Open Question For The Con Blogosphere (And Matt Drudge)
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You guys have harped on endlessly about Sen. Clinton using accents during her speeches as “offensive” to blacks.
Have you found one single black person actually in attendance at Sen. Clinton’s speeches who was offended? Just one who is willing to go on record?
As the kids say: Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
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Is George Bush’s fake Texas accent offensive to real Texans?
Just another burning issue for our times.
The wingers are desperate. They hooked their wagons to a Connecticut born bogus cowboy coward and he is bringing their party down.
Jesse Lee Peterson? Oh, wait. You said a black person. Never mind.
Hold up there, Oliver. There is a difference in “offensive” to blacks and pandering to blacks out of fear of losing her frontrunner status to a real American of African descent.
I haven’t read Drudge on this, but do you agree or disagree that the pandering is happening?
(The tying Harriet Tubman to problems with her microphone was a classic.)
She’s working the mike in front of black audiences hard, because she knows of the potential of a real “first Black President.”
And of course her audience hasn’t been offended- they’re part of the choir when Deacon Clinton speaks. They know she’s just trying her best. Why eat your own?
Fair enough, Marty. Let’s rephrase the question.
Have you found one single black person actually in attendance at Sen. Clinton’s speeches who felt they were being pandered to? Just one who is willing to go on record?
She was quoting a song. she didn’t do the whole speech like that. Just FYI.
Once again, Oliver speaks for all black people. Al Sharpton is proud.
Once again, Ian speaks for his arse. Proctology is proud.
I just don’t want to hear any screaming as McCain heads down to Roscoe’s for chicken and waffles then…
I simply ask – if what Sen. Clinton is doing is so offensive, why are all the offended parties right-wing hacks? I think as a rule all politicians pander. President Bush lays on a thick southern accent when he campaigns in front of more southern audiences, Sen. Obama gets more ethnic in his speeches with black audiences. It’s called being a politician, but it’s only a scandal to be flogged when it’s Hillary Clinton.
The interesting thing is, I’m doing exactly the opposite of what the stupid Ian is accusing me of. I don’t speak for anyone but me. But cons are claiming to speak for offended blacks, and I’m simply asking: show me them.
Oliver,
Um, George Bush, while not born there, was raised in the South. He is a Southerner. He speaks like a Southerner. Therefore when he speaks to people, he sounds like a southerner.
Hillary, is white. Hillary is not from a black area. Therefore Hillary can not speak “black.”
BTW, If GWB was talking to an audience made up of mostly black people and started to speak “black” to them, somehow I don’t think you would take kindly.
Do the right wingers get offended just because Bush sang the National Anthem in Spanish on the campaign trail?
It’s so heartwarming seeing conservatives show so much concern for the feelings of blacks…snif. You like us! You really like us!!
What conservative is speaking for all black people? Is scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s pandering speaking for all black people?
Hell- I’m not even offended. I just find it to be funny. (Pandering politicians are funny to me.)
I found Obama’s “ethnic” to be pretty humorous too- as if he needs to go “ethnic.” (His ethinic sounds too rehearsed anyway for a Hawaii raised, Harvard educated attorney, but again- nobody’s complaining.)
I also find GWB’s forays into 7th grade Spanish enunciation quite amusing too.
(And Duros- that one quoting of the song is not the only instance that I found to be humorous pandering to black people from Senator Clinton.)
But to answer your original question, Oliver- no. I personally haven’t talked to one person and any of the audiences in which Hillary pulled out her ‘blackisms’ who may have been even slightly offended. But then again, I haven’t persoanlly interview them all yet.
Ian regurgitating talking points: Um, George Bush, while not born there, was raised in the South. He is a Southerner. He speaks like a Southerner. Therefore when he speaks to people, he sounds like a southerner.
By the way, didn’t Jeb grow up in the same house? Why doesn’t he speak like a Southerner?
Ian:
Bush was born and reared in Connecticut and spent his summers in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he got one of the DUIs that wasn’t erased from his record.
I’ve talked to Texans. They all say that his accent is as fake as that Potemkin village of “Crawford”. He’s what real Texans call “all hat and no cattle”.