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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs the way Priebus speaks a Wisconsin accent?
I am not trying to be snarky but I have never heard anyone speak the way he does. And I am definitely NOT trying to give offense to Wisconsin. It just seems that there must be something to explain his strange phrasing.
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Is the way Priebus speaks a Wisconsin accent? (Original Post)
chieftain
Mar 2013
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HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)1. I think you left out a critical 'not' in there...
chieftain
(3,222 posts)4. I believe you are not only right but very helpful. Thanks.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. Maybe its from his shorts being in a bunch.....
olddots
(10,237 posts)3. He's standing on his hands and speaking out his butt .
n.t.
emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)6. Yes, the standard "republican asshole" accent
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)5. I thought it was a cyborg accent.
I just heard him say "It's not just what you say, it's how you say it" in the most dull, droning way a person could say it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)7. NO. Hell No.
postulater
(5,075 posts)8. We don't have an accent. Everybody else does.
I found that out the first time I was in Ireland and they couldn't understand me.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)9. I thought it was ...
.....like a small boy would speak. It is distinctive, for sure.
talkingmime
(2,173 posts)10. I think it's a moron accent.
2naSalit
(86,308 posts)11. He sounds like
someone who is just so wrapped up in his alleged importance that he can't function.
LeftInTX
(25,102 posts)12. He has a lisp
or something....
Something isn't quite right with his speech. No, the rest of the state doesn't talk like him.