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Ben Stein: No There There - Obama's fake accent on a big night.
American Spectator ^ | 2.29.12 | Ben Stein

Posted on 03/02/2012 7:57:04 PM PST by neverdem

Tuesday
It's the night of the big primaries in Michigan and Arizona. The news networks are going nuts over Romney squeaking by in Michigan after he outspent Santorum five to one. I guess I am crazy (I know I am) but it seems to me as if the man who spent 20 cents to every Romney dollar and got within three percentage points of Romney is the star.

However, that's not my point right now. I just finished watching C-SPAN. It was fascinating. A very smart GOP Freshman Senator from Wisconsin was grilling Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. The Senator asked...

--snip--

But his voice! His accent! He has completely reprogrammed his Punahou School, Columbia undergrad, Harvard Law School accent to try to make it sound like what he imagines a workingman's accent is. It borrows a pitifully little amount from Dr. King. There's a touch of storefront preacher. He -- of course -- drops his "g's" at the end of "ing." That's how educated people think working people talk.

But it's more than that. He also has a southern cracker imitation tossed in there to appeal to what he imagines are southern men who work in auto plants -- so he sounds like a strange mixture of Joe Hill, Martin Luther King, Jr., and George Corley Wallace of Alabama. It's a whole new accent never seen on earth before created by this master chameleon to disguise his ultra-privileged background.

It's his mouth that's moving, but it's not Barack Obama that's speaking. It's a robot speaking machine in Mr. Obama's brain. He has set the machine to "please the workingman" accent and also "please the African-Americans" at the same time and the result is that weird, sad King/Wallace voice. It's sad actually. For Mr. Obama, there's no there there.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: chameleon; chameleonpresident; obama
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I'm glad Mr. Stein has the stomach to listen and watch him.
1 posted on 03/02/2012 7:57:10 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

The Franken-supporting Stein is dead to me.


2 posted on 03/02/2012 7:59:23 PM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: EyeGuy

Stein also shills for the inventor of Wheels for Welfare & socialist medicine.


4 posted on 03/02/2012 8:06:40 PM PST by publius321
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To: EyeGuy

Maybe he has snapped out of his political stupor. He’s been pretty strangre for awhile.


5 posted on 03/02/2012 8:07:09 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: EyeGuy

Maybe he has snapped out of his political stupor. He’s been pretty strangre for awhile.


6 posted on 03/02/2012 8:07:31 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: neverdem
Obama also used the word "good" where he should have used "well". (e.g. "...and it sure drives good.")
7 posted on 03/02/2012 8:11:18 PM PST by The Duke
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To: publius321
"shills for the inventor of Wheels for Welfare & socialist medicine"

I'll sure shill if shill she shall.


8 posted on 03/02/2012 8:12:37 PM PST by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: neverdem

Sometimes the establishment-types find a nut...

Joseph of Arimathea comes to mind. They got where they got by not rocking the boat too hard, but they sometimes surface when it counts. Krauthammer is one of my favorite “gatekeepers” when it comes to this kind of stuff; Ann Coulter used to be, once upon a time.

They live near the edge of truth and can actually still affect the nearly-blind also near the edge- whereas those folks tune us out completely. Evangelism and conversion is really where it is at, as opposed to preaching to the choir...

The Obamakarmachameleon is weirding alot of former liberals out.


9 posted on 03/02/2012 8:20:02 PM PST by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: neverdem

“Ah don’t feel no ways tarred...”


10 posted on 03/02/2012 8:20:10 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: neverdem
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11 posted on 03/02/2012 8:28:34 PM PST by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: neverdem

“It’s a robot speaking machine in Mr. Obama’s brain.”

Stein articulated what I’ve been trying to express for a long time.


12 posted on 03/02/2012 8:39:43 PM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: EyeGuy
The Franken-supporting Stein is dead to me.

Me too. He's nothing but an opportunist playing both sides of the street. A Stein quote from the article:

Now, understand, I am a union man -- Screen Actors' Guild, American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, Writers Guild. And I like private sector unions a lot.

13 posted on 03/02/2012 8:49:28 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx

Peter Schiff exposed stein as being a total liar and fraud years ago.


14 posted on 03/02/2012 8:50:43 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: neverdem


It's a robot speaking machine in Mr. Obama's brain.





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15 posted on 03/02/2012 9:04:52 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: neverdem

Didn’t Stein see and hear: “I ain’t No Ways Tarred...” by Hillary Thighs?


16 posted on 03/02/2012 9:05:00 PM PST by Rudder
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To: The Duke
...and it sure drives good.

Probably just another attempt to sound like "Jus' plain folks."

17 posted on 03/02/2012 9:52:44 PM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: The Duke

In Ebonics, “good” is sufficient; stop applying your Anglo values to The Sultan. After all, he is the champion of education...


18 posted on 03/02/2012 11:23:36 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: neverdem

I read his diary articles in The American Spectator frequently. In the past year, he has stated in them that the rich should be taxed more. In another one, he denied that he himself is rich. Yet, over the years, he has talked about his condo in the Marina, his home in Malibu, his place in Sandpoint, Idaho.

In a recent diary entry, he gave credit to Keynes, of all people, for saying something to the effect that a certain monetary policy (such as the one Geithner and Bernanke are currently following) would lead to inflation. Even if Keynes did say it, it’s like pulling out some quote from Mein Kampf to criticize nazism. You don’t have to go there, and you don’t have to give credit to the one whose theories are responsible for the destruction of our economy. A misplaced sense of fairness clouds Stein’s thinking. And he has to throw his Hollywood buddies a bone.


19 posted on 03/02/2012 11:24:33 PM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: neverdem

Speaking of stomach, it has always turned my stomach listening to his fake accents that change depending on who he thinks he is pitching to. Such a total phoney, but the dumbocrats don’t care, they just believe, right into hell.


20 posted on 03/03/2012 2:27:34 AM PST by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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