What happened, DAT, is that she stumbled into a KFC and ran into a Colonel Sanders lookalike. She thought it was Bernie.
I read that and thought (First) "Well, both Harlan and Bernie ARE brain-dead," but then I thought maybe some wouldn't know that Harlan had passed away some time ago and would misconstrue it, and (Second) "Hey, what about the accent?" but then I realized she's so f*@king stupid that she would think it was Bernie, sharing a private joke with her and mocking all those stupid Red Staters, even if he told her his name," so you could be right.