh blah blah blah ...eh blah blah blah...ugh blah blah blah..aahblah blah blah...uh blah blah blah...uh blah blah blah ...eh blah blah blah...eh blah blah blah...eh blah blah blah...


132 posted on 05/03/2015 2:04:43 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Lizavetta

Speaking to us all as if we are a bunch of not-too-bright five-year-olds was one of Al Gore’s endearing traits too, as I recall.


133 posted on 05/03/2015 2:17:05 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Sparticus; flaglady47; Charles Henrickson
Hey, I know dat guy! He sells Italian ice from a kiosk at United Center Blackhawk hockey games!

He's a happy fella 'cause youse guys know him and he knows youse. He says "Illi-noise....and he thinks everyone who lives in Chicago talks like him......which Einstein-ian thinking is why he also sells bags of peanuts hanging from his neck at Sox Park to make a few bucks.

I love dat guy! He makes me happy my immigrant grandparents settled in the 'burbs so I didn't need speech therapy as an adult.

Man, how I miss Chicago pizza, Italian Beef sandwiches, Parky's Hot Dogs...and those West Side accents (which aren't accents at all, according to "Chicago Bobby").

Tanks for the memories, Sparticus, I really dug the video. Youse is a good guy, lol.

Leni

134 posted on 05/03/2015 3:13:22 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Arthur McGowan

It’s a problem. Of course, I’d happily vote for him but I long for the sonorous tones of The Gipper, alas.


135 posted on 05/03/2015 5:40:15 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: lbryce

You end up hating her voice because of the content of her speech.


136 posted on 05/03/2015 10:31:04 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy. Cruz, that is. Texas conservative.)
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To: xp38

Actually that arithmetic is not hard and time does not fly when listening to her, but maybe posting with a house full of grand children leads to errors. Thanks for the correction. I wonder exactly what I was thinking to make such a miscalculation. Still 23 years makes my case even more.


137 posted on 05/04/2015 5:55:59 AM PDT by JLS
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To: lbryce

Bing


138 posted on 05/04/2015 5:58:22 AM PDT by jetson (Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
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To: JLS

True and I have found not listening to her and her ilk the best remedy.


139 posted on 05/04/2015 7:25:52 AM PDT by xp38
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To: lbryce

It’ll be best when she has to answer some serious questions, and that hasn’t happened yet.


140 posted on 05/04/2015 7:36:28 AM PDT by onedoug
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