Rudy Giuliani has a lisp. If he's elected, he will be our first President with a lisp. (Lincoln had a thin reedy voice. Chester Alan Arthur was a stammerer. Neither had lisps.) This is no small thing in a political culture in which the smallest flaws are magnified: Hillary's Cackle ... Thompson's baggy eyes ... Obama's mole ... Chris Dodd's James-and-the-Giant-Peach-sized head ...
Full disclosure: I have a lisp.
This week I sat down with eminent speech pathologist and accent coach Sam Chwat, director of New York Speech Improvement Services, to talk about Rudy's lisp. Sam is also known as "the Speech Therapist to the Stars": he helped Julia Roberts shed her Southern drawl and was dialect coach to Robert De Niro when he needed an Appalachian accent for Cape Fear.
Sam is confident that Rudy could eliminate his lisp in just a few sessions. He knows of what he speaks, I suppose, and Rudy has a legendary work ethic. Still, losing a lisp is no simple task ... (Don't ask me to say that last sentence.)
Ya know - I couldn;t care less about Mr. Guiliani's lisp, heriatge, non-perfect personal life or any other non-essential issues. WHY? Because even with all his imperfections, he is the ONLY candidtae that can stop that evil woman from taking over our country - and our lives! I implore all conservatives - wake up!!! The only issues you should be focusing in on are who can beat the evil Democrat who is inching closer to a victory(?) I promise you - only the current GOP front-runner can - lisp and all!!!
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chimp chimperson
11:34AM Oct 11th 2007
Ha ha ha!!! People! Develop a sense of humor! Okay? The guy who wrote this article was Mo Rocca. He's a comedian. He used to be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It wasn't meant to be serious. It was meant to be funny.
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handydan1105109
11:39AM Oct 11th 2007
Yep Rudy has a lisp, Hillary has a cackle. Both have slut spouses. Actually, the only difference between the two is that Rudy looks better in a dress.
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Vermari
11:40AM Oct 11th 2007
Giuliani has no place in the White House. He is a man led around by his horrible wife Judith and between the two of them, they have no compassion for anyone but themselves. How does a three times married person go to the White House. He can't even hold a marriage together how should we expect him to hold the country together. I am not saying there is anything wrong with being married multiple times if that is what you wish but I am a firm believer that if you cannot keep your own house in order and happy, then you certainly are not giving a good example on how you would run a country. He seems to need someone constantly patting him on the back and praising him and its all about me syndrome. His wife seems to be constantly praising him and giving him what she thinks is her worldly advice because her agenda is to make it to the White House. Can you imagine two people with absolutely no class representing the United States, bad enough we have that bafoon Bush now. I hope after this election and the fact that they have lost they go back into their own little world and stay out of the limelight, quite frankly, I am tired of reading and hearing about them and the importance they seem to think they have.
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Sharon
11:41AM Oct 11th 2007
I think his biggest problem is he is not Pro life.
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Bill McGuire
11:43AM Oct 11th 2007
Rudy Giuliani does not have a lisp, or anything like a lisp. Moe Rocca, his so called expert and AOL should all be severely reprimanded for promulgating such an out and out lie and deliberate calumny.
No one has ever mistaken Giuliani on anything he has said, or waited very long for clarity of meaning when he speaks. The listener always gets it, plain and clear even if he or she does not like what they hear. If anything, that is the only speech impediment Rudy bears and I believe it is exactly what we need in Washington -- straight talk, with a bias for action.
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RudysGay
11:42AM Oct 11th 2007
What do you expect from a crossdressing freak. I wouldn't be surprised if his wife Judy was a transexual.
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Dorothy
11:41AM Oct 11th 2007
A lisp is no problem but if his big cheap false teeth fall out during his phoney laugh, that could be disgusting not to mention embarrassing.
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RudysGay
11:51AM Oct 11th 2007
Rudy has the kind of face you would like to punch. I call it a "George Bush Face."
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Catherine Nochella
11:53AM Oct 11th 2007
Crudy Rudy. He has a very low life appeal. I do not believe that the Republicans would want him for dog catcher. He cleaned up the Mafia in NYC but he took over for them with his form of graft. What a guy.
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mflynn
9:23AM Oct 12th 2007
That lisp goes great with that pink chiffon outfit, that he just loves, and matching Chanel bag and heels. He would not be the first transvestite big wig in DC, J Edgar Hoover beat him to it. He will be the first president who married his cousin though. He said that he didn't realize that they were cousins and it took 14 years to figure that out. He's probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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cody
12:09PM Oct 11th 2007
Rudy Giuliani's lisp...The Clinton Socialist Machine is this hard at work already on destroying him? Bravo
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plfwitte
12:09PM Oct 11th 2007
Vermari 11:40AM Oct 11th 2007
Giuliani has no place in the White House. He is a man led around by his horrible wife Judith and between the two of them, they have no compassion for anyone but themselves. How does a three times married person go to the White House. He can't even hold a marriage together how should we expect him to hold the country together. I am not saying there is anything wrong with being married multiple times if that is what you wish but I am a firm believer that if you cannot keep your own house in order and happy, then you certainly are not giving a good example on how you would run a country. He seems to need someone constantly patting him on the back and praising him and its all about me syndrome. His wife seems to be constantly praising him and giving him what she thinks is her worldly advice because her agenda is to make it to the White House. Can you imagine two people with absolutely no class representing the United States, bad enough we have that bafoon Bush now. I hope after this election and the fact that they have lost they go back into their own little world and stay out of the limelight, quite frankly, I am tired of reading and hearing about them and the importance they seem to think they have.
We already had a couple in the White House with NO CLASS! Bill & Hillary!
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Amanda Potter
12:12PM Oct 11th 2007
SALTZMAN21 -- WHO WOULD BE A GOOD PRESIDENT ?
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Josephine Kelly
3:57PM Oct 11th 2007
Never mind Rudy Lisp, wait till American's get to know Rudys lover. Their is no way this slut will be first Lady. Thes two wannabee's willnever make it.
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einstein2055
12:13PM Oct 11th 2007
Our government makes money to pay people to write shit like this.
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Penny Leclercq
12:23PM Oct 11th 2007
For the communicator Clinton has always been praised as, hasn't anyone but me noticed that he talks as though his tongue is too big for his mouth, having to suck in a drool.
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J. L. Olvera
12:24PM Oct 11th 2007
You go "Amazed"!! I agree 100%!
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jw22170
12:24PM Oct 11th 2007
to saltzman21:
1. i am not an Obama supporter, so i hope that you read this carefully.
Outside of your inability to spell or do "spell check", you have misunderstood some items in your comments as well as made some unfortunate arguments about Mr. Obama.
* Wikipedia is not a legitimate source of information. Don't get me wrong, i do check it from time to time, but i am careful about what i read because it is NOT ALWAYS TRUE. It is written by regular people and it is not always proof checked. This is not my opinion but is fact. Many articles have been taken out of this website because they were made up. Thus, i would triple check things on more honest based sites first.
* You are claiming that because Obama and his family live in a million dollar house, he must be illegally taking money if his wife does not have a good paying job. Is there really your argument? How in the world do you know his full assets and his ability to pay. How do you know his payments to the bank each month? I don't. Many people have million dollar houses while only making 157 or whatever thousand dollars a year. He could have stock holdings!!! Is stock illegal? Think before you make accusations.
George Washington never held a governorship,etc.... Lincoln was only a Senator for a short period of time. Look at the many presidents that had very little executive experience and see how they fared as presidents. Then again, look at the presidents that were governors, etc..., that did a horrible job as president.
I appreciate every person's right to an opinion, but check out the facts first.
Oh, i don't think it is Giuliani's lisp that will affect his ability to be president, but his policies, and his intelligence. I know i am putting the evidence behind it at the moment, but i have written for too long as it is. Don't agree with the comment that his wife is "whore"....sort of rude and cruel to be honest.
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monte55
12:25PM Oct 11th 2007
Electing that fascist Hillary will mean the end of the world. shes the 666.Her and bill have left a trail of bodies a mile long.