‘Cuckservative’ — the conservative insult of the month, explained

The Washington Post ^ | June 29, 2015 | David Weigel

[Jack Black]

Reading that test I'm pretty sure that Glenn Beck is the poster child for cluckservatism!

I remember just being amazed when he managed to divert the nicely focused Tea Party movement into a weird MLK worship service. Yeah, that's what America needs, everyone to do one more lap around the MLK shrine.

It's good there is a special category of disrespect to put him in. I can't believe he has his own radio and TV network. Who paid for that? What a travesty.

[IChing]

Beck is a piece of work !

[Fledermaus]

lol, Lindsey Graham! All I was referring to was the author’s super simple definition of just “she cheated on him”.

Unfortunately I was once approached by a women whose husband was...no need to go on.

[Smokin' Joe]

Another brand of Conservatism? Really? We need another splinter off the tree?

Either you love Liberty, despise big Government, and are willing to embrace responsibility--moral and fiscal for your actions--and are willing to allow that others have the same rights you would reserve to yourself, or you don't. Conservatism a-la-carte isn't Conservatism any more than only telling 10% lies is "honest".

Or are you one of the 'exceptional conservatives' who are conservative, except (fill in the blank).

How many brands of Liberal can you list?

[PapaBear3625]

The term "cuckold" as I've seen it used in the past goes beyond just "a man whose wife was unfaithful". It's "a man whose supposed children are not really biologically his".

History of the term:

Cuckold derives from the cuckoo bird, alluding to the alleged habit of the female in changing its mate frequently and authentic (in some species) practice of laying its eggs in other nests within its community.[2][3] The association is common in medieval folklore, literature, and iconography. The original Middle English was "kukewold". It was derived from Middle English "cuccault", which was made up of "cucu" (Old French for the cuckoo bird itself) plus the pejorative suffix – "ault", indicating the named person was being taken advantage of as by a cuckoo bird.

English usage first appears about 1250 in the satirical and polemical poem "The Owl and the Nightingale" (l. 1544). The term was clearly regarded as embarrassingly direct, as evident in John Lydgate's "Fall of Princes" (c. 1440). In the late 14th century, the term also appeared in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale".[3] Shakespeare's poetry often referred to cuckolds, with several of his characters suspecting they had become one.[3]