[Ads-l] impeach-o-meter - 1999

[Barretts Mail]

On 20 May 2017, at 11:53, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Today on “Day 6,” Brent Bambury introduced the “Impeach-O-Meter,” and it
>> started at 20 percent (http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/
>> episode-338-breweries-get-creative-trump-impeach-o-
>> meter-canada-in-cartoons-minefield-penguins-and-more-1.
>> 4119763/will-trump-be-impeached-our-impeach-o-meter-
>> gives-you-the-odds-1.4119770 <http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/
>> episode-338-breweries-get-creative-trump-impeach-o-
>> meter-canada-in-cartoons-minefield-penguins-and-more-1.
>> 4119763/will-trump-be-impeached-our-impeach-o-meter-
>> gives-you-the-odds-1.4119770>).
>> 
>> There is a blog called “Impeach-O-Meter” (https://impeach-o-meter.com <
>> https://impeach-o-meter.com/>) and there was evidently an Impeachometer
>> for George W. Bush on Salon (http://www.weblog.
>> cheesephone.co.uk/2002_08_18_blogarc.html <http://www.weblog.
>> cheesephone.co.uk/2002_08_18_blogarc.html>), but it has gone 404 without
>> a trace on the Wayback Machine.
>> 
> 
> The Wayback Machine has Salon's Impeachometer archived back to Aug. 11,
> 2002, indicating a first post date of July 27, 2002.
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20020811171523/http://blogs.salon.com/0001189/stories/2002/07/27/impeachometer.html
> 
> --bgz

Great find, thank you! BB

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