Bernie Sanders/’Seinfeld’/’Steinbrenner’ mashup

An alert reader shared this, and it cracked me up.

It would not have occurred to me before this how much Sanders sounded like Steinbrenner — or like whoever did the Steinbrenner voice on “Seinfeld”…

8 thoughts on “Bernie Sanders/’Seinfeld’/’Steinbrenner’ mashup”

    1. Harry Harris

      Did you find another pejorative to sneak-in on Bernie? Trump is bombastic; Sanders is substantive and sometimes preachy, but he can back his points with facts and suggest actual legislation as proposed solutions. He also acknowledges the hard work and persistence needed to make progress on the problems he spotlights.

      1. Brad Warthen Post author

        Um… I think what I said was that George Steinbrenner was bombastic, and was portrayed that way on the show — and Bernie sounds just like him. Or rather, like the voice on the show.

  2. Phillip

    Of course the reason the voices match perfectly is because Larry David (who was doing the Steinbrenner voiceovers) and Bernie Sanders are both from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

    1. Brad Warthen Post author

      Hey, I don’t sound just like people who are from where I’m from.

      Of course, I don’t know anybody who, like me, grew up in Bennettsville; Charleston; Columbia; Norfolk (3 times); Woodbury, N.J.; Kensington, Md.; Guayaquil, Ecuador; New Orleans, Tampa, Honolulu and Memphis.

      I find people who are from such SPECIFIC places, with such thick accents, interesting,. I wonder what that must be like…

      1. Norm Ivey

        I had a Linguistics professor at Carolina back in the 80s who was able to identify with remarkable accuracy where the students in the class were from based on their accents provided they had lived in the same area most of their lives.

      2. Brad Warthen Post author

        I had a Southern accent until I move to New Jersey, where I had a lot of it beaten out of me by the kids in Woodbury.

        By the time I was grown, I had no discernible accent. But after 10 years in Tennessee, followed (with a short hiatus in Kansas) by 28 years here, it’s gradually come back, to some extent.

        But it’s a fairly soft one, far more noticeable to folks from up North than to other Southerners. And I’m guessing it’s sort of nonspecific geographically, being influenced over the years by Virginia, Louisiana and Tennessee….

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