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

[Ben Zimmer]

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

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