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To: ichabod1

Thanks, I did a search using the words “bully pulpit” and nothing so obviously other words were used. I am too literal minded often.


264 posted on 04/01/2020 4:51:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: little jeremiah

I’m surprised, I thought everybody knew what that was. . . Mes apologies. . .

“Bully pulpit comes from the 26th U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, who observed that the White House was a bully pulpit. For Roosevelt, bully was an adjective meaning “excellent” or “first-rate”—not the noun bully (”a blustering, browbeating person”) that’s so common today.”

Hmph... not sure I agree with that definition. I thought it meant an unassailable pulpit (or microphone) where he could get his words out to the American people without distortion, Just like Dear Leader does with these daily briefings.


284 posted on 04/01/2020 5:22:47 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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