Like Drudge, Tapper reported on Clinton's "curious Southern drawl," failed to mention her 17 years in Arkansas
On the March 5 edition of ABC's Good Morning America, senior political correspondent Jake Tapper stated that in a March 4 speech to commemorate those who took part in the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" Civil Rights march, "Senator Hillary Clinton [D-NY], who was raised in Illinois, adopted a curious southern drawl during her speech to the Alabama crowd." Tapper made his report after an item linking to audio excerpts from Clinton's speech was posted on the website of Internet gossip Matt Drudge.
At 6:37 a.m. ET, a link to a video of Clinton speaking at the event -- with the headline "KENTUCKY FRIED HILLARY: NY SENATOR ADOPTS SOUTHERN DRAWL IN CHURCH SERVICE..." -- was posted on The Drudge Report. Tapper gave his report on Good Morning America at 7:08 a.m. Tapper also posted a March 5 entry on the same subject on his Political Punch weblog on ABCNews.com:
Listen to a montage of Clinton in this iFilms clip (CLICK HERE) Clinton, raised in Illinois and representing New York, affected a sporadic but curious Southern drawl in her speech. "I" became "Ahhh," "far" morphed into "fahhhr," and "mayor" suddenly sounded like "mare."
(You should note that Clinton's exhortation that "I don't feel noways tired" isn't quite as bad as it seems -- she's quoting "James Cleveland's great freedom hymn" which you can see HERE Still, the molasses that suddenly appeared in the senator's mouth was interesting. Though a former Clinton aide reminds me that Clinton lived for quite a spell in Arkansas, of course.)
While Tapper's blog does not indicate at what time he posted the Clinton entry, he links to the same audio clip of her speech as Drudge did, a clip apparently uploaded to the site www.ifilm.com by former Drudge colleague Andrew Breitbart. On his blog, Tapper noted that Clinton, who was speaking at Selma, Alabama's, First Baptist Church, "lived for quite a spell in Arkansas." However, he did not include this information in his March 5 Good Morning America remarks. Clinton moved to Arkansas in 1975, the year she married former President Bill Clinton and joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School. She resided in Arkansas until 1993, the year of Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration.
Nor did Tapper include in his Good Morning America report the fact that, as he noted on his blog, in part of the audio to which Drudge links, Clinton was quoting "James Cleveland's great freedom hymn."
As Media Matters for America has previously noted, ABC News political director Mark Halperin has claimed that Drudge "can influence the news like Walter Cronkite did" and claimed that "[i]f Drudge has a siren up, people know it's something they have to look at." Halperin's book, The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 (Random House, 2006), which he co-wrote with Politico Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris, includes a chapter titled: "How Matt Drudge Rules Our World."
From the March 5 broadcast of ABC's Good Morning America:
TAPPER: Two other items of note: Senator Hillary Clinton, who was raised in Illinois, adopted a curious southern drawl during her speech to the Alabama crowd.
and even more surprising, when she opens her mouth, words come out.... shocking, INDEED!!
Ever hear Bill speak, dance tapper?? He has an accent, also... crazy, isn't it?
Hillary is clearly an accent flip-flopper. Not that I care but it is undeniable.
An "accent flip-flopper?" Please tell me you just made that up...
Yes, I just made it up.
That was a good one, Bruce.
The problem with the ABC news report isn't that ABC failed to report she lived in Arkansas 17 years. The 17 years is meaningless because she didn't have the drawl 2 weeks ago. The problem with the ABC report is that ABC is reporting on triviality.
I agree that it's trivial. However, to the relveance of the 17 years - when you live in an area for a while where you are surrounded by a regional accent, it has a way of affecting your own speech. My best friend growing up was from Texas, and I lived for a while in the south, and I do find myself slipping into - maybe not an accent, but a different cadence or rhythm - when I speak with southerners.
It's not all that trivial. Superficial? Surely. I've lived in the south nearly all my life. I actually don't have what many describe as a blanket southern or rural accent. It wasn't a conscious decision to lose it. I simply never developed one. Senator Clinton did on Sunday what many politicians do: she pandered to a crowd. 17 years in Arkansas notwithstanding. She didn't sound like somebody from Arkansas. She sounded like somebody faking it. Anybody who claims otherwise is simply being intellectually dishonest.
I agree it's trivial, but it does show the length to which Ms. Clinton will go,basically becoming a chameleon to appear to conform to the people she is front of at the time. Deep down she understands that the demands of the kooks who vote for her...the left wing fringe, put her on a tight rope...she must appear to be one thing while actually being something else. This type of charade goes right to the bone with her and is not limited anto her choice of accent. If she wins in '08 that will prove that you CAN fool some of the people all of the time. We need to watch out for "slick Hilli".
"I agree it's trivial, but it does show the length to which Ms. Clinton will go,basically becoming a chameleon to appear to conform to the people she is front of at the time."
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Of course this is true, but it's true for ALL politicians. I've never seen a politician that didn't act like this. That's why they smile and kiss ugly babies, and eat foods they wouldn't normally eat. It's part of the dance. It's the same reason Ronald Regan made he's announcement for the presidency where he made it. Shoring up votes from a place that he could most likely count on for support. He knew the people that would be offended by the symbolism of what he did would never vote for him anyway. So yes it's calculated, but they all do it.
Jake Tapper is an ass. everyone who has worked around the DC media know that he is probally the most disliked member of the political press corps. And by this I dont mean the political crow, I mean his colleagues. They laugh at him and deride him everytime his name is mentioned. He is well known for his overriding arrogance and his pitifully small brain. He probally is the most vapid journalist in Washington and we all know what a high curve this city has for shallowness. Way to think stupid Tapper, You could have done this story as a joke and even I would of laughed, but instead the jokes on you, because once again you prove just how shallow and dim you truly are. Go get em Jake - you're such a Tigger!
Which is why he would be easily recruited into Rove's Rangers.
It's sort of shallow to fake an accent simply to relate to a group of people, don't you think? It's also silly to do that when you're aware that one of the stickiest criticisms of your character is that you are entirely disingenuous.
Also, when calling someone stupid, be sure to understand that 'could've' is a contraction of the two words 'could' and 'have'. In the English language there are very few opportunities to properly use the words 'could' and 'of' back-to-back.
What about Bush's accent? Why doesn't Jeb have the same accent? Or ANY of the other Bushes for that matter.
I have NEVER heard any suggestion that Bush's Southern Drawl,) along with his ranch and ridiculous cowboy costumes,) is anything but authentic. Never mind that George was born and raised in Connecticut.
Hillary was first lady of Arkansas for a dozen years. She lived there for years before Bill was elected Governor. I am from New England but I live in the South now, and when I find myself in a crowd of Southerners I find myself developing a bit of a drawl after only a short while. Its certainly easy for me to believe that her southern accent comes back when she is in the South.
Its certainly easy for me to believe that her southern accent comes back when she is in the South.
Me too. Those folks from the south don't only drink beer and watch NASCAR, they vote. Hillary is a complete fake.
Yet the voted like drunken sheep for George W. Bush, mysteriously the only Bush with a Texas accent (and an off-and-on one at that).
As a former Hoosier, now living in Atlanta, I slip in and out of southern accents and idioms all of the time. I loose them when I am back in the North for a while and then gain them right back when I come back. I have no reason to expect Hillary to be any different. Maybe she is. Maybe she isn't.
And I have only lived here for about 7 years. But who am I to argue with such apparently accute mindreadng abilities as yours?
Techincally he wasn't raised in Connecticut. He was born there, but the family did move to Texas when he was very young. I was born in North Carolina and grew up in Georgia. I don't have anything resembling a southern accent. Senator Clinton (who was my Senator until very recently) does not have anything resembling a southern accent unless she believes it would behove her to fake one.
It's a stupid story to be sure, but it's her own fault. She's the one patronizing an entire region.
Hillary,
You've been my Senator for awhile now. I didn't vote for you, but what the hell. That accent was as fake as your love for Bill. Try to develope a LI one next. That should be interesting.
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I love the way Hillary haters have no problem with serial adulterers in the Republican party, but cant accept that she and Bill have been married for decades, worked through their problems, and raised an intelligent, well-adjusted child. I guess they'd feel more comfortable if Bill and Hillary had been divorced years ago, because divorce is the favorite strategy of pretty much every major Republican politician these days. At LEAST Chelsea could be drinking her way through South America, like a certain set of twins I know of.
Don't blame you for believing that the Clinton's marriage must be fake. If you are a Republican, you dont have a lot of home-grown role models to turn to.
I don't hate Hillary. I dislike her positions on numerous topics. However, her fake southern accent will magically disappear when she returns "home" to Manhattan
Yes, your cogent analysis of the substantive issue of the authenticity of her accent shows that you focus solely on the cold, hard issues and are above petty Hillary-hating.
What do you think of Rudy's serial adultry?
I love it when people can be indignant of what they perceive as hypocrisy while exhibiting the very same hypocrisy they supposedly disdain.
Of course this website is a prime example of that sort of thing. I used to think it was doing a good thing. Then I realized the people who ran it lacked the scruples to identify anything other than what could be construed as 'right-wing bias.' It's sort of ridiculous. If you're going to be a watch dog, what's the harm in watching out for both sides. This pragmatic notion that any Democrat is better than any Republican, so it's your responsibility to defend all Democrats from attacks even if they're attacks resulting from their own idiocy is what's going to give you a weak candidate in the end. And no one to blame but yourself.
Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate, and she will not be elected president. Don't be fooled by your own desire to return to the Clinton years. They're gone. And they weren't as good as you remember them anyway. There's absolutely no reason she should be president. And there are many reasons she should not be president. Not the least of which is her last name. We've had two decades of Clintons and Bushes. We don't need any more of either of them.
Man, you Repubs are scared sh*tless, aren't you?
I'm not a Republican. I've never voted for a Republican.
I'm not a Democrat either, but the last person I voted for in the US Senate was Charles Schumer. The last person I voted for for President was John Kerry. I know my simply saying it doesn't prove it to you, but it's true nonetheless.
I will not vote for Hillary Clinton for president. I am afraid that she'll be nominated. Not because I don't think she can win (which I don't) but because I don't think she should win.
Strangely enough, I agree with nearly every word (except I live in Georgia and voted for a different senate candidate). I really don't like Hillary all that much. I do like Bill, though.
I guess I would just like to see a fair fight. I think MMFA is doing the right thing by supporting Democratic candidates as well.
I think you are unrealistic to expect MMFA to hit both sides equally. Why do liberals always have to unilaterally fight fair? God knows conservatives would never do the same. MMFA is a pragmatic reality.
You fight fair because it's the right thing to do. Here's the thing, I consider myself to be liberal. I don't consider myself to be necessarily progressive because I see that label as containing an implication which is, in part, offensive.
I believe in admitting when a Republican is right and a Democrat is wrong. I believe in accepting the idea that both sides can be right while at the same time contradict one another. I believe it is unhealthy to deify politicians because they will disappoint you almost without exception. I believe both parties want their base to be filled with such righteous indignation with regard to that of the other side, and I believe they see the best way to reach that end is through pandering, patronizing, and through campaigns of mass misinformation.
I suppose we are. If she wins, our taxes go completely out the window. I guess that explains the onslaught.
What did that apparent non-sequitur rant have to do with my question? Do you approve of Rudy's serial adultry as well (Dave brought the issue of Hillary faking her love for Bill up first)? How about Rudy's evading the draft?
To be honest neither issue means a thing to me. The problem is that we spent the decade of the 90's hearing precisely how much all of that meant to Republicans and conservatives. Where's the outrage now? Hello...? Is this thing on?
A: I'm not a Republican, and am therefore not the audience at whom your original argument regarding adultery was aimed.
B: The argument I was making is that you were trying to call Republicans in general and one of the previous posters in particular on what you see as a glaring hypocrisy, but in doing so you make the attempt to straddle the line of moral indignation and hypocrisy. And all for what? To defend Hillary Clinton against the clear charge that she's disingenuous? To defend Bill Clinton against the charge that for all of his charm that he is on a very basic and personal level a bit of a douche? While it's true that their marriage is none of our business, what he did in the Oval Office with a 22 year old girl sort of is. Not that any of us really want to talk about anything that unseemly.
C: What you refer to as a non-sequitur rant, was, in fact directly related to your post and the motivation behind it. It may have gone on for too long, alas, one of my shortcomings is being long-winded, but verbiage notwithstanding, hypocritically pointing out hypocrisy is stupid. I mean, you're in a relatively safe environment where you might not expect somebody to call you on it, but I prefer to maintain some level of intellectual honesty.
D: While I'd prefer not to discuss such matters at all, for the record: Marrital infidelity while a personal issue, is a sign of serious flaws in a person's character. Anyone who doesn't see that, or would make an attempt at trivializing it, is either ammoral or dishonest.
A. I asked if you were Republican or Conservative. Are you not a conservative either? What exactly are you (politically)?
B. Neither Rudy's nor Bill Clinton's philandering means anything to me. You may be a hypocrite if you somehow hold Clinton's adultery as any better or worse than Rudy's. You don't explicitly say in your post, so I will leave it to you to elaborate on that as it was the original question.
C. No. Your rant was indeed a non-sequitur. As of that point, I hadn't detailed my position, so at best, you were attempting to make a point by apparently (poorly) reading my mind.
D. "Marrital infidelity while a personal issue, is a sign of serious flaws in a person's character. Anyone who doesn't see that, or would make an attempt at trivializing it, is either ammoral or dishonest."
Actually, I do see it as a personal flaw. I do not see it as a basis to oppose or support someone. We have had some great adulterous/philandering leaders in the past: Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, FDR, JFK, MLK,Jr., etc. to name a few. To automatically discount a leader for those reasons is utter foolishness, IMO.
A. I'm registered unaffiliated. Idealogically I consider myself a liberal, but I think some would consider me more of a moderate as I don't necessarily toe what has now been termed the 'progressive' line. I liked it when liberal meant a compassionate and empathetic person who was willing to see complexities in the world. While I essentially agree with the Democratic Party more often than not on issues (i.e. The role of government, abortion rights, immigration, diplomacy), I find their arguments for most such issues to be painfully lacking in intellectual honesty at least half of the time.
B. The reason we should all consider Bill Clinton's philandering worse than Rudy's is that it was literally on our time and our dime. He quite literally soiled the Oval Office. He was president of the United States and he was having 'relations' with a intern, and while we can pretend that it's none of our business, the truth is we all just want it to be none of our business.
C. We'll have to agree to disagree on this point since I feel I know exactly what you were saying, but I will accept my inferance being inaccurate. It happens. If it did here, I apologize.
D. I'm glad to know that you do see it as a personal flaw. I didn't mean to suggest that it was something that one should base their entire decision on, but I do mean to suggest that it's certainly a way one can begin to base a determination of the nature of a person's character. I find deceit of the kind that almost always accompanies adultery to be troubling. I find deceit of the kind that accompanies serial adultery to be even more troubling. But my point about Bill Clinton's was based entirely on the location of the affair. And the identity of the woman as an intern was pretty bad too.
This is a trifle, however it's also cheap political showmanship. If you want to throw in a regional phrase or two, no problem, but aping the dialect is disingenuous. It's akin to Bush plying a NE accent in a regional speech just because he went to Yale. Of course, since he doesn't speak English, it would sound even worse.
I don't really blame the media for the ridicule.
CNN today was also bashing her Southern Drawl and claimed it was proof that the narrative of "insincere and manipulative" Hillary true.
How are you supposed to paint it? Convincingly, I mean.
Another example of hate toward Senator Clinton
Rather, it turns out that Hillary was actually quoting the hymn lyrics of someone else -- while clearly and very openly imitating (not very well, it turns out) the cadences she thought the lyrics would traditionally have been delivered in. There was nothing phony about it at all. Watch for yourself: [link to www.talkingpointsmemo.com]
Thanks for the link. Hannity played this today, out of context and with old gospel music playing. My first thought was that she was reciting a poem.
The talkingpointsmemo link completely destroys the righties on this issue, and it's an angle that MediaMatters missed. The years in Arkansas have absolutely nothing to do with this.
Is it really necessary to explain that there were other segments from the speech in which she feigned an accent while uttering words and phrasings not included within the hymn? Apparently so.
While it's true, and rather obvious when one views the segments widely posted and reported on that there is a section in which she is clearly quoting an exterior source, there are just as clearly other portions in which she does.
Let's all be honest, shall we?
I stand corrected. Yet another right wing smear by taking a snippet completely out of context. Thanks for the TPM link. I should have known better than to think the right is capable of anything but half-truths and lies.
But I have to agree with TPM - badly done and tone deaf. Not the shining oratorical moment she was going for.
The worst thing about this item for me is the bad memory it brought back . That time in elementary school when we all had to read a poem in front of the class (selected by the teacher).
This Irish/Danish blooded (read: whitey white)suburban kid got "We real cool" (Gwendolyn Brooks?).Didn't really work. At least it's short.
We're on unnaturally occurring regional accents as political policy concern now?
When these two get done wondering why someone from Chicago wound up getting accent traits after living in Arkansas consistently for 17 years beginning right after law school, maybe they'll get into a linguistic mystery that has baffled me for years.
Born in Connecticut, moved to Texas at age 11, but spent only portions of the year there - spending summers and Christmas breaks in New England. Sent to boarding school in New Hampshire at age 14, remaining there until graduation at age 18. Only to attend undergrad in Connecticut until age 22. Then floated around New England for a few years, not even showing up for his entire service in the Texas and then Alabama Air National Guard, to attend Graduate Business School in Massachusetts shortly before age 30. Not settling for good in Texas until after age 30, yet spending a goodly amount of time between ages 30 and age 40 traveling OUT of Texas extensively.
Yet, by age 45, sounds like a Longhorn Born (to non Texan ears) and, after spending the past 6 years away from Texas - still does.
Please linguistic experts of ABC and the internet, dissect that one for me.
They won't dissect anything for you, because they are phonies. Their hero George Bush is the biggest phony of them all, and they know it. Funny how Hillary gets savaged left and right for being a phony but George Bush gets a free pass. He lives on a fake ranch in Texas with no horses, comes from a Northeastern blue-blood WASP family, lived a privileged life while coasting through life on his daddy's name and money, and yet he still gets away with presenting himself as some down-home Texas country cowboy who is just an average joe. Give me a break. If you want to attack Hillary for being a phony, you should attack George Bush at least 100 times harder.
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Geez.
I'm not a Hillary fan but this is soooooo petty.
About a month or so ago they were picking on her for her off-key singing of the National Anthem. Now they are attacking her for maybe taking on a slight Southern drawl.
The hell with the issues. Next let's discuss her hair-do.
Why not, Jeter. Since this thread is silly anyway, just suppose Hillary showed up at that church with an afro. I'm sure it would've been a great look for her, but just as fake as her newly found southern accent, which more than likely disappeared today.
Are you done squawking propaganda parrot?You've already been debunked by Bill McKern in the thread a few posts above. I’m sure that isn’t going to stop you from repeating your talking point of the day.
Wasn't Hillary speaking at a black church? Don't black people normally sing a lot of gospel music? Why don't these wing-nuts just tell us what their real problem is....
So is it safe to say that Hillary's Souther accent has received more coverage than Romney, Giuliani and McCain's numerous flip flops in abortion?
I actually think Romney's flip-flops have had pretty regular attention. And Rudy hasn't really flip-flopped on the issue, he's pandered with a phony promise of 'constructionist' judicial appointments. McCain is pretty anti-abortion rights, and have been that way for a long time.
Senator Clinton faked an accent for a speech two days ago. It'll pass, but as silly as it seems, it was a really dumb thing to do. And it was absolutely intentional.
For those of you using the term "Clinton haters", you've been watching too much Fox, whose pundits use the term "Bush haters". Name calling only lowers the level of debate.
Clinton hating predates Bush hating. And it isn't name calling, it's the unvarnished truth.
The righties who cry about our irrational Bush hatred are the ones who most fervently and unreasonably hated Clinton during the 90s. How quickly we forget Vince Foster, the body count, Mena airport, the Clinton Chronicles, and everything else.
While it is possible that today's Bush haters are nearly as fervent, the levels of factual misdeeds by Bush and Clinton are not remotely similar.
HAHAHA . . . LOL . . .
There was a thread on this same subject at Newshounds - seems Faux & Fiends, er, Fox & Friends also made mention of Hillary's "fake accent" . . .
I watched both Sen. Obama's and Sen. Clinton's remarks in Selma . . . I thought both were done well . . . as Sen. Clinton was speaking, it did sound as though she had affected a southern accent . . . but, when you consider where she was, who her audience was, and the fact she was a longitme AK First Lady, this should not have come as a surprise . . .
This is just like when Glenn Belch, er, Beck talked about how "shrill" Clinton sounded when she grilled Rumsfeld in front of the SASC . . . he said he understand why Bill cheated, having to listen to a voice like that.
Typical wingnuts . . . ignore the substance of someone's speech and focus on delivery . . .
I remember thinking: some wingnuts are going to make an issue of this . . . and it will end up in Newshounds - and MMfA . . .
And, "sho 'nuff" . . .
Double standard here...
I have heard George W. Bush on more than one occasion purposely attempting to speak like a normal person, trying (although admittedly awkwardly) to articulate words. Why isn't he called out for that? Everyone knows that's not his natural pattern of speech, which is a garbled mess of heavily accented inarticulation. But, yet, Hillary Clinton is accused of changing her accent. It apears to me there is a double standard in operation here.
Bush's normal pattern of speech is one of smoothness and elegance, but it can only be heard when he's putting someone down or lashing out at someone.
The effort of suppressing decades of pent-up republican behavioral tendencies is enormous and requires such full concentration that it is difficult to even decide what word comes next in a sentence.
"... easy for me to believe that her [S]outhern accent comes back when she is in the South." All well and good if she had ever had a Southern (i.e., Arkansas) accent in the first place. Face it, she did not. Besides, what she did was not an Arkansas drawl. I grew up in Arkansas and I recognise one when I hear one. (As a matter of fact, I spent last week in Little Rock. Heard the distinctive Arkansas drawl quite a bit.)"... very openly imitating (not very well, it turns out) the cadences she thought the lyrics would traditionally have been delivered in. There was nothing phony about it at all." "Openly imitating" vs "nothing phony" -- I have a bit of trouble with the juxtaposition of those thoughts. How can deliberately trying to affect a speech pattern not your own ever be anything but phony? However, I do agree with the "openly imitating" part and the "not very well" part."... a slight Southern drawl." Not slight, it was a drawl so thick you could cut it. Face it again, all that matters to Hillary Clinton is "the politics of personal power" -- something she did not catch from Bill Clinton.
Amazing the things that will be determined to be "misinformation". Yeah, web sites must be getting VERY hard up to find decent articles to write about, so they pick a 'come and go' southern drawl. Next week, when she's back in NY, you'll hear the noreastern accent again. Then, when she visits NM you'll hear a slight twinge of mexican in her speach. She's a democrat, that means she is fake and will don any mask to appeal to every crowd. I hear that Obama was using the "ya'll" word during his visit to Alabama. I'll bet he used that word a lot while growing up in Illinois.
So? You have "Christian" right there in your nickname but never show any evidence of BEING one.
Does that mean that he/she is right and you are just attacking his/her nickname because you cannot argue his/her point? Is that how you stay "on topic"?
No. It had no point.
Nice selective "outrage"
Lets continue to criticise Hillary for everything under the sun and give other political figures a free pass on the same things we attack her for...
Why is the "News" reporting this in the first place? And out of context I might add just to fit a specific agenda they are pushing to discredit her.
If you think she is such a bad politicain then why don't any of you actually attack her on her platform?
Ok, I will. Her platform is not what a good Conservative like myself is looking for. It seems every time she opens her mouth, it costs me money. http://www.nationalreview.com/kudlow/kudlow200604181516.asp
In that article Kudlow doesn't discuss Hillary's platform, but rather what he thinks her platform might be based on a couple of her comments during a speech that he acknowledges barely staying awake through.
I do hope that the Republican candidate, whomever it may be, does choose to run on the platform of privatizing our highways. That sounds like a real winner. Who wouldn't want our roads built and maintained by Enron or Halliburton?
Then, when she visits NM you'll hear a slight twinge of mexican in her speach. - Proud-Christian
Yeah, while she's encouraging those New Mexicans to swarm across our borders !
You're priceless, PC.I wish Jesus was alive to read your posts.
Is Mexican an offical language now or did the entire country start using one dialect of Spanish? I'm so confused!
I compared the iFilms sound bite at with the CSPAN version posted at the horsesmouth (talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth). Its apparent that the audio posted by Andrew Breitbart has been doctored to time-stretch parts of Sen. Clinton's speech - enhancing voice cadences. I've read posts by sound engineers and others complaining about this as well. Compare the two clips yourself and you will note her voice sounds slightly slower and lower pitched in the Breitbart post. Also, be skeptical even with pictures posted at these new media websites. I've seen photos of Sen. Obama and others digitally altered to enhance facial irregularities. Altering audio and video news clips for political purposes should be rejected by everyone, regardless of ideology.
Give me a break. This is a stretch, MM. I have lived in the South my entire life and I have a Southern accent. I have friends with Southern accent. I do not know any real Southern who sounds like Hillary did in her speech. That accent was worse than a lot of the ones you see on television in the movies. For a real Southern, it was comical. Overall, it is a non-issue though. She is campaigning. If she wants to fake and accent to appeal to her crowd go for it. I think she sounded silly but it sounded like her audience was connecting. Other than for a couple of laughs, I do not see how Hillary's accent is representative of ANY type of bias in the media.
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