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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Lots of ex-wives have that same voice.
Remember the HBO special that Bill Cosby did in the ‘80s, “Himself”? The exaggerated nagging, berating voice of Cosby’s wife (as performed by Bill) - that’s what comes to mind when I hear Hillary speak. She tries to soften her voice, but it’s not successful. Her true characteristics keep peeking out.
All Democrats are globalist communist totalitarians, so there no need to talk of policy and one only needs to consider superficial characteristics such as voice, clothing, thigh circumference, plastic surgery, and preferences for Hollywood stars.
For now, in the GOP, we still have a choice between globalist totalitarians such as jebbush, and constitutionalists such as Ted Cruz, and those in between.
I agree as to the subject matter, everybody’s voice is different. That makes it interesting.
What a total piece of crap.
I think it was Rush who said, “Hillary reminds every man of his ex-wife and every woman of her bitchy aunt.”
You’re saying the Chicago accent is “no accent?” LOL!
“Excuse me sir, where can I find the hotdog stand?”
“Da brats are over by dere. But ya bedder hurry ‘cause dey are closin’ fur the night real soon.”
Oh, I haven’t seen her really worked up!
Yes, I know he had a high voice. Would love to have heard it.
That looks like a Jersey accent. I don't talk like that.
I used to refer listening to the voice on the phone as "like shaking a hornet in a coffee can".
The media introduced Hillary as “the smartest woman in the word” way back when she first appeared. We figured out pretty quick that she wasn’t.
No, the accent of broadcasters is usually a soft, mid-Atlantic speech. Her accent is the nasal bray of Chicagoans. I’m not saying a NY accent is any better when a loud, braying yenta is on a rant.
Because her grating tone comes with a condescending & condemning attitude.
Oh, when those dulcet tones come roaring up from the depths of her cankles, sperm whales off the coast of Patagonia start their mating ritual and migration north.
It really is a sound to behold.
Naaah!
We don’t like her voice because she reminds us of a shrill and harpy witch!
I don’t know how you speak.
Almost everyone, from Pennsylvania West, and North of Missouri/Kansas plus the Southwest (except TX and SoCal) have little or no accent (Chicago accent) You can’t really tell where they’re from.
Mid-Atlantic? What’s that? Washington DC?
Every American has an accent. Perhaps you don’t hear Kansas/Chicago and other Midwestern accents but I do. How else do actors learn to portray characters from these various locales? I have a New York accent although slightly modified unless I want to make a New York point.
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