Our president, the dumbass, would fail my class

I teach first-year college students to write stuff, and I see mistakes like this (from the NY Times, thanks Blogcritics) all the time:

It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of and the allegations by people that were held in detention, people who hate America, people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble, that means not tell the truth.

I saw the news conference, and Bush said the above with his usual fake Texas twang and his also-usual arrogance toward those nitpicky language police who haunt what's left of his Yalie brain. I would mark this as a "word choice" error, and point him in the right direction, like say to a sophmore, to get the right word out on rewrite: That's dissemble, not disassemble. We presume he means that Amnesty International was trying to lie, not take something apart. But as Blogcritic says, "for crying out loud, can't he get some speechwriters that can write things that he can read?" This is the kind of thing that's ripe for becoming a "nucular" issue, when the President of the United States says the wrong word by mispronouncing a close homophone.

And by the way he's lying about Amnesty International and its purported gulag. You know, Concealing. Kinda like Hiding under a false front. Dissembling. I say we disassemble him.