"Beck Dissects Huckabee's Curious, Mysterious 'Bo" oger Bears' | The Blaze

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:46 PM -0400 4/25/11, victor steinbok wrote:
>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".

A blend, dare I say, of "bugbear", "bogeyman" (often pronounced
"boogie-man"), and, well, booger.

LH

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