For all of those who were so outraged over Hillary's "put on" southern accent a while back

[mtnsnake]

you should have heard Oprah this morning on the news when she was getting ready for the big EVENT in South Carolina. I swear, if I hadn't seen her on the TV picture, I never would have realized whose voice it was I was hearing....talk about putting on an artificial southern accent. What a circus!

[still_one]

1. Clinton is the an actual candidate, Oprah isn't /nt

[mtnsnake]

5. Are you so sure about that?

that Oprah isn't?

[Bitwit1234]

9. What in the hell difference does that make ???

oh I forgot....we pan Hillary for what ever she does and we kiss HIS ASS.

[still_one]

31. I don't care about the issue one way or another. I am just pointing out the differerence

There are plenty of substantive reasons to go after the candidates other than this

but the fact remains, any of the Democratic candidates are far superior to the republican ones

[BeyondGeography]

2. That's gonna hurt Oprah in the polls

:freak:

[journalist3072]

3. Just tell me this: Did she finally make any substantive case for Obama?

Or was it just more of "He's the one."

[mtnsnake]

8. I think she trying to make a case for herself. nt

[MADem]

4. Clinton, to be fair, was not doing anything other than ACTIVELY putting on an accent.

And her audience KNEW it. It wasn't a secret, fachrissake. And she didn't do it terribly well, but she tried like hell, and that is what was endearing about the exercise, even though, for some stupid reason, the REPUBLICANS got all excited about it. She charmed her audience because she made an EFFORT. `

If Oprah wants to sling the soul, let her. Who gives a shit? Perhaps she's trying to find common ground. Yee haw, whoop-di-do.

And I speak as someone who is not a particular Oprah fan.

The SC accent, though, is rather unique. It's not the same as other parts of the country. It's a trick to get it right.

[mtnsnake]

6. I agree. Hillary's was sincere and fit the moment. Oprah's is bullshit to get votes. nt

[MADem]

13. If she wants to 'soul it up' so what, though. Not everyone who attended those

Springsteen concerts voted for Kerry, either.

I think it's 'nothing but a thing' that Oprah is doing this. If it sways people who wouldn't otherwise vote for Obama, well, they're stupid sheep who are easily led, and if they're all that stupid, they'll probably forget to go to the polls.

I think getting upset about this endorsement is just a waste of time.

[Bitwit1234]

7. Hillary said it was put on.....

I guess people haven't heard someone come on and say some of the words in a fake accent. But then when Hillary does anything, anything at all the other candidate's supporters mess them selves trying to pan her.

[mtnsnake]

10. Yup, and that only shows that at least Hillary is sincere. Oprah is one big stage act.

[hlthe2b]

11. Oprah does have some southern roots. However, I agree

that she emphasized an accent she normally does not manifest.

[KittyWampus]

25. I am a Long Islander. There are times my Lawng I-lant accent slips out. Usually,

my diction is much more proper. Often people are surprised when they find out I'm from LI cause it doesn't sound like it.

Usually.

Sometimes, I slip into it.

[hlthe2b]

28. I lived long enough in the deep south to do that as well...

with a long-buried southern accent--even listening to a local Atlanta newscast and hearing the accents coming through the airport is enough to induce it... In those instances, it is subconscious.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Oh wow Oprah will NEVER get the nomination now

Oh wait . . .

[ClarkUSA]

14. Um, Oprah grew up in the Deep South. Hillary grew up in Illinois.

As any Southerner knows, the accent is never far away from the surface when you're back "home". What's Clinton's excuse?

[Frances]

17. I grew up in the South

and my accent changes whenever I talk to my relatives. So I have no problem with Oprah's accent.

I don't have any problem with Clinton saying that she's going to try a Southern accent in a good humored way.

In fact, I don't have a problem with accents. I've lived in too many different places for that.

[ClarkUSA]

18. I have relatives from the Deep South, Europe, AND the Far East

And I understand completely. :-)

Unfortunately, this OP is wholly representative of the pervasive Clintonian bile directed at Obama on DU these days. I hope we'll soon have a nominee
and this type of mean-spirited silliness will stop.

[Occam Bandage]

26. Hell, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago. I speak slightly different accents

if I'm talking to white folk or black folk, and I don't even notice. I didn't even realize it until I had a girlfriend who asked why I sounded black when we went in a Harold's.

[mtnsnake]

19. Oprah made her fortune talking a totally different accent the last 30 years in Chicago

Now all of a sudden she's Southern again? lol

[Occam Bandage]

23. You've obviously never known anyone from a different part of the country.

People learn to speak the accents around them. Drop a Georgian in San Francisco, and come back ten years later. He'll probably sound just like a native Californian, though he might still have a trace. If he's highly educated or has a job that requires him to speak frequently, he'll almost certainly be indistinguishable from his peers (unless he decides his accent is a part of his identity, in which case he'll take pains to preserve it, and might actually amplify it).

But take him back home, have him do so much as buy a pack of cigarettes from a convenience store, and almost immediately he'll be talking like he never left. Take him back to Frisco, and he'll drop the Georgian accent just as quick. And he won't even notice. Call him on it, and he'll either laugh and say he didn't notice, or get irritated and deny it.

[hedgehog]

15. Maybe she's puttin gon an accent when she speaks Midwestern ! nt

[TeamJordan23]

16. Jealousy from the Hillbots continue. Pretty pathethic. nm

[hlthe2b]

21. I remain uncommiitted. Just pointing out Oprah brought out her

southern roots via a pronounced accent is not an attack, just an observation. Many public speakers adjust their mannerisms to match those of the audience. It may be a good thing to do. Time will tell.

[Peregrine Took]

20. Her cadence reminded me of Martin Luther King, Jr. This may be a huge

mistake for both of them - that is my gut reaction. It trivializes him and makes her look "over the top" and out of her depth.

[Occam Bandage]

22. She was born in Mississippi. It wasn't fake.

My mother grew up in rural Maryland, then moved out to California after she got her Ph.D. She speaks perfectly standard, bland American English. When she's in the company of people from the Carolinas, West Virginia, rural Maryland, and the like, she almost immediately sounds like an absolute hillbilly--and always denies doing it. Funny thing is, even when she's talking with people from the same region who have similarly obscured their childhood accents, within ten minutes both will have returned to their Appalachian dialects. People very easily switch accents without even knowing it.

[Frances]

29. Say hi to your mom for me

I grew up in Alabama, then lived 7 years in Massachusetts, then over twenty years in Maryland before moving to California.

I loved Maryland and miss it very much.

[Cha]

24. I wasn't "outraged" as you

so tantalizing state it. Accents are great..do we have to talk the same all the time? Especially when a lot of us have been around the country and in even the world?

I see you're "getting tired of the Obama/Oprah circus"..too bad it's getting your goat.

[Wizard777]

27. This is like Bush's fake Texas Twang.

Hey dad you remember when Mom told me that if I kept making those monkey faces, one day my face would get stuck like that? Yes Son I do. Well you know my fake Texas Twang? Yes son. Listen to this. Nooklar, damn it! Nooklar. Nooklar. Dad the Joint Chiefs won't let me go nooklar until I can say it right. Nooklar, damn it! Nooklar. Nooklar, damn it! Nooklar.

[Forkboy]

30. Were you outraged at Clinton too?

If not, why does this bother you? :shrug:

Your reasoning cuts both ways. Either both bother you or neither one bothers you. It can't be one of each. :)

[coco77]

32. I was thinking the same thing...

when she began to speak...

[ecstatic]

33. I actually hate when she and Obama do that too

I don't like southern accents. But I absolutely hate fake southern accents.