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To: TakeChargeBob

“Strategery” is not a word.


3 posted on 07/31/2011 12:18:35 AM PDT by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: Publius6961
“Strategery” is not a word.

How about the word in the thread title, "stategery" - - is that a word?

8 posted on 07/31/2011 12:32:33 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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After the 2000 presidential election, people inside the Bush White House reportedly began using the term as a joke, and it later grew to become a term of art among them meaning oversight of any activity by Bush’s political consultants. Bush’s strategists also came to be known within the White House as “The Department of Strategery” or the “Strategery Group.”[2]

A February 9, 2001, transcript of a CNN interview attributes George Bush using the term, presumably as an intentional nod to the comedy sketch.[3] Affectionately embracing satirical portrayals has been a Bush tactic at other times as well, such as when he presented a self-parodying slide show at the May 2004 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner about looking for weapons of mass destruction in the Oval Office[4] after the political comic strip Doonesbury satirically portrayed him on a similar comical search.

The term is now widely used in popular discourse across the political spectrum. Rush Limbaugh picked up the usage soon after the SNL airing, using it in an ironic sense in support of President Bush. A trial exhibit from the 2007 “Scooter” Libby trial included the term, in Libby’s daily schedule for June 10, 2003, which showed that Libby had a 6:00 pm “Strategery Meeting” scheduled to last 90 minutes.


9 posted on 07/31/2011 12:32:39 AM PDT by TakeChargeBob
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