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Source: Salon
Stephen Miller is reportedly a college buddy of neo-Nazi punching bag Richard Spencer. Hes also Donald Trumps senior adviser, and was recently drafted as a new White House spokesperson. For his new role, Miller took a tour of the Sunday morning news shows, each appearance showing off an ability to lie matched only by the other members of the Trump team. If you caught any of those appearances, you may have noticed a few Miller trademark gestures. Empty, reptilian eyes scanning left to right over cue cards. A pouty mouth delivering each insane untruth. And a voice that sounds like every hyper-unlikable, pompous, joyless, self-important authority-on-everything youve ever met. Or as Katie McDonough of Fusion puts it, he has the voice of someone who is a dick.
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Stephen Miller likes to use a lower register, West indicates. So, number one, the pitch hes going for is at the bottom, even a little bit below, where he can comfortably speak. Hes also clenching his tongue a little bit while he speaks. This is a common, however unconscious, tactic by men to sound more masculine and authoritative. Its just to suggest that extra bit of, Heres what I have to say and welcome to it.
West suggests that Millers cadencewhich is more a sort of superior-sounding monotoneis another turn-off. He explains why Miller brings to mind the dude you had classes with in high school or college who everyone mostly wished would stop talking. Not the cool, interesting nerd, who was an inventive misfit waiting to blossom, but more like the unsympathetic know-it-all who repelled everyone with his smugness, arrogance and almost frightening dearth of charm.
In the case of this particular gentleman, we have a situation where large swaths will feel that this is not a guy I would enjoy spending time with, West says, making the understatement of the century. It feels like hes talking down to me, it feels like hes being overly pedantic, and indeed, condescending. What he does though is, speaking of that guy in college we all rolled our eyes at, when you dont have perhaps content on your sidewithout being overtly political herewhat one has to do then is compensate for that. And thats a keyword Id like to highlight with you: What we dont like about that, if we can remove ourselves from the political content for a moment, is generally the fact that it seems like this person is trying to compensate. We see a person who is trying too hard. Thats not an attractive quality, when we see someone pushing and trying too hard.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/02/15/what-makes-trump-advisor-stephen-miller-so-unlikeable_partner/
underpants
(182,896 posts)Douchebag
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)that he suddenly became such a big time douchebag in high school and afterwards, even dumping a good friend because the friend was Hispanic.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Mz Pip
(27,453 posts)It would only be more scary if he was speaking in German.
mindem
(1,580 posts)and lies through his teeth with every breath he takes.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Basically his entire belief structure is anti-American.
Yet in spite of that, he has a job working for the most powerful office in the world.
What is there to like about this shifty-eyed, junior grade Goebbels?
longship
(40,416 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,199 posts)(I know nothing about the actor himself, who might be a nice guy for all I know. But damn was he creepy as Goebbels.)
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Because he is a Nazi punk.
JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Dead Eyes Miller could be related, lol.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)?pubId=854081161001
Mendocino
(7,510 posts)Dick Cheney, Kellyann, the Romney boys, the Trump sons, this guy..they all have them.
Except Bannon, he looks like a Jimmy Buffett roadie.
CanonRay
(14,118 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)only substantially less charming.
anarch
(6,535 posts)Someone could look like the most cheerful, happiest and friendliest person ever, and speak in melodious and pleasant tones, with wonderfully expressive gestures to reinforce the wonderfulness of the presentation...but I'd still think they were scum if they were spouting off the sort of fascist, authoritarian, un-American bigoted bullshit that this guy does.