John Kass….
http://www.chicagotribune…ack=2&cset=true
In, “Putting a whole new accent on politics” John Kass wrote:
‘I think America is ready for a multilingual president,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-Bill) last week, responding to pesky critics who don’t like the fact she uses various Southern accents, including Daisy Duke. And now they’re pecking at her, mercilessly, the way chickens peck on a hen with a head sore.
I happen to think she’s correct. America is ready for a president of multiple accents. President Bush talks cowboy when he wants. So why can’t Hillary channel multiple Southern women if she so desires?
What makes John Kass think that these critics are “pesky”? Are critics of Bush also “pesky”? John Kass, “happen[s] to think she’s correct”! How is Hillary “correct” that America wants a multilingual president, and that a fake southern accent qualifies as a separate language? This is MSM-think. I do many impersonations. Do each of these qualify as a separate language? Am I now multi-lingual in Hillary Clinton and John Kass’’ world?
John Kass is a true idiot. How do these people get paid for witting this?
“A while ago, while trying to evolve from Eastern liberal Republican to rabid conservative presidential candidate, he put on a big show about being a hunter to endear himself to gun owners. Sadly, he didn’t have much of a record in applying for hunting licenses.”
“Rather than be accused of embellishing like Al Gore, Romney explained that he didn’t need a hunting license to hunt “varmints.” But being from Massachusetts, Romney’s “varmints” sounded more like “vah-mits,” which sounds sickening.”
This is just not true. Mitt Romney does not have a Boston Accent. Mitt Romney is from Michigan. He went to Stanford, BYU, and then Harvard, and then lived the rest of his life in Boston, but he never got a Boston accent. And these people in the news just call names. They don’t inform us. How can they even call it a “news-paper” any more? How exactly is Romney transforming. They give no evidence. They make no argument. He is not a rapid conservative presidential candidate, any more than McCain, Rudy, or Barak and Hillary are rabid liberal candidates. Is he saying that Romney lied? He didn’t need a hunting license. People say, “Romney you have never been hunting, because you never had a hunting license.” Romney says, “That is not true. You don’t need a hunting license to hunt varmints.” And instead of admitting that they were wrong, when calling him a liar (that just because he had never had a hunting license he therefore must have never used a gun) they make fun of his use of the word varmints.
“The “vah-mits” bit his behind so hard that his campaign became infected. Soon Republicans will take Romney out behind the barn and call on Fred Thompson to play a conservative, just like he does on TV.”
Is John Kass some sort of expert? What evidence does he give that Republicans are getting ready to take him behind the shed? If you go hear, you will see that more congressmen have endorsed Mitt Romney than Former Sen. John Edwards, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Chris Dodd, Sen. Joe Biden, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Former Sen. Mike Gravel, Rep. Tom Tancredo, Former Wis. Gov. Tommy Thompson, Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Sen. Sam Brownback all put together! In fact Mitt Romney has more congresmen and women endorsing him than Hillary Clinton, Barak, Obama, John McCain, or Rudy. It does not seam to me that “conservatives” are taking Romney behind the shed. In fact it is the Chicago Tribune that should take YOU behind the shed. I live in Chicago, and I would love to help in that process.
“But back to Hillary. Ponder Hillary using her Chicago accent, then her New York accent, then going hillbilly and Black Female Preacher, rounding her vowels, then twanging them hard, all within the span of few minutes.”
“Just ponder that one, if you will.”
“It might help if you had a whittling stick, and a rocking chair and a blue-tick hound sleeping at your feet, perhaps with flies on his behind, maybe a jug. But I didn’t have those, neither.”
“So I just had to think on it a piece without these pondering aides, and ciphered it out.”
“What really burns her critics’ britches is that Hillary uses Southern accents and gets away with it and they can’t.”
Hillary gets away with it? Is that why Hillary’s numbers are dropping? Hay, John Kass, how many young professional African Americans have you spoken to? Obviously you haven’t spoken to any of them. You, like Hillary, keep thinking you can everyone for granted, no matter how transparent your lack of reason, no matter how unprincipled, how stupid, how base, how over simplistic, how much you pander to people. We, your readers, don’t like being spoken down to. We don’t like being treated like we are children. Like we are incapable of reason. Like we don’t know when you are trying to mislead us. And we don’t like Hillary’s transparent attempts either.
“And they’re worried what she’s capable of, if elected president, traveling overseas on Air Force One, visiting the various world capitals. She’s so good with accents that she’s liable to speak English with a French accent, or hillbilly with a German accent, and trick all those foreigners into loving us again.”
John Kass gets paid for this? Hillary said, “I think America is ready for a multilingual president.” Mitt Romney is the only multi-lingual presidential candidate. John Kass blathers on about how Hillary’s crappy southern accent is somehow evidence that; “She’s so good with accents that she’s liable to speak English with a French accent” when Romney can skip the whole trying to give the French a fake French accent, and speak actual French to the frogs eaters!
John Kass asserts that Hillary will speak “hillbilly with a German accent, and trick all those foreigners into loving us again.”
Click here for more evidence that John Kass is a Jock Ars.
~ Mike
April 29th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
If Hillary were to become president, it wouldn’t matter what accent she spoke, the Middle East would eat her alive. They haven’t come out of the dark ages yet to give their own women due respect, let alone a Western female president. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against women, I am one. But I am also realistic about the dangers in putting a female in the White House to try to influence a world that mostly hates us and disrespects women in general. Now is not the time to head the super power nation of the world with a woman. Some day, but not now.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
John Kass reminds me of Mark Twain’s line….”Times were hard and being unable to find honest work, I became a journalist.”
Hillary Clinton is a continuing embarrassment to America. Any country that could elect her as Commander-in-chief forfeits it’s privilege to lead the free world. No matter what else happens, we MUST ensure that this woman does not stand in front of the U.S. capitol with her left hand on a bible and her right hand held up.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
You are a complete idiot. Fred Thompson specifically plays a Republican lawyers on Law & Order.
Look, you’re not a complete idiot. But it’s a little annoying for you to call other people idiots when you have your facts wrong.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
So emotional! Do you become so passionate about all Trib columnists who say things you don’t agree with?
I have to respectfully disagree. John Kass isn’t an idiot. His use of the word “pesky” is sarcastic and he’s CLEARLY not pro-Hillary. I obviously don’t his tongue-in-cheek poke at the governer, but he certainly has been a good conservative voice in this liberal vacuum of Chicago.
So instead of acting like a kid who just got made fun of by the junior high bully, let’s just say to John Kass that we’ve had enough with the varmint business and it’s time to move onto a new punchline.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
No, it seems that Kass really IS an idiot as far as journalism goes, and this piece really sticks it to him. I rather enjoyed being privvy to the enthusiastic whipping he got.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:51 am
You, sir, are the Jock Ars. You obviously have never read John kass before a google search revealed that he said something about Mitt. John Kass is a fabulous columnist, a great voice for conservatism in Chicago, a courageous voice against corruption. Wise up.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:46 am
Look, I was not reviewing everything John Kass has ever written. In this article, he said Romney had a Boston accent, and pronounced Varmint, like vohmit. Romney does not have an accent of any-kind…
Lindsay, lets stay on the subject. He said;
“A while ago, while trying to evolve from Eastern liberal Republican to rabid conservative presidential candidate, he put on a big show about being a hunter to endear himself to gun owners. Sadly, he didn’t have much of a record in applying for hunting licenses.”
“Rather than be accused of embellishing like Al Gore, Romney explained that he didn’t need a hunting license to hunt “varmints.” But being from Massachusetts, Romney’s “varmints” sounded more like “vah-mits,” which sounds sickening.”
Mitt Romney was never a “Eastern liberal Republican” or a “rabid conservative”. John Kass is part of the inside echo-chamber club, that mindlessly repeats what the New York times says without thinking about it…
Romney did not need a hunting license to shoot jack-rabbits, or badgers, rock-chucks, or other varmits…
Instead of apologizing for making a big deal over calling Mitt Romney a liar, when they found out he never had a hunting license, and when Romney explained you don’t need a hunting license, to hunt varments… instead of apologizing, they made fun of him for using the word varmint. I think people like that, that are fast and loose with the facts, and twist and mis-construe the facts, I think people that play “got-cha” journalism are jack-asses… I made a point, I made an logical argument. You made no point. You just called names. You said I was a jock arse, for criticizing a conservative. Conservative or not, I think John Kass is playing the good old boy, insider, gotcha journalism, that I hate…
May 1st, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Look, I am a big Mitt fan too, but I think you’re taking this Kass column way too far. If you read him often enough, you know it was tongue and cheek. That is his humor, bottom line. He was not trying to slam Romney. Nothing inside journalist about John Kass.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Your probably right, but it is hard to say you are wrong… Maybe I’m being stubborn…
I don’t mean to attack him… I should have just criticized the part I disagreed with…
thanks for talking with me… I don’t know when I am wrong, unless someone calls me on it…
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Apparently you and I have something in common…that stubborn thing!