What we feared saying....

From the Glenn Beck Program via Media Matters...

I don't want to sound like the old ball-and-chain guy, but Hillary Clinton cannot be elected president because -- am I wrong in feeling, am I the only one in America that feels this way? -- that there's something about her vocal range. There's something about her voice that just drives me -- it's not what she says, it's how she says it. She is like the stereotypical -- excuse the expression, but this is the way to -- she's the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean? She's that stereotypical, nagging, [unintelligible], you know what I mean? And she doesn't have to be saying -- she could be saying happy things, but after four years, don't you think every man in America will go insane? Is it just me? I mean, I know this is horrible to say, but I mean it not -- I would say this if she were Condi Rice and she sounded like that. Condi Rice doesn't have that grate to her voice. You know what I need to do? I need to talk to a vocal expert, because there is a range in women's voices that experts say is just the chalk, I mean, the fingernails on the blackboard. And I don't know if she's using that range or what it is, but I've heard her in speeches where I can't take it.

The "[unintelligible]" bit was Glen going, "Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya" in a high-pitched whiny voice. You can download or listen to the audio here. I honestly believe women like that are completely oblivious to how annoying their voices are. I would put the annoyance factor of Hillary's voice at somewhere between the low-rasping "man-voice" of a female chain smoker and the almost ultra-sonic squalling of the tiny, old woman that always seems to be in the kitchen of every Chinese restaurant.

Posted by Danny Carlton at March 16, 2007 10:45 AM