Word: tooism
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...seems to be the same as that promulgated by hundreds of American corporations: No matter how bad the product, advertise the hell out of it and the public will buy. It uses all the common marketing tactics--credible speaker (would a man of the cloth lie to you?); me-tooism ("I didn't like the war, you didn't like the war, so I've got to be right"); and inflated description ("It's an honest program that protects your rights and integrity..."). And like most other advertising, it underestimates the ability of the public to critically evaluate what...
...case of me-tooism," said James Jacobs, manager of the J. August Company, which last year initiated the 3-2-1 copy scale. He said that the Coop copy service had, if anything, resulted in an increase in his business...
ALONG with all their other woes, the Democrats are suffering from a bad case of me-tooism. Accused of being too permissive toward radicals and, virtually, of advocating violence, many liberal Democrats have not until recently bothered to deny such charges. Polls and other soundings have persuaded them that they must indeed respond, thus putting them in the impossible position of having to outdo Agnew & Co. on law-and-order...
...long-entrenched Democrats suffered from tired blood and intramural peevishness, and Candidate Ward campaigned on a broken record of me-tooism, echoing Nunn's opposition to a statewide open-housing law and new taxes. Neither contender openly courted Kentucky's segregationists, but both gleaned more votes from that quarter than Conservative Candidate Christian Glanz Jr., who was seeking 2% of the total vote in order to qualify his party for the 1968 presidential ballot and thereby qualify Alabama's George Wallace for a third-party spot. Nunn received 449,788 votes, Ward 423,189-and Glanz...
Wallace has already opened campaign headquarters in Montgomery's Ten-High Building. "If these two national parties continue on their present trend of liberalism and me-tooism, we'll be a candidate," he promises. "There is more grass-roots support for us than you can imagine. You just talk to the workingman-to steelworkers, taxi drivers, barbers and people who really run this country...