Merriam-Webster Places Dick Morris' Picture Next To The Word, "Pathetic"

pa·thet·ic [puh-thet-ik] 1. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight. affecting or moving the feelings.3.pertaining to or caused by the feelings.4.miserably or contemptibly inadequate: In return for our investment we get a pathetic three percent interest. 5. Dick Morris

In what Merriam-Webster editors are attributing to the voluminous usage, or citations, the forthcoming 2009 edition of the world-famous dictionary has added political pundit Dick Morris' picture and name as one of the possible definitions for the word "pathetic."

"We had seriously thought that we'd be adding it to the definition of "fallacious" or "wrong" as in the sentence, 'Dick Morris is always wrong,'" said Webster's READ THE REST OF THE CLEARLY DEFINABLE STORY HERE

Happy Turkey Day for the fortunate who were not losing their heads behind Governor Palin.

Note: If you happen to be in the Philly area, take a peek the the Commentary section of today's (Thursday's) Philadelphia Inquirer.

Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (www.greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately named www.steveyoungonpolitics.com

Comments

[Sparty1]

hahahaha. Good one.

[SparkyDash]

I'm still laughing my arse off...outstanding Steve Young...this was rich. I read the whole post on OEM; this is well worth a read. Fun witty. Thanks for the post turkey-day grin.

My favorite lines: "We had seriously thought that we"d be adding it to the definition of "fallacious" or "wrong" as in the sentence, "Dick Morris is always wrong,"" said Webster"s VP, Noah Meriam-Webster, " but one of our editors found an instance where he was right, though it was in actuality him just agreeing to something Sean Hannity said.

Well done Mr. Young...thank you so very very much! I'll be looking for your stuff again, be assured.

[rabiddog6708]

Sweet!

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[TR12]

what!!??
and??!!

[LightningJoe]

This is a poster example of why irony is less than useless, in addressing regressive attitudes. In a nutshell, it's because regressive attitudes can only be held for long by those, um, intellectually challenged persons, who typically think that making the rich richer is good for the poor.

TR12 is likely even now posting on Drudge that the progressives have begun a plot to redefine our national politics by redefining the very words one must use to describe it.

What's a richer irony (though sadly not satire) is that the RNC, with Karl Rove's very capable help, has been doing this for years now; and is engaged in the next level of the strategy as we speak. How else do we discover that the election of a Progressive of Barack Obama's stature is supposedly proof that America is a "center-right" nation?