# How much are attitudes about Palin influenced by her accent? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 13, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562 "2008-11-13T18:12:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cagey\_Drifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/61 "2008-11-14T18:58:02Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > Is snopes an illegitimate cite in your opinion? > > Not being snarky, but I am under the impression that snopes is reliable. Right, I tend to trust Snopes in general, but this is a copy-and-paste job posted by a message board user. They set off my B.S.-detector. They just don’t strike me as real quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/62 "2008-11-14T19:51:09Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I wouldn’t say that her voice was the main reason I think she’d make a horrible choice for any office, but it is certainly a contributor. Every time I heard her on the radio, I wanted to change the channel. The timbre of her voice is like an icepick through my eardrums. I would listen carefully to this guy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/63 "2008-11-14T22:02:00Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > She should be deemed a controlled substance. Like oxycontin. Hillbilly Heroine? ---
**Author:** ![wmfellows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@wmfellows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wmfellows)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/64 "2008-11-14T22:23:21Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > She speaks in Jabberwocky language. I personally have never heard her, nor really care, but this made me laugh. Jabberwocky language… ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/65 "2008-11-14T23:56:13Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > It’s the run-on-catch-all sentences that have no real content. She’s all talkin’ there about the republican party and all those hard-workin’ citizens and the true Americans and the plumbers and the great sacrifices that John S. McCain made and what a great American he is with the battle scars and the only man on the ballot that ever really served his country and the mavericky way he is and he reaches across the aisle there and always puts country first there and the wardrobe was purchased by the republican party and what kind of question is that “what do you read there in Alaska” and I thought “golly! you know I read the same stuff you all read in New York City there.” > > She should be deemed a controlled substance. Like oxycontin. She’s an instant overdose. Seconded. It’s not the accent per se, but the way she is a shallow cartoon when she speaks. The Winkin’ put it over the top. Tina Fey, on David Letterman, pre-Sarah too on SNL, put it so well in discussing how her impersonation worked. Paraphrasing; how with the Couric interviews, Palin would be answering the question, and then she would “just get lost in the Corn Maze…” ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/66 "2008-11-15T00:34:00Z")
I never heard her say a coherent sentence on any sort of policy: what should we do in Iraq, how to fix the economy, what to do about health care, or even pet projects like special needs children. It was all just random conservative talking points run together. Very much like the Miss Teen America speech. Bill Clinton has a funny accent, and whether you agree with him or not it’s clear that he is a smart guy. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/67 "2008-11-16T00:59:47Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > Absolutely perfect. Sorry, I have to disagree; it flowed somewhat smoothly and wasn’t a complete grammatical hash. The gestalt was there, but the details didn’t quite make it. 😉 The thought of having to listen to Palin for four years – hell, for any length of time at all – would be enough to justify sticking ice picks in my ears. Grating tone, folksy fakeness, idiotic content, and mangled syntax and grammar would create a perfect storm of unbearable BLECH. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/68 "2008-11-16T04:29:22Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Depends on what you mean by “authentic”. Do I think he walks into his daughter’s room and says, “My fellow family member, can we get the dishes done before you’re allowed to go out to play? Yes we can.” > > Then no, he’s not authentic. However, he speaks clearly, in a pleasant baritone, without pandering … outside of a few rhetorical flourishes here and there. Look I voted for the guy, but he panders a lot. You’ll see that when you find out what he gets done, and what he doesn’t. He made a lot of promises and he’s not going to implement half of them. He’s a politician with carefully crafted rhetoric. He tells people what they want to hear. He believes it in spirit, but I hardly believe he’s going to deliver the sky as he promised. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562/69 "2008-11-16T12:39:51Z")
Shouldn’t have voted for him then, if you actually did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-attitudes-about-palin-influenced-by-her-accent/472562.md?page=3)