DU new word thread: "Luntzfail".

[bleever]

Inspired by this thread from jefferson_dem, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=243576&mesg_id=243576 let's see how many definitions or examples of "luntzfail" we can come up with:

Here's mine:

luntzfail -- n. an attempt to phrase or frame an issue or topic in a form beneficial to one's own point-of-view which results in the opposite effect. When the young man boasted to the girl that he was a teabagger, it was an epic luntzfail.

And here's a photo kindly proffered by Guy Whitey Corngood:




Anyone like to contribute?

:)

[nemo137]

1. I don't believe there is anything to add to that.

[babylonsister]

2. Any advice Jim Cramer gives, consider the consequences of luntzfail, because

it's bound to apply. :hi:

[bleever]

4. Excellent!

Because he failed to recognize an obvious luntzfail, his portfolio cramered.

[babylonsister]

5. Hahaha! 'To cramer'!

:rofl:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. N'HAA!! (Chris Matthews style) nt

[Cha]

10. ..

lol

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Uhh that's Corngood, dear sir. Of the San Juan Corngoods nt

[bleever]

6. My apologies.

Duly edited.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. No prob. nt

[HughMoran]

14. Did it say 'cornhole' before?

:rofl:

[bleever]

15. Luntzfail!

(Thankfully not.)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Bread actually, but you seem very interested in the concept of cornholing. To

each his own. :yoiks:



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[HughMoran]

19. lol

I love that word :rofl:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Yeah you bastard! I wonder why....... scroll to

6:30.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEfx8OeTA1g

[HughMoran]

22. It's a good word, a solid word... a manly word"

:rofl:

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. And under the verb section of the thesaurus, we find 'kristolize'

kristolize (v.t.): to turn a possibility of success into a guarantee of failure with a personal endorsement. Once Bill has spoken in support of her, she knew her chances of election had been utterly kristolized. It looked like she needed that reality TV show after all.

[Cha]

11. +1!

[Patsy Stone]

12. I'm going to recommend this thread

if for no other reason than this post.

:rofl:

Did you see this? Kristol Blue Delusion: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/09/29/kristol_blue_delusion/

[bleever]

13. Superb!

The outcome of the invasion of Iraq was kristolized when he declared, "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. It's shooting fish in a barrel, but:

The pundit kristolized Hillary's ambitions when he said "Hillary Clinton, it looks like to me, is now going to follow in Bill Clinton's footsteps. If she gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she's going to be the nominee...Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now."*

[bleever]

17. "Death panels".

He got lucky with "death tax", but "death panel" sounds so ridiculous it makes the speaker appear obviously hysterical.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. It was meant to refer to a Toyota dashboard, but he got his wires crossed

as, indeed, did Toyota.

[bleever]

23. "Toyota kristolized their fate by declaring the problem solved."

:)

[jillan]

24. What has BECKOME of these people?

[bleever]

25. "Repeal and replace",

from the thread referenced in the OP.

Along with such too-clever-by half phrases like "Louisiana Purchase", "Cornhusker Kickback", "Gator Aid", and the other monikers found hootworthy by the RW radio hosts and knucklehead GOP congresscritters.