America’s wacky uncle and current Vice President, Joe Biden, inspired rafter-shaking enthusiasm with his Democratic National Convention speech on Wednesday. Biden offered a full-throated defense of the greatness of the United States today, hit Donald Trump for his lack of qualifications and fondness for saying “You’re fired,” and strongly endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
It wouldn’t be a Biden speech, though, without a moment like this, when Biden labeled Trump’s campaign promises “malarkey”:
According to an email statement from Meghan Lunghi of Merriam-Webster’s website, searches for “malarkey” on the site spiked more than 17,400 percent after Biden’s speech on Wednesday night.
In case you missed that: 17,400 percent.
Merriam-Webster’s blog post on the trend pointed out that our vice president wasn’t trying something new; “malarkey” is a favorite term in his bag of homespun verbiage. This will probably remain, however, the most high-profile usage of “malarkey,” at least in the post-MTV era.
Twitter viewers definitely enjoyed Biden’s less-than-au-courant terminology, especially those who seemed to anticipate it:
Malarkey. Everybody drink.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 28, 2016
I just want my alarm clock to be Joe Biden shouting "that's a bunch of malarkey"
— Megan Hess (@mhess4) July 28, 2016
MALARKEY
[Biden flips over his cribbage game, storms out of room with tall boy in hand]
— TALK ABOUT YR GLUTES (@edsbs) July 28, 2016
Joe Biden just quieted a room of thousands of loud people simply by asking and then said malarkey and it slayed so he's a magician maybe
— Charlotte Wilder (@TheWilderThings) July 28, 2016
Oh my God Joe Biden said "malarkey" like he dropped six F bombs and a C bomb in church #DemsInPhilly
— Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) July 28, 2016
We’ll always have malarkey, Joe.
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