The world of political commentary and political reporting is much given to digs via portmanteaus. Today’s political portmanteau: Newtiny (Newt + mutiny), as reported with evident snarky relish by Alex Massie today on the Spectator site:
Newtiny! Newtiny! They’ve All Got It Newtiny!
Oh look! Newt Gingrich’s preposterous Presidential “campaign” has imploded. His top strategists and campaign staff have resigned en masse and so has his Iowa staff. What a shame. Turns out that staffers didn’t appreciate Newt taking his latest wife on a cruise around the Greek islands while they were working hard to sell the impossible dream of President Gingrich. Hence the Newtiny.
Details in the calmer, cooler media.
June 10, 2011 at 7:25 am |
Does “X! X! They’ve all got it X!” qualify yet for snowclone status?
The urtext is of course here in Carry on Cleo but see also:
… and so on.
June 10, 2011 at 10:02 am |
Definitely one for the snowclone files. Though perhaps at the moment just playful variation, and perhaps unlikely to last long. But entertaining.
June 20, 2011 at 8:42 am |
[…] a humungous view of a television; muderabilia, memorabilia related to murders or murderers; and Newtiny, which refers to the recent mutiny of Newt Gringrich’s presidential campaign […]
June 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm |
[…] some other political portmanteaus, see here on Newtiny and here on Obamageddon and […]