MSNBC reporter Julia AINSLEY said "demoCRAT" entirely, multiple times.

[UTUSN]

Last edited Sat Mar 23, 2019, 05:09 PM - Edit history (4)

This was after Hardball (no HAYES). Who is she?!1

Wingnuts are known for being grammar impaired.

******ON EDIT, added name to Subject line, thanks to DUer Polly Hennessey for ID-ing the NBC reporter. And to the young-uns who think it's idiomatic and not ideological - the history is that the hot thing for the GINGRICH Contract ON America crowd was the pseudo-scientific polling of Frank LUNTZ, who would "focus group test" propaganda effect of words/phrases for their positive/negative effect by connotation. He decreed that "demoCRAT" instead of "Democratic (Party)" tested out as negative and jarring and therefore how all wingnuts should use anywhere "Democratic" was being referred to. My own surmise is that the jarring effect largely came from the ungrammatical SOUND of it, and a noun being used instead of an adjective. However, for those youngest among us, the history/context has faded away and they object to it ONLY on the basis of its being a wingnut pejorative. On another level, it proves out how bad wingnuts are at grammar, how they scream "English Only" while not even mastering their own language.

[Jane Austin]

1. Hayes isn't on yet at my house.

Their shows seem to be running 30minutes late because of the breaking news.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. I heard that.

Julia Ainsley, NBC National Security and Justice Reporter. Maybe, she knows Ainsley Eberhardt of Fox and Friends.

[UTUSN]

5. ty

[Raine]

3. Common usage

I don't get worked up about this kind of thing anymore, it will drive you crazy if you let it.

[UTUSN]

4. I don't work myself up, just have a long memory.

In our case, it's not common usage. It came from LUNTZ in the Gingrich days.

[Mc Mike]

7. That's why I always say 'repug'. To show that my side can be petty and aggressive, too.

And I notice that there are still talking head pundits who say 'nuke u lar', the way li'l bush mispronounced the word.

[UniteFightBack]

8. Well I had no idea this was a thing until I started reading here. nt

[UTUSN]

9. Updated the O.P. for the "history"!1

[UTUSN]

6. Did the due diligence on Julia Edwards AINSLEY (Google/Wiki etc.) - nondescript results -

Owns a pug dog, married whomever. Prolly "harmless" (= clueless). But using words cluelessly ain't harmless.

[OnDoutside]

10. Tweet her at @JuliaEAinsley and let her know.

[UTUSN]

11. I just might, if I learn how to tweet. Might do the old fogey e-mail!1

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