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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 07:54 PM
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CNN upcoming: "The drawling Dems!"
"Do they change their accent when talking to southern or black audiences?"

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OK after 7 years of Bush and his phony cowboy-speak with nary a word, I am officially dumbstruck by the American media.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 07:56 PM
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1. YOU KNOW IT PT
to hell with bush's phony accent though - why don't they go after the fact he is a PHONY COWBOY and a PHONY PRESIDENT ??? :o
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 07:58 PM
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5. Next they'll say Edwards is putting it on. nt
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Connie_Corleone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 07:57 PM
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2. A person's accent usually changes when you're talking to southerners
I know mine does. I start sounding like my grandmother who comes from Georgia. I was born and raised in the North but a southern accent comes easily to me when I'm on the phone with someone from Alabama or Georgia. It's like taking a cue from the other person.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:00 PM
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7. I'm from rural southeastern ohio
but i currently go to school in Columbus. It's amazing how fast my voice pattern changes when I go home over a break (and there is a surprising amount of difference, considering the two places are 40 minutes apart)
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 07:57 PM
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3. well, they have to say SOMETHING
to distract us from the never ending list of things the Bush administration sucks at
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 07:58 PM
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4. Tell them to deal with the biggest fake
liar, and war criminal -their boy -George Bush.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 07:59 PM
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6. Oh, of COURSE they have nothing to say about **. Let's send a video montage to
Keith so he can at least show ** changing dialect depending upon his audience.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:00 PM
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8. All they have to do is go back a few days to the "tornada" In Alabama
He sounded like he was in the cast of a revival of "Designing Women".
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:07 PM
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13. But we need footage of a black tie snobby dinner where his inner Yalie comes out
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:02 PM
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9. That's info-tainment
:think:
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:05 PM
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12. Wolf had a nice giggle at the piece
Hardy-har!!

Afterward, they went right into Paula Zahn's show, where she opined, "Is the presidential election going to be nastier than ever this year?"

I don't know, CNN. You tell me.
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itsmesgd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:02 PM
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10. Hillary not only faked an accent, she did it poorly
Purely pitiful ploy by a political panderer.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:09 PM
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14. Yea, that was horrible....
She just looked like a high school kid from Cleveland tryin' to play Scarlett O'Hara...

Mr DeMille, did I pass the audition....
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:41 PM
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20. As opposed to ginuine George? nt
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:55 PM
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22. False choice
It's not an either or thing.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 11:31 PM
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26. I see.
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Kelly Rupert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 09:01 PM
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23. If Dubya's affectations piss you off, Hilly's should too. n/t
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 11:32 PM
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27. The point is the media has never called him on it in 7 years.
Edited on Mon Mar-05-07 11:32 PM by Bluebear
And that should piss YOU off!
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 11:33 PM
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28. The charge is bogus:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/03/yet_another_win.php
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:03 PM
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11. How about the Republican candidates trying to talk like Republicans?
:rofl:
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:11 PM
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15. They've got the phony Texan in the WH and they're
making an issue of Dem candidates' voice patterns? Absurd.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:13 PM
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16. For years it's driven me nuts...
Edited on Mon Mar-05-07 08:13 PM by VolcanoJen
... that nobody ever questions why he's the only one in that entire Connecticut blue-blood family with a Texas accent.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:22 PM
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17. The Repiglican Media Are Just Getting Warmed Up
After what happened to their dear Repiglicans last year,
we can expect the propaganda to be cranked up to new levels,
far beyond anything we have seen before.
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:29 PM
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18. What are they going to do interview Kevin Costner?
That Robin Hood accent was an affront to humanity. Aside from that this is a news story?
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:36 PM
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19. Too bad Ahnold Schwanzewagger isn't running (or can't run)
I would have enjoyed hearing his version of an southern Austrian drawl, ya'll.

But it can't get funnier than George Bush, who usually sounds like an East Texas pig farmer but when he appears before his good ole boy audiences starts sounding like he's just had sex with his sister, a swig o' moonshine, and a fine possum dinner.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 08:43 PM
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21. I thought cnn misspelled
"brawling".
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 09:05 PM
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24. Politicians have an infinite capacity for making fools of themselves.
Especially when seeking votes.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-05-07 09:08 PM
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25. Corporate 'media' or 'television' has an agenda, it would appear. More regulation w/dems.
They have a motive to keep pounding on the democrats.
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