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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Now just a bleepin second.
That "accent" is no accent. The language of broadcasters and airline pilots.
Hey, I hate obola’s voice too.
I think a great anti Hilary ad would be a big billboard with one word “SHRILL.” People would know who it was talking about.
Criticizing anything about Hillary is sexist.
Criticizing anything about Obama is racist.
See the pattern here?
One word:
“Mother-in-law”
” the spawn of Web Hubbell.” LOL! Those scupper lips don’t lie as to who the true daddy is. Other than that I suppose that the fingernails on chalkboard is painful. Lucky for her campaign, she “ain’t no ways tahred.”. Some of the posts I see out there in other places though, she’s still absolutely wonderful and a boon to the human race. Hard to believe that there are still that many UPOS that buy their crap after all these years. But then the UPOS did put the lyin’ king in for another term didn’t they.
I had rather listen to someone scratch a piece of tin with their toenails than to listen to Hillary speak.
And .. the usual sidelong hit against Ted Cruz (who sounds like a jerk) comment is the reason for the whole screed.
Boring writer ..!!!!
Could it possibly be because of what Hillary says when she speaks?
I’m not so sure it is the timbre of her voice I hate as much as it is the endless lies spewing out if it.
She is the voice and the face of evil.
A lot of folks on Free Republic say the same thing about Governor Palin.
It’s been documented that men have a hard time hearing/understanding higher pitched voices.
But I just hate her voice.
Seriously - if you’re leading candidate has a voice that turns people off like a kick to the face then you’re in for a bad time.
>> Because she sounds like a screeching old dementia patient in a nursing home.
... but minus the intelligent information content of the demented patient.
Fingernails on a chalk board comes to mind.
How long before she annoints herself with the claim of potentially being “the first female black president”?
She has already done the “I don’t feel no wayz tard” and the plantation.
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