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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: miss marmelstein
that hideous Chicago accent

Now just a bleepin second.

That "accent" is no accent. The language of broadcasters and airline pilots.

21 posted on 05/03/2015 6:58:15 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: lbryce

Hey, I hate obola’s voice too.


22 posted on 05/03/2015 6:58:17 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: lbryce

I think a great anti Hilary ad would be a big billboard with one word “SHRILL.” People would know who it was talking about.


23 posted on 05/03/2015 6:58:24 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: lbryce

Criticizing anything about Hillary is sexist.

Criticizing anything about Obama is racist.

See the pattern here?


24 posted on 05/03/2015 6:59:08 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Because she sounds like a screeching old dementia patient in a nursing home.


25 posted on 05/03/2015 6:59:12 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: lbryce

One word:

“Mother-in-law”


26 posted on 05/03/2015 6:59:54 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: OldSmaj

” the spawn of Web Hubbell.” LOL! Those scupper lips don’t lie as to who the true daddy is. Other than that I suppose that the fingernails on chalkboard is painful. Lucky for her campaign, she “ain’t no ways tahred.”. Some of the posts I see out there in other places though, she’s still absolutely wonderful and a boon to the human race. Hard to believe that there are still that many UPOS that buy their crap after all these years. But then the UPOS did put the lyin’ king in for another term didn’t they.


27 posted on 05/03/2015 7:00:09 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: OldSmaj

I had rather listen to someone scratch a piece of tin with their toenails than to listen to Hillary speak.


28 posted on 05/03/2015 7:01:05 AM PDT by sport
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To: lbryce

And .. the usual sidelong hit against Ted Cruz (who sounds like a jerk) comment is the reason for the whole screed.

Boring writer ..!!!!


29 posted on 05/03/2015 7:03:11 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: lbryce
Why Do So Many People Hate the Sound of Hillary Clinton's Voice?

Could it possibly be because of what Hillary says when she speaks?

30 posted on 05/03/2015 7:05:04 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: lbryce
Hillary's voice pattern is condescending, as if she is talking down to intellectual inferiors, when in fact the "Smartest Woman in the World" was among the 33% that FAILED the 1973 bar exam (So much for "elite" universities and their affirmative action matriculates, eh?)
Can't help but associate her voice with lies, because, like Obama and Slick Willie, lies are all she spews.
Also, when Hillary is speaking you must brace for "The Cackle".
31 posted on 05/03/2015 7:05:05 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: lbryce

I’m not so sure it is the timbre of her voice I hate as much as it is the endless lies spewing out if it.


32 posted on 05/03/2015 7:05:43 AM PDT by Gritty (Our deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and cultural biases have to be changed-H. Clinton)
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To: OldSmaj

She is the voice and the face of evil.


33 posted on 05/03/2015 7:06:34 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: All
Listen for yourself. These clips actually make me feel sorry for Bill.

Hillary Cackle Compilation

Hillary Clinton cackle and laugh comedy video - Jimmy Kimmel

Hillary aint no ways tired.
34 posted on 05/03/2015 7:07:31 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: lbryce

A lot of folks on Free Republic say the same thing about Governor Palin.


35 posted on 05/03/2015 7:09:36 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Kid Shelleen
Don't forget her "sick and tired" screech...

“I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic."
36 posted on 05/03/2015 7:11:43 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: lbryce

It’s been documented that men have a hard time hearing/understanding higher pitched voices.

But I just hate her voice.

Seriously - if you’re leading candidate has a voice that turns people off like a kick to the face then you’re in for a bad time.


37 posted on 05/03/2015 7:16:15 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

>> Because she sounds like a screeching old dementia patient in a nursing home.

... but minus the intelligent information content of the demented patient.


38 posted on 05/03/2015 7:16:55 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: lbryce

Fingernails on a chalk board comes to mind.


39 posted on 05/03/2015 7:17:12 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Some times you need more than six shots. Much more.)
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To: bigbob

How long before she annoints herself with the claim of potentially being “the first female black president”?

She has already done the “I don’t feel no wayz tard” and the plantation.


40 posted on 05/03/2015 7:18:42 AM PDT by TomGuy
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