The bloody VOICE!!!

[canetoad]

Belatedly doing my homework and watching the Gibson interview. Forget the content (or lack thereof), the only things I hear are nasality, rising inflections, strange and arbitrary emphasis on words and, and......NUKULAR

ed: typo

[pnwmom]

1. Why do people here never complain about men's voices?

I would take this more seriously except I heard it so many times about Hillary.

[Roland99]

2. Oh geez...Hillary and that fake northeastern accent...fingernails on chalkboard

Palin's reminds me of Francis McDormand (sp?) from her role in Fargo

[LibDemAlways]

6. Great minds think alike. I already call Palin

"Marge Gunderson."

[pnwmom]

17. Actually, Hillary's isn't a "fake northeastern" accent .

It's a typical Park Ridge, Illinois accent, flat vowels and all.

[mattclearing]

34. Yeah, and a year before that it was all Arkansas.

It's amazing, she instinctively adapts her accent to the locale she's pandering to.

[pnwmom]

40. Except for lapses during an occasional trip down south, she is consistently

a Chicago area person in her accent. Never the northeast.

Many people find themselves slipping into a southern accent when they visit there.

Why are we still dumping on Hillary, by the way? Don't we still need her -- and her supporters?

[mattclearing]

59. Haha...yeah, you're right. I just think it's funny when people change their accent to pander.

It's a faux pas on both sides of the aisle.

[Kalyke]

42. LOL!!

I call Palin, "Marge on helium."

:rofl:

[Lex]

3. Lindsey Graham and Phill Gramm. Their voices SUCK

and its not the southern thing either because I grew up and still live in the south.

I know I've complained about their voices too.

Palin's voice is just plain horrible.

[underseasurveyor]

11. And she makes that little smarmy smacking noise before she begins to speak

[Kalyke]

44. Where is Phil Gramm from?

I always thought he had that Texas accent more than a real Southern one.

(I'm Southern, too).

[underseasurveyor]

8. Oh I complain about liebermans voice

GOD it irritates me to no endx( I can't listen to him I have to turn him off. Worse than listening to boosh and I'd definitely prefer listening to nails on a chalkboard than hear one peep outta liebermans maw.

[OneGrassRoot]

36. I ALWAYS think of the guy on Alf! Sounds just like him! LOL n/t

[Roland99]

52. LMAO!! Yeah!

[underseasurveyor]

55. E-Gads... you're right

:rofl:

[Kitty Herder]

10. Oooh, ooooh, can I complain about some men's voices?

Chris Matthews, Joe Lieberman, Bush*, Lindsey Graham all have HORRIBLE voices that make me want to throw a shoe through my t.v. whenever I hear them. Oh, and Rod Decker, a local newsman has the worst voice on the planet.

[pnwmom]

13. Thank you. Actually, I think John McCain has a much worse voice than Palin.

But both of them send shivers down my spine.

[Kitty Herder]

19. With McCain, it's his speech pattern that gets to me more than his actual voice.

Drives me clear up the wall.

[Judi Lynn]

32. He schlurrrrssh his ehssssessshhh. Can't take it. No wonder his wife took drugs for pain.

(slurs "S's.)

[lonestarnot]

24. Your list works for me, but for the last one, never heard that voice.

[Kitty Herder]

25. Consider yourself lucky. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. duhbya with his fake Texan accent. His mush mouth speech. Like fingernail on a chalkboard.

[Cronus Protagonist]

23. Woody Guiliani has a terrible voice - that lisp and whine are nauseating

He's perfect on the gesticulations though.

[Judi Lynn]

31. What can possibly be worse than Jaaames Sensennnnnbrennnnnerrrrr?

Also, the voices and accents of so many other Republican senators. O Mi God. Oh, jesus.

Is there anything worse? Republicans are such ugly people. Ugly in manner, ugly in attitude, ugly in vocal expressions, ugly in "vallyuhs" (values) and dumb as mud.

People with ugly world views are almost uniformly ugly in all their traits, thoughts, expressions, appearances. It can never successfully be concealed.





Seersucker Day in the Senate. WooHOOOOOO.



Braaaadddleeeeey Schlooooooozzzmannnnn.

Examples of that great Schlozman voice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKBmzDDwX0w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlXgnKHKy0E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXbSVy9neJY

[treestar]

33. I've complained about the Bushes, father and son

Pappy I could not stand - had to turn the TV off back in the day.

Reagan's condescending tone drove me nuts.

Good voices and bad cut across both sexes. Hillary's isn't particularly good. It doesn't mean there aren't women with good voices. McWar's voice sucks. Doesn't mean there aren't men with good voices.

[Phentex]

37. the elder Bush sounded whiney all the time...

the younger one, too, but Dad was worse.

[lunatica]

39. The sound of Bush's voice makes me want to scream

The way he mangles the language is far worse than his fake Texas drawl which he's so proud of. He tries to use big words but even when they're written in very large letters he still manages to fumble them. Chertoff's voice is nerve wracking too. Rumsfeld's voice is brittle and sarcastic and I'm glad he's no longer doing his crappy immitation of being a human being on TV. Sean Hannity is shrill and hits you like machine gun bullets. Swartzennegger's limited vocabulary and thick accent makes you wonder why he hasn't dropped some of that accent after all these years. It makes me think he's too lazy to pronounce words that he hears on a daily basis. He can't pronounce the 'th' in that. It still comes out as 'dat'.

[murbley40]

41. Ok, I will......

W's voice and assination of the English language makes me want to bash in the Tv.
Sarah Palin's voice is a pageant contestant, trying to bluff the judges.

[Andy Canuck]

43. I can't stand McCain's voice.

[DS1]

49. I complain about Joe Lieberman's voice all the damn time

[ddeclue]

51. Ok... I'l do it...I can't stand:

George W. Bush's hick smug self-righteous frat boy mix.

I never liked Reagan's "well"..sigh.. over bearing paternalistic sound.

I find Bill O'Reilly's voice pompous and irritating

I find Rush Limbaugh's voice utterly pompous and self-righteous.

I find Sean Hannity's voice shrill and angry.

OK???

[Stinky The Clown]

53. Okay, how about McCain's voice? Or Buchanan's?

Buchanan gets so high in register that I can't hear him but my dogs start laughing their furry asses off at him.

How about Rudy with his clapping choppers?

Or Scarborough with his "Dimocrats" .... and he's not trying to diss us, that just his stupid fucking accent.

McCain .... "Warshington"

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. It's an ACCENT

[canetoad]

5. As in the way

you ACCENTED the word ACCENT? :rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. yeah, lol.

[pnwmom]

12. And the reason no one complains about mens' accents? n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. There are male voices that bug the crap out of me: Bush is one.

[notadmblnd]

7. I was amused when he asked her about the bush doctrine and she sat back in her chair all smug

and said "in what regard, Charlie?" Like that was going to shut him down and change the subject. He almost told her what it was but stopped himself and asked for her interpretation of it, and she wouldn't/couldn't answer.

[ogneopasno]

45. That was the best part. She's all, "I OWN you, Charlie!" and then was totally shamed.

She's like a 12-year-old.

[pokerfan]

9. Her voice reminds me of Sister Mary Elephant

the old Cheech and Chong skit.

"Good morning, class. Good morning, class. Class? Class!? SHUT UP!!!!! Thank you. As you know your regular teacher Sister Rosetta Stone is on a small vacation. However she does send her love, at least fingerpaintings, and desk club she`s making. I am your substitute teacher, Sister Mary Elephant. Class, attention. Attention, class! Class? SHUT UP!!!!! Thank you. Young man, now give me that knife. (Knife hits wall) Thank you. Now class, you all know who I am, so let`s find out who you are. Class? Class!? SHUT UP!!!!! "

[Cleita]

14. Oh Gawd! That's it!

I was trawling my memory banks and just couldn't place it until now. :rofl:

[pokerfan]

20. Found the clip on youtube

Takes me back to 1974...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU34iLemwdY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Mary_Elephant

[Cleita]

21. LOL!

Oh the memories! :rofl:

[pnwmom]

15. Nasal? What about McPain himself? His voice is worse than hers,

but I never hear anyone say anything about it.

[RandiFan1290]

35. You've already been proven wrong

Why do you keep trying to stir up shit?

[pnwmom]

50. I've been "proven wrong"? Wrong that McCain has a voice that's even more

irritating than hers?

How has this been proven wrong? Where's your proof?

(Is it possible for you to disagree with someone without lapsing into profanity? Just wondering.)

[Dogtown]

38. pnwmom, are you suggesting

that DU is picking on Palin because we're "sexist"?


That's a pretty lame RW talking point. Please note, I am not calling you an intruder, but you certainly sound silly this morning.

[pnwmom]

48. Nope. But some of those who picked on Hillary's voice were. n/t

[Dogtown]

54. In this thread

or sometime in ancient history?

That feud is OVER. You were the first one to bring up Hillary in this thread; it was supposed to be about Palin.


Please, just GET OVER yourself *and* the primaries. I didn't participate in that clam-bake because it was pathetic on both sides, and I'm very tired of people trying to revive it.

[trueblue2007]

16. Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, C

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie,

I wish I had a quarter for everytime she said his name in that too sugary sweet voice.

She makes me sick.

[KharmaTrain]

18. She's "Unmodulated"

Greetings my Ozzie friend...

I worked with voices and she exhibits some real bad habits...mostly relegated to sportscasters. They can't adjust the volume or tone well...a very strident cadence...better used for yelling over loud crowds than in dealing with a one-on-one. That's why she "killed" at the convention, but was awful on this interview. A boss I had used to call this delivery "em-fasize-zing the wrong syl-lie-bal". She's also very scripted...got those talking points down solid...and when she's knocked off balance, her instinct is to run for the talking point...attempt to turn or dominate the conversation. I'm sure it works great on a kid on the local Anchorage station, but it doesn't play well on the national stage.

Cheers...

[canetoad]

26. Heya KT

'owyagoin moite?

You're dead right about the talking points. Can't remember which it was but Gibson asked a question and off she went. Completely different topic, no relationship to the question. Given that I don't deal with any particular US accents on a regular basis, is that strange way of emphasising seemingly random words in a sentence usual? Alaskan?

[KharmaTrain]

28. Someone Called It "Fargoese"

After the movie...a bit of Canadian with a touch of lumberjack. :rofl:

Honestly, I think a lot of it is just poor habits...pushed forward by years of rotary club and church meetings. She's not thinking in a fluid fashion...kinda like a computer hard drive that runs out of memory and has to constantly reset. You can just see that hard-drive wheel spinning and not sure where it's at or looking for.

Many of these people, especially the women, are taught to be assertive and "loud". Look at the ones you see spinning...they win through intimidation and modulation (especially if they don't have facts). I predict that in the debates that will be her downfall. She'll be combative and defensive while Senator Biden with all his experience will school her like a cuddly college professor.

Her voice is definitely not "natural"...but then this lady is way out of her league right now.

Cheers...and ahoy!!

:smoke:

[Caliman73]

22. Wow

That was horrid!! I wish Charlie would have followed up his question about Ukraine and Georgia being admitted to NATO with a simple..."Why?" I think we would have seen her head explode. "Does not compute...Does not compute...Does, does,..boom!! Then she tried to back away from her "God's plan" quote. Her dominionist friends probably did not like that too much.

She couldn't even hit the softballs they lobbed at her. I can't wait for the debate. I know they get some of the questions before hand, but she can't stand up to Joe's on the spot questions. The fembot will self destruct. Or...maybe she'll get mono until November 4th?

[ColbertWatcher]

27. I forgot about her NUCULER! n/t

[Dr. Strange]

46. She's Bene Gesserit.

She's using the Voice to gain power. How do you think the Padishah McCain was convinced to put her on the ticket?

[Narkos]

56. More like Honored Matre

she's authoritarian to the nth degree. You impugn the reputation of he Bene Gesserit.

[Dr. Strange]

57. Good point. I apologize.

My Mentat was supposed to check my post before I submitted it, but he was out last night drinking.

:hi:

[kurth_]

58. "In what respect, Charlie?"