Kevin D. Williamson, "Media Blog" @ National Review
Richard Stern, writing at The New Republic's blog, dissects Hillary's code-shifting, specifically her tendency to abbreviate gerunds and participles when addressing proles important primary constituencies. He asks:
Why isnt it noticed, or, if noticed, not commented upon? At least in her Ohio and Texas talks, Hillary Clinton drops the final "G" from the "ing" words (participles, gerunds)an annoyance, especially to those whove heard her talking to other people and groups where not one "G" is dropped and she sounds like the young woman who gave a famous Wellesley College commencement address, was one of Americas 100 most successful lawyers, was first lady of Arkansas and the United States, and has been a successful U.S. senator from New York State for eight years.
Does no one remember her "prayin' woman" schtick?
Aw, c'mon now! You-all city slickers don' think Hil'ry'd be droppin' the "G" of'n her I-N-G words jus' 'cause she'd be panderin' t' us country folk, do ye?
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03/09/2008 00:28 ||
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Aw, c'mon now! You-all city slickers don' think Hil'ry'd be droppin' the "G" of'n her I-N-G words jus' 'cause she'd be panderin' t' us country folk, do ye?
Hillary would write her name in the snow for a vote. [live on CNN]
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03/09/2008 1:17 Comments ||
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Hillary would write her name in the snow for a vote.
Either she's faster on her feet than I would have thought, or she has methods I've never dreamed of (but will now).
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03/09/2008 9:30 Comments ||
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best scenario-
Clinton stays in the primary to the end, damages Obama who is nominated but who loses big to McCain. Hillary blamed by the netroots and many MSM who then continue unleashing bile on her and Bill day after day, month after month for the rest of her time in the Senate.
Posted by: Mike ||
03/09/2008 20:08 Comments ||
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Or possibly Senator Clinton just has an ear for accents. I'm afraid I do, only unlike my mother I mostly don't have conscious control over it. You should here what I sound like after conversing for a bit with Mr. Wife's Indian colleagues! When we lived in Germany, I was often complimented on how well I spoke English, and asked where I'd studied... then there was the time one of Mr.Wife's colleagues was so thrilled to find out I was American that he had to run up to him at a party to tell him about it -- it seems the poor gentleman thought Mr. Wife had thought I was a local German girl who'd sustained brain damage in a terrible car accident (I had the accent and the intonation, but my grammar was terrible and my vocabulary mostly suited to the preschool playground).
When she was in college and living in the international dorm, Mama used a different accent every time her etiquette class met: Finnish one day, Nigerian the next, Cuban after that... she said it was the only thing that made learning not to stick her chewing gum under the subway seat bearable.
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TW: or she's just a pandering elitist ass, who thinks that mimicking the dialect fools the rubes. I tend toward that idea
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03/09/2008 22:09 Comments ||
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Truly horrible southern drawl. Hillary learned nothing while in Arkansas. All I could think was "carpetbagger".
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03/09/2008 23:03 Comments ||
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Clearly I was wrong about her having an ear. Oh well. The pandering, elitist ass was assumed, and might have been a separate issue, if only I weren't wrong. ;-)
Artistic freedom in increasingly 'secular' India has come to mean the right to denigrate Jesus Christ and Goddess Shakti, as was done by a callow student of the fine arts faculty of Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda last year. But permission to exhibit exquisite miniatures and firmans related to Aurangzeb has been denied, because 15 Muslims and a bogus nawab have demanded so.
French journalist Francois Gautier's Foundation Against Continuing Terrorism (FACT) has painstakingly — and at great expense — put together a collection of 40 miniatures and firmans that tell the story of Aurangzeb's rule. The exhibition is called Aurangzeb as he was according to Mughal records. "We have taken care to present all facets of Aurangzeb, including his piety," says Gautier.
The collection was first exhibited to critical acclaim at the Habitat Centre in New Delhi. It next travelled to Pune where one lakh people visited the show. It was equally well received in Bangalore where the popular Gallery G hosted the exhibition. FACT then decided to take the collection to Chennai where it was supposed to be exhibited at the Lalit Kala Akademi from March 3 to 9.
The exhibition was inaugurated by N Vittal, former Chief Vigilance Commissioner, and B Raman, security expert and former R&AW official, March 3 at 5 pm. Some 100 people attended the inauguration. Since March 4, a continuous stream of people came to see the exhibits.
On March 5, a group of 15 Muslims (Gautier says "they were no more than six") affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, Manitha Neethi Paasarai and other Muslim organisations, entered the exhibition hall and confronted FACT volunteers who were present there. Raising their voice, they rubbished the show and alleged that it did not portray the right image of 'their' Aurangzeb.
"They threatened they wouldn't allow the show to go on, that they would send hundreds of protesters after Friday prayers from a nearby mosque," says Gautier. The organisers lodged a complaint with the local police station and the next day policemen were posted at Lalit Kala Akademi.
Meanwhile, RM Palaniappan, manager of Lalit Kala Akademi, rattled by the protest by 15 men, asked FACT to pack up and leave. He panicked after Assistant Commissioner of Police KN Murali visited the exhibition hall, had a cursory look at the miniatures and firmans (written in Persian and hence unintelligible to him), worked himself into a rage and shouted at the organisers, lacing his diatribe with expletives, before stomping off, threatening to return.
On March 6, Prince of Arcot Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali made a surprise visit to the exhibition at 3 pm. After spending some time looking at the miniatures and the firmans, he lashed out at FACT volunteers and accused them of "misrepresenting facts". He was particularly enraged by two miniatures — the first depicted Aurangzeb's army destroying the Somnath temple and the second showed the destruction of the Kesava Rai temple in Mathura.
He insisted that the paintings amounted to "fabrication and distortion of history" and that Aurangzeb had never done anything to harm the Hindus. He demanded that the exhibition be immediately shut down and said he would take up the issue with "higher authorities" in the State Government. Later, the 'Prince of Arcot' issued a Press statement, claiming, "the exhibition seemed to dwell only on Aurangazeb's alleged misdeeds and not a word about his munificent contribution. The exhibition would only promote enmity between various groups."
By Thursday, March 7, "higher authorities" in Tamil Nadu Government had issued instructions to the police to shut down the exhibition. Murali, along with his men, stormed into the exhibition hall on Thursday evening and began taking down the paintings. "He was looking for the paintings showing the destruction of Somnath and Kesava Rai temples. He threw them to the floor," said a FACT volunteer.
The police say they acted after receiving "three complaints that the show would disturb communal harmony". They wanted the exhibition to be shut down immediately as the next day was Friday. The police also forcibly took into custody three FACT volunteers — Saraswathi (65), D Vijayalakshmi (62) and Malathi (47) — although women cannot be detained after sunset in police stations. They were not allowed to contact their families.
The hall has been sealed and FACT has no idea about the fate of the paintings and other exhibits, including the priceless firmans. "I am told some of the paintings have been damaged beyond repair. This is shocking, especially because what we have witnessed is vandalism by the police," says Gautier.
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03/09/2008 11:42 ||
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Christ's penis, nailed to a cross, semen dripping from it into a toilet is high art. Durga with a foetus emerging from her vagina is sophisticated culture. The Indian artist who did this is celebrated and defended in the Indian press.
Those who object are simply Hindu bigots.Never mind the protests were started by a Methodist minister. That is an inconvenient fact.
This exhibition of actual Mughal miniature paintings and Mughal records of the rule of the Emperor Aurangzeb is not art. India's Marxist historians have written the true history of the period and any actual records from the time must be discarded in favor of the scientific Marxist analysis.
After all, anything that shows Muslims in a disfavorable light cannot be art. Actual Mughal records detailing the hundreds of thousands of Hindus killed, raped and enslaved are clearly anti-Muslim propaganda.
The Prince of Arcot (a title granted by Queen Victoria), who is a direct descendant of the Caliph Umar, is right to protest. His ancestors were sworn to the service of the Mughal emperors. They probably did the killing.
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After all, Islam means peace.
These bothersome Hindoos need to shut up.
Posted by: john frum ||
03/09/2008 12:35 Comments ||
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Freedom of thought and speech is a double edged sword, from the Danish Cartoons to Piss Christ.
Take the good with the bad.
#4
I am not a literate person but even I can see that episodes like this need to be brought to light so people may see the truth about this wretched moon god cult.
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