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Sarah Palin has officially changed the modern lexicon, one tweet at a time. While one might expect the New Oxford American Dictionary to refudiate the former Alaska governor’s favorite verb, today they embraced it, announcing “refudiate” as the official 2010 word of the year. "From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we have concluded that neither 'refute' nor 'repudiate' seems consistently precise, and that 'refudiate' more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of 'reject.' "the New Oxford American Dictionary said in a press release. Palin’s use of “refudiate,”...

My dear FRiends, please allow me this rare vanity to suggest a new word for our lexicon, it’s a compound noun used as a verb, and its meaning and application are instantly apparent. Media-boat, or mediaboat, v. (t) –verb (used with object), -boat•ed, -boat•ing. -to use print, broadcast, or online falsehoods to destroy or harm in the most treacherous and vicious ways available to the media: to assassinate a person's character, esp a politically prominent conservative or popular person via the journalistic or entertainment media. -to conspire clandestinely to act as a media agent for one political party and against...