Posted on 04/07/2014 9:49:19 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
How lame can you get. Kathleen Park, a WaPo columnist and failed CNN host, criticized and AFP ad because the guy in it had a southern accent. She argued that there are plenty of smart, sophisticated people who are just as confused by the Obamacare law. So, no need to get a stupid guy with a southern accent when a smart sophisticated person will do:
I encourage all of you to go and listen to what she actually said, not what someone said she said. She was challenging a stereotype.
So when is CNN moving out of Atlanta and dumping Ted Turner? I mean, we all know what bigots liberals are and how much they hate the south. Liberals are haters.
That’s not Kathleen Park, that’s Kathleen Parker and she’s from South Carolina...so I don’t think she meant that Southerners are stupid.
How would someone with an IQ in the single digits know?
My conclusion as well. Tempest in a tea pot.
Was she making a racist statement?....
Left over hate from that War between the States we had a while back. Talk like that (re-enforced by Hollywood) can start CW II—Only this time the south could win.
I live ‘in’ The South. I am not ‘from the South’, having moved this way in 2000. I do not have a ‘Southern accent’.
However, I have been schooled in New England throughout my formative years. In high school, I placed #123 out of a total of 610 graduating seniors that year, with majors in Accounting and the Russian Language, and ‘a letter’ in Cross-Country.
So, dear CNN skirt, your hypothesis is incorrect!
I think she implied that most people will see those with a southern accent as less intelligent.
From that, in order to be more effective, the message should have been carried by someone whom most people will see as more intelligent.
She was addressing the perception of others.
Mrs WBill always says that "Slow doesn't mean stupid.". This pseudointellectual bimbo would do well to listen to my intelligent, and beautiful, wife. :-)
And, FWIW, I love it in the south, and wouldn't change a single thing about it.
I only speak Jive!
Has he ever spoke with the founder of CNN?
CNN hasn’t been on any of my media repeaters, TV, Computer, Ipad, etc. for over 10 years. Welcome to the show.
Is that real?? Tell me they didn’t broadcast that?
A few years back, husband and I sat with a CA couple at dinner on cruise (ship assigned seats). They were just back from visiting Indonesia and we discussed jihad (rampant in Indonesia at that time) and politics in general.
Later, met the woman in the hall and she said she just wanted to tell me how impressed her husband was with my world knowledge. I just grinned and said "Because I'm from Alabama".
What can we say or do--it just IS.
Actually, maybe we could use it somehow as a secret weapon, because their opinion is NOT going to change.
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Kathleen Parker is supposed to count as the conservative columnist for our local newspaper. Sure.
It is physically impossible to boycott them more than I am doing so now.
Doesn't "Snakehead" Carville have a southern accent?
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