"Wonder"

For those who (somehow) didn't know, a central question of my dissertation is the well-established fact that "wonder" doesn't take concealed questions, i.e. I know the time is fine, but I wonder the time is awful. And then this happens:

I wonder the degree to which [Gen. David Petraeus's] public image is a product of his actual competence and how much of it is a product of very shrewd management of said image?
—Chris Hayes, The Rachel Maddow Show, August 16

I know that there's such a thing as a speech error, that it's not the case that "everything is correct"; and yet Hayes didn't get lost in his sentence (as in the example Pullum discusses in the aforelinked page), nor did he especially seem to stumble over the words.

I know linguistics makes sense, that there's a very real phenomenon and that it's describable scientifically...it's just that sometimes, I wonder.