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Fake accent for 'voice' of Hussein?
LATimes ^ | 05MAR03 | Elizabeth Jensen

Posted on 03/05/2003 4:59:59 AM PST by MindBender26

Edited on 03/05/2003 6:24:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: MindBender26
As if we needed any more convincing that journalism schools are a joke. Now being truthful in reporting the news is merely "nice," a far cry from absolutely essential.

I'm not really a translator, but I did sleep at a Bagdad Inn Express.
61 posted on 03/05/2003 6:38:58 AM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: fight_truth_decay
Kirk Douglas: "I am Sa...."

Tony Curtis: "No, I am Saddam Hussein."

Chorus: "I am Saddam Hussein!"
62 posted on 03/05/2003 6:46:17 AM PST by mikrofon (Pax Americana)
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To: MindBender26
Huh? They used someone with an accent for the translation? I detest See BS News, too, but this hardly qualifies as "faking" the interview.
63 posted on 03/05/2003 6:55:02 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government.)
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To: randita
You nailed it -- they wanted to make it seem like a nice chat with good ol' Grampa...
64 posted on 03/05/2003 6:55:53 AM PST by mikrofon (Pax Americana)
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To: MindBender26
No doubt it did meet CBS standards, and therein lies the problem.
65 posted on 03/05/2003 7:00:31 AM PST by OldFriend
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
i HEARD THAT TOO. YOU AINT A MARINE UNTIL YOU GRADUATE!!
66 posted on 03/05/2003 7:11:10 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: MindBender26
Can you imagine how this would have gone over if Saddam were black and they faked him using ebonics!
67 posted on 03/05/2003 7:21:36 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: let us cross over the river
The Book of Revelations describes a "white hot star burning up a third of the Earth.... and the name of the star is Wormwood."

The Russian word for "wormwood" is chernobyl. No joke.

68 posted on 03/05/2003 7:28:27 AM PST by MindBender26 (.....and for more news as it happens...stay tuned to your local FReeper station....)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
They passed it off as the real deal. THAT is called FAKING the interview. If that is OK with you then maybe you still need some cleasing of the dross in your soul.
69 posted on 03/05/2003 7:28:29 AM PST by OperationFreedom (Is a RECOVERING demoncrap that supports a liberal still a demoncrap? You decide......)
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To: Drango
One of my ex wives use to fake it all the time...

Doesn't that say more about you than her?

70 posted on 03/05/2003 7:31:54 AM PST by lewislynn
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To: BartMan1
CBS Truth bump
71 posted on 03/05/2003 7:45:49 AM PST by IncPen
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Huh? They used someone with an accent for the translation?

I think they used this actor to speak in arabic, pretended it was Saddam's voice, and then dubbed in the english translation.

72 posted on 03/05/2003 7:49:52 AM PST by Helix ("My biggest mistake was hiring that SOB Ramsey Clark"- a certain president)
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To: MindBender26
The Russian word for "wormwood" is chernobyl.

Ukrainian.

73 posted on 03/05/2003 7:52:37 AM PST by annalex
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To: RaceBannon
But then, Race, once a Marine, always a Marine....... lol
74 posted on 03/05/2003 7:54:11 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I have a sick sense of humor....so sue me.......)
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To: MindBender26
Fake accent is particularly inappropriate in this interview because the interpreting itself became an issue when the (real) interpreter ommitted "Mister" referring to Bush and Saddam corrected him. This made the real interpreter a minor contributor of content, rather than mere clerical help.
75 posted on 03/05/2003 7:56:13 AM PST by annalex
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To: MindBender26
Get out of here! Are you serious? Meaning that he was free to interpret the expressions and tone of the answers Saddam gave any way he wished? This is incredible!

Just who exactly is CBS behind in this war? Iraq? Apparently yes. I liked the interpretation Imus gave about this Dan Rather interview. He said: "All you need to know about Dan Rather is that he interviewed the first Bush in '91 and picked a fight with him, and then he interviewed Saddam Hussein for 2 hours and kissed his ass."
76 posted on 03/05/2003 7:58:38 AM PST by rs79bm
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To: Helix; Recovering_Democrat
Sorry. I was wrong on that assumption. He evidently provided the accent for the translation.
77 posted on 03/05/2003 8:01:26 AM PST by Helix ("My biggest mistake was hiring that SOB Ramsey Clark"- a certain president)
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To: MindBender26
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
78 posted on 03/05/2003 8:02:05 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: MindBender26
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
79 posted on 03/05/2003 8:02:06 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: MindBender26
It didn't violate CBS News standards and practices, the network said

Well, there's your mistake. You actually thought CBS had standards!

80 posted on 03/05/2003 8:07:13 AM PST by tdadams
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