Sunday, May 18, 2008

'Elitist' is the new 'Flip-Flopper'

Why is it that every election cycle popularizes a whole new set of pejoratives for dumb fucks to lob around? Seriously; somebody show me a chart of Rush Limbaugh's average per-show use of the word 'elitist' throughout his radio career since the '94 midterms...$50 bucks says it's spiked to an all-time high in the past year.

I'm not saying that conservatives are the only ones guilty of such brand-conscious name-calling here. Both sides do it. It's just that conservatives are so boringly predictable about it. If I were in charge of what new political buzzwords became popular in a given election, you can be damned sure I'd come up with something more substantial and biting than 'elitist' or 'flip-flopper:'

Cunt-zit.

It's more direct, more honest, and way more appropriate to its target audience--many of whom are unlikely to even know the actual definition of 'elitist;' all of whom are guaranteed to know that cunt-zits are highly undesirable. To anyone.

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