Couric Marvels at 'Presidential Tradition' of Obama's 'Wee Wee'd' Term

Brent Baker | August 24, 2009
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CBS used President Barack Obama's first full day of vacation as a pivot to spin his “wee wee'd up” miscue, which certainly would have been widely mocked if uttered by Bush, into an admirable positive. “Mr. Obama,” Katie Couric contended, “has continued a presidential tradition, what Thomas Jefferson called neology, making up a new word or giving new meaning to an old one.”