You may have forgotten to mark the date on your calendar, but this Saturday is International Tongue Twister Day, and the Logic Puzzle Museum in Burlington, Wis., is preparing for its ninth annual contest, to be held Nov. 6, 2009 It’s time for tongue twisters and political bloopers (including Michele Bachmann’s doozy) It’s time for tongue twisters and political bloopers (including Michele Bachmann’s doozy) House, she turned the Smoot-Hawley Act into “Hoot-Smalley” and then mixed up which president she was blaming for the tariff legislation. In April 27 comments on the floor of the U.S. The infamous moment is on display here at about the 3:10 mark.Īnd then to wrap up, we go to the most recent high-profile Minnesota political spoonerism, courtesy of Michele Bachmann. When he got to Minnesota legend Hubert Humphrey, a carried-away Carter praised Hubert … Horatio … Hornblower - before quickly correcting himself. The website separates the truth from the often-embellished legend.Īnother president, Jimmy Carter, found himself in an uncomfortable spotlight at one of the key moments of his political career: his speech accepting re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City.Įarly in his speech, President Carter managed a major slip of the tongue while paying tribute to some of the party’s charismatic leaders. Without a doubt, the honor of the most famous flub goes to Harry Von Zell, who, as a young radio announcer, referred to Herbert Hoover as “Hoobert Heever” at the end of a long public tribute he was reading at a 1931 event honoring the president. Two of the most famous tongue-tied examples have direct Minnesota ties, including a recent one by oft-quoted 6th District Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Then it’s on to the big time: politics and unintentional tongue twisters and embarrassing moments, particularly those special slips of the tongue known as spoonerisms.
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