Beck Dissects Huckabee=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_Curious=2C_Mysterious_=91Booger_Bears=92_?=| The Blaze

[victor steinbok]

Glen Beck has engaged in a private war with Mike Huckabee. Beck called
Huckabee "a Socialist" and Huckabee responded by calling Beck a conspiracy
theorist. Beck is clearly obsessed with the issue, as he came back to the
topic for the third time on his TV show just a few minutes ago.

I may appreciate the entertainment provided by the two clownish fools, but
that's beside the point. The reason I am posting this is because of
Huckabee's use of "booger-bear".


http://goo.gl/33RZx
Beck Dissects Huckabee’s Curious, Mysterious ‘Booger Bears’ | The Blaze
> I have appreciated her efforts that Beck misrepresented either out of
ignorance or out of a deliberate attempt to create another booger-bear
hiding in the closet.

Beck is heard audibly snickering, "/Booger/ bear?" He did the same thing
today on his TV show, repeating the question, "Booger bear?" In fact, 20
minutes after playing the tape, he just repeated "Booger bear" five times
within one sentence, concluding with, "The Booger bear is a *fact*."

Is it a Southern thing?

http://goo.gl/KJs3P
Columbus, Mississippi
The "Booger-Bear"
> All of a sudden, my youngest brother ran through the group yelling
"Booger-Bear!" He looked TOTALLY scared to death. I thought he was joking,
but then my next brother did the same while pointing toward the unoccupied
side of out duplex apartment house.

I am assuming "booger-bear" is an eggcornish variant of "bugbear". Of
course, "bugbear" is itself a coinage for a fictional character, but it's
rather widely accepted. Still, the ratio of raw ghits is only about 3:1,
although "Booger bear" is helped along by a couple of songs and poems.

Like Beck, I can't help snickering, long after the fact... hopefully, it's
the only thing we have in common.

VS-)

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