>>#5 Misusing “literally” worst offender: Sean Hannity
That’s exactly who we were laughing at. Hannity will say dumb crap like “Obama is literally smashing the small business owner with a baseball bat” or some variant and hope someday that he’ll have an aide in-studio with a 2 sided sign that will show either “figurative” or “literal” so he knows when to use it.
Obama is really bad about using “literally” when he is off-prompter; his speech-writer never uses the word.
One thing that really impressed me is Rush Limbaugh. He is, outside of his oft repeated “official cliches”, probably one of the most verbose and varied speakers. He used braggadocious a couple days ago and I laughed my ass off. Ive never heard ANY speaker use that word in conversation before.
“You’re a great American”—Sean Hannity
My favorite from Hannity: “The Republicans are literally in a circular firing squad.”