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Ugh: Failed CNN host suggests people with southern accents are stupid
The Right Scoop ^ | 4/6/14

Posted on 04/07/2014 9:49:19 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

How lame can you get. Kathleen Park, a WaPo columnist and failed CNN host, criticized and AFP ad because the guy in it had a southern accent. She argued that there are plenty of smart, sophisticated people who are just as confused by the Obamacare law. So, no need to get a stupid guy with a southern accent when a smart sophisticated person will do:


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KEYWORDS: 0care; americans4prosperity; antisouthernbigotry; kochbros; kochbrothers
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To: Impala64ssa; Bon of Babble; unixfox; ssaftler; freeangel

I encourage all of you to go and listen to what she actually said, not what someone said she said. She was challenging a stereotype.


21 posted on 04/07/2014 10:11:04 AM PDT by jstaff
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To: Impala64ssa

So when is CNN moving out of Atlanta and dumping Ted Turner? I mean, we all know what bigots liberals are and how much they hate the south. Liberals are haters.


22 posted on 04/07/2014 10:11:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Impala64ssa

That’s not Kathleen Park, that’s Kathleen Parker and she’s from South Carolina...so I don’t think she meant that Southerners are stupid.


23 posted on 04/07/2014 10:12:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Impala64ssa

How would someone with an IQ in the single digits know?


24 posted on 04/07/2014 10:13:19 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Balding_Eagle
I don’t think she said what Right Scoop wished she has said.

My conclusion as well. Tempest in a tea pot.

25 posted on 04/07/2014 10:14:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Impala64ssa
Most African Americans have a Southern accent.

Was she making a racist statement?....

26 posted on 04/07/2014 10:14:54 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: CodeToad

Left over hate from that War between the States we had a while back. Talk like that (re-enforced by Hollywood) can start CW II—Only this time the south could win.


27 posted on 04/07/2014 10:15:17 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Impala64ssa

Intimate penetrations upon thee, Yankee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkm1i2o6Ri8


28 posted on 04/07/2014 10:17:16 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: Impala64ssa

I live ‘in’ The South. I am not ‘from the South’, having moved this way in 2000. I do not have a ‘Southern accent’.
However, I have been schooled in New England throughout my formative years. In high school, I placed #123 out of a total of 610 graduating seniors that year, with majors in Accounting and the Russian Language, and ‘a letter’ in Cross-Country.

So, dear CNN skirt, your hypothesis is incorrect!


29 posted on 04/07/2014 10:17:25 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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I think she implied that most people will see those with a southern accent as less intelligent.

From that, in order to be more effective, the message should have been carried by someone whom most people will see as more intelligent.

She was addressing the perception of others.


30 posted on 04/07/2014 10:21:23 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Impala64ssa
I'm the worst kind of Yankee, in that I moved down south, didn't leave, AND married the smartest, kindest, best looking girl here.

Mrs WBill always says that "Slow doesn't mean stupid.". This pseudointellectual bimbo would do well to listen to my intelligent, and beautiful, wife. :-)

And, FWIW, I love it in the south, and wouldn't change a single thing about it.

31 posted on 04/07/2014 10:25:18 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Impala64ssa

I only speak Jive!


32 posted on 04/07/2014 10:25:48 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Impala64ssa

Has he ever spoke with the founder of CNN?


33 posted on 04/07/2014 10:26:43 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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34 posted on 04/07/2014 10:28:27 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: Bon of Babble

CNN hasn’t been on any of my media repeaters, TV, Computer, Ipad, etc. for over 10 years. Welcome to the show.


35 posted on 04/07/2014 10:33:10 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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Is that real?? Tell me they didn’t broadcast that?


36 posted on 04/07/2014 10:39:55 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Southerners are stupid is the natural assumption for east and west coast dwellers.

A few years back, husband and I sat with a CA couple at dinner on cruise (ship assigned seats). They were just back from visiting Indonesia and we discussed jihad (rampant in Indonesia at that time) and politics in general.

Later, met the woman in the hall and she said she just wanted to tell me how impressed her husband was with my world knowledge. I just grinned and said "Because I'm from Alabama".

What can we say or do--it just IS.

Actually, maybe we could use it somehow as a secret weapon, because their opinion is NOT going to change.

vaudine

37 posted on 04/07/2014 10:46:36 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: Impala64ssa

Kathleen Parker is supposed to count as the conservative columnist for our local newspaper. Sure.


38 posted on 04/07/2014 10:47:48 AM PDT by Faith
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To: Bon of Babble

It is physically impossible to boycott them more than I am doing so now.


39 posted on 04/07/2014 10:55:40 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: Impala64ssa
Ugh: Failed CNN host suggests people with southern accents are stupid

Doesn't "Snakehead" Carville have a southern accent?

40 posted on 04/07/2014 10:58:35 AM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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