guttural (was: "Astroturf")

[Mark A. Mandel]

        [James Landau:]
        >>>

and now for a very odd usage:  "[President Bush's] guttural style---as
when he said he wanted Osama bin Laden 'dead or alive'"

(note on context: the article was about how Kerry's verbose speaking
style---"inability to put a period in his sentences"---was costing him.

The remark about Bush was for comparison of speaking styles and was not
a political comment.)

I can think of several adjectives to use here, starting with "blunt" and
going on to "Gary Cooperesque", but "guttural"?

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It's not clear from this quote whether the oddness, if any, is in
"guttural" or in "style". Is the writer commenting on Bush's words or on
his voice quality, perhaps in his utterance of the exact locution "dead
or alive"?  If the latter, "guttural" could be quite appropriate -- or
misused, but not novelly.

-- Mark A. Mandel