Michelle Obama’s Shtruggle
Aug 18, 2020
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’s a… I don’t know what the actual name of it is. But it’s a pronunciation thing. She can’t say the word “struggle.†(demonstrating) “Shtruggle,†“I’m shorry,†“I was shtruggling,†“you were shuffering,†“you must end your shuffering.â€
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’s enjoying life. Nobody’s having a good time. Nobody has the chance to have a good time because everything is “shtruggling.â€
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’s somethin’ I’ve been thinkin’ a lot about lately. If we see someone shtruggling… Joe knows what it’s like to shtruggle.
RUSH: Yeah. I guess he does, and then… But it wasn’t just that word. It was “shuffering†and then she was “shorry†a couple of times, and I don’t 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.
They do it as a marketing thing. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here. It’s just the word gets pronounced. But since I’ve noticed it the first time, it’s become like a pet peeve. So I “shtarted†counting all the different times last night, and I’m worried that if I don’t drop it, I’m gonna end up doing it too. I’m gonna end up pronouncing “shtruggle†and “shuffer†and “shorry,†because I’m just gonna habitually fall into it.
Okay, we have another brief time-out coming up here, folks, and then more analysis of what happened last night. We’ll get your phone calls in on this. You know a lot of you want to weigh in on it, have your thoughts.