NPR in 2011 on occasion of Geraldine Ferraro's death said she was 'schlonged' when she lost 1984 election badly. Chris Cillizza reply: 'Absolutely historic moment, Neal, but as you point out, lost 49 states'

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12/23/15, "NPR in 2011: Geraldine Ferraro was 'schlonged'," by Thomas Lifson, American Thinker

"Where was the outrage? When Donald Trump used the expression “schlonged” to indicate Hillary Clinton was badly defeated at the polls, he was roundly condemned by practically all media, and most television broadcasters went so far as to bleep the word out when running a recording of his use of the term in a speech.
 
But as even liberal Jeff Greenfield noted in a tweet:

On further review, Trump is right on this. "I got schlonged" is a commonplace NY way of saying: "I lost big time," w/out genital reference....

As Dan Riehl noted in a tweet...NPR...used the word “schlonged" to describe a devastating [1984] election defeat of liberal and feminist icon Geraldine Ferraro, in an obituary following her death in 2011, and there was nary a peep of outrage, much less universal condemnation....

Host Neal Conan said to guest Chris Cillizza and drew not a peep of condemnation from the prominent WaPo writer: 

"Sad news to report from this past weekend. Geraldine Ferraro died of blood cancer at the age of 75, the three-term congresswoman from Queens, the first woman to run for vice president of the United States in 1984, the first woman on a major party ticket to do so...And Chris Cillizza, that ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls, but that's a historic moment.""...

""Mr. CILLIZZA: Absolutely historic moment, Neal, but as you point out, lost 49 states. The only state that that ticket won, which was led by Walter Mondale, was his home state of Minnesota....

So groundbreaking in its way, but one fascinating tidbit: We still don’t have a woman president, and we had a female, obviously, nominee, with Hillary Clinton, and she lost the nomination.""...

Above image of Geraldine Ferraro from AP, via 12/23/15, "NPR used 'schlonged' to describe Geraldine Ferraro in 2011," Breitbart, Joel Pollak

March 30, 2011, NPR discussion with Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza.

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Added: Mondale and Ferraro were defeated in 1984 by incumbents Reagan and Bush. As someone said, what difference would it make?







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