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Guest-hosting O'Reilly, Ingraham claims Obama "channeled his best Jeremiah Wright accent" in NAACP speech 

July 17, 2009 9:59 pm ET

From the July 17 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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    • Author by reanna-mator (July 17, 2009 10:05 pm ET)
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      I wasn't aware Jeremiah Wright constituted his own region from which to have an accent.
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    • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 17, 2009 10:10 pm ET)
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      Now where's our troll to explain that teh libruls are the REAL racists?
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    • Author by harley (July 17, 2009 10:12 pm ET)
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      huh? Where was this "accent"? Nice try...swing and a miss.

      But where was the fake outrage when herr dubyah broke out his fake redneck hick accent? Hypocrites.
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      • Author by jmille426471 (July 17, 2009 11:12 pm ET)
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        Exactly,

        Goerge W. Bush is the only member of his that has a southern accent. And if you watch his debates with Ann Richards, you'll see he occasionally lets his Daddie's Massachusetts accent slip, and he talked pretty fast.
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        • Author by jmille426471 (July 17, 2009 11:15 pm ET)
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          Correction:

          George W. Bush is the only of his family that has a southern accent.

          Bush has nothing on my typos.
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          • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 17, 2009 11:33 pm ET)
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            Did you ever see Will Ferrell's HBO one-man show as Dubya? " I'm like, 'Enough with the oxygen!' And my Dad's like, 'Why are you the only one in this family that speaks with a Texas accent? It makes no sense!' I'm like, 'Do I? Do I have an accent? 'Cause if I do, I can't hear it!'"
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            • Author by jmille426471 (July 19, 2009 5:36 pm ET)
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              You know what's even funnier than Will Farrell playing George Bush? George Bush playing George Bush!

              Here, have a look at these two videos; they'll give you a good laugh if you havent seen em already.

              And to think, my mother voted for him because she thought he was such a wonderful christian man. Well isn't that sweet.

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (July 17, 2009 10:25 pm ET)
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      She's just reminding Bill's audience that Barack Obama is black...and that black people support him. Too bad you folks can't use the N word on TV because then you wouldn't have to dance around it so much. More iced tea, Laura?
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      • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 17, 2009 10:54 pm ET)
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        It is coming as they get desperate sombody going to slip.
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        • Author by kalentros (July 18, 2009 11:41 am ET)
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          Yeah, but who do you think is going to do it first?

          My bet is on Limbaugh.

          Although Hannity may be a close second.
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        • Author by kimujnr (July 18, 2009 11:46 am ET)
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          Oh yeah its coming! This news channel has become a habitual problem and its only long enough before they spark something that shouldn't happen. They are the same bunch of dito heads who lauded the freedom of Iranians disputing their elections and be just as quick to crucify anyone who says their messiah Bush did the same twice!!

          If Obama had been even a moderate dictator he'd have thrown Fox and its morons out on the street! I wouldn't mind that though, freedom of speech only goes so far as stupidity!
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (July 17, 2009 10:30 pm ET)
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      Ingraham opened her morning show with this drivel. That means that she held on to it all day, never once reconsidered that maybe, just MAYBE, her complaint was too juvenile and stupid to use, and brought it up some twelve hours later on television.

      Proof positive that not only do these idiots not care if they say something absolutely moronic, but are perfectly comfortable repeating it twelve hours later. In other words, they have no ability to reflect and reconsider. It's just full speed ahead with the shallow bs, all the time.
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 17, 2009 10:51 pm ET)
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      From the people who bring you the real news.The truth that the lying liberal media won't.News from the conservative piont of view the thuth.Breaking News! The first black President of The United states speaks to the NAACP.Our indept analysis has uncovered the a fact that threatens the security of the United States and its alies. "President Obama had a funny accent" W'ell bring you more as this story develops
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      • Author by jjamele2880 (July 17, 2009 11:12 pm ET)
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        Wait a minute....Obama is BLACK? Where did you get this information?

        And if he's black, that means he was born in Africa! I thought you had to be an American citizen to be President?

        I'm so confused. And Ingraham won't be on here till 9 AM Monday morning. What am I going to do for info before then? Quick, to the TV and Fox News Network!
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        • Author by IRONY 101 (July 18, 2009 7:09 am ET)
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          Someone should check Obama's birth certificate. ;>)
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        • Author by Übermensch (July 18, 2009 3:13 pm ET)
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          I know you are trying to be funny. But one does not have to be born in Africa to be black nor does being black mean you are from Africa.
          Charlize Theron was born on the Continent of Africa and she is white.
          Bob Marley was born in Jamaica and he is black.

          And now you know

          [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/Gamer674G/nbc_the_more_you_know.jpg]
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    • Author by christopher howard (July 17, 2009 10:56 pm ET)
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      What do you expect? Ingraham was one of the know-nothings who was pushing the fact that Obama put mustard on a hamburger as somehow significant a while back. She has a nose for scoops that focus on the petty and the banal.
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    • Author by DAWUSS (July 17, 2009 11:01 pm ET)
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      Well, I saw the clip of Obama at the NAACP right before Maddow vs. Buchanan, and I thought Obama did come off a little angry...
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (July 18, 2009 7:10 am ET)
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        Maybe all black people sound angry to you if they aren't singing or serving you dinner.
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        • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 18, 2009 9:44 am ET)
             
          And if they're singing, they better not be Making Swears.
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        • Author by tuttlm21 (July 18, 2009 10:37 am ET)
             
          LOL... 'irony' is right. It disgust me when white people constantly talk about how black people should act and sound especially when their emotional. Look at Obama's other speeches to mostly white audiences, he sounds like that when he's excited, and the only reason they hate this speech is because its about correcting problems in the black community... Plus we all have to constantly remind everyone that Obama is black, maybe we'll scare a few "real Americans".
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        • Author by fantagor (July 18, 2009 4:10 pm ET)
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          A funny but true remark. What I heard was PASSION. One man's passion is another man's white flight.

          Randy
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      • Author by kalentros (July 18, 2009 11:45 am ET)
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        Why the hell shouldn't he have sounded angry when he was talking about failing schools and the extraordinarily high drop out rate of inner city high school students.

        Do you think these are things for which a president should sound cheerful?
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    • Author by Thinking Man (July 17, 2009 11:10 pm ET)
         
      Really? This is what passes for news and commentary on the Fake News Channel? Where was she when Dubya trotted out his phony twang? It never struck her as odd that neither Poppy Bush, Momma Bush, Jeb, nor little brother Neil have a twang? What a hypocrite.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 18, 2009 12:25 am ET)
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      Is FOX a rudderless ship ? What is the point of all this and how does this fit into a serious discussion
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      • Author by richardsimones (July 18, 2009 2:34 am ET)
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        can you call anything on this website a "serious discussion"
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        • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (July 18, 2009 3:03 am ET)
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          If you scroll past the conservative comments, yeah, there is a lot of adult conversation. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad this site, unlike most wingnut sites, allows opposing views, no matter how idiotic. It's just important to see most of those as comic relief to break up the serious discussion.
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        • Author by vysotsky (July 18, 2009 1:20 pm ET)
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          Hi Richard,

          You're new here, yes? Welcome to the forum. If you take some time to read the comments in response each posted item, you'll find that serious topics are often discussed by many people in a serious manner here.

          I'm curious: what is there in Laura Ingraham's remarks to take seriously?

          There are people who comment frequently on this forum who seem to know a thing or two about languages, linguistics, and communication, so I'm sure we could have a wonderfully serious conversation about how and why what Ingraham is calling "an accent [Obama] doesn't possess"...

          1) ...is not an "accent"
          2) ...is no more an affectation than the "affectations" every person uses when speaking in different social settings before different social settings (i.e. before a judge, on television, when singing a song, etc...)
          3) ...seems rather odd to characterize as a thing he "doesn't possess" unless one is willing to make a whole string of rather dubious and ugly assumptions about the kind of speech patterns Obama can legitimately claim to "possess".

          But I'd love to know what you think. Please, by all means, let the serious discussion begin.
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          • Author by vysotsky (July 18, 2009 1:22 pm ET)
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            (Correction: the second listed point should read "when speaking in different social settings before different audiences")
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            • Author by juliajayne1 (July 18, 2009 6:37 pm ET)
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              It's called a rhetorical device. It's used often and is very effective. I've experienced it in church, funerals, and by gosh, even Presidents employ it.

              In short, it's for public speaking. Maybe Laura doesn't get out much.
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          • Author by solon (July 18, 2009 4:34 pm ET)
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            Very civil intellgent discourse the V. For someone who keeps harping on the lack of intelligent civil discourse he doesnt seem that eager to take you up on yours.
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            • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (July 19, 2009 3:20 am ET)
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              I've seen several posts by Richardsimmons lately. This one asking for serious discussion is about the most substantial. The rest are mainly along the lines of "what?", "I don't understand" and my favorite, simply "?". He seems to be some sort of simpleton who enjoys operating a keyboard to ask other people to have discussions that he doesn't understand.
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          • Author by IShirdon (July 19, 2009 11:20 am ET)
               
            Well said
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        • Author by SMTDL (July 19, 2009 11:25 am ET)
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          There usually are serious discussions until an uninformed,biased conservative starts to spew nonsense,smears,biased drivel,racism,sexism or lies....most posters here try to follow facts and logic.Those are usually ones that seem to get all their news from Fox or Conservative sites.It is fairly easyto determine facts with all the sources available on the interenet.Without a doubt it is Fox and conservative sites that use more innuendo,distortion and non fact based attacks on people and issues.Case in point..the Obama birth certificate.How can this still be an issue for so many??
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      • Author by JamesCraven8209 (July 19, 2009 9:55 pm ET)
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        Fixed Noise has been rudderless ever since Adolph Bush XLIII, Dictator of the United States left office...
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    • Author by LIBERTY OR DEATH (July 18, 2009 12:30 am ET)
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      Hilery Clinton did same thing depending who she was talking to.
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      • Author by magnolialover (July 20, 2009 9:25 am ET)
           
        Actually, she didn't. She did it once, reading a poem in dialect that it was written in.
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ NUTS (July 18, 2009 3:31 am ET)
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      i love how she just blindly assumes he is speaking with a black accent just because he is talking in front of a crowd of african americans and saying words like "testify". its almost like she wanted to think he sounds black just to legitimize her racism. this is why conservatives get accused of racism... because they make idiotic remarks like this.
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      • Author by teabaggers ♥ NUTS (July 18, 2009 3:53 am ET)
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        this is the same type of bigotry that oreilly suffered when he made his remarks about how he went to the harlem restaurant with al sharpton and was surprised that nobody was yelling "M-Fer i want more iced tea", that everybody was well-dressed and even though there was an anita baker concert going on, it wasnt rap music with cursing.

        obviously, oreilly and ingraham are cut from the same cloth... they have identical racist views about blacks and assume that every single african american will act like some ghetto thug.
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    • Author by blesscurse (July 18, 2009 11:32 am ET)
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      Ms. Ingraham conveniently pretends to forget that when speaking to an entirely Jewish audience, a Jew's Yiddish or faux-Yiddish accent gets thicker, and when an Irish-American speaks to an Irish group the blarney is poured on a bit thicker, and sice she clerked for Clarence Thomas, I guess she has "forgotten" how Mr. Thomas's inflection and delivery varied from circumstance to circumstance. She was also somehow outraged that Obama would dwell on the struggle for Civil Rights when speaking to the ... NAACP. Typical cynical disingenuous feigned outrage by a right wing tool.
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    • Author by eastcoast (July 18, 2009 11:37 am ET)
         
      Ingraham is just another talkinghead for the rightwing smear machine.
      Repugs and wingnuts have to make crap up, their irrelevant and they no it. Desperation at its best.
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (July 18, 2009 12:22 pm ET)
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      What INGRAHAM, LIMBAUGH, HANNITYand the rest of the WINGNUTS are having a difficult time grasping is that the people of this country elected a DEMOCRAT to the WHITE HOUSE (and he's AFRICAN AMERICAN to boot)by around 10 million votes. Plus we threw a bunch of REPUBLICAN SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN OUT on their cans. The WINGNUTS are still under the illusion that their views are mainstreem american. I'm enjoying seeing them lose any semblence of sanity they had.
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      • Author by jonesjax2374 (July 18, 2009 3:46 pm ET)
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        Right on, Hurricane. You be da man. -- Michelle Bachmann
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        • Author by SMTDL (July 19, 2009 11:29 am ET)
             
          Hahahahahahahaha TOUCHE!!!!And don't forget Hilary turning into Scarlett O'Hara when campaigning in the south!!!!
          No one ever explained GWB's Texas accent..one of a kind in a New England Family!!!
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    • Author by kssaul (July 18, 2009 12:40 pm ET)
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      Leave it to FAUX to take a fantastic speech with a great message not just for Af-Americans but for all, in front of a group celebrating the progress that they helped create, and........criticize the inflection in the President's voice at times during the speech. Maybe you chould have another expert on blinking on to analyze as well. The only people pandering, Mrs. Ingraham, are you and your army of misinformers. GET OFF MY PHONE YOU LITTLE PINHEAD haha.
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    • Author by Digital Jedi (July 19, 2009 2:05 am ET)
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      So what she is saying is if a black man talks loud and with authority, he's talking with a "black accent"? Seems I remember that "accent" in around 90% of his speeches during the campaign, including the ones made at the DNC Convention and, oh I don't know-- election night?
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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 19, 2009 10:36 am ET)
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      Scarlett O'Ingraham strikes again...
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      • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 19, 2009 3:36 pm ET)
           
        "Honesty, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for actual journalists, you mean."
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    • Author by seroquel (July 19, 2009 11:26 am ET)
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      I think that this network is awfully close to becoming a Nazi wetdream.
      Consider this-Coulter, Blond.
      Ingrahm ,Blond.
      The crazy lady lawyer(with accent!) BLOND!
      Obama has an accent? From what I heard he sounded the same as on the campaign trail-something I missed hearing him do.
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    • Author by IShirdon (July 19, 2009 11:32 am ET)
         
      It would be nice not to identify folks by their ethnicity and skin color.
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    • Author by SMTDL (July 19, 2009 11:53 am ET)
         
      I would say that his speech to the NAACP got a little "sermonesque" when he was empasizing in particular the challenges from the civil rights era.The phraseology was from that era but wasn't a "black" accent..let alone a Rev Wright accent(whatever the hell that would be) all black people talk alike?????
      I suspect Ms Ingraham couldn't resist manufacturing a Rev Wright moment for her fans!!!Her comments show little understanding or appreciation for the substance of the speech!!!Maybe they should invite her to speak next time!!!OOOHHHHHHHHHhhh Scary!!!
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      • Author by JamesCraven8209 (July 19, 2009 9:54 pm ET)
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        Anyone notice a vocal simularity between Laura Ingrahm and Roseanne?
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        • Author by robyn20094113 (July 20, 2009 1:11 am ET)
             
          I do not know what I would compare Laura's voice to. She has no business commenting on how anyone sounds. Her voice grates on my nerves, it always has. Why would anyone give her an on-air job? Come to think of it, She does sound like Roseanne. Wouldn't want to hear her doing the news either.
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