Newsheimer’s Disease

When a politician pretends he didn’t read a certain newspaper so as to avoid to have to comment on it.

Found in: The Chicago Tribune

Caribou Barbie

This is, what, according to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, critics call Sarah Palin. In the same article, she also refers to her as “Valentino Barbie” and “Eliza Doolittle“, but stresses that “She [Sarah Palin] is so naturally good-looking, there is no need to gild the Last Frontier lily.”

Patio Man

“[...] the quintessential suburban American, the service economy worker, the guy who wears khakis to work each day, with the security badge on the belt clip around his waist.”

cf. The New York Times

Rovian

= aggressive, or, as considered by the Democrats, dirty, e.g. “Rovian tactics”, named after Carl Rove, the former presidential adviser to George W. Bush

cf. The New York Times