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[Victor Steinbok]

I've been aware of "lamestream media" since last year, but it hit Fox
really hard this year, what with Palin, Angle and O'Donnell, all of whom
favored the term.

Snowpocalypse made a comeback last night (you can check out an example
on TPM) as did snowmageddon. But a perfectly reasonable term from last
night's news (and something I noted to myself a couple of hours before
the broadcast)--thundersnow. The meaning is transparent, of course, and
it's not the most interesting (or new) formation, but here it is,
nonetheless.

     VS-)

PS: Thanks for the "garden path"--it was on the tip of my tongue, but I
simply could not come up with it...

On 12/27/2010 8:10 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> At 5:56 PM -0500 12/27/10, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> A couple more entries that I have not seen yet--again, mostly from the
>> same sources (tea party terminology, oil spill)
>>
>> - lamestream media (not entirely sure if it was a Palinism
> No, it considerably predated her entrance on the scene, popularized
> by her friends at FOX News.  I don't know who invented it; I'd guess
> a right-wing blogger, but someone on the list no doubt has better
> info.
>
> A feeble entry, from today's news:  "snownado", as some are
> apparently calling the current weather event that combines features
> of both snowstorms and tornados.
>
> LH

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