"Come on, Al, knock it off!"

I like Reverend Al Sharpton. I watch his show almost every day and admire his passion for fairness and love how he lambastes the hypocritical Republicans. But really, how difficult would it be for him to  learn to pronounce "ask" instead of "axe" and "pundit" instead of the wildly incorrect "Pundint"?  When you're as smart as he is, I cannot understand why you would continuously mispronounce these two words. I'd write him directly, but lately it seems to be very difficult to locate the e-mails for these MSNBC personnel.