Now I know what Bork means

Watching some T.V. show on msnbc, I heard the term "bork" used by a talking head. Not knowing what it was, I found out from Media Matters that the same exact term "bork" was being thrown around by the MSM and conservatives alike because of the newly opened seat on the Supreme Court.

From Media Matters:

"Borking" is a conservative term popularized in the late 1980s by the right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial page in defense of defeated Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. Since then, conservatives have pushed the term into the lexicon whenever a conservative nominee comes under unwelcome scrutiny. As conservatives mean it, "to Bork" is "to attack a person's reputation and views unfairly," as Bork himself stated in a July 1 interview on CNN. The obvious implication of Bork having been "Borked" is that he was wrongly denied a seat on the high court. An alternate view is that the questioning of Bork's views and the characterizations of his record were appropriate and accurate, and that the Senate was correct to reject Bork as a nominee in 1987. In other words, the notion of "Borking" is right-wing mythology.

So, I must learn things the hard way. Instead of expecting to hear some sort of neutrality in reporting, I must go to an independent watchdog to find out the biased phrases used in MSM circulation.