Talibangelist, Talibangelical

[Wilson Gray]

I've come across the"The Taliband," the name of a black street gang in
Cincinnati. I have no idea whether the name is a pun, a
hypercorrection, or an eggcorn.

-Wilson

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Benjamin
Zimmer<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> "Talibangelist" and "Talibangelical", blending "Taliban" with
> "evangelist" and "evangelical" respectively, are popular epithets on
> left-wing blogs to refer to extreme right-wing fundamentalists.
> ("Televangelist" is an obvious model.) Both terms seem to have emerged
> on the Daily Kos in late 2004:
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> http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2004/11/18/151041/24/135
> roboton, Nov 18, 2004
> At any rate, we must create an image that is so grotesque and
> extremely far left that it causes the Talibangelists to shit bricks
> and raise as much "end of the world" hell as possible.
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> http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2004/12/24/18317/056/16
> yankeedoodler, Dec. 24, 2004
> about the commercialization of christmas. that complaint has
> disappeared, drowned out, probably, by the talibangelists who decided
> it made more sense not to attack their corporate allies.
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> http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2004/12/26/135830/42/91
> Dancing Larry, Dec. 26, 2004
> Term from a Kosmonaut: Talibangelist.
> Rolls right off the tongue.
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> http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2004/12/31/172816/49/29
> yankeedoodler, Dec. 31, 2004
> Â i don't call them fundamentalists or christian right anymore. i use
> republican taliban (yes, the repubs have responsibility for giving
> them a vehicle for spreading their hate) or
> talibangelicals/talibangelists. what i like about the second term,
> btw, is that it separates the wingnut evangelicals from evangelicals
> who, for example, support someone like howard dean.
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> --Ben Zimmer
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