So here is a post from yesterday where the contributor raised the question of whether this horrific-sounding "Fatherhood" video is possibly that of John Podesta caught in the act of severely abusing a child. A number of people dismissed the notion, saying the man's accent sounded too Bostonian. However, I'd like to push back at this, based on the following observations:
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This guy in the video is constantly yelling, so I would expect his accent to get animated as well. Podesta has a strong Chicago accent. Here is a video where at the 2:43 mark a voice expert explains how the "short a" in a Chicago accent can sound like that of a Bostonian. But the rest of this video explains the Chicago accent and you can really hear this in Podesta's voice. I grew up in the Chicago area and remember hearing people sounding like Podesta. This accent isn't as common as it once was, but he grew up there in the 1950's in the NW side, and so he was in the thick of cultural (white, middle class Catholic) Chicago.
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Another interesting thing I heard: If you listen to the "Fatherhood" video, you can hear at the 0:11 mark that his voice cracks. But lo, at about the 0:23 mark in this video, you catch Podesta's voice crack during an exited response to a pushy Chris Matthews question. But also, you can just hear Podesta's basic voice quality and strong Chicago accent quite well.
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At about the 0:12 marker in the "Fatherhood" video, after yelling the "What's my name?!?" question, it really sounds like the child screams "John!" To which the man responds, "My OTHER name - what do you call me?!?"
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But the basic tonal quality, even though he is constantly yelling, sure in the hell sounds like it could be Podesta to me. He has an annoyingly wispy, high pitched voice, and the 1950's Chicago accent just adds to the irritation. I am hearing all of these qualities in this "Fatherhood" video. Albeit, if this kind of activity is where Podesta gets his greatest thrills, it makes sense to me that in this setting his voice will sound stronger and more powerful that usual.
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Also, the original poster (muhxburner) is listed as only active for one day. So it seems this poster signed up specifically to present this particular lead. Hmmm... interesting. Could point to a possible leaker? Please chime in if you feel so inclined, muhxburner!
If anyone out there has access to professional grade voice matching software, could you please do a comparison of these two files?
At the risk of being completely trolled by worldcorpo (or muhxburner), I felt strong enough that I wanted to keep this thread alive. If this ends up being for real, it may be the smoking gun we've been waiting for. But if not, I certainly apologize in advance for wasting anyone's time.
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Pechal ago
The only options from here is to ask in what ways can we possibly prove the authenticity of this video? It seems rather slim to be able to find location or anything else from it. So I'm leaning towards hoax but I mean not confident either-way. The fatherhood video was uploaded in December of 2016 and other videos uploaded as far back as July 2016.
The website especially is suspect for trying to look overtly edgy or mysterious. Would a true leaker do all that?
Scirel ago
Yes - thanks for these questions. Trust me, I know what you are saying. That is why I tried to be judicious in my assertions and put in the caveat at the end. But as to the authentication question - this is why I suggested that if anyone has access to professional quality voice analysis software, this might at least tell us if it is even a real possibility (if there is a high enough probability). But a cursory look at such products on the internet showed one forensic analysis system that cost something like 5K. So if anyone is an investigator or has a friend who is an investigator?...
MAGABoomer ago
You're not being "judicious" you're being an idiot. Thread reported. Child clearly screams DARREN. You could have concern trolled the original thread.
Pechal ago
Darren.
Huh, strange that I didn't notice that before. I could've sworn it sounded exactly like John. But it does sound like Darren to me now.
MAGABoomer ago
Ya think? It sounded like DARREN the first time I heard it. Suggestion is a powerful thing. Don't fall for it. That whole thread was a cock up...can't blame anon for trolling, CAN blame people for falling for it. It was completely designed to get US caught up in dissecting that shit frame by frame....takes time, ends up with nothing. Never fall for anything without context. However the use of the Anon globe and the Cyrillic text is SO 2008, it's like saying "oh hie guise I'm a troll".
The one massive clue that ya'll are missing is that the only videos that were hotlinked were the horror screaming child ones, knowing most of you wouldn't even bother looking at the rest for FEAR they would be KP. Hotlinking specific videos should have been clue one. Those clips could literally have come from ANYwhere.
Please help maintain the integrity of this forum by DV bait threads like this one and the THREE last night. Please we need to just fucking stop. We now have people coming here posting any old instagram account and saying OMG...and actually getting attention. There have to be certain elements present in a photo or set of photos before I'm going to go round the bend on some innocent photo album. Go back and look at your own SM photos through the lens of this place.
ALSO please look at what gets the DV and how many it gets on threads like that. They rapidly try to DV comments outing them so no one can see them.
Disgusted-Lurker ago
Referring to the Manhattan Kings thread...? Just curious.
MAGABoomer ago
Yesterday there were at least three other threads besides the OMG is this John Podesta that were purdee shite. I don't remember their specific names but they usually being with OMG look what I found on Instagram...and devolves from there. I am pretty chill except when I see shit I know is fake INFORMATION ANALYSIS is my bag. I suck at many things, but this is my specialty.
It's not rocket science. Many people on here are from goodness of heart and have had little to zero contact with this sort of trolling. We also literally have pedophiles on here actively trying to stop it. One asshole basically admitted it by claiming it's not abuse and many kids enjoy...it's about common sense, not seeing boggymen behind every smiling child photo with pizza in it, and not hesitating to shut them the fuck up. They scream CENSORSHIP for a reason.
there was an effort last night and to some extent today, to keep viable information OFF the front page which is why they didn't comment in the original thread but instead began an entirely new thread despite the fact that I'd already posted a blow by blow and included that the child screamed DARREN. That sort of thing. Keep a watch for it, DV and report.
cakeoflightylight ago
EVEN if the child says Darren, that doesn't mean that JP isn't the man in the video. I could make my kids call me Fairy Godmother pretty easily if I wanted to. I think you're getting AWFULLY angry considering everyone knows this is speculative, and there's no real way for any average person to ID him from the video. Too angry for you to be a real investigator.
MAGABoomer ago
You're a fucking idiot.