My fellow conservatives:
For the love of Pete, do not criticize the “cadence” or “accent” of the newly released Obama video.
Go bananas on the content. Please. He says some absolutely ridiculous and inflammatory things in that video. There’s plenty there to work with.
But lay off of the style stuff. Be quietly amused by it, if you must, but shut the hell up in public.
“Code switching” is a well-documented political phenomenon. Congress-critters from all places have more pronounced local accents when they go back to their districts. Heck, I myself speak differently depending on what sorts of folk I’ve been around lately.
It happens, and it has nothing to do with the content of one’s speech.
Stick to content. To do otherwise is to play into the liberal narrative.
I absolutely disagree.
While I don’t think that should be a major point, it is definitely a point.
As
Wyatt says,
2. The Dialect. Throughout the speech, Obama puts on this obviously fake “street” dialect. This is especially the case during his racist rants. It’s a move he uses to pander to African-Americans, because uses his “street” voice only when he speaks to them. Sadly, the dialect is insulting to both blacks and whites.
Wyatt’s first point is Obama’s blatant racism and channeling of Rev. Wright (who we were told was unimportant) and his third point is the lies the media told us.
While I would have put his point 2 as point 3 and contrariwise, as I think one of the most pernicious dangers to our society is the fact that our media went from biased to the left to full blown Minitrue over their God-President, that’s just a personal deal.
Obama’s use of a “black-dialect” is incredibly insulting to blacks (as I think any pol who uses a fake dialect is a dishonest panderer and inherently thinks he’s better than the idiots who he has to make happy).
I speak differently to different people, but I don’t put on a fake accent, and I doubt you do either Joe. It’s the words I use, when speaking to engineers I use language they use, that would make me look like a poser to people who aren’t engineers.
I don’t pander to the people I’m talking to and I doubt you do either.
Too many pols do and I think they should be called out each and every time.
It shows a fundamental lack of respect for your audience, “There, that’ll make these rubes happy.”
I’m not convinced it’s QUITE as fake as a lot of people are suggesting.
Anyway, I can hear my vowel infliction change involuntarily from my native central PA accent to a sort of great lakes inflection when I’m talking to somebody from Rochester Ny area, and most other times I strive for something “neutral” -ish, which I would describe as “national news anchor”, the closest thing we Americans have to “received English”.
And by infliction I mean inflection. Stupid auto correct.
See, in order to hear his infarction, I would have to watch the vid. Which would require three things I don’t do. Read the blog, click links and listen to Obama.
Not gonna happen.
It was Frank J who said that he was just slipping back into the dialect he learned on the mean streets of Honolulu…from his ‘typical white grandmother’.