Goddard’s Political Dictionary Is a Hoot

Got some time to kill online? You could do worse than visit Taegan Goddard’s Political Dictionary. It’s a work in progress — probably forever — and is crowd-sourced insofar as Goddard solicits entries from readers of his Political Wire blog.

The words and phrases are presented in no particular order, though a tag cloud does provide a modicum of organization. But the point is to kind of browse through the often obscure, very often sarcastic and extremely often cynical slang expressions that have grown out of the media and common usage.

Here’s an example:

full Ginsburg

The “full Ginsburg” refers to an appearance by one person on all five major Sunday-morning interview shows on the same day: This Week on ABC, Face the Nation on CBS, Meet the Press on NBC, State of the Union on CNN and Fox News Sunday.

The term is named for William Ginsburg, Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer during the Clinton scandal, who was the first person to accomplish this feat, on February 1, 1998.

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