"Y'all Talk Funny"

Weigel points to the latest installment of Harold Ford's performance art piece Senate campaign:

The two bantered about the difference between New York and Tennessee, with [radio host Fred] Dicker poking fun at Ford for pronouncing “smear” (as in: “I’ve been the victim of a smear campaign on my position on choice”) as “schmear”, prompting this exchange:

Dicker: “I think schmear is something you put on a bagel.”

Ford: “I’m a little country. I apologize…It’s “smear”, s-m-e-a-r. Y’all talk funny.”

Weigel:

Winning over New Yorkers by 1) bungling an ethnic pander then 2) joking that they talk funny and that their food is weird! Next, expect Ford to call A-Rod a “Red Sox fan.”

TNC takes a much more sober look at the former congressman from Tennessee.