That is most likely the case. One would expect a clearly spoken and concise message because she is one of their most important stars and her speech was prewritten, the segment was prerecorded for this "major" event. They had ample time to rerecord a better spoken version. Maybe it was due to a poor audio review before the producer said to run with it. It wasn't the worst screwup of the show, but sounded elitist and derogatory if taken as many heard it.