Posted on 12/23/2015 6:21:04 AM PST by servo1969
Under fire from Democrats and the media for saying Hillary Clinton "got schlonged" in 2008 by Barack Obama, Republican hopeful Donald Trump doubled down.
Claiming a candidate getting "schlonged" is "a commonly used word in politics," Trump refused to back down.
Once again, #MSM is dishonest. "Schlonged" is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got "schlonged" that meant beaten badly.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015
He even cited NPR using the term in a political context.
NPR's @NealConan said "schlonged" to WaPo re: 1984 Mondale/Ferraro campaign: "That ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls." #Hypocrisy
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015For those on TV defending my use of the word "schlonged," bc #MSM is giving it false meaning-tell them it means beaten badly. Dishonest #MSM
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015When I said that Hillary Clinton got schlonged by Obama, it meant got beaten badly. The media knows this. Often used word in politics!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015
Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, released a statement condemning Trump's use of the term. Palmieri said the campaign was "not responding to Trump." However, she played the "woman card" and claimed victim status for Hillary by adding while they won't be responding, "everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should."
We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. #imwithher
- Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) December 22, 2015
Clinton came under fire for saying Trump has been featured in ISIS recruitment videos. Media fact checkers could not find any evidence to support this claim, declaring it a lie.
While Trump is not featured in ISIS recruitment films, Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, is prominently featured in an ISIS video, where he is called a "fornicator" for his affairs and multiple claims of sexual assault and harassment.
Trump's demands for an apology for the false charge were brushed off by the Clinton campaign.
Rather than address any of the back and forth head on, Clinton used a question about bullying to again attack Trump for his words.
Backing up Trump's claim "schlonged" is a common political term was veteran newsman Jeff Greenfield and New York Times political correspondent Alex Burns.
On further review, Trump is right on this. "I got schlonged" is a commonplace NY way of saying: "I lost big time," w/out genital reference.
- Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) December 23, 2015I've heard it for year, -after tennis games, poker games, bad stock bets. I obviously have a classy group of friends. https://t.co/65k9irf2vl
- Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) December 23, 2015Moynihan said it all the time. Rockefeller too. "You know, Happy, they really schlonged me on this one." Really.
- Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) December 23, 2015
I didn’t know there were any “native” Yiddish speakers anymore.
Of course, part of that is because I am Israeli.
Yiddish was basically illegal to speak until recently for various political reasons. (Although a fair number of Haredim still speak it; it is dying, however.)
“Schlong? Is that Chinese?”
Please tell me there’s someone out there who’ll pick up on the reference.
I said na na na na ..

You gotta know how to pony

Schlong Peyronie Maronie

You gotta know how to twist

I said, it just like this
I said mashed potato

Do the alligator

I said, Billy, get your yo-yo

Come on and let’s go
I didn’t watch much basketball in Michael Jordan’s day, but I do remember watching one game. It seemed that Jordan was SO GOOD that it looked like me in high school (where I was decent) playing against a bunch of grade-schoolers. It was surreal to think it was the NBA.
That’s what it looks like here - between the Muslims celebrating and now this. The media is looking like TOTAL IDIOTS when they try to get something to stick to Trump.
Looks like the MSM went off all half-cocked again.
Even if it was vulgar.
So, like a lot of Yiddish words, it’s commonly used in NY politics. Surely, a genuine NY pol and former senator for the state would be familiar with the local political vernacular.
There is a new, improved Donald Trump toilet paper.
It's rough!
It's tough!
It doesn't $hit off anybody!
And if you complain about it. It will rip you a new a$$hole!
Sort of reminds me of the guy in Baltimore who used the word niggardly and was forced to resign because the imbeciles in Baltimore apparently do not have dictionaries.
In my experience, I only heard it as a vulgar term for the male anatomy. Maybe in NYC it is used differently, or interchangeable with other Yiddish words for that.
Shite is better to describe the Clintons.
...but a carpetbagger in reverse wouldn’t.
Good for Trump fighting back against the MSM. Silence often signals guilt to people. Trump needs to tell Hillary to get her mind out of the gutter, and quit trying to alarm women.
He is deeply in the media’s head and laughing at them.
There probably are not many ‘native’ speakers any more (they would be in their 90’s or older) but it still has a nostalgic following. There are many words borrowed from Yiddish that have become commonplace in American English, because they convey a meaning that just can’t be appreciated any other way!.............
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Language/Yiddish
I grew up in New York and a good number of my friends were Jewish. So I have heard and used the word many times. It is one of those words that can have multiple meanings depending on context and the amount of leer in the face of the person using the word. No biggie.
In that previously posted link, it says that Yiddish was looked down upon, as being lowbrow and unsophisticated:
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the cultural affinity of most American and other Western Jews was for the emerging State of Israel and Israeli Hebrew. Moreover, Yiddish often had an image of “greenhorn†lack of sophistication and lowbrow humor; its use was associated with failure to climb on board the American socioeconomic ladder of success. Starting in the 1960s, attitudes toward Yiddish began to change, influenced by several factors including the gradual death of the last masters (and of Yiddish-speaking parents and relatives) that evoked nostalgia for the “old countryâ€; growing consciousness (and knowledge) of the Holocaust; a recognition that Israeli Hebrew was now secure and that its proponents need not “fear†Yiddish; the changing evaluation in the United States of black and other ethnic cultures; and an emerging scholarly consensus that saw a great world literature in Yiddish prose, poetry, and drama in 150 years that can schematically be dated from 1850 to 2000. The Nobel Prize awarded to Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1978 was a prime watershed in reversing the tendency to stigmatize the language in the major Jewish communities that themselves hailed almost entirely from Yiddish-speaking East European Jewry.
Once again, the faux, fake, feigned “outrage” is totally phony, shame on the media for carrying Hillary’s water, again.
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