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Do people really believe Obama pauses, and enunciates, and emphasizes things in his speech pattern during a normal conversation with a friend?
Originally posted by getreadyalready
This thread is still up?
I was waiting for this to be declared a hoax, so I wouldn't have to read through.
I listened to the video when the thread was first posted, and to me it was an obvious hoax. Someone is doing an impression of Obama's orator voice, but nobody talks in private the same way they talk on stage. This is obviously fake to me.
Who here does public speaking? I happen to do a lot of it, and I speak to different types of crowds from school kids to legislators and attorney groups. My voice is always tailored to the audience and it would be extremely rare, probably impossible, to ever record me on a hidden microphone sounding anything like I sound in front of a crowd.
Do people really believe Obama pauses, and enunciates, and emphasizes things in his speech pattern during a normal conversation with a friend?
Hoax.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Muttley2012
There is absolutely nothing to identify the voice as that of Barack Obama, so there shouldn't need to be any debunking or proof to call it a hoax. All we have is a loose claim that a voice sounds like his voice, but none of us know what he sounds like off-camera, and we know that it is very unlikely that he converses in the same manner in which he orates, so, to me, it seems like a 99.99% chance of it being a hoax.
They have put far more credible things in the hoax bin.
Originally posted by bl4ke360
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Muttley2012
There is absolutely nothing to identify the voice as that of Barack Obama, so there shouldn't need to be any debunking or proof to call it a hoax. All we have is a loose claim that a voice sounds like his voice, but none of us know what he sounds like off-camera, and we know that it is very unlikely that he converses in the same manner in which he orates, so, to me, it seems like a 99.99% chance of it being a hoax.
They have put far more credible things in the hoax bin.
Just because we don't know if it's real doesn't make it a hoax. It would have to be proven to be fake for it to be a hoax.
Originally posted by drnen
reply to post by xxdaniel21
Dont mean to troll you, but you do understand that there are people out there who can do impressions of Obama, right? Listen to the guy who does it on SNL- its easy to pick out obama's speech mannerisms and repeat them. This video is way too fake for all this attention it's getting.
Originally posted by xxdaniel21
Originally posted by drnen
reply to post by xxdaniel21
Dont mean to troll you, but you do understand that there are people out there who can do impressions of Obama, right? Listen to the guy who does it on SNL- its easy to pick out obama's speech mannerisms and repeat them. This video is way too fake for all this attention it's getting.
Well, i don't watch saturday night live haha. I don't watch much american tv at all to be honest as i'm not even from that country - the only times i've heard obama speak are really on tv news, which is why i said in my post that i'm no voice analyst or expert for that matter.
There's nothing trolling about your post? Trolls only set out to gain a abusive reply. There was nothing in your post that could've possibly made me "abuse" you. It's a forum, for god's sake - obviously not everyone's going to agree with me.
Trolling is for out of control forums with no moderation or desire for open discussion. This is ATS, or at least i think it is.
Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
reply to post by JibbyJedi
My basic rule is that if Alex Jones thinks it's true it's probably BS...
Originally posted by mark1167
Sounds like someone trying to do an impersonation of Obama with the subtle pauses between words like he does in his speeches. But he does that in his speeches waiting for the teleprompter to catch up. I don't think he would talk like that just casually on the phone.Who has the power to intercept phone conversations from the White house? Aren't they all scrabbled? Just a thought.
Originally posted by defcon5
All I can say is that if this is real, and it certainly does sound like it is, I can understand why the guy who released it is not coming forward. Lets just say that this could technically be considered “wiretapping” a phone conversation, even if was done by accident.
Wiretapping the president is probably not a wise legal move.
Originally posted by romanmel
Not sure it really is Obama, but it doesn't have to be for the message to be true...
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