Can you imagine the outcry if Bush, when he was the Commander in Chief of our military, had mispronounced a word anyone at all familiar with the military would know? Why has he never had any problem with the White House Press Corps or the Peace Corps? Maybe it’s because he was never a member of the Marine Corps. Or maybe it’s because he grew up in circles that were extremely anti-war who use the “corpse” pronunciation on purpose to degrade the military and this was less mistake and more of a Freudian slip.

If he has truly never heard the word corpsman out loud, it shows once more that this president is so far removed from much of American culture, so ignorant of so much of it, that one must wonder how he can effectively govern it.

And yet the only large network mentioning this at all is Fox. I understand that it may just have been a slip of the tongue. (Twice. UPDATE: Make that three times, see below) But the hypocrisy of the media as they ignore this insulting mispronunciation is ludicrous. Bush used an acceptable regional pronunciation of the word “nuclear” and we may never hear the end of it.

Here is an excellent take on why this seemingly small incident matters:

From the comments at Neo-Neocon: I was a corpsman, and I never heard that word mispronounced except in jest.

As all these examples collectively show—the bowing, the mispronunciations, the odd turns of phrase and other things—Obama is exactly the kind of “foreigner”—someone who was not a “born and bred” American who was intimately familiar with American life and customs, history and language, our freedom, democracy and form of government, someone who loved and cherished them, and who owed his primary allegiance to America–that the “natural born citizen” requirement of the Constitution was supposed to prevent from becoming President, which is why this requirement should have been very strictly enforced.

From the evidence Obama’s attitude, outlook and viewpoint is, it seems, a weird mixture of Marxist-Muslim-Black Nationalist and supercilious Ivy League attitudes of resentment, hatred, and disdain for a group composed of Whites, unbelievers, all Conservatives, and the “lower classes” i.e. most if not, in essence, all of America and Americans.

UPDATE: This was not the first time he was caught on tape making this mistake. He also referred to corpse-men last year during a speech at the Naval Air Station in Jasksonville, FL. Does he refuse to learn from mistakes or was no one brave enough to tell him he was saying it wrong?