word of the year?

Mon Aug 20 18:48:41 UTC 2012

FWIW, JPGClog added the word to Urban Dictionary today in swipe against Republicans, and the word got sent to the Vocabology app as the Urban Dictionary word of the day.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=legitimate+rape

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Aug 20, 2012, at 6:43 AM, David Barnhart wrote:

> What was going through the speaker's mind.  Legitimate rape!?!?
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> DBarnhart at highlands.com
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> From: Hollis Barnhart [mailto:hbarnhart at highlands.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 8:35 AM
> To: David Barnhart
> Subject: word of the year?
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> worst euphemism maybe?  legitimate rape:
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/legitimate-rape-and-todd-ak
> ins-myths/2012/08/20/f8c048b4-ea76-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_blog.html

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