When George Bush puts on his grave jumpy-eye face as he discusses the North Korean nuclear test, one thing on his mind as he makes the statement is to be sure to deliberately mispronounce nuclear ("nucular") to show his regular guy credentials -- since in private conversation, he pronounces it correctly. And we know this because one of his media allies, Michael Medved, says so --
And one more thing: twice during his meandering conversation, the President deployed the word "nuclear." Both times, he pronounced it flawlessly --- as "new- clee-ar," not "nuke-cule-ar." Considering the huge press attention on the mis-pronounciation of this single word, nothing shocked me more about meeting the president than hearing him, in private conservation, avoid a mistake for which he's become celebrated in public.
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