Palin “has a funny accent”? I don’t think that she has any particular regional accent at all. Well, maybe that’s because I don’t know any Alaskans.
My MIL subscribes to the NYT and the LAT, only watches CNN and hangs with very liberal people (many of which are household names). She and her friends are the least tolerent people on the planet when it comes to people who don't think exactly like them (or sound "funny").