From the venerable Florence King at NRO:
But the really alarming aspect of the 2006 coverage was the strange new fairness doctrine spreading through the ranks of the talking heads, a speech habit of the sort heretofore associated with obsessive-compulsives who use words as charms to ward off bad luck and curses. Led by Chris Matthews, they have begun to pronounce "Missouri" in two different ways in the same sentence: Missouree and Missouruh. Matthews has been bothered by this for months; once, on Hardball, he began speculating aloud, as though talking to himself, that it was pronounced one way by natives, or maybe Midwesterners in general, and another way by everyone else. Finally, he began to take turns, and other heads followed suit. Some may think it's a problem for Henry Higgins, but I say it's a problem for Sigmund Freud. Our pursuit of equality has done its work; now, everybody is right and nobody is wrong and our speech must reflect the alternate reality we have created. Political correctness is steadily yielding to total babbling incoherence, which is why the redesigned and upgraded American eagle is clutching electroshock cables in one claw and straitjacket ties in the other.
Miss King's full column is at the link above, dripping with attitude.
For those who didn't "get" the Sinatra reference in my title, well . . . I feel sorry for you.
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