Sometime last week, Guantanamo Bay turned into Gitmo all over the media. Somehow I missed the memo.
Maybe that's because I wasn't at Grover Norquist's Wednesday meeting last week.
Everyone from Senetors to congressmen to talking heads started saying Gitmo all at once.
Then I started saying it.
But I thought...Why did it change from 4 syllables to 2.
Then I thought, Guantanamo Bay sounds serious and Gitmo sounds like a cheesy 80s teen movie character. It sounds like a cute joke, not to be taken seriously. Say it 3 times. Gitmo Gitmo Gitmo. It is silly rebranding.
This silly rebranding is orchastrated. GITMO definately came out of a righty strategy session.
I know it is only rhetoric, but don't fall into the righty trap. IT IS STILL GUANTANIMO BAY.