CNN upcoming: "The drawling Dems!"

[Bluebear]

"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.

[Skittles]

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

[Bluebear]

5. Next they'll say Edwards is putting it on. nt

[Connie_Corleone]

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.

[realisticphish]

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)

[realisticphish]

3. well, they have to say SOMETHING

to distract us from the never ending list of things the Bush administration sucks at

[malaise]

4. Tell them to deal with the biggest fake

liar, and war criminal -their boy -George Bush.

[GreenPartyVoter]

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.

[Bluebear]

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".

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. But we need footage of a black tie snobby dinner where his inner Yalie comes out

[BeyondGeography]

9. That's info-tainment

:think:

[VolcanoJen]

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.

[itsmesgd]

10. Hillary not only faked an accent, she did it poorly

Purely pitiful ploy by a political panderer.

[WCGreen]

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....

[Bluebear]

20. As opposed to ginuine George? nt

[Forkboy]

22. False choice

It's not an either or thing.

[Bluebear]

26. I see.

[Kelly Rupert]

23. If Dubya's affectations piss you off, Hilly's should too. n/t

[Bluebear]

27. The point is the media has never called him on it in 7 years.

And that should piss YOU off!

[NYCGirl]

28. The charge is bogus:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/03/yet_another_win.php

[eleny]

11. How about the Republican candidates trying to talk like Republicans?

:rofl:

[LibDemAlways]

15. They've got the phony Texan in the WH and they're

making an issue of Dem candidates' voice patterns? Absurd.

[VolcanoJen]

16. For years it's driven me nuts...

... that nobody ever questions why he's the only one in that entire Connecticut blue-blood family with a Texas accent.

[AndyTiedye]

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.

[walldude]

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?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

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.

[Cha]

21. I thought cnn misspelled

"brawling".

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Politicians have an infinite capacity for making fools of themselves.

Especially when seeking votes.

[spanone]

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.