Today’s mishearing

Just a moment ago on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House”, the host, Nicolle Wallace, delivered a pitch for the Deadline: Legal Blog, giving instructions on how to subscribe, concluding with what I heard as:

You’ll have a fresh new sweater delivered to your mailbox every Friday

Well, yes, she said newsletter, and though this actual word hadn’t appeared before in her brief pitch, a newsletter was an unsurprising thing to come up in the context of news television and blogs, while sweaters and other articles of apparel were far from  the material in her program.

Pixies, I blame pixies. And, of course, sunspots.

 

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