REWARD: Can Anyone Anywhere Find One Person With a Palin's Accent and Colloquialisms?

I am offering a reward to anyone anywhere who can produce just ONE (1) more person who talks like Sarah Palin,
any one person anywhere--even her kids or husband, one person who used BOTH that accent and her trailer-park colloquialisms.

I'm calling this great and unprecedented distinction (drum roll .....) "The Political Howl Award".
It is a traveling cyber trophy with no physical form, and yet of inestimable significance in future political lore. :rofl:
The winner (which I doubt we shall have) will be duty bound to pass it on by offering it to someone else
in the form of another open, online competition intended to uncover and prove a political a deception of the public.

Good luck!

PS. The movie Fargo does not count!! REAL persons only. :rofl:

They sounded more like folks from Seattle or Oregon, maybe with a dash of Canadian.

Well, there goes my contribution. Marge Gunderson is the only person I can think of.

Originally Posted by the Couric/Palin Interview, Unedited Version

COURIC: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

PALIN: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.

COURIC: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.

PALIN: He's also known as the maverick, though. Taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about — the need to reform government.

COURIC: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?

PALIN: Ma'am, I answered your question!

COURIC: I'm sorry, Governor?

PALIN: Ma'am, I answered your question. I answered the darned... I'm cooperatin' here!

COURIC: Governor, you have no call to get snippy with me, I'm just doing my job here.

PALIN: I'm... I'm not arguing here! I'm cooperating. And there's no ... we're doin' all we can.

COURIC: I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?

PALIN: Well, heck, if you wanna play games here! I'm workin' with ya on this thing here, but, okay... I'll try to find ya some, and I'll bring 'em to ya.

COURIC: Governor? Right now?

PALIN: Yeah, right now! You're darned tootin'! If it's so damned important to ya!

*Palin gets up and storms off to the parking lot. Couric looks out the window and sees the Governor driving off in her car.*

COURIC: Oh for Pete's sake, she's fleeing the interview! She's fleeing the interview!

When Marge speaks, she actually has something to say.

Last I checked, she was the smartest person in the film! :rofl:

What to call them? How about "The Wails"?

You get the first-ever-awarded WAIL AWARD for creative humor illustrating political deception in an entertaining, yet succinct manner! CONGRATS!

...the Lundergaard character's but as for what she sounds like (or tries to sound like), I'm sticking with Marge. I loved your take on the interview, though.

She's from northern Ohio, ya know?

Plenty there. Though finding her level of vileness will be difficult.

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but without the vocal training and good modulation. Edie is an actress, but the accent is her real voice. She's in a million things.

When Palin talks, I hear "Minnie" from the Disney movie Cars, like when she talks about "going up to Shakopee for the Crazy Days."
:rofl:

say "I think John McCain is a righteous dude!" in that same voice. People always get the comparison.

"Dog gone it, ya' betcha we shoulda' called Tina Fey, you know."

:puke:

Not being originally from here in WI, I first noticed the accent, which is really more of a Minnesota meets Canadian accent. Oddly, I have also heard that accent even in more rural parts of Pennsylvania.

There have been a number of relocation programs for people in Minnesota to Alaska during hard economic times last century, hence making the accent prevalent in parts of Alaska.

Her accent has been discussed by lingoists:



Palin indeed does sound like Principal Victoria in South Park:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/152863/

"Palin actually has an Alaskan accent, one from the Matnuska and Susitna Valley region, where Palin's hometown, Wasilla, is located."


BUT, does anyone, just ONE person, actually talk like her there? If so, I want to see a video!!

Linda Menard, running for the seat being vacated by Lyda Green.

Northern blue blood Texas twang?

Linda Menard from Wasilla, running for the seat that Lyda Green is vacating in the state senate, was on our local news last night giving her pitch, and I swear she sounded like Sarah. She is a Sarah supporter, after all, so maybe she's picking up her speech patterns deliberately.

Check her out here http://www.ktuu.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=2997792&h1=District%20G%20Senate%20seat%20between%202%20newcomers&vt1=v&at1=Video%20Player&d1=163433&LaunchPageAdTag=Homepage&activePane=info&rnd=61136491

It's right after the "Alaska Grown" commercial and the intro by the news people.

Palin is so over the top with colloquialisms and seemingly exaggeration of the inflections.

I'm thinking Palin's accent is NOT authentic, even in Wasilla.
I guess we need a roving video in Wasilla to check the locals out.