RUSH: As many of you may remember and may know, I have a pet peeve or a bugaboo about Michelle (My Belle) Obama, and I have noticed that a number of other Democrat women have the same speaking pattern. It\u2019s a… I don\u2019t know what the actual name of it is. But it\u2019s a pronunciation thing. She can\u2019t say the word “struggle.” (demonstrating) “Shtruggle,” “I\u2019m shorry,” “I was shtruggling,” “you were shuffering,” “you must end your shuffering.”<\/p>\n
And Marie Harf talks this way. All these Democrat women come out — and we put together a little montage just to illustrate this for you last night. We got time to squeeze this in — and she makes a big deal. This is all part of her dystopian presentation. Everybody out there “shtruggling.” Nobody\u2019s enjoying life. Nobody\u2019s having a good time. Nobody has the chance to have a good time because everything is “shtruggling.”<\/p>\n
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MICHELLE: And who we choose as a president we honor that shtruggle and chip away at that injustice… A lot of shtruggle and injustice, and work left today… Too many are shtruggling to take care of basic necessities…. Empathy! That\u2019s somethin\u2019 I\u2019ve been thinkin\u2019 a lot about lately. If we see someone shtruggling… Joe knows what it\u2019s like to shtruggle.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I guess he does, and then… But it wasn\u2019t just that word. It was “shuffering” and then she was “shorry” a couple of times, and I don\u2019t know. As a professional speaker, I am highly tuned — I am very much aware — of how people speak, and I know some people actually affect their speech so as to be different, stand out, and have it become sort of a signature identifier.<\/p>\n
They do it as a marketing thing. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s going on here. It\u2019s just the word gets pronounced. But since I\u2019ve noticed it the first time, it\u2019s become like a pet peeve. So I “shtarted” counting all the different times last night, and I\u2019m worried that if I don\u2019t drop it, I\u2019m gonna end up doing it too. I\u2019m gonna end up pronouncing “shtruggle” and “shuffer” and “shorry,” because I\u2019m just gonna habitually fall into it.<\/p>\n