"Ching-chong"

[Victor Steinbok]

I don't recall right now whether it was Josh Marshall at TPM or Mark
Liberman at Language Log who referred to Rush Limbaugh's rant a few
months ago as "ching-chonging".

     VS-)

On 3/31/2011 9:47 PM, James Harbeck wrote:
> I didn't see the episode, but I suspect the "ching-chong" was a
> reference to that anti-Asian rant on YouTube ("Asians in the
> library") that made an instant villain of UCLA student Alexandra
> Wallace? It was all over the web a two weeks ago; she imitates an
> Asian on the phone: "Ohhhh! Ching chong ling long ting tong?" See
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQR01qltgo8
>
> ...

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