Freudian Slip At NPR?

So I'm flipping through the radio channels and stop at NPR because they're getting ready to talk to retired colonel (whose name eludes me, but I recognized) who was an aide of Petraeus in Iraq. Anyway, to make a long story short...the NPR host is asking questions and at one point he makes the statement about how our pullout from the cities isn't quite the huge move it's being played as because:

we still have a large number of troops in Barack.

*rimshot*

His pronunciation, of course, had Barack pronounced to rhyme with how he was pronouncing Iraq - Barak and Uhrak.