You KNOW IT'S BIG when the MSM is throwing around FITZMAS

[berni_mccoy]

even Fox is using it!

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Really?!

Who came up with Fitzmas in the first place? What's fox saying?

[skooooo]

2. It came from DU!

This is amazing. See, people really can have an effect on things, even if it's just a mention on a stupid propoganda network.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. I think that DU has a broad effect.

Even if we all go off in the weeds some times (not me of course) and have been observed on scooters wearing tinfoil hats with propellers (once again except for me naturally) we seem to be affecting the nature of the discourse and we are clearly affecting the language used to describe the world.

For example, the use of the term 'the cabal' to describe the inner circle of vile shitheads in the bush administration was in wide circulation here, and now crops up regularly in the MSM.

For example fitzmas - which within its few weeks of usage here has become the cultural norm for describing the surprising and precipitous collapse of The Cabal.

So sometimes we are just a bunch of losers in our basements typing desperate messages to each other (not me though) and sometimes we are the voice of the people, the voice of truth unfettered, unshackled, and in the power of our uncontrolled cacophony we push the world just the slightest bit in the right direction.

[SpiralHawk]

3. The Cultural Inevitability of Fitzmas

Well unless someone comes forward with a usage of 'Fitzmas' earlier than Oct. 6, I suppose I will be credited as the person who coined the term. On that basis, I'd like to weigh in on the Fitzmas brouhaha.

The term 'Fitzmas' emerged on a whim, to elaborate on a thought suggested in an Oct. 6 thread by Seemslikeadream. That's all it was -- a quickie whim.

But somehow the thing developed legs. On its own. People picked it up and started using it until it became a meme or possibly even an anti-meme. They just seemed to like it and repeat and repeat and repeat it. It developed a life of its own because a lot of people found some level of resonance in it. In this perhaps there is a factor of Cultural Inevitability. Folks are looking for a way to blow off steam about how BushCo and the Republicans have VIOLATED the trust of the voters -- in oh so many ways. Fitzmas, I feel, somehow came to represent the HOPE that the violations would soon be remedied -- a cause for jubilation.

As for me, I don't care too passionately much about the term 'Fitzmas." I found it amusing on one level, but it is not my nature to dwell in the state of Schadefruede -- taking pleasure from the problems of others. I feel that's basically an unhealthy soul state.

What I am interested in -- like most DUers -- is in something far more substantial than a cute word, or a few days of celebration over indictments. Indictments, in my view, will just be the start of a process of profound upheaval in the USA. Out of all of this process I want justice. I want truth. I want my country and my democracy back. That's what is important. That's what I'd like to celebrate: Truthmas or Justicemas or even Democracymas. Bring it on.

"Fitzmas" as a term, or a meme, is likely to recede into the cyber archives of history in a big hurry, maybe as soon as next week. Toodle Oooo. Goodbye.

We have work to do. Justice. Truth. Democracy.

[Arugula Latte]

6. SprialHawk, you rock! (I don't like the "you rock" meme but it rhymes)

:toast:
:yourock:
:patriot:
:hi:

[thinkingwoman]

7. It's not just Fitzmas for Democrats

It's Fitzmas for America.

Thank you, SpiralHawk, for coining this word. It has caught for the reasons you list, because Americans need hope.

Like you, I wait for the real work to begin. We WILL have justice. We WILL get our country back. It is inevitable now. It is an idea whose time has come. :hi:

[bryant69]

4. Unless they are setting us up for the fall?

I don't know, I am optamistic, but i think Fitzmas is kind of a potential mistake.

Bryant
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[ClassWarrior]

5. That's true - BUT FOX IS NOT "MAINSTREAM!!"

PLEASE DON'T CALL THEM "THE MSM"!!!

:rant:

Please call them what they are, the Corporate Media.

NGU.