stemwinder

• Last week the New York Times "Opinionator" blog used the term stemwinder to refer to a high-profile speech by talk radio star Rush Limbaugh.
• The negative connotations of stemwinder are a new development.The original stemwinder was a type of watch, invented by Frenchman Adrien Philippe (co-founder of Patek-Philippe) in 1842.
• The label stemwinder might have shifted from positive to negative because audiences in this sound-bite age can no longer sit still for anything much over 20 minutes.
• Thompson in a 35-minute stemwinder that got the crowd cheering said of McCain: "It's pretty clear there are two questions we will never have to ask ourselves: 'Who is this man?' and 'Can we trust this man with the presidency?'" —  Top Stories - Google News
• In the middle of Fred Thompson's primetime stemwinder speech, I switched over to the major networks, * none* of whom was actually covering the speech, and —  RedState

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