Now, I see in Chris Sullentrop's report in Slate, that Kerry actually did mispronounce brat:
Here in Sheboygan, during a "Kerry-Edwards '04 Brat Fry," Kerry adds to the litany [of regional mistakes] Friday by referring to the local food as a short-A "brat," the way you would refer to a spoiled child. "Brot!" yell members of the crowd. For good measure, Kerry makes the mistake at the end of his speech, too. "Before I get a chance to have some braaats ..." "Brots!!" some women near me shout in frustration.For crying out loud! How inept do your people have to be, when taking you to a brat fry not to tell you "remember it's brot"? You know, I wouldn't mind if the candidates didn't do any of this traveling around to colorful, small-town events. I'd rather see Kerry sit across the table from Tim Russert on "Meet the Press." But, good Lord, if you're going to use the hokey Americana method of campaigning, the whole point is to look as though you belong there when you're there.
UPDATE: An emailer quips: "So you're telling us that Kerry's staff failed to prepare him for the wurst?"
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This post, written in the first year of this blog was linked in a post I wrote today, 20 years into this writing project.
The reason this is the first comment on the old post isn't that no one read the blog back then. It's that I didn't allow comments at that time. There are a lot of old posts like this, looking unread for lack of comments.
But in fact blogs got more attention back then. They were in the news, covered by mainstream media. Now, the blog is a relic of the golden age of blogging.
how did he eat it? chomp it down or with knife and fork
Such a tiny mistake cost him the election.
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