Sparkly columnist Michelle Malkin speaks my language. And not shockingly, her latest column at Human Events is about the language used incessantly by liberals to forgive, in every way possible, Islamic terrorist murderers, through their ever-so-understanding language, which, they think, will somehow win the war on terrorism.
Of course they’re on some other team on some other planet, and have a different definition for “reality”.
Michelle writes in “The Curse of the Language Corrupters”:
[…] Across the pond, the British Broadcasting Corporation is taking well-deserved lumps for whitewashing the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London. Editors have reportedly expunged the word “terrorist” from the BBC website and substituted the sanitized “bomber” to describe the killers.
Next: “Burglars” will be “takers.” “Child molesters” will be “ticklers.” “Rapists” will be “unplanned lovers.”
High-minded BBC guidelines admonish employees against using words like “terrorist” that “carry emotional or value judgments.” Yet, employing a reporter, Barbara Plett, who told viewers she bawled her eyes out when an ailing Yasser Arafat was whisked off to France in November 2004, is model objectivity.
But then, maybe because this was about language, Michelle made me laugh. She said “noogies”.
A true state of “heightened alert” would mean a targeted visa moratorium for terror-sponsoring and terror-friendly nations. The Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 placed such a ban on temporary visitor visas for individuals from the seven official state sponsors of terrorism. The list should be expanded and revisited if and when intelligence points to new al Qaeda breeding grounds. And yes, that means tourists from Egypt, Yemen, Syria and the Philippines might be denied a Grand Canyon vacation the next five years. Tough noogies.
But actually her column makes for an extremely valuable read. A lesson in how to be blunt and call a spade a “spade”, rather than calling it a “rather useful gardening implement”. It’s a lesson that should be pasted onto the walls of Canadian news rooms and Parliament.
Nonetheless, I looked up “noogie” because it’s already officially my favorite word of the week.
Also known as ‘Dutch rub’ (even though it isn’t Dutch) or a ‘Russian haircut’.
A noogie is the act of rubbing one’s knuckles on another person’s head. It can be very painful if much pressure is applied, but is often also a playful gesture of affection when done lightly. The origin of the word is unknown, but it may have been derived from the Yiddish word nudyen, a verb meaning to pester. Alternatively it could have been derived from the English word nudge, which means to push or poke gently.
“Noogie” can also refer to the act of punching a person in the upper arm with the knuckle of the middle finger set slightly before those of the other fingers, also commonly known as froging. Those who consider “noogie” to mean this generally call the action described above a “dutch rub”.
Some consider “noogie” to mean the act of sexual intercourse, as an alternate version of “nookie”.
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