thinkprogress.org — During a congressional ceremony for the famous all-black Tuskegee airmen, House Minority Leader Boehner six times mispronounced the group's name as the "Tusk-E-gee,'' eliciting audible groans from the front to the back of the Capitol Rotunda.
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Closed AccountMar 30, 2007
You'd think his aides would have been able to tell him how to pronounce the damn thing before he went on stage. This isn't a huge deal, but it just goes to show Boehner's lack of understanding or knowledge about something that means so much to the audience he was addressing.
gatekeeper50Mar 31, 2007
Perhaps he thought he was getting back at liberals ('cause of course all African-Americans are) for calling him John BONER. For one with a neck so red as Mitch McConnell to have given him a verbal slap back was even more of a slam.
shawnfassettApr 6, 2007
Perhaps he should stop drinking 6 hours before public-events. Didn't DeLay leave him any instructions?