Woman Says Word Wrong

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readJul 14, 2011

There are enough reasons to mock Michele Bachmann that making fun of her inability to pronounce the Yiddish word “chutzpah” seems kind of churlish and beside the point. I mean, it’s not even her language! Still, it does bear an eerie resemblance to a moment from one of the greatest cultural disasters of all time.

Perhaps we can hope life imitates art, right?

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