Keet, Rove have trouble with epithet/epitaph confusion

Driving home yesterday afternoon, I tuned in a few minutes of the Dave Elswick show on KARN to see which Republican office seeker he had on as a guest. It was GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Keet, who said something that made me giggle.

Praising the Tea Party movement, Keet said they were mostly great Americans despite the few bad apples who sometimes shouted "epitaphs."

Harking back to the weekend protests by Tea Party members outside the U.S. Capitol, I conjured up a mental image of Congressman John Lewis facing shouts of "Rest in Peace!" and "Here Lies Fred Dorf: Loving Husband and Father!"

Keet was not alone in mixing up the two words. This blogger in Houston noted the confusion, writing that Karl Rove also tried to use the word "epithet" on ABC Sunday morning only to end up saying something that sounded more like "epitat" or maybe even "ipecac."

Here's the clip... you can hear the "epitat" remark at about 2:00 into this video.