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Ford: New Yorkers 'talk funny'
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01/26/10 06:16 PM ET
A former House lawmaker eyeing a Senate run in the Empire State said that New Yorkers "talk funny."
Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) was speaking to the New York Post’s Fred Dicker when he made the observation, which sounded slightly odd considering that Ford had just finished saying he was the victim of a political "schmear" campaign.
Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) was speaking to the New York Post’s Fred Dicker when he made the observation, which sounded slightly odd considering that Ford had just finished saying he was the victim of a political "schmear" campaign.
"I think schmear is something you put on a bagel," Dicker corrected the likely Senate hopeful.
"I'm a little country,” Ford
replied. “I apologize...it's "smear", s-m-e-a-r," he spelled out, adding, "Y'all
talk funny."
The same could be said of Ford, whose Tennessee accent sounded at odds with Dicker's Northeastern staccato.
According to the Urban Food Dictionary, a schmear is Yiddish slang for a dab of something spread on bread, most often used to describe cream cheese on bagels.
