Reporter Uses "SNL" Word "Strategery" In White House Briefing (VIDEO)

A reporter used a word coined by "Saturday Night Live" to mock President Bush in the White House briefing Tuesday.

"From the standpoint of leverage or strategery," the reporter said as her colleagues in the briefing room began to laugh, "how do you..."

She was cut off by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said, "I love it how a 'Saturday Night Live' word has entered into the lexicon."

Then, in a clear reference to "SNL" newbie Jenny Slate, who dropped an F-bomb on Saturday's season premiere, Gibbs joked, "I'm gonna curse in a minute."

WATCH:

The word "strategery" was coined in 2000 for an "SNL" sketch about a presidential debate between George Bush and Al Gore, meant to mock Bush's inability to pronounce certain words.

Watch an excerpt from that sketch:

Comments

[mjtaylor22]

BET IT WAS A DUMB FOX NEWS REPORTER

[CaveatMagnusFrater]

She just mis-pronunciated a word. It's not the end of universiality

[newTheory]

I'm not sure if the reporter was joking.

[Bigrcube]

Was that a FOX News reporter asking the question?!

[1will]

Wait a minute.
Are they saying that SNL actually used to make fun of Presidents?

[ImissBush]

zing

[erichnorse]

Ok, thats amusing but how sad for the reporter. Im sure see uses nucular weapons as well.

[Imzadi]

While adjusting her jew-ler-y.

[Imzadi]

While adjusting her jewLER-y.

[WinterParkMom]

And speaking hispanically.

[6bd]

Contemplating her IN -surance coverage.

[WebCommoner]

I'm glad Gibbs was hip enough to call her out on it. Quite sad on the reporter's part.

[3fingerbrown]

A word that Bush actually did coin has become one of my favorite adverbs: "A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses—Hispanically owned or otherwise—pay taxes at the highest marginal rate."—Bush to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 2001

[huff-fan]

I thought Bush said stratergy.

[darnsannity]

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show: Obama has bankrupt the country, driven up unemployment and home foreclosures, and where is he? He's gonna go to Copenhagen to talk about the Olympics. Where are his priorities at? We have troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet he is worried about the Olympics! Obama wants change embedded into the law, enforced by the judiciary so that way it becomes institutionalized and thus it is more difficult to amend. Also, Mark discusses the history of social security, and how the courts will eventually find a way to make illegals covered under nationalized healthcare.

[MarineBugler]

Whoa, dude! Didn't your prescription say to take only ONE pill at a time?

[laddieluv]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

Gawd, I needed that laugh.

Thank you. Perfect.

[Jane48]

Oh ya, that was really great.
thanks. I'm gonna borrow that one if u don't mind!

[WinterParkMom]

Lol, and you forgot he's supposed to nap after that pill.

[Tallion]

Awesome !

[shryock]

and exactly how does your comment relate to this story?
are you trying to demonstrate your understanding of 'strategery' ?
is posting an unrelated comment part of your strategiousness?
and who is Mark?

[Gidster]

He just needed to vent is hatred for Obama somewhere.

darnsannity has decided that all of America's issues are Obama's fault, and no amount of reality, facts or evidence will change that.

Don't even engage him.......

[KIVPossum]

It's difficult to keep right wing trolls on topic.

[haveyounodecency]

haha I love crazies and their rants. How does it feel to be the punchline?

[Highnotes]

Are you Republicans so anti American that you don't want Americans to have jobs? Having the Olympics in America would mean at least 8 years of jobs to prepare for it...it would also lead to more tourism, huge boons for local businesses and tons of foreign money coming in. Why do you hate America so much that you don't want this?

[Gidster]

As long as Obama, and Chicago are involved, they all will hate it.....

Now if they could outsource the jobs to a third world nation, and increase profits.........

[MsJoanne]

So many lies in one paragraph. Amazing.

Bush championed the US getting the Olympics last year. It's amazing how much changes on a year, and when a Dem is elected, with a large majority, I might add. It would be a terrible shame for the US to get jobs and foreign tourist money into this craptastic economy.

Imagine if anyone attempted to say a fraction of what these hypocritical Goopers are saying now. Look what happened to the Dixie Chicks for saying they were sshamed Bush was from TX.

Did we ever see a gun at a Bush town hall? Did anyone put up a poll asking if Bush should be assassinated?

WTF has happened to this country? People like you are an American embarrassment. Why do you hate America?

[JazzyJim]

Fanned and faved!

[DonRoberto]

Remember the kid who yelled "You suck!" when VP Cheney was speaking in front of a small group out west? The Secret Service detained that guy for hours.

[PAposter]

The scary part is that I believe the reporter was serious...I don't think she was trying to make a joke.

Today's reporters are soooo ignorant!

[invirginia]

Where have all the smart people gone?

[squat6971]

Unemployment lines

[hollyhund]

I agree! I don't think she was making a funny...why would one say that in the White House Presser if she intended to say stratergy!!?

[SimiDem]

Is our reporters learning?

[copelli21]

LOL

[efmo]

I bet you're right - did she happen to work for fox?

[invirginia]

I'm certainly no Bush apologist, but it seems highly unprofessional and biased of this reporter to, in effect, disparage a former president on the record at a White House press briefing.

[devadasi]

Yea right invirginia....you're putting us, right?

[laddieluv]

This comment is pending approval and won't be displayed until it is approved.

You're worried about Bushie (who couldn't create a coherent sentence) being "disparaged" at a press briefing when our current President is being DISRESPECTED by certain members of Congress and HATED by nutcases on the right???

Are you kidding me???????

Get your priorities straight.

I don't remember any member of Congress screaming out during a Bush address to the Congress that he was a liar.

I don't remember members of Congress saying that Bushie was an "enemy of humanity."

And on and on. The Hitler signs. The Facebook polls calling for our President's murder, for gawd's sake. And on and on.

And you're posting about some imagined "disparagement" of that complete idiot Bush???

Bushie deserves every single joke made in his "honor."

He was a complete embarrassment to this country. We'll be digging out from the complete ruin he and his evil fellow felons created for years and years.

Hopefully, our country will survive the criminal Bush.

"Disparage" him, indeed.

You're "nutz"!

[ItHasToBeSaid]

(((((claps)))))

[copelli21]

AMEN to that!!

[ignorantwillyharper]

No one need to holler out "You Lie" at any Bush speeches...everyone knew he was lying.

[Colmore]

You are so right. Not at all like a repub. congressman yelling "You lie" at the President of the US on the floor of the congress. THAT was not only unprofessional, it was highly disrespectful. He should have been escorted out immediately.

[invirginia]

The attacks on Obama are outrageous, but they have nothing to do with this. One thing Obama has tried to do is keep the level of the discourse high rather than sinking to the level of his detractors -- an honorable thing to do. Your comments suggest it's okay to disrespect others if you disagree with them or if they are less than respectable. THERE IS NEVER A REASON TO DISRESPECT OTHERS.

[bandillero]

Bush was really dumb. He didn't say this but he could as well have. Afterall, he used another Bushism, "Mis-underestimate"

[jennylynn]

Teleprompter. Case Closed.

[Imzadi]

Everyone uses a teleprompter, nutzo. Try forming a cogent argument for once. A fine example how our education system failed.

Case closed.

[Gidster]

Bush used a teleprompter as well......He just had reading comprehension issues......

Oh, and he was dumb as a stump as well.....

[JazzyJim]

Bush couldn't read. Case re-opened.

[ImissBush]

nice 2 kno
sum1 still watches snl

[MikeHermit]

Yes, people who can spell out "to", and "know", and "someone".

It requires a minimal amount of intellect.

[Imzadi]

Thought he was tweeting, I guess.

[7ShallFall]

Just ask Sara Palin...

[ImissBush]

she said shes watches w/ sound off

so thts the ticket!!

[Bitsko]

Who wrote this? Bush actually did say strategery.

[OneEarthling]

Everything I find shows the derivation used first on SNL. I can hear him saying it, too. That's how ridiculous he sounded all the time.

[Yellowstonedemocrat]

Not only did Bush (mis)use it, Rush Limbaugh took it up and used it (the word STRATEGERY) constantly on his show during the Bush years in an apparent attempt to make people think that it was a correct word. Either that or Rush was misusing it himself.

Regardless of which motive Rush had, I heard him use the word A LOT during the Bush years between my screams his right-wing crap.

[Rhymenoceros]

Which tells us which red-faced talk show host this reporter listens to. Was she from Faux News?

[erichnorse]

You mean like republicans still keep using nucular now that Iran is all the talk. I am still amazed that people use this word.

[Tenley]

I didn't realize SNL coined it. I've only ever heard Rush Limbaugh use it, and he used it all the time, and it was years ago when I last listened to him.