What the HELL is going on with Junior's fake-ass Texas accent?

"An' ahm PROUD to nominate Harriet Mahs as the hunnert 'n' tenth justice of the soo-preem coat."

YOU'RE FROM CONNECTICUT, DAMMIT!

I've NEVER heard the accent this THICK or this FAKE.

sounds like he snagged some of Laura's V's

booze, too.

in Texas! Moved out west for awhile. I don't even talk like that for gawed's sake. People tell me all the time that I don't have an accent. Get that man a speech therapist. Any kind of therapist. And a white coat to match his white hat. Pretend cowboy. I KNOW a cowboy when I see one. And he ain't it.

I know a Texas accent when I hear it. Hell, I was born and lived their 18 years when I went East to college and never came back to live. My family was put off. As you know, you're not supposed to leave Texas if you were born there (as kids some Texans even think you arent' allowed to leave!).

I don't know why it irritates the hell out of me when he talks that way, it just does. I swear I was so mad that he came prancing up here to collct that honorary degree from Yale. It pisses me off that he won't even admit he was born in New Haven, where I live. One local Repuke legislator wanted to rename RT 34 here in his name. It absolutely enraged me. Mercifully, nothing more was said about it.

Rant finished. Thank you.

... during one of his infrequent visits, when he was introduced as being FROM there.

Two actors who've portrayed Bush on TV (Timothy Bottoms and Brent Mendenhall) have claimed that they didn't need to use their regional accent training to imitate him -- just slur their words ("a mouthful of marbles", according to Mendenhall).

A colleague of mine, who did earn a Yale doctorate, is furious whenever she sees Bush at a convocation, prancing about in that ill-gotten blue gown.

Oddly enough, they Are Texans! And there are of course all kinds of other real Texans with a variety of authentic accents. But I can't even begin to figure out exactly what accent the Cowboy from Connecticut is trying to do. He sounds like a fifth rate actor doing an all purpose "Southern." It makes me foam at the mouth.

Yet "Dubya" feels obliged to smirk and cackle idiotically like he's a yokel. He doesn't seem to realize that you can be down-to-earth and "just plain folks" WITHOUT acting like an idiot. It's insulting to put on that stereotype.

Grew up in the reddest part of Texas (the Panhandle) and also recognize Texas talk when I hear it. My sister heard him pronounce the a in rather "ah" as in r-ah-ther. He must be the only West Texan - or East Texan or South Texan for that matter - to say r-ah-ther. Sounds more like New England to me. Silver spoon New England at that.

because as another native born Texan, I find his accent really bizarre -- just terrible, and unlike any Texan I have ever heard speak.

no accent. Hmmm.

and I never heard anyone talk like he does, unless they were making fun of their own accent!

he.cannot.speak.period. It just drives me crazy, not to mention, painful to listen to. :grr:

is his "outlet" for his dramatics these days.

Something happened to him to make him so crazy.
And it came from Mommy.

played golf the next day. I don't think they talked about the sister much after that. That is one fucked up family. Look at the bunch of criminals in that lot. (Neil -- Savings & Loan crook, for one). The grandfather funded Nazis. Jeb's kids are all screwed up on drugs/alcohol. They should all go on Jerry Springer.

nobody was allowed to cry at the funeral either. :(

She died in NYC, where her parents had taken her for treatment. They donated her body to science. (They did play golf just after she died.)

Then they went back to Midland. Young George had not been told that his sister was so sick.

Daddy just hid from it all in Wash DC.

because she said her hair turned white overnight because of her little girl's death, but now I can't stomach her. The golf thing just put me over the edge.

Dayum, that is one messed-up family.

Amazing.

LA. I found that the women there, generally, spoke with a pleasant Southern dialect, but the men were more harsh in their distinct way of speaking. As I grew accustomed to the area, I picked up a little of the 'accent'. I never tried to force it, but I was good at picking up accents from being a NY'er. We had so many, it was easy to duplicate them...:)

In any case, bush is trying to be something he is not...like a success...:evilgrin: His entire life is built on illusion and the idea that if he 'believes' he is a Texan, he is one. He is no more a Texan than I am. He is a jerk, something I am not, btw. His perceptions of life are so distorted, he feels he has to 'belong' somewhere, TX is as good as anywhere...if he were in New England, his idiotic 'accent magnet' would pick up the distinct regional accent of same Maine.

He is a phony, and the whole "Texan" thing is a ploy for him to appear 'tough'...something he definitely is not.

and started calling it a "ranch." All part of the propaganda program to portray Bush as a cowboy. Only gullible fools believe this crap, but there are millions of gullible fools in this Nation. How else would a pampered Connecticut cheerleader become Governor of Texas?

for me. It just seems so fitting....:D

I mean, EWWWWWWWWW, it stinks. :puke:

some of these places have well over 1000 pigs! The offal pits are huge!!!!! The stench is unreal, and the Ogallalla Aquifer is in real danger, of being contaminated from these enterprises.

You have no idea of the awakening power of driving behind a hog carrier hooked to a semi...pigs crapping all over the place while on the road, and if you can't pass the carrier, you wish you could just rip out your olfactory senses.

Sounds like a really good place for bush to me...:woohoo:

And he's trying to play to his crowd again. I wonder what's up. He wouldn't be doing this because he doesn't want to lose his base. His whole accent thing is ridiculous. My dad is from Michigan but he and his family moved here to Tennessee when he was older (his parents are originally from here) and he doesn't have an accent. Just my mom, brother and I. :eyes: How lame. And Jeb nor Poppy have one. Where is Barbara from? Laura is the only one who has one for real.

She lists her birthplace in "Who's Who" (so does her husband GHWB). And all the other living Presidents and First Ladies. But George W., at least the last time I checked, did NOT include his birthplace. Guess he doesn't want to destroy that expensive, carefully-constructed fake Texas image.

He likes to play cowboy.

Amazing isn't it?

and comes back to the States with a fake English accent, which lasts all of a weekend, only after everyone's made fun of it.

Only Chimpy McFuckstain never lost his fake Texas accent.

:silly:

He had an upper-crust British accent, and had indeed gotten a college degree there ... he tried to imply that he'd lived there as a kid, but after being pressed by the real British expatriates, he had to admit that he was born and raised in a suburb of Toronto!

And when he was upset, his real accent (Scarborough) would come out.

unlike *.

Poppy was actually born in Massachusetts. Bar is from Rye, NY, which is not far across the Conn. state line from Greenwich, where Poppy grew up.

I haven't heard his daughters speak enough to know.

I remember them being interviewed on MTV and they sounded as NE as Kerry's daughters.

slightest hint of an accent; most people can't detect it at all.

Unless immersed in the region, accents fade, pure and simple.

Start the buzzsaws, Karen he's a-comin' to Crahw-ferd.

...didn't have a "Bah-stun" accent when I lived there, didn't bring it with me to California.

Never said "pahk-ed my cah in hah-vud yahd."

:evilgrin:

I've never heard anyone with the LL myself, except in movies.

Come to think of it, that's where I've heard W's accent...

and he does have some of the famous accent, which I think is delightful, BTW. The grandkids don't have it, even tho they are being raised in Sherborn (near Boston).

Used to tease s.i.l. whenever he wore his "slicka" on rainy days.

the pathology in that degenerate's "brain" is simply amazing

explains this accent drift as well as many of his verbal miscues and his grammatical catastrophes.

That might also explain the quirky smirks, the bug-eyed glares and goofy grimaces, his words and facial expressions so out of sync that you glance involuntarily for possible subtitles to go along with this bad movie in TV. I also really hate watching his sweaty little lip gyrations when the stress really is getting to him, the tiny mouth working this way and that as if it were trying to remove the cap from a bottle.

I bet this accent gets thinker with a good bourbon marinade of the Smirk's scarred frontal lobes of his already diminutive brain.

it was extremely thick this morning. He doesn't speak that way during his state of the union speeches. As someone who has lived in both Louisiana and Texas, I can honestly say that the southern draw is easy to imitate and pick up, however, I can spot someone who is faking it too.

Alicia Silverstone in the movie, Beauty Shop had a southern draw and it drove me nuts to listen to her. Some people should NOT try to emulate a southern draw. It just makes the "southerner's are stupid" remarks easier by those who don't live in the south.

Bush is one who should try very hard to stop talking like John Wayne. It just makes him look like a moron even more.

Yep, Brando's accent was cringe-inducing. Of course, I could say the same thing about Liz Taylor when she's tried to wrap her tongue around a Southern accent.

Most recently, Russell Crowe is an example of someone who mangled an accent ("A Beautiful Mind"). Apparently Mr. Crowe thinks that folks from West Virginia speak like they're from antebellum Mississippi. Contrary to popular opinion, Appalachian accents and Southern accents are not one in the same; fact is, in some ways they are quite the opposite of one another. One of the few actors who pulled off a true Appalachian accent, IMHO, was Sissy Spacek in "Coal Miner's Daughter". She has a good ear and, interestingly enough, hails from Texas. SHE knew the difference!

Wayne plays Ghengis Khan...:rofl:

Kind of reminds me of the forced TX accent that bush uses, all fake, just to play to the audience.

Worst.
Accent.
Ever.

Also, look closely and you'll see manhole covers in medieval England!

mikey_the_rat

Don't get me wrong. I have no use whatsoever for Kevin Costner, but don't waste energy complaining about his accent in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. The English language as we know it today DID NOT EXIST in that time period. Therefore, if you wanted to be authentic, the entire cast would have had to be speaking early Middle English, and even then we would be guessing as to how accurate the pronunciation was. Therefore, you cannot say that the classically trained Alan Rickman, with his beautiful voice and British accent, is more correct than dull old Costner. No one's linguistically correct in that movie!

And now back to our regularly scheduled program. :-)

It was a fine film about the Irish leader, played by Liam Neeson. Julia didn't even try for an Irish accent. Otherwise, her acting SUCIKED!

I've lived in Texas most of my life & can't place Bush Jr's accent.

Oh dear lord, I forgot about that. Julia's West Cork via Georgia via Los Angeles travesty really mucked up an otherwise good movie.

Then again, if someone wanted to be a stickler, Neeson's from Belfast, and Collins was from Cork. I have a number of relatives with the Cork accent, but it's been a while since I wathced the movie, and I don't remember if Neeson used it or not.

... to not even try to fake an accent! ;-)

Red state voters wouldn't think he is "one of the guys."

I wish someone had a tape of him talking like he really does. Flat, banal, ultra-rich, transparent puppet...like an actual filthy rich Connecticut *&@#?$. I bet he sounds like Kermit the Frog, like he's been neutered.

I would so love for someone to catch a tape of that and then broadcast it over the system while he's trying to get started at a press conference.

That would be beautiful.

I didn't see his last visit to the U.N., but I did see one that was commented on here because Bush didn't get applause.

The Texas accent was just about GONE. I believe he even said "rahther" for "rather."

He can talk like the patrician spoiled prince that he is whenever he likes. The Texas talk is just more of his phony bullshit.

No texas anywhere that day I can tell you.

"hunnert"
"Nukular"
"peninshoola"
"ahm"
"Abu Gahruhb"

because he is an empty narcissitic shell.
He has sort of "made himself up." When he gets stressed he retreats into it the shell and gets flambouyant with the image he has created. It's like protection. He's pretending to be a person, becuse the real guy is empty.
I suspect he is doing this because his reaction to Katrina was so inappropriate. There was no immediate "what am I going to do to make sure those people survive?" response.
He has been alerted to how insensitive it was, and now he is doing his regular guy routine to try to convince the world and maybe even himself that he does have feelings.

**Everything** about this administration is fake: fake turkey, fake cowboy, fake concern over the Iraqi people, fake concern for the American people, fake photo-ops, etc., etc.

"No Child Left Behind" - all children neglected.
"Healthy Forests Initiative" - open season for logging industry.
"Clear Skies Initiative" - no controls on gross polluters.
"Fighting 'terrorists' over there so we don't have to fight them here" - one of the dumbest (in multiple ways) right-wing lines in history.
"Mission Accomplished" - stuck in a quagmire with no broad coalition of genuine allies.

It's ALL fake. The whole thing. If the right wings's goal is to run this country flat into the ground, it's doing a horrifyingly good. What a horrible, God-awful, unspeakable mess.

after losing his congressional race in Tx. His opponent dis'd him a Yale intellectual hahahahaha.

Joke is on us now.

governor of Texas you'll notice that he didn't speak Texan then. He developed that accent so that he could seem like a cowboy while running for president. He is a complete FAKE.

at his ranch.

a lot of people from other parts of the country can pick up southern accents when they are around people who naturally have a twang.

My sister, who has never been anywhere near the South, picked up a twang when she hung around one of her best friends, who was from that region.

George probably picked up his accent from Laura, who IS a native Texan and sounds it.

faking it because he has adopted Texas (poor Texas) is not the same as 'picking up' a twang.

George is of the opposite political party.

It's VERY easy to pick up that twang if you've lived around somebody for as long as he's lived around Laura.

And Laura's accent is VERY thick.

I think it's fake because it is coming out of the mouth of liar and because he turns it on and off at will.

and I can peg a Texan in California if I hear one.

It amazes me how many people fall for his bullshit.

I spent half my life in Oklahoma, too. No accent (though, I'd say most people there do have one because most don't notice it).

He is indeed from Connecticut, however.

...he had very little accent. I think he was going for the "in control" image vs. his usual "one of the guys" image. Apparantly his supporters will look the other way on many things.