{"id":83215,"date":"2015-12-24T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83215"},"modified":"2015-12-24T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T00:05:42","slug":"trump-doubles-down-on-schlong-new-truth-movement-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83215","title":{"rendered":"Trump Doubles Down on &#8220;Schlong&#8221;, New Truth Movement Emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/trump-doubles-down-on-schlong-new-truth-movement-emerges\">Josh Marshall writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>It seems clear to me &#8211; based on BR&#8217;s testimony and ones from at least half a dozen other people &#8211; that in the 1950s in Queens and the near-adjoining parts of Long Island &#8220;schlonged&#8221; was a known phrase, often used in sports references, and at least from the youthful memories of our witnesses could be used without the users having a strong conscious sense of any sexual meaning behind it. The frequency with which it is remembered as being mainly a sports metaphor is notable.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, from emails, Facebook discussions and other sources I&#8217;ve seen numerous Jews, people with deep familiarity with Yiddish, saying they have never, ever heard the phrase used in this way. And as BR notes &#8211; from what seems to be a fairly deep familiarity with Yiddish &#8211; it&#8217;s possible that it may not even be Yiddish. Or perhaps, more specifically and more likely, it may be a neologism derived from Yiddish by non-Yiddish speakers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall writes: It seems clear to me &#8211; based on BR&#8217;s testimony and ones from at least half a dozen other people &#8211; that in the 1950s in Queens and the near-adjoining parts of Long Island &#8220;schlonged&#8221; was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83216,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215\/revisions\/83216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}