The DrudgeReport is going hog wild over a clip of Hillary using a southern accent while preaching to a church in Selma yesterday. Fair enough: She does country-up her delivery in the south (especially on trips to her longtime home of Little Rock) and she does flatten her vowels mercilessly when she stumps in the Midwest. She also gets a little Jackie Mason in certain precincts of Brooklyn and Borschtland.
The point being made by Drudge and other Clinton haters is that her sudden Southern drawl is symptomatic of her dishonesty and duplicity. That dawg won't hunt. Everybody does it.
Did anybody notice Barack Obama's delivery in Selma?
It wasn't Andy Griffith, but it screamed SOUTHERN PREACHER -- not HAWAII or HARVARD LAW.
Glenn Thrush
And some of the very same reporters who took notice of Clinton's drawl found themselves southerning-up their own patter a little when interviewing the locals in Selma on Sunday.
What happens in Selma should stay in Selma.