“You can’t say nuclear, that really scares me, sometimes a brain can come in quite handy…”
Breda has a post with video of Dear Leader saying “corpse-man” instead of “core-man.” Man, I’m so glad we have an eloquent President now, not a drunken, mumbling cowboy.*
The irony of the Bush “new-coo-lar” is that that pronunciation has been used by four Presidents: Eisenhower, Carter, Clinton, and Bush 43. Two of these four were mocked for being raving dumbasses who couldn’t talk right. (Hint: it’s not the Democrats.)
One of the weird things I have about Carter’s using “new-coo-lar” is that I can’t find any reference to how Hyman Rickover pronounced “nuclear.” Carter was a prospective reactor officer, and Rickover would latch onto any little thing to harass a candidate with, like not being able to pronounce a word correctly.
* True story– right after the coronation inauguration, I was eating lunch at my favorite watering hole when the President came on, making a speech. The gentleman down the bar (who had killed half a bottle of wine in 20 minutes) looked at me, said “damn, it’s good to have a President who’s not a drunk, mumbling cowboy!” He then got up, put on his cowboy hat, made sure his jeans came over his cowboy boots, then walked out to his duallie diesel truck and drove off.
Irony, they name is “Obama voter.”
