It does also have a negative connotation, but as you can see, it also has a positive one. An honest reporter would have said there was both a positive and a negative connotation and that Newt was using it appropriately in its positve sense.
Now, THAT would have been honest.
Not reporting that it also has a positive connotation, when you’ve just claimed to have looked the word up, is dishonest.
Some idiot dictionaries may claim it has a positive connotation, but it really doesn’t. Same with “notorious” there is no positive connotation to this word, but some ignoramuses use it that way. “Notorious” means well known for bad stuff not famous.
Help me with this one. Is there such a concept?
Chris Wallace wasn’t anything compared to the drivel of gerald rivers this AM on Fox and Friends.
“None of my ex-wives has a bad word to say about me.”
Gingrich answered that low-blow from Santorum excellently by accepting and embracing the charge of grandiousity, but using it with the positive connotation.