Definitions schmefinitions . . .
By Shorter Verbatim Paul Mirengoff:
By any objective measure, the surge has had a positive effect on Baghdad. Civilian casualties are down sharply since January; execution style deaths are half of what they were; and other killings have declined by almost the same factor. But even in the absence of such statistics, there would be no defense for Ware’s accusations of bad faith on the part of Senator McCain and others. Ware’s reporting itself constitutes heckling.
Did you hear that, defeatocrats? Execution-style deaths are half of what they were when . . . they were . . . um . . . oh, shit, I dunno — they’re half of what they were when they were twice as much as they are now! That’s a fifty percent reduction in beheadings and trepanations! And other killings too! USA! USA! USA!
Gawd.
And so the latest entry in the Powerline dictionary is written:
Heckle: \’he-kel\ vt heck*led; heck*ling (ca. 2007): To question the self-evident truth, which flows like Sidr honey from John McCain’s mouth.
. . . More hecklers! Unappreciative Iraqis . . .