Talk:Strategery

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Shouldn't the SNL block at the bottom of the page be removed?
Call-in talk show host, M-F 5pm E.T. at KGOV.com 800-8Enyart (talk) 22:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

message: The term came from Saturday Night Live. There is no debate about it. It is so certain that SNL coined the term that citing the Washington Post article in the main text is unneccesary, but I left it in as a link. Since SNL coined the term, the article needed to lead with that, so I moved the discussion of the SNL sketch to the beginning of the article.
"Strategery" has nothing to do with H.W. Bush, nor does the term Bushism. If you look at the Wikipedia entry for "Bushism", it doesn't mention H.W., so I took out the reference to H.W.
Are we trying to sell tapes for Amazon? Who cares if you can buy the episode on Amazon. It's a non sequitor, it's gone.
I took out the discussion of the practical jokes by the Clinton staffers because it was also a non sequitor. The sign "office of strategery" wouldn't be, but there was no authority cited for it, so I thought the contributor might have confused it with the fact that the Bush White House refers to the "Department of Strategery". Therefore, I added that discussion to the article and provided the citation.
I took out the reference to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for two reasons: (1) it's a stretch to cite the IMDB as a source of authority for what goes on in the Bush White House, and (2) the IMDB is an online source, yet no link was provided to support this claim.
I'm not sure that it's proper to say what Bush's critics are aware or not aware of in using the term Strategery, since it is very unlikely that all of them are unaware of the word's origin. It's likely that most of the critics are aware of the origin when they use it to ridicule him.
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I used to work with a guy who used that term a lot, and not as an ironic use.  This would have been '97-'98, since I only saw him once after that.  He was an old ad-agency hand, so I assumed it was industry slang.  Either way, it's a nonsense word, I don't see how it's notable enough to be listed here, and giving first attribution to SNL is ludicrous.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.101.8.204 (talk) 02:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  My Edits 

message: How is this word pronounced? --WhiteDragon 14:39, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Since its coining, strategery has also come to be used to mean "The strategic application of strategies" and could be considered synonymous with "Meta-strategy", just as mis-underestimation (Another 'Bushism') has come to mean an "Underestimation that proves to be significantly detrimental to the one who makes it".  One can underestimate something without significant harm, but mis-underestimating implies that the underestimation had disastrous results.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.212.105.219 (talk) 21:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can not imagine President Obama or his staff using these words. Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh BTW, the Soviet Union failed because they misunderestimated two things: The human capacity for evil and the human capacity for good.  Just thought I'd mention that. Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:19, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Use as a Real Term

message: This is silly trivia, not something worthy of having an encyclopedia article on.  Are we going to write articles on every goofy term that enters the language? 108.254.160.23 (talk) 16:09, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe move it to the other wiki? Jimw338 (talk) 19:44, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should be deleted