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How Hillary found her voice - she hired a voice & drama coach
The Hillary Project ^ | 2-5-08 | Kathy Miller

Posted on 05/06/2008 7:29:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle

How Hillary found her voice - she hired a voice & drama coach By Kathy Miller | The Hillary Project Posted 3 months ago email to friend tool nameclose tool goes here By: Mary Ann Akers

After her big upset in New Hampshire last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously declared, "I found my own voice." What she also found was her own voice coach.

According to Clinton campaign's latest federal campaign disclosure report, the Democratic presidential candidate paid $7,500 to voice and drama coach extraordinaire Michael Sheehan in October.

Sheehan, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama who once was the associated producer of the Folger Theater Group, also helped shaped the voice and image of Bill Clinton, who Sheehan features prominently on his web site. If anyone could help Clinton soften her style, as the campaign sought to do in the weeks leading up to the New Hampshire primary, it would be Sheehan.

According to Campaign & Elections magazine, Sheehan is "a political candidate's best hope for developing the techniques to appear confident and in-control in front of a television camera or a live audience. While some pundits criticize candidates for using this type of service, people like Lloyd Bentsen, Ann Richards and even Bill Clinton have all benefited from his expertise."

Sen. Clinton also sought Sheehan's guidance for the publicity tour for her memoir, "Living History," in which she describes her upbringing as well as her "terrible, painful experience" in the White House.

Sheehan's clients include such media companies as the Washington Post and AOL, as well as big oil companies, HMOs, insurance companies and defense contractors.

"At some point, every kind of leader faces an important audience from behind a lectern or in front of a television camera," goes the pitch on the Sheehan Associates site. "A confident, relaxed ability to communicate effectively can be your competitive edge."

Sheehan was traveling abroad Monday and unable to talk to us about his work with Clinton. No word back from the Clinton campaign on whether Sheehan did, indeed, help the New York senator find her own voice.

SOURCE: Washington Post

Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 3:00 pm


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; hillary; voice
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And only 7500 dollars a pop. What a deal. I wonder if she knows how much a gallon of milk is going for.
1 posted on 05/06/2008 7:29:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle

guess there wasn’t enough in the budget for a personal trainer.


2 posted on 05/06/2008 7:31:20 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (what is it you hope to find here?)
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To: Texas Eagle

Wwhew, for a moment, I thought they were talking about Cindy Sheehan.

So Madame Hillary has taken acting lessons? Yes, she still needs that personal trainer and a wardrobe consultant - but she has that cackle down:

Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!


3 posted on 05/06/2008 7:34:42 PM PDT by Baladas (M)
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To: Texas Eagle

Did he tell her to quit say “you know?” in the middle of every sentence?


4 posted on 05/06/2008 7:40:46 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

I had noticed that her voice and mannerisms had improved since years past, now we know why.

The coach can put lipstick on this pig but it’s still Shrillary.

What she really needs is a daily enema plus a daily bloodtransfusion to help clean out all the bile and toxins generated by her vicious inner character.


5 posted on 05/06/2008 7:40:52 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama: My 1930s Foreign Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Social Policy!)
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; Texas Eagle

What she really did was pay $7,500 to lose that CACKLE!!


6 posted on 05/06/2008 7:41:02 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Baladas
At least now we can rest assured that we are getting the "real" Hillary.

I wonder who taught her to spin around while taking a swig of beer. Talk about a rookie mistake.

7 posted on 05/06/2008 7:41:05 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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I knew somebody was coaching the beast on how to act like you are “just out for the little guy”. The phoniness still shows through, Cankle. Some of us can’t be bought, skank.


8 posted on 05/06/2008 7:42:23 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Texas Eagle

Alas, Hill has red eyes and Bill a red nose.


9 posted on 05/06/2008 7:42:43 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: Texas Eagle

Both Bill and Hillary often have hoarse voices. I wonder if the voice coach is really helping. I’ve never heard Obama speak with a hoarse voice nor GWB nor Reagan.

Personally, I think Hillary’s voice is pitched too low and that’s why she gets hoarse. She could avoid that if she raised the pitch of her voice a few steps (not in loudness, but in musical scale degrees).


10 posted on 05/06/2008 7:42:56 PM PDT by randita (I'm a "typical white person" and I voted for Lynn Swann.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Next on her list....

11 posted on 05/06/2008 7:43:12 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: Enchante
What she really needs is a daily enema plus a daily bloodtransfusion to help clean out all the bile and toxins generated by her vicious inner character.

I think that would require an exorcist.

12 posted on 05/06/2008 7:43:14 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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To: Texas Eagle

Not calling you a skank, Texas Eagle, should there be any confusion!


13 posted on 05/06/2008 7:43:29 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Texas Eagle

She should get her money back - she’s still cackling.


14 posted on 05/06/2008 7:44:11 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: gibsosa
Heh, heh. No offense taken.

Besides, I'm more of a jerk-face.

15 posted on 05/06/2008 7:45:13 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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To: Texas Eagle

She should get her money back - she’s still cackling.


16 posted on 05/06/2008 7:45:19 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Texas Eagle

I noticed that her voice has not been quite as irritating lately as it used to be. She’s not as shrill and her condescending tone is a bit more subtle.


17 posted on 05/06/2008 7:45:33 PM PDT by Huntress (Barack's chickens have come home to roost.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Amen. Talk about a “windfall profit”. I wonder how much it costs her drama coach to teach someone how to speak as opposed to how much it costs to pull a barrel of oil out of the ground.


18 posted on 05/06/2008 7:47:09 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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To: Huntress
I noticed that her voice has not been quite as irritating lately as it used to be. She’s not as shrill and her condescending tone is a bit more subtle.

My wife noticed that, too.

In fact, she's the one who found this article. She's sort of a closet FReeperette.

19 posted on 05/06/2008 7:48:29 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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To: potlatch

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She hired Sheehan way too late

Should have been in 1999 or 2000


20 posted on 05/06/2008 7:49:32 PM PDT by devolve ( -- -The_Project_Islamic_Hope_website_banner no_longer_features_Barack_Hussein_Obama_Junior)
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