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Biden Uses Fake Indian (or Russian) Accent During NH Jobs Speech

Jan. 26, 2012 2:14pm Billy Hallowell

Vice President Joe Biden is known, by many, for his gaffes. Today, the prominent American politician set himself up, once more, to be fodder among those who enjoy poking fun at his verbal slip-ups. While delivering a speech at a jobs event in Rochester, New Hampshire, he used what appeared to be an Indian (or as some allege a Russian) accent to imitate a call-center worker — you know, the individuals you sometimes encounter when you’re on the phone seeking customer service.

Here’s a transcript of Biden’s comments (the portion in italics signifies where he spoke with the accent):

“Even call centers, even call centers rushed over seas, hundreds of thousands. How many times you get the call, ‘I like to talk to you about your credit card?’ Or that ad on TV, what is it? ‘Nancy, this is Nancy, can I talk to a supervisor?’ Right? Ok? Well, it’s a little overdone but the truth of the matter is these jobs now are paying about $19.50 an hour if memory serves me.”

Watch these comments, below:

This is at least his second controversy centered upon Indian accents. Back in 2006, he told an Indian-American supporter, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

Watch this past verbal blip, below:

New York Magazine, though, offers up a different theory — that Biden may have been speaking with a mock Russian accent:

…it’s possible Biden may have actually been showing off his mediocre Russian accent. Just after doing his impression, Biden mentions an ad involving someone named Nancy. There’s a good chance the 69-year-old Biden meant Peggy, as in Discover Card’s “Peggy” ad series.

Here’s one of the “Peggy” ads:

Indian or Russian? You decide.

The vice-president is in Rochester today to promote jobs training partnership programs between community colleges and businesses.

This story has been updated.

(H/T: FOX Nation)

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Comments (104)

3monkeysmomma
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:08pm
Joe Biden is an inspiration to morons everywhere!
“See Jethro, you too can grow up to be vice-president of the United States!”

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- RightThinking1
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Rofl…
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:26pm
  Hey Cletus, that sitcom you like is on again
  
  OMG
  
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- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:37pm
  Obama was smart to pick this guy, Biden u got 2 be kidding , will wait 4 next election.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:59pm
  And they accuse the right of being racist? I would never think of doing that. What dope!
  Biden’s memory does not serve him correctly.
  Show me proof that operators in India make 19.50 an hour to answer phones.
  If they got paid that much, companies would never have outsourced those jobs to India in the first place. Biden needs to ease up on the Irish Whiskey. If it’s not already too late…………
  
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- Mimi24
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 9:29pm
  He was chosen by the Chicago machine. He has to be stupid to go along with all of the hopey changey stuff. Anyone see Dick Cheney going along with this crap? Hell no. The smartest thing this man ever said was that Obama wasn’t qualified to be Prez. Then he accepted the vp nomination.
  
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- B_rad
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 10:25pm
  What an embarassment to the office and, indeed, Americans everywhere. Next please.
  
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Al J Zira
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:08pm
This idiot has been the greatest bullet proof coat in history. No one would shoot Obama with this waiting in the background.

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- Grillmark55
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:58pm
  Probably the ONLY reason that Obama chose him.
  
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- GLENNONALL
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:26pm
  That is why he picked him
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:03pm
  Joe Biden/Barney Frank 2016
  
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TH30PH1LUS
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:07pm
LIBERALS only scream racism when it serves their Communist agenda.

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kuhl
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:05pm
I guess being a racist is OK if your a liberal. What a sickening feeling to have the VP of the United States act like an idiot in front of the cameras.

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- pamela kay
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 3:26am
  What do you want to bet that Biden will not run for VP with BHO? Did anyone else catch Hillary at the SOTU address? She looked very disgusted and bored. I saw today that she said would finish out f her post after this year ends and has no intentions of reamaining there.. Something is in the works with her. Don’t count old Hillary out. They know that she is the wild card up their sleeve. There is a plan for HILLARY. If Obama’s supporters continue to decline either she will take the nomination or be the VP spot to run with him. Did you guys notice her the other night?
  
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RightPolitically
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:57pm
Well, it goes without saying, Joe Biden is AN IMBECILE. Reminds me of Hillary’s phony southern black inflections four years back during the ’08 campaign when speaking to some black group. Dems are a bunch of phonies.

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- Ella
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:06pm
  Let’s not forget Obama’s,’ I’m a working man’ accent when he speaks to the unions.
  
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rationallyurs
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:54pm
and they try to make the GOP seem racist—LOL

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:49pm
So, will the Sikhs be offended by this, too? It’s hard to believe Obama chose to keep this fool as VP.

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- feverpitch
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:26pm
  Yes, they will be offended. They are sikh and tired of it.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:40pm
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LMAO…The sharpest tool in the shed has spoken……And they Hammer you PC White Guilt Obama Voting Morons, on what you “Can and Can’t” say………….

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- doomytram
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Racist Hate Speech, it’s either Gaffe Bite Me or Hillery the Ridiculous. The Indian Americans in the USA wouldn’t vote for Oblamer if their life depended on it anyway…. Because nobody with any sense in their brain at all would vote for the disaster of disaster Oblamer…. They must have something against these conservative Indians… they always make fun of them. Racist Administration. Sheila Jackson Lee is still clapping for the Idiot, by the way.
  
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- twotones
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:49pm
  If biden gets any slower he will go in reverse!!!!!!
  God help us all if those two get back in office!
  
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JTThrasher
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:37pm
Oh, good grief. We all know what he is talking about because it is true. Even the Simpson’s writers know it. Can we stuff the PC crap and get to speaking the truth without fear for once? Guess what? Even though more whites are on welfare than blacks, in percentages 40 percent of blacks are on welfare and 90 percent will be at some time in their lives, so Santorum was right..but he isn’t allowed to say it and must deny it. Newt was right about the work ethic in many African American “communities.” But he isn’t supposed to say it. Nation of Cowards indeed. We need to throw this PC garbage out and address the cultural issues that are dividing us. Pat Buchanan is the only one telling it like it is but unfortunately, he isn’t running.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:33pm
Biden is the biggest tool in the Marxist’s tool box,as a consolation when the dry drunk get’s fired in November he can try an open mic night at some comedy club.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:39pm
  I’m not sure that nincompoop is even a Marxist like his boss. I think he’s just a good old fashioned “say anything to get elected” Democrat. I would be very surprised if he has ANY core beliefs.
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:54pm
  @Gonzo,
  
  Core beliefs? As in, he BELIEVES a Vodka on the rocks is good to the CORE?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:41pm
  LOL, remember what Biden said about 0bama when he first considering even running for the candidacy. And 0bama still hired him!
  
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KickinBack
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:32pm
Joke Biden strikes again!

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Gonzo
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:30pm
How does a dunce like that get elected to the Senate year after year? Did he keep his mouth shut before he started running for POTUS?

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- IndianaJan
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:41pm
  How did Joe Biden keep getting re-elected?? You must be too young to remember Chappaquiddick.
  (Yeah, I know your answer was rhetorical. So is mine.)
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:42pm
  How do they get elected? .. they are DemocRATS
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/deep-thoughts-sheila-jackson-lee-quotes-sheila-jackson-lee/
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:50pm
  Ask his constituents.
  
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- RightThinking1
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:51pm
  @Indiana
  I am still peeved with Rose for dumping Teddy’s Oldsmobile at sea. I thought it would make a great monument to Ted. Come to think of it, I believe it would be worth while to round up an identical car and have it placed on a pedestal in Massachusetts in his remembrance.
  
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45
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:28pm
I have a much better Indian accent and if that job realy pays 19.58 an hour I will answer phones all day long using it.

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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:27pm
Good grief…I am embarassed.

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bocajojo4
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:25pm
Looks more like he had more surgery or botox done…this could be causing all his so-called “gaffes”
look at tape from 2009….and look at tape from now….he is getting younger…so vain!

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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:04pm
  BOCAJOJO4,
  I believe you’re right.
  His hair looks a lot thicker as well.
  I guess Joe is taking the Hillary for Veep in 2012 seriously.
  
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BB671
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:24pm
Hello, my name is PEGGY!!!! That is not an Indian Accent which would be racist since Biden is White!!! Even the commercial uses an Eastern European character with a funny accent as to not come across as racist… The fact that it is Indian that answers your DELL Technical questions and are now leading the world in computer program development.. Where did we go wrong?

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- netmail
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:45pm
  We felt entitled (thanks to WW II era parents), got lazy and gave it all away (or had it stolen).
  
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valarie
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:24pm
You can tell he freaked out when he realized what he had just done. What a RACIST BIGOT! He owes the whole middle eastern community an apology! *wink

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- moreteaplease
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:51pm
  No problem. Obama will take care of that for Joe…it’s the only thing Obama does well.
  
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- beatobama
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:24pm
  Yes, at 10 seconds into the video clip he hesitates and loses most of the accent. It was then he knew that he’s going to have to take that trip out back to the woodshed for another whuppin’.
  
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chips1
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:23pm
He is better at the Indian speech than he is at American. I’m supprised he hasn’t been told yet to speak muslim.

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nobull14
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:22pm
Biden ? he is the ***** of the country !!!!!

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TXPilot
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:22pm
Better be careful Joe, or Shiva will come after you.

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Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:20pm
Classy!

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goofyfoot2001
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:20pm
You have to love this guy. Fix the COMMENT SORT.

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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:19pm
Will the real bigots please stand up…progressives!

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wordweaver
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:18pm
It’s “Peggy”, you dolt, not Nancy. If you’re going to make a joke, get it right.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:17pm
I do a much better Indian accent.

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- clemV
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:04pm
  Where’s the coverage of the Georgia court ruling about Obama?! It’s huge news – Obama will not be on the ballot in 2012 because he can’t prove he’s AMERICAN! Check it out here:
  
  http://gulagbound.com/24733/judge-rules-georgia-ballot-challenge-vs-obama-may-proceed/
  
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