Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Churchill-humping

present participle. Quoting Winston Churchill to excess—beyond the bounds of decency and well past the point of barfitude. Common among journalists and politicians.

Real citation: “A few years ago, after Bush's post-9/11 State of the Union speech sparked a wave of Winston Churchill references in the periodical media, I started keeping track of Churchill-humping among American pundits. I found that Gergen, the former Reagan communications aide, was far and away the national hack most pathologically determined to quote Churchill at every conceivable opportunity."
(Matt Taibbi, “WIMBLEHACK! The search for America’s worst journalist has begun,” New York Press, Vol. 17 Issue 40, October 6-12, 2004,
http://www.nypress.com/17/40/news&columns/feature.cfm)

Made-up citation: “The assistant news editor won’t stop shit-eating and Churchill-humping—should I put him to sleep?”

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