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My friend Dave Weigel delicately characterizes this as “bungling an ethnic pander.” I feel almost like getting hysterically shtetly about Harold Ford:
The two bantered about the difference between New York and Tennessee, with Dicker poking fun at Ford for pronouncing “smear” (as in: “I’ve been the victim of a smear campaign on my position on choice”) as “schmear”, prompting this exchange:
Dicker: “I think schmear is something you put on a bagel.”
Ford: “I’m a little country. I apologize…It’s “smear”, s-m-e-a-r. Y’all talk funny.”
It’s “asshole,” A-S-S-H-O… Come on, Chuck Schumer. This is why God put you on earth.
Update: Relatedly, this is batshit surreal, and to make it batshittier, read it in an Ed Koch voice.
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Oh, hehehehe – or even…bwahahaha! This could be Harold’s “Curt Schiller who?” moment…
As one who has studied a number of languages, including regional English “dialects” (is that now a charged word?) as my family moved from one regional accent to another in my childhood….I can only say, Harold has a tin ear, and may it carry him right down to the bottom, and back to Tennessee.
As a Kentucky country boy who has lived all over the Northeast and New England (as well as other parts of the country), Harold Ford shows himself to be a leader of the clueless most every time he opens his mouth about New York City or state either one.