Of course newkewler is an 'alternative,' and improper, pronunciation. People who listen to the president on TV and don't read will all be saying it soon.
As I said, continuing to mispronounce, after trying to learn, the name of the weapon you have your finger on the button of, doesn't mean anything in itself, however surreal it may seem.
I love Carter. I'm so happy for him that he got the Nobel Prize. And he's a bright guy in many ways. But who would say that he wasn't, in other ways, a simpleton?! The guy sat in the Oval office working out the schedule for the WH tennis courts!
Clinton is a scumbag but he's a high-IQ dude and no simpleton (in spite of being a moral imbecile) and no one denies that; unlike Bush, he didn't go to Andover and Yale, so maybe there are other tell-tail signs of his humble origins, too.
In Bush's case, since the man makes repeated mortifying (to the country) intellectual goofs, his inability to learn this little thing that makes millions and millions of Americans wince is consistent with much other evidence that he's a simpleton. Let's say he's a simpleton "in some ways." Conceptual ones. He chose a nice wife.
I'm offering again. If anybody requests it, I'll post examples of Bush's appearing to be a simpleton. Google provides an unending supply. I believe there's even a video on the net of him saying "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, it's probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me ... You can't get fooled again."
I admit it's possible Bush isn't a simpleton, but just plays one on TV.
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