Shouldn't Senatuh Graham be chewin' on a piece o' grass?

[No Exit]

When he turns on the extra-strong southern accent, I mean.

Have you ever noticed how when he's really aware that he's talking to the COMMON PEOPLE, his accent suddenly enlarges, from just a twang, to "southern on steroids"?

I live in the south and I like the south. But that's my impression of ol' Lindsay--the man who, while looking all holier-than-thou about stopping torture, was simultaneously plotting to limit habeas corpus.

Yesterday's stage-managed incident, in which Mrs. Alito played the role of the victim tied across the tracks, and Lindsay played the role of Mighty Mouse, as he saved her beloved husband from the Snively Whiplash democrats, will, I figure, be followed up by this:

Watch for the Alito children (who are probably in their teens or 20's) to be focused on by the cameras, and mysteriously some bespectacled black gentleman will be sitting near them, and when Stripsearch Sammy gets up and walks by them, the adorable bespectacled black gentleman (perhaps it will be Clarence Thomas!) will be heard to say to the little Alitos: "Stand up, children! Your father is passing by!"

[Surya Gayatri]

1. Why, shuure, honey...

He's jest one 'a them good 'ole boys. He & W may have gone to the same secret "School of Voice and Diction" to learn the finer points of passing for a fake-hick. SG

[No Exit]

6. Yep. Wonder if Senatuh Graham clears brush...

"Ah keep mah chainsaw raht thar next to m' shotgun! If them peace activists try eenythang, we'll tree 'em like coons!"

[formernaderite]

13. I have southern relatives who all think he's gay

I have no gaydar....but he is stereotypically effeminate.

[EST]

2. The grass is to soak up the slime?

[No Exit]

7. LOL!! No--the spirochetes.

[Dunvegan]

3. Is Graham reminiscent of the well-known New England elitist CIC who...

...speaks in an entirely previously unknown Faux Trans-Texan accent?

[No Exit]

5. Hmm... now I wonder who you might be talkin' about??

Here's his picture:
:dunce:

[Vickers]

4. I'm pretty sure I saw a spittoon on the floor next to him.

That's a nice touch.

[No Exit]

8. ROFL!!! Hey, y'all, some judges just use a ol' coke bottle!

Yeah... really. You ain't lived till you've seen a feller spit tobacco juice into a ol' coke bottle. (He warn't really a judge, though.)

[meow2u3]

9. I change my accent depending on who I'm addressing, too

It's largely unconscious, but when I'm with educated people, I speak in an undistinguishable East Coast accent. But when I'm around working-class Northeasteners, especially New Yorkers, the Queens, NY accent I grew up speaking comes back full tilt.

One can say some people are bidialectal. Just ask educated Southerners, New Yorkers, and most educated blacks, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Dunvegan]

10. I agree with the bidialectal theory...

...except that I think it only goes in one direction. That's to say, if one's raised speaking a regional dialect, then acquires "broadcast dialect English" in college...it's easy to fall into the dialect one's raised in when among folks from home.

Never heard of someone raised by Ivy League parents in Conn. naturally picking up a non-specific regional southern dialect long after they've grown up, though...and speaking solely in that new accent.

I have heard that the chimperor does revert to his Ivy League accent when fried, foaming mad, or frizzled.

[chapel hill dem]

15. I was raised in NC, went to college in the mid-atlantic, and first

heard my NC friends' accent when I came back home to work here. It was amazing! I literally thought these folks had no accent until then. Now I enjoy picking out what part of NC they call home.

[radio4progressives]

11. There's something about that Charleston accent...

I do believe he's from Charleston, upper crust isn't he? His accent sounds like it...

[babydollhead]

12. it means you can be...

hard headed and idiotic at the same time. I know, I live with a georia replant who suffers from Seasonal Issues and the apathy I found so attactive, at 20, is plain old lazy at 40. Always fixin' to do this or that, never doing anything. But when he turns on his accent, it's always about being hard headed and idiotic at the same time.

[LittleWoman]

14. Flashback yesterday watching Graham

I kept thinking of the line from the Night the lights went out in Georgia--"don't trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer". He was in rare form yesterday playing his part in the Democrats made poor Mrs. Alito cry scenario. I have seen variations of this played out in court many times so I about as cynical as you can get. Predictably the MSM all had some sort of story of how the mean Democrats questions made her leave the room in tears. Poor thing!