Ben Stein: No There There - Obama's fake accent on a big night.

American Spectator ^ | 2.29.12 | Ben Stein

[neverdem]

Tuesday
It's the night of the big primaries in Michigan and Arizona. The news networks are going nuts over Romney squeaking by in Michigan after he outspent Santorum five to one. I guess I am crazy (I know I am) but it seems to me as if the man who spent 20 cents to every Romney dollar and got within three percentage points of Romney is the star.

However, that's not my point right now. I just finished watching C-SPAN. It was fascinating. A very smart GOP Freshman Senator from Wisconsin was grilling Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. The Senator asked...

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But his voice! His accent! He has completely reprogrammed his Punahou School, Columbia undergrad, Harvard Law School accent to try to make it sound like what he imagines a workingman's accent is. It borrows a pitifully little amount from Dr. King. There's a touch of storefront preacher. He -- of course -- drops his "g's" at the end of "ing." That's how educated people think working people talk.

But it's more than that. He also has a southern cracker imitation tossed in there to appeal to what he imagines are southern men who work in auto plants -- so he sounds like a strange mixture of Joe Hill, Martin Luther King, Jr., and George Corley Wallace of Alabama. It's a whole new accent never seen on earth before created by this master chameleon to disguise his ultra-privileged background.

It's his mouth that's moving, but it's not Barack Obama that's speaking. It's a robot speaking machine in Mr. Obama's brain. He has set the machine to "please the workingman" accent and also "please the African-Americans" at the same time and the result is that weird, sad King/Wallace voice. It's sad actually. For Mr. Obama, there's no there there.

[lentulusgracchus]

Peter Schiff exposed stein as being a total liar and fraud years ago.

Really? When and how so? Got link or keyword?

[trebb]

Hillary probably gave him some pointers from he, “Ah ain’t no-ways taared” speech.

[GlockThe Vote]

Look up stein schiff and subprime. Loans.

[UCANSEE2]

And he has to throw his Hollywood buddies a bone.

Well... it is a union 'rule'.

[gaijin]

And here is HILLARY doing it, too..!! Try not to throw up, ok? Because....she’s VERY bad at sounding “salt of the earth”, ok?

Warning: Hilarry faking a Southern drawl is....embarrassingly bad..!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJVgZIJ8K6U

[gaijin]

Here is Hillary, doing it again, this time a hip-hop version. You’ll be expecting Hilarry to swath her head up in a kerchiekf, a-la-Aunt Jemaima. Try to keep your lunch down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9TQq0C3Ac

[x]

In a recent diary entry, he gave credit to Keynes, of all people, for saying something to the effect that a certain monetary policy (such as the one Geithner and Bernanke are currently following) would lead to inflation. Even if Keynes did say it, it’s like pulling out some quote from Mein Kampf to criticize nazism. You don’t have to go there, and you don’t have to give credit to the one whose theories are responsible for the destruction of our economy. A misplaced sense of fairness clouds Stein’s thinking. And he has to throw his Hollywood buddies a bone.

Keynes was more complicated than the people who read his books -- either to praise his ideas and put them into action or to attack them. He did recognize the dangers of inflation, but felt that sometimes -- in a Depression situation -- some inflation was justifiable.

In the article I found, Stein was saying that even Keynes wouldn't support Obama's stimulus package. It was a valid argument.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links.