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Related: About this forumOverheard...
An apolitical teenage daughter and her dad are listening to NPR on the way home.
"Who's that?", she asks, looking up from the four inch portal of a smart phone.
"Hillary Clinton. She's giving a victory speech", replies the dad, clearly delighted by the engagement.
"She sounds phony...", she remarks.
They listen for a bit.
Suddenly, Hillary breaks into a working class affect to refer to union plumbers in her speech and the daughter laughs out loud.
"She's trying so hard, she sounds so fake!"
Her father didn't raise a fool.
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whereisjustice
Mar 2016
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Onlooker
(5,636 posts)1. Yes he did
She's already stereotyping. What the fuck is a working class affect?
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)2. You overheard an apolitical teenager listening to NPR?
And they were on their way home?
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)4. ooooohhh, sounds suspicious, maybe its a conspiracy! lololol
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)3. And her father mails in his absentee ballot for Hillary well in advance
and his daughter sleeps in on primary day and blows off voting.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)5. Cool story