Posted on 10/28/2004 2:56:59 PM PDT by icecold
It's definitely Al Franken. He got tired of being a small-time, 3rd rate "comedian" and decided to try his hand at being a small-time, 3rd rate terrorist.
This is the equivalent of an A-Q '527'campaign ad against the President. This is an A-Q ad for Kerry!!!!
I detect a sort of neutral California accent, with an overlay of someone who has spent a lot of time in another country speaking another language.
I'm a Spanish translator, and sometimes I go to Spain for several months at a time. When I come back, I occasionally say certain words in my native language (English) with a Spanish accent, because that is how I have had to say them in Spain to be understood. For example, if I were going to say "Bush" in Spain, I would have to say "Boosh" to be understood easily. When I come back, it takes me a couple of days to drop this.
So he does strike me as a native speaker of American English, but one who has spent a few years in another country listening to their pronounciation of our language and adapting himself to it for the sake of comprehension. He is obviously young and has a rather juvenile way of speaking, although that also might be a sort of stylistic overlay from wherever he is hanging out right now.
That said, I don't think the eyebrows and shape of the brow bone look like Adam what's his name. If such is the case, it might mean that there is more than one loser like him hanging out with AQ.
Johnny Jihad, now this guy. Thank you California!
I think the hole tape is a hoax, filmed in the US...
Well call those elderly ladies back and offer to take them to the polls on WEDNESDAY so that they can cast their vote for the traitor :)
LOL, like my niece, who sounds like a native Spanish person after she comes back from a semester interning in Barcelona. It's strange, though. This guy seems to lapse into an American accent more often throughout a sentence than you'd think if he had spent a lot of time immersed in an Arabic environment. Ignore the important words & listen to the common words. Also "America" is always pronounced with a soft American "r".
It'd be very interesting to listen to a longer stretch of the tape. I'm sure with a bigger dataset to work with, the voice experts are zeroing in on this guy's region, ethnic group, & subculture.
All in all,your post smells trollish.
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