FW (from B. Popik): Rachel Maddow doesn't know "Union Square" etymology; "Hispandering" not coined by Mickey Kaus

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Barry Popik sent the message below to several people, and with his
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Gerald Cohen

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From: Barry Popik [mailto:bapopik at aol.com]
Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:02 PM
Subject: Rachel Maddow doesn't know "Union Square" etymology;
"Hispandering" not coined by Mickey Kaus

HISPANDERING:
"Hispandering" has been in the news a lot lately; I have "spandering"
on my website, while Grant Barrett's Double-Tongued Dictionary has a
one-citation entry for "Hispandering." Mickey Kaus is usually given
credit for coining the term, but it appears that this is incorrect:
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hispandering_hispanic_pandering/
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RACHEL MADDOW'S STAFF DOESN'T SPEND FIVE SECONDS TO LOOK UP THE ORIGIN
OF "UNION SQUARE":
In February 2011, Rachel Maddow did a long piece on the labor union
history of Wisconsin, and she highlighted that Wisconsin has seven
towns named "Union." In July 2011, Maddow again said that Wisconsin has
a long labor union history and history and seven towns named "Union." I
wrote to the Wisconsin Historical Society, and it appears that not one
of the towns is named after a labor union--most were named before
unions were formed in the 1880s. I wrote to Maddow, who of course never
wrote back or issued a correction. See:
http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/2011/07/23/correcting-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-does-wisconsin-really-have-seven-towns-named-after-labor-unions/
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2011/07/25/maddow-claim-about-wisc-towns-named-union-looks-decidedly-dubious
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On today's show, Rachel Maddow said that there will be labor union
demonstrations in New York City tomorrow on May Day (May 1st), and why
do you think they call it "Union Square"? I immediately knew this is
wrong. Yes, her staff is so lazy that it can't spare the five seconds
to find this on Google:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square_(New_York_City)
Union Square is a public square in the Manhattan borough of New York
City, New York.
It is an important and historic intersection, located where Broadway
and the former Bowery Road - now Fourth Avenue - came together in the
early 19th century; its name celebrates neither the Federal union of
the United States nor labor unions but rather denotes that "here was
the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island".
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Barry Popik
Austin, TX
www.barrypopik.com

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