After all the goodwill generated by my exposé on the overuse of variations of the phrase
double down by hacky political bloggers and journalists, Jason Horowitz at the Washington Post decided the phrase just didn't
quite provide enough emphasis. "Romney and his advisers,"
he writes, "are tripling down on the clear contrasts offered by neoconservatism's trumpeting of values." Now that's some awesome writing!
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Me? I'm zeroing up at this point. After all, I always was a bit oppositional
Man, ever since you pointed out the doubling down thing I have been seeing it literally* everywhere. It is maddening.
* in the biden sense
I think that it's time to google down on our use of alliterative idioms, even if they are no longer alliterative.
"Tripling down" is not allowed in blackjack.
On a slightly positive note, the Dreaded Phrase has vanished from the front pages of both Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Thing over the past few days. Hard to say if it's a blip or a trend.
I must be reading the wrong things. I'm still seeing it.
I did email TPM to point out their overuse of the phrase, and I've had very agreeable emails back and forth with Josh Marshall before, but they didn't answer this complaint. We'll see. I really do think TPM initiated the overuse of "double down."
Huffington Thing? They would never notice somebody like me. Ever.
Are you sure it wasn't Clinton's speech that initiated all this ("double down on trickle down")? Seems like a whole lot of sightings after Sept. 5. Or did he pick it up from somewhere else?
No, TPM has been relentlessly overusing the phrase for well over a year.
Yes, now it's escalated to "tripling down", completely meaningless as this ex-gambler will tell you.
And in unrelated but equally depressing news, Huffington Thing was NOT shamed out of the use of the word "sideboob" by Jon Stewart's brilliant nickname "Sideboob Gazette".
If someone with as much clout as Stewart has can't stop allegedly left-wing sites from jackassery, I have little hope for even The Paragon Of Bloggers™ to effect meaningful and necessary change.
p.s. I came up with the trademark, but I am obviously not speaking about myself. D'uh!
Time to cut to the chase and Infinity Down®.
That's because news organizations like Washington Post can't write "ramming it up everyone's ass" so they resort to "tripling down."
I think his campaign staff are doubling down on their Kinko's expenditures for copies of new resumes.
If I was his staff spin doctor, I believe my head would explode, then I'd go into some witness protection program before the Feds bust in.
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