Every time I read a blog post ripping into ABC's recent Democratic debate, the blogger seems to delight in referring to moderator George Stephanopoulos as "Snuffleupagus," "Stephalupagus," or some variation thereof.
Hey bloggers! We get it, ok?! He's got a weird name! Like that mammoth from Sesame Street! Enough already! This joke has been beaten into the ground.
And maybe I'm being a bit sensitive about this, but isn't that nickname sort of offensive as well? The man is Greek, and Greek people sometimes have long names ending in "opoulos."
Does he deserve to be made fun of for that? Snuffleupagus is like a nickname that the elementary school bully would assign him on the playground.
Maybe I just expect too much from the citizen press.
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