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Steal This Phrase

Posted on: March 4, 2009 9:30 AM, by Ed Brayton

Someone who comments here under the name grasshopper has invented a brilliant phrase for the Rush Limbaughs of the world: ignorexia verbosa. Pass it on.

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This is exactly the left, or in this case, the anti-right, is not as good as getting its message across. Latin. Indeed.

I'll stick with "ditto-headed morons"

Posted by: Greg Laden | March 4, 2009 10:16 AM

Greg Laden:

I'll stick with faux latin: Fuckbaggius bloviatus. Not much chance that will be misunderstood--or inaccurate.

Posted by: democommie | March 4, 2009 10:57 AM

H.L. Menken warned against "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

Posted by: 6EQUJ5 | March 4, 2009 11:01 AM

Greg - best you stick with 'ditto-headed morons'.
Grasshopper clearly likes neologic Greco-Latin chimeras.
Unless he meant:
'the part behind the thigh or knee that desires women who talk incessantly'* ...
or something. - DJ
*From Greek 'Ignau + orexia' and Latin - 'verbosa' note the femine ending in the Latin.

Posted by: DingoJack | March 4, 2009 11:18 AM

Although it's a person-specific moniker, I like to refer to Rush Limbaugh as Rash Windbag. Feel free to borrow the term though.

Posted by: Noodle | March 4, 2009 11:46 AM

It's not mine, but...
The former Member for the Federal seat of Oxley (QLD), Pauline Hanson, was once described as 'The Oxley Moron'. -DJ

Posted by: DingoJack | March 4, 2009 11:53 AM

That sounds more like a Harry Potter's enchanment.

Posted by: GPPlascencia | March 4, 2009 12:24 PM

I think I'll stick with ignorant gits, mostly because I can remember how to spell it.

Posted by: Ramel | March 4, 2009 2:43 PM

That reminds me of an Al Franken quote:

"But why would people so woefully lacking in the basic facts of an issue think they were the best informed? Social scientists call the phenomenon 'pseudo-certainty.' I call it 'being a fucking moron.'"

Posted by: Turcano | March 4, 2009 2:55 PM

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/output/motivator9726327.jpg

Posted by: LtStorm | March 4, 2009 4:53 PM

It's not mine, but...
The former Member for the Federal seat of Oxley (QLD), Pauline Hanson, was once described as 'The Oxley Moron'. -DJ

LOL Dingo .. she deserves the moniker .. and she is standing again for the 21st March elections :(

Posted by: grasshopper | March 4, 2009 5:45 PM

How about "rotunda maximus".

Posted by: Jeff Phartz | March 4, 2009 5:55 PM

I'm pretty sure I heard Jon Stewart on The Daily Show a day or two ago refer to Rush Limbaugh as the "de fecto leader of the Republican Party".

Posted by: Sam C | March 4, 2009 9:39 PM