I would give my toe nail clippings to know where the "I would give my left nut" expression comes from.

Whoever can answer this, please supply your mailing address for your prize.

Isn't Al-Qohol Bin Laden's latest no.2 man?

I dunno where it originally came from (Finley Peter Dunne?), but it was the first thing that popped into my head when I read what you wrote. Maybe L.W.M. can find something on it for us.

I doubt it stems from a transplant need. More like what you might be willing to sacrifice (pay?) to get to witness a given scenario. Granted, a left testicle coming from me would be of limited value since it's purely imaginary.

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An Obama idjit.

Don't worry. Power will end up in the Obama administration someplace. She'll probably end up in a Clinton administration someplace. This is about our media milking it, probably because it's about Democrats. That reporter was just doing her job properly. It's an election year and contentious primary campiagn. This wouldn't even be "newsworthy" except for that.

Pick up the tab for M.O. & P.W.?

Oh, ah. At @ 3:35 ref: P.W. who?

O, M.O. is very busy? Maybe a Sat. eve pedicure?

O, MY O MY!

O, Be so nice!

Watch MSMP!

O, Choir my.

O, what celebrity.

O, be a bird ornithophobe?

Gordon? No order meat loaf?

I'd rather go a Truck-Stop diner.

I find it appalling to agree with Tucker Carlson, but Ms. Peev did something she should not have done, for a brief moment of glory, which she is milking for all it is worth right now.

What kind of idjit are you?

Re: Prime Minister's Questions

I would give my left nut (if I had one) to see Bush grilled in this manner.

I'll drink to that - literally.

Incidentally, this expression regarding giving one's left testicle - did it stem from a time when testicle transplants were in high demand?

If offered one, who would accept another person's left testicle? Is there a reason the left is given greater importance than the right?

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Finley Peter Dunne (July 10, 1867–April 24, 1936) was a Chicago-based U.S. author, writer and humorist. He wrote Mr. Dooley in Peace and War in 1898. "Mr. Dooley" became one of the first nationally syndicated newspaper features. Set in a South Side Chicago Irish pub, Mr. Dooley, the owner and bartender, would expound upon political and social issues of the day, using the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant. Dunne's sly humor and political acumen won the support of President Theodore Roosevelt, a frequent target of Mr. Dooley's barbs.

Peter Finley Dunne was born in Chicago on July 10, 1867. He was educated in the Chicago public schools (graduating from high school last in his class), then began his newspaper career in Chicago as a newspaper reporter/editor for the Chicago Telegram in 1884, at age 17. He was then with the Chicago News from 1884-88, the Chicago Times in 1888, the Chicago Tribune in 1889, the Chicago Herald in 1889, and the Chicago Journal in 1897. Originally named Peter Dunne, to honor his mother, who had died when he was in high school, he took her family name as his middle name some time before 1886, going by PF Dunne, reversed the two names in 1888, for Finley P. Dunne, and later used simply the initials, FP Dunne. His sister, Amelia Dunne Hookway, was a prominent educator and high school principal in Chicago; the former Hookway School was named in her honor....

Dunne was a charter member of a social circle of Chicago writers who frequently lampooned and competed with their New York City colleagues in pranks and outlandish stunts. He coined numerous political quips over the years. He is perhaps best known today as the originator of the aphorism "politics ain't beanbag".

Dunne was a friend of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), with whom he played billiards, smoked cigars and drank. He was a member of Twain's "Damned Human Race Luncheon Club".

He is sometimes erroneously credited with coining the word "southpaw" for a left-handed baseball pitcher while covering sports in Chicago in the 1880s. (for example, QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson ). In fact, the term was in use before Dunne's birth.

As a journalist in the age of "muckraking journalism", Dunne was aware of the power of institutions, including his own. Writing as Dooley, Dunne once wrote the following passage cautioning against the power of the newspapers themselves:

"Th newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward".

From which, somewhat ironically, journalism took only a few lines as their own and stood these up as their raison d'etre. Specifically, "The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable". The expression has been borrowed and altered in many ways over the years. Clare Booth Luce employed a variation of it in a memorable tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt. Several religious leaders (including one Archbishop of Canterbury) have called it the goal of religion. A version showed up in a memorable line delivered by Gene Kelly in a great newspaper movie, Stanley Kramer's 1960 film, Inherit the Wind. Kelly (E.K. Hornbeck) says, "Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".

According to an article in the November 5, 2006 edition of the New York Times, he coined the truism, often wrongly attributed to Tip O'Neill, that "all politics is local."

Other famous or interesting quotes from Finley Peter Dunne at link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunne

Thank you for this Glenn. Unlike the revered talking heads so eager to lick whatever part of their masters' nether parts is required at the moment, you operate on what used to be called, quaintly, "professional principles".

Yes, they have convinced themselves that their main duty is to get their bread well-buttered, and well-buttered it is. I wonder how many millions more Russert and his ilk have in their bank accounts since they developed a taste for licking the underside of the current regime? Lots, I would guess, and well earned too!

Economics is the dismal science whose practitioners point out the bleeding obvious, and what is obvious in this case is that these so-called media professionals have been made richer than they could have dreamed in return for their licking. It's nothing new - in fact it's the world's oldest profession!