It's not the SOTU that I'm dreading

[DrBB]

It's not the speech that's the problem; I can always watch "Mythbusters" or some appropriate substitue.

No, what I'm really dreading will be the three or four days of not being able to listen to any news media or any of my favorite NPR shows (a dwindling category already) without running into clips from it and starry-eyed worshipful discussions about it.

There's one word, in particular, that I am not looking forward to hearing repeated ad infinitum in approving tones. If someone gave me sweeping--one might say, Ashcroftian--editorial authority over all news media over the next 76 hours, and I could only institute one tyrannical style rule, it would be as follows:

The adjective "bold" is not to be used except in referring to typefaces.

Acceptable substitutes are to be found in this list:

"unfunded"
"radical"
"right-wing"
"loopy"
"dangerous"
"ill thought-out"
"blue-sky"
"incoherent"
"self-contradictory"
"jingoistic"
"bank-breaking"
"deficit-ballooning"
"anti-middle-class"
"megalomaniacal"
"belligerent"
"bullying"
"prohibitively expensive"
"fanatical"

Suggested additions may be submitted to the Supreme Editor In Chief of the Universe for consideration; otherwise, under no circumstances deviate from the list, under pain of permanent banishment from the scribbling class.
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I just sent this to a few friends as an email. If you feel the way I do, why not spread it around? Maybe we can get an anti-"bold" viral meme going.

Oh, and do feel free to submit additions here for consideration by the SEICU.

[fob]

1. How about "bushian"? Oh great SEICU.

As in his tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of all others will result in a bushian deficit.

[Devlzown]

2. here's a few more:

crack-brained
juvenile
half-baked
oligarchic
hypocritical
arrogant
mendacious
laughable

[King Coal]

3. Is Helen Thomas still grounded?

[bluedog]

4. funny

the republican Frist and others were whining about all the media coverage that the Democratic party was getting these past few weeks and how bush was cut down...

.seems to me we are always subject to having bush on the news either walking to and from his copter or in Crawford shoveling sh**.....

what a whine ass bunch these people are...

oh yes it'll be bush for a day or so...but it'll go back to the attack by the media on the Democratic runners to oust his ass!

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. LOL!

Excellent replacements for bold!

here's some more:

irresponsible
implausible
bordering on the realm of science-fiction
Decidely Christianly triumphalistic
Hitleresque
Pol Pot-ian
hatefilled
oppressive
machiavellian
ridiculous
self-serving
onerous
reckless
unaccountable
wildly alcoholic-like
malodorous
ungodly (this is the one to use constantly!)
foolish
farcical-if-the-idiot-wasn't-so-serious
unconvincing
fishy
suspect
ethereal
weak
grievous
inhuman
anti-human
anti-earth
burdensome

[DrBB]

6. One kick

...for the start of the SOTU itself. Which I'm not watching. Great Cohen brothers flick on--"Miller's Crossing." Quality culture trumps bad liars any day.