Possible word of the year

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/2/2012 11:39 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>It was noted that because it was unsaid, there are necessarily going
>to be people who don't get the interpretation of "fuck yourself,["] ...

Since there are (allegedly) such people, then shouldn't papers of
record like the NY Times and the Boston Globe have undertaken to
explain it?  :-)

(According to Victor, MSNBC did explain, and in real time.  Unless
their explanation was inadequate, and people like Victor "simply
could not figure out which "F-word" the MSNBC people kept complaining
about...")

Joel

>and I admit when I watched it, Eastwood's rambling manner didn't
>really make the point clear.
>
>Benjamin Barrett
>Seattle, WA
>
>On Sep 2, 2012, at 9:41 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > I notice that in the two newspapers I read, NYTimes and Boston Globe,
> > several articles (through Saturday) have taken the space to quote or
> > paraphrase the "do it to himself" passage (together with other short
> > excerpts), but no article has undertaken to explain it.  Apparently
> > these newspapers can't even talk about the F-word.  Or they're clever
> > enough to know that everyone able to read and understand English --
> > except car-parkers in Tampa, but they hadn't yet read these two
> > papers -- will fully understand without needing instruction.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 9/1/2012 06:33 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> >> There is an argument on Honyaku (perhaps finally done) about this
> >> speech. One of the points of contention is whether this can mean
> >> anything except "fuck himself."
> >>
> >> Benjamin Barrett
> >> Seattle, WA
> >>
> >> On Sep 1, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >>
> >>> Friday evening on "The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley" I heard
> >>> Bob Schieffer say that car parkers at the Tampa convention were
> >>> asking, just what did Eastwood mean when he told the chair "He
> >>> {Romney] can't do that to himself."  The whole bunch -- RNC,
> >>> RNC-chosen car parkers, and RNC-nominated candidate -- seem
> >>> singularly out of touch with real people.
> >>>
> >>> P.S.  Michael Moore on The Daily Beast seems to have gotten it wrong
> >>> -- "They will know about the night a crazy old man hijacked a
> >>> national party's most important gathering so he could literally tell
> >>> the president to go do something to himself (i.e.
> >>> fuck  himself)."  Rather, Eastwood asked the chair what he (the
> >>> chair) wanted to say to Romney, so Eastwood was putting the F-word
> >>> into the chair's mouth.
> >>>
> >>> Joel
> >>>
> >>> At 9/1/2012 10:00 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
> >>>> eastwooding, verbal. n. {w} Also written Eastwooding.  See the
> quotations
> >>>> for the meaning.  Nonstandard (used in slang contexts dealing especially
> >>>> with U.S. politics; frequency?)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The Smithsonian Institution, with hilarious seriousness, traced the
> >>>> tradition of politicians' interrogating empty chairs back to "at least
> >>>> 1924."
> >>>>
> >>>> A brand-new word was born: eastwooding, the act of talking to an empty
> >>>> chair. Twitter, Instagram (in which photos are conversational
> tender), and
> >>>> Pinterest were furnished with people's photos of furniture, of
> themselves
> >>>> lecturing, upbraiding, arguing with their sofas, stools, and
> settees. The
> >>>> hashtag #eastwooding ricocheted to at least 29,000 Twitter accounts,
> >>>> according to TweetReach. John Timpane, "Eastwood unseats Romney;
> >> Chair chat
> >>>> is meme of the moment," The Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis), Sept.
> >> 1, 2012, p
> >>>> A01
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The Twitter handle "Invisible Obama," which said it was sitting
> >> "Stage left
> >>>> of Clint Eastwood," quipped that "The GOP built me." An hour after
> >>>> Eastwood's speech, it already had 20,000 followers. The move
> spawned a new
> >>>> trend with people posting photos of themselves pointing at empty
> >> chairs with
> >>>> the hashtag "eastwooding." Halimah Abdullah, "Eastwood, the
> >> empty chair and
> >>>> the speech everyone's talking about," CNN.com (Nexis), Aug. 30,
> >> 2012, p not
> >>>> given
> >>>>
>
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