Voices I Can't Stand To Listen To

[Me.]

I like the sound of the human voice in its many variations but there are some I can't bear to hear and turn the channel every time they are speaking. Some of my least favs...

Ben Nelson's weak little voice. Funny that such a hard nose would have such lack of timbre

LIEberman's whiny drawl

Susan Collins

Mika's debutante drawl

George Bush

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

1. Palin is on my list.

[Me.]

3. That High Squeak Of Hers Gets On My Nerves

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[spanone]

2. john boehner=blowhard

[DefenseLawyer]

20. I am always waiting for Boehner to say he's throwing the undercoating in at no charge n/t

[MiniMe]

4. Gotta add Chuck Grassley to that

[liberalmuse]

5. Limbaugh.

And Cheney since his voice is emitted through ugly, sneering lips.

[Greybnk48]

6. Pat Buchanan. n/t

[lamp_shade]

7. Hatch, McCain and Gregg. Imagine a colloquay among those three will ya?

[Me.]

8. Truly Sick Of Hearing McCain's Nasal Whine

[rbrnmw]

9. re Voices I Can't Stand To Listen To

Glenn Beck

Sean Hannity

[saltpoint]

10. Anybody here remember former Texas Senator Phil Gramm?

God, that voice. It was excruciating.

[Me.]

12. !

[Frank Cannon]

18. Phil Gramm sounded like every evil redneck sheriff...

from every cheesy '70s grindhouse movie.

You know, the kind of guys Billy Jack used to beat the shit out of.

[saltpoint]

19. He did. That's exactly how he should have been cast, too.

He had about the same range as one of those movie sheriffs, and may the good lord bless the boots of Billy Jack.

[Octafish]

23. The Meyer Lansky of the War Party?

THAT Phi-uh-l Gra-uh-m?



I sureley do. And his wife.

[saltpoint]

24. There's ol' Phil now. That's a charming quartet there, isn't it?

[mitchum]

50. He sounded like a talking mule

[saltpoint]

53. LOL. He DID.

But less attractive.

[LeftishBrit]

11. Top of my list, even after all those years: Maggie Thatcher!

[KarenS]

13. Cheney & Rumsfeld are on my list,,,,

as well as Bush.

Also Coulter and Laura Ingraham and Michele Bachmann and Michelle Malkin and James Carville's wife (her name escapes me right now)

I register instant disgust & turn the channel.

[AlinPA]

14. The governor of Mississippi (Barbour) who has shit in his mouth all the time.

[Bluebear]

15. Mary Matlin.

[rbrnmw]

16. Most of all

Chris Wallace and I am not sure why, but that voice of his irritates me so much, that I can't watch 5 secs of any program he is on. His Dad doesn't effect me that way

[asjr]

17. Arianna Huffington

[DefenseLawyer]

21. Jessie Helms

He always sounded like his tongue was constantly going from one side of his mouth to the other as he tried to talk. Larry Flynt kinda does the same thing.

[WillyT]

22. Monica Crowley

I try to catch the McLaughlin Group every now and again, but she makes it even more unbearable than the usual yelling and crosstalk does.

:puke:

[Me.]

28. God, She Never Shuts Up

[Username 12]

44. And. She speaks. In clipped. Sentences.

Fuck. Her. And the. Horse she rode in on!

[asdjrocky]

25. Susan Collins.

My first choice. No matter what she is saying she sounds like she's reading to very young children. It drives me nuts.

[SallyMander]

26. On the opposite side

I believe my senator, Sherrod Brown, probably has the best voice in DC. :D

[Me.]

29. Agree

Also like Dean, loved Teddy

[SallyMander]

31. Oh, Teddy, yes!

Miss that voice. :(

[Marr]

27. Obama.

I can't listen to that lying, corporate con-man anymore without cringing. He sounds like a insurance salesman trying to sprinkle 10% MLK faerie dust on his inflection.

[opihimoimoi]

32. If anyone was lying cheating and bait and switch...it was George w bush The Little.

Bush still sounds like he is in a Bar...and looped too. He wrought much damage to America...lost many troops and over spent by 4 trillion

Blindly supported by the GOP...he went on to gravely wound the Party with inept, unwise fuckup decisions...did nothing to improve us in 8 years

[Marr]

34. Sure.

You'll get no argument about Bush. He was another corporate tool.

I don't think he wounded his party in the way that Obama is, however. Bush drove off the center. They're fickle and many will wander back in a short while. Obama is driving off his base. I'm sure the DLC loves that, but I suspect it's going to prove more crippling in the long term.

This thread seems like a sad little attempt to have a two-minute's hate and rally the troops.

[opihimoimoi]

42. Bush lost the whole enchilada...house senate and Oval....Obama still in the hunt

still got ammo

GOP got leftover Buffalo chips and snipers.

[lightningandsnow]

30. As someone whose voice got made fun of a lot, this rubs me the wrong way...

People used to make fun of me in middle/high school and say I sounded like a donkey. I have non-verbal learning disorder, so I couldn't modulate my voice like neurotypical people do until I was about 15.

[Hekate]

35. The people in question are politicians who speak publicly for a living,unlike most of the rest of us

But what is really aggravating is that they are also lying hypocrites with cold shriveled hearts. If they were nice people I don't think our side would take the time to mock them.

Try not to take this personally, if at all possible.

I'm glad you were finally able to learn how to modulate your voice. Did it take speech therapy, or just self-awareness?

Hekate

[lightningandsnow]

36. Self-awareness, mostly.

Part of it was it just kind of....happened.

And I totally get what you're saying. I just have kind of a visceral reaction to posts mocking people for things like their appearance, the sound of their voice, their mannerisms, or other things people generally can't help.

[Me.]

37. No Offense Intended

Listening to the arrogance of Ben Nelson earlier as he stated his demands, it so totally grated and I started thinking of others of them that get on my nerves. It would be so much better if we heard less from many of them but yet they all scramble to get their voices heard and their faces seen.

[ThomWV]

33. Virginia Fox - that screaching white-haired bitch makes a sound on TV and I turn blue.

I can't get to the remote quick enough.

[Forkboy]

39. Anyone on talk radio, right or left.

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

41. Mark Levin, both in content and audibly.

If certain people have faces for radio, Mark Levin has a voice for the printed word.

[Berry Cool]

45. I love how when Keith Olbermann did his tirade on conservatives claiming they have no media voice,

he said "...Or, you can turn on Mark Levin's high-pitched radio show and hear Mark Levin complain about how there are no high-pitched conservative voices in the media..."

[kentuck]

51. yep.

fingernails on the chalkboard..

[bermudat]

43. Nancy Grace. Her nostrils frighten me.

[Berry Cool]

47. I will never forget the experience of flipping through channels once in a hotel room,

unfamiliar with which channels were on which number, and coming across a show with someone who looked like Nancy Grace--flared nostrils and all--talking stridently about something or other, and thinking "OMG, this must be an old SNL rerun on Comedy Central. Whoever's doing Nancy Grace is perfect, with that annoying voice and attitude, and the makeup and hair people got her hair and the flared nostrils and everything just right. It is too funny."

But there was no laughter in the background, and the "sketch" just kept dragging on and on.

And then I noticed the bug in the screen corner, and realized the channel I was tuned to was CNN, and it was the real Nancy Grace.

[Cairycat]

46. Not current, but Reagan

Hearing his voice instantaneously wants to make me hurl a brick. Always, for thirty years now. He always sounded so damn smug and patronizing.

[csziggy]

48. Sessions from Alabama - he gives a Southern accent a really bad vibe. n/t

[csziggy]

49. dupe

[COLGATE4]

52. Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter

Two menopausal wannabe twenties-somethings whose voices remind me of fingernails on a chalk board

[LastNaturalist]

54. I second all of those. And add Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich.