Louisiana Senator Kennedy Compared to "Foghorn Leghorn" Cartoon

[lees1975]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/our-foghorn-leghorn-republican-senator-little-resembles-his-former-democratic-self-louisiana-we-know-type/

I'm shocked to learn that this guy was once a moderate Democrat opposed to tax cuts for the wealthy and is actually a highly educated attorney. In Louisiana, I guess you have to play dumb to get elected. Apparently everything about the guy is an act, down to his annoying, whiny, ignorant-sounding Southern accent.

We're seriously trapped by media images, sixty-second sound-bytes and, on top of it all, ignorance. Greed and the intoxicating effects of money and power are in the driver's seat. What are we teaching kids in school? Certainly not much in the way of critical thinking skills. Or verbal expression.

[Walleye]

1. His accent is obviously not authentic which makes it only more obnoxious

[dem4decades]

2. He must have taken his accent lessons from Mr. Haney from Green Acres.

H=They sound exactly alike.

[Walleye]

4. I knew he had copied it from somebody

[dchill]

5. That's a joke, son! I say, that's a joke!

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Charlie Pierce called him Jubilation T Cornpone

the lawyer in "Lil Abner"

[MurrayDelph]

7. Wrong character

Jubilation T Cornpone, worst general of the south, was the founder of Dogpatch.

The Senator was Jack S. Phogbound. "There's no Jack S like OUR Jack S!"

And Foghorn Leghorn was already a parody of a Senator. Senator Beauregard Claghorn was a character from the Fred Allen radio show, who was featured during the Allen's Alley portion of the show. per Wikipedia: Claghorn would typically answer the door with, "Somebody, ah say, somebody knocked! Claghorn's the name, Senator Claghorn, that is. I'm from the South. Suh."

(yes, I'm old)

[RussBLib]

3. good 'ol USA

he is an embarrassment, and a leech on the body politic.

it'd be nice to rid our elective bodies of the charlatans, greed mongers, corporate special interests and narcissists. (sad chuckle)

[Earthrise]

8. Foghorn Leghorn didn't attend Oxford. Kennedy did according to Morning Joe -

Kennedy knows better.

[Toorich]

10. ....He does wear

..... a nice shade of rouge though. I wonder if he does his own makeup or if someone on his staff
does it for him?