This should definitely be a thing.
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/478957298857938945
Thanks to his transparently slanted piece on the Heritage Foundation’s panel on Benghazi, The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank has made himself into (more of) a laughing stock.
@BenHowe And a meme is born.
— Bacon Von Mises (@ThePeoplesBacon) June 17, 2014
Actually Milbanking has been around for quite a while. It’s at least as old as this post from National Review Online from Matthew J. Franck. The formal definition is perfect.
“To milbank,” as in the Washington Post’s columnist Dana Milbank, would mean “to opine about public affairs in a persistent state of adolescent sputtering, determined to learn nothing about the subject while having access to a wealth of information about it.”
Bam.
(Franck reprised the idea more recently as well.)
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/478957585861976064
@BenHowe Defending the #Bergdahl swap? #Milbanking. Proposing a pc crash could delete server emails? #Milbanking
— Habitual Linestepper (@FergusFSU) June 17, 2014
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#milbanking Obama’s response to rampant unemployment : "Let them play golf.."
— Greg F. #LibertyOrDeath #WuhanVirus ?only (@straytski) June 17, 2014
Unhappy with the questioner, Hillary shoved them, threw her walker across the room, and slowly but angrily shuffled offstage. #milbanking
— Razor (@hale_razor) June 17, 2014
The word was coined before Twitter, but it doesn’t look like it has ever been established as a hashtag. It needs to be established as a hashtag.
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