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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLOL Watching Martin Bashir regrading the bombshell Obama tape
So he showed Fucker Carlson and Sean Hannity discussing last night how Obama sounds "different" in that tape while talking to black ministers. Of course they are discussing how "black" he sounds.
Martin came back from the tape and said "How about that...two white guys debating how black a black man's speech sounded to them."
HipChick
(25,485 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)My tea-freak roommate eats it up. But I can't jepordize my living situation by telling them he is an utter moron. I would be on the street if I did. I look forward to seeing him cry on-air when his candidate gets hammered Nov 6th.
Cha
(297,655 posts)flamingdem
(39,321 posts)as he goes along, he's the best at puncturing Repuke pretensions ruv Martin
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)let the President know what they expect him to do. Gaaack.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)I can feel the words broaden and slow down. Isn't it funny they never said he sounds like a Chicagoan?
phylny
(8,386 posts)Most people do it.
Shuhered
(200 posts)These idiotic Special Breaking News reports on Fox are so anticlimactic but for the uneducated masses who watch their channel. They cannot help themselves, their cliff will come first on Nov. 6th & then we can avert the National one. Obama 2012. Iowa has already voted ( by mail, many , many Obama votes, mine included!!!)
livetohike
(22,163 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Did you know that only white people were affected by Hurricane Andrew and 9/11? It's true, the whitest man of them all says so!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)over his glasses as he says that with a veiled sneer. Too funny!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)when around black people all he could think of was "who let the dogs out"? Really? Who's the racist here Tucker and Sean.
None so blind as he who will not see.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)And lest we forget, what about Wrongney's 'orange' adventure with the fake tan?
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)It's one thing to speak to your audience, but quite another pander.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Yup, same mentality telling everyone how to feel... and think... and be... As if we gave a damn.
Please, you two twits, go outside and play on the freeway and tell us how that feels and sounds.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)It is noticeable that when Obama is speaking to a largely black audience he sounds "More black". Big deal. It's appropriate to alter some aspects of how you speak for some audiences. So long as you show a reasonable degree of sensitivity in how you do it.
If I, a white woman, on the other hand, were asked to address a largely black audience and I were to attempt to adopt what I thought to be a "black" accent, it would be hypocritical, rude, and inappropriate.
catbyte
(34,447 posts)Most people do it. Y-A-W-N.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)in the heart of Chicago. Unopened since 2007. What could be inside? Kenyan birth certificates? Marxist literature? the remains of Jimmy Hoffa?
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Nice one Erose
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)They were like rabid jackasses trying to out clown each other.
I listened to Obama's speech it it's entirety. I did not get what was so alarming, as Drudge was suggesting. That speech was such a non event.
Then, I turn on Hannity and his hair is on fire and he's reporting on the speech with the sense of urgency that someone might report a global alien invasion. I thought Hannity was going to blow a major artery.
These are not serious people. They are making fools of themselves.
I can't wait for all of these tapes of Hannity, Carlson and other right-wing frat-boy bullies--being drama queens over this non-issue tape. In the end, it will play in our favor.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)DisabledAmerican
(452 posts)Trying to prove how much this tape will actually hurt Obama.
MADem
(135,425 posts)create this little faux imbroglio!
Talk about "smokin' 'em outta their holes!!"
We know who the racists are on tee vee by the reactions to this non-news!
No one said shit to Dubya when he switched from a "generic New England" to a "pisspoor, unconvincing East Texas" accent in order to appear more folksy! Apparently, though, if you're brown, you aren't allowed to get down!