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"Contemptkin"

That's the word coined by a commenter to this Atrios entry regarding Bush's Long Island speech yesterday at U.S.A. Industries in Bay Shore, "a small auto parts factory whose owner has received tax breaks from the Republican-run state and town governments, and who employs large numbers of non-English speaking immigrants happy to work for $6 to $9 an hour with few benefits." Turns out he got a standing-o from audience members who had no idea what he was saying. Mind you, not that those of us for whom English is our first language can decipher what he's actually saying half the time... Update: Jesse Taylor's all over this too.