Fake accent for 'voice' of Hussein?

LATimes ^ | 05MAR03 | Elizabeth Jensen

[MindBender26]

NEW YORK -- Steve Winfield is a listed member of the Screen Actors Guild and, according to the owner of the "Fabulous Voices" Web site on which he once appeared, a translator with a particular flair for foreign accents.

Last week, for 17 million TV viewers, he was also the voice of Saddam Hussein during Dan Rather's exclusive CBS News interview of the Iraqi leader. Apparently putting on an Arabic accent, Winfield -- who spoke with a seemingly everyday North American accent when he talked briefly to a reporter this week -- read Hussein's answers to Rather's questions.

[MindBender26]

Incredible!

Who faked Rather?

[AppyPappy]

And Jerry Mathers as The Beaver.

[oioiman]

The Eyeball is the enemy yet again.

[MindBender26]

and Jim Neighbors as Gomer Pyle as Dan Rather.

As a former network newsie, I can tell you that 30 years ago, anyone suggesting this would have been asked if that had any career plans in the infomercial business!

[Diogenesis]

Knee-flexed Rather, on the frequency of terrorists: "Mr. President, if only you knew how
much I and others at CBS suport you rather than Mr. Bush"

Terrorist Saddam: "Mr, Rather, it is absolutely remarkable that you media girly men
will repeatedly betray the USA, your President, and even the American people during war
for so little. We usually must gang rape a man's children and his wife, then burn and mutilate them
and then electrify his testicles and even cut off a few fingers before
he betrays his people. We are very lucky to have you and CBS fakers, Mr. Rather."

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CBS's TERROR IDOLS

[Bogie]

Yepper!

[Izzy Dunne]

And they wonder why we call it See B.S.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I heard a funny piece done by Jimmie Kimmel (I think...) where he said, "Wouldn't it have saved a lot of lives if Dan Rather had just whacked Sadamm during the interview?".........

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Wow, if Rather can just add a picture of Bin Laden and Satan to his collection, he'd have them all.......

[Sam Cree]

This is kind of hilarious, in a sad and strange way.

But it's not like the Dan Rather show had much real credibility, anyway.

Didn't Saturday Night Live once also have a guy who mostly just played a "foreigner."

[GirlShortstop]

"It's always nicer to be straight with the audience."

Perfect!   Ethics in Media was a course that was cancelled due to low enrollment and lack of funding.   When asked to comment, Richard Wald, a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism said he was unaware that such curriculum ever existed.   He went on to add, "besides, your question is not nice."

</sarcasm OFF>

[MindBender26]

Rather has always been full of BS. In his book he claims he was the Sunday morning disk jockey who went to breakfast at the local diner as the church transcription record played at the unmanned station.

Supposedly the preacher said, "If you do not follow the Ways of the Lord, you will go to Hell," and then the record skipped, so for 20 minutes all the listeners heard was "..... go to Hell, (skip) ...go to Hell, (skip).....go to Hell."

Nice try Dan, but that is a radio urban legend that has been around since the 30s, and you claim it as yours in your book!

[Drango]

Who faked Rather?

One of my ex wives use to fake it all the time...

[ez]

A fourth such translator recorded the actual audio in a voice compatible with the piece.

..in order to deceive the American public into believing they were hearing an on-the-spot translation from an Arab-American.

If Amwericans realized the cynical manipulation that went intp preparing the piece, it would almost seem that CBS was trying to polish Saddam's public image.

[sirchtruth]

It didn't violate CBS News standards and practices, the network said, and the spokeswoman said CBS has used such a technique previously.

If this doesn't say it all about a completely VAPID, DELUSORY news organization, nothing does!

[MindBender26]

Back in the Civil Rights coverage days, there wasn't a Hertz Rent-A-Car counter girl at any Southern airport who hadn't had the opportunity for an "up close and personal interview" with the very married Dan Rather.

[oregon conservative]

Don't insult Gomer Pyle, USMC!!!!!

[Semper Paratus]

Howard Stern seminar caller to Dan Rather: "You're an Idiot!"

Rather reply: "I'm an Idiot!"

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I haven't heard that one! ROFLMAO.....thanks

[oregon conservative]

Looks like a fake Saddam to me, in other pictures of him, Saddam look much older. Wonder if Dan was fooled and the world was watching?