because info

[Victor Steinbok]

I've suggested previously that this usage has become fairly popular with
left-leaning bloggers and related personalities. Maddow certainly falls
into that mold. I first noticed the usage from Josh Marshall at TPM and
Steve Benen (then of the Washington Monthly blog) in "because 9/11",
mocking "9/11" and related nonsense as stock response to absolutely
everything from conservatives. The phrase saw particularly heavy usage
in the run-up to the 2012 Presidential campaign, essentially from late
2010 through the primaries (roughly June 2012).

     VS-)

On 1/8/2014 3:33 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> Oops.  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow a few days ago said "...because North Korea." =
>    You need to know the context to have it make sense.
>
> Tom Zurinskas

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