Ethics

CNN Steals My Idea

By Ed Brayton

For nearly 6 months on my radio show, I've been doing a segment called Wingnut of the Week. Now CNN is starting the same segment on their American Morning show. But they're using the term wrong:

What's a Wingnut? It's someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of American politics - the professional partisans and the unhinged activists - the folks who always try to divide rather than unite.

But a wingnut is a right wing loony only. The left wing loonies are called "moonbats." And there are plenty of both kinds (including Cynthia McKinney, correctly mentioned there as the left-wing equivalent of Michelle Bachmann). But now, I'm probably going to have to rename my segment something else. Bastards!

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).