Posted on 05/03/2015 6:47:04 AM PDT by lbryce
ou know Hillary Clinton’s voice, right? I mean, you know it. It’s just so loud and annoying. Or maybe it's like a nagging wife. Or inauthentic—that phony Southern accent! Those flat Midwestern vowels! Whatever it is, her voice is burned into your brain.
Now think of Jeb Bush’s voice. It’s so—wait, what does it sound like again? He sounds just ... like a guy, maybe? It's probably hard for you to recall distinguishing features about most of the Republican candidates. Maybe you don’t know what Ted Cruz sounds like, except that he sounds like a jerk. Why? In part it's because women’s voices are scrutinized more. It's also because Clinton has been in the public eye for far longer. The conventional wisdom about Clinton's character has fully matured, but it's still forming for her potential Republican competitors, like a cicada grub nestled underground. Despite our collective sexist tendencies, the Republican candidates' voices will eventually get some attention.
A politician's voice shapes how we see him. Take, for example, Lenny Bruce’s early 1960s imitation of Lyndon Johnson. "They didn't let him talk for the first six months," Bruce says. "It took him six months to learn how to say negro." He imagines handlers trying to teach Johnson to say “negro,” but the sound of the n-word keeps slipping through. In frustration, Bruce-as-Johnson yelps, "I cain't hep it! I cain't say it! ... Lemme show mah scar." Johnson had a reputation as crude and uncultured. Of course, he went on to sign landmark civil rights laws.
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Reeve is just another member of the Barbie Corps, like Harf.
You’re welcome (with booming announcer voice)
LOL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ2wRSzQ2ws
Dis is what I'm talkin' about.
I've since learned that she was reciting a poem known to her audience.
Well, he sounded a little “tough guy” but he pronounced all his words properly (with the exception of Illinoise)
However, he doesn’t sound like he has a speech impediment like Bawney Fwank or Mumbles Menina.
Your average Midwestern farmer pronounces words exactly like that, except for the “tough guy” inflection.
Additionally, Hilary talks more like the farmer.
I’d love to hear the sound of her whimpering while kept in solitary confinement in a Fed SuperMax.
Sort of a secret “hil-cam”.
You deserve a big LOL!
I have long thought that Cruz’s high, nasal voice could be his undoing.
And he has been my favorite candidate for a long time.
No. BOs voice is horrible. Uh ..Uh...blah blah blah, uh blah blah blah ...eh blah blah blah...ugh blah blah blah..aahblah blah blah...uh blah blah blah...uh blah blah blah ...eh blah blah blah...eh blah blah blah...eh blah blah blah...
Speaking to us all as if we are a bunch of not-too-bright five-year-olds was one of Al Gore’s endearing traits too, as I recall.
He's a happy fella 'cause youse guys know him and he knows youse. He says "Illi-noise....and he thinks everyone who lives in Chicago talks like him......which Einstein-ian thinking is why he also sells bags of peanuts hanging from his neck at Sox Park to make a few bucks.
I love dat guy! He makes me happy my immigrant grandparents settled in the 'burbs so I didn't need speech therapy as an adult.
Man, how I miss Chicago pizza, Italian Beef sandwiches, Parky's Hot Dogs...and those West Side accents (which aren't accents at all, according to "Chicago Bobby").
Tanks for the memories, Sparticus, I really dug the video. Youse is a good guy, lol.
Leni
It’s a problem. Of course, I’d happily vote for him but I long for the sonorous tones of The Gipper, alas.
You end up hating her voice because of the content of her speech.
Actually that arithmetic is not hard and time does not fly when listening to her, but maybe posting with a house full of grand children leads to errors. Thanks for the correction. I wonder exactly what I was thinking to make such a miscalculation. Still 23 years makes my case even more.
Bing
True and I have found not listening to her and her ilk the best remedy.
It’ll be best when she has to answer some serious questions, and that hasn’t happened yet.
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