A NPR host who once said that Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro were "schlonged" in 1984 said that the schlonging he referred to was fundamentally different from the schlonging Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton received at the hands of Barack Obama in 2008: ... during an interview with our own Chris Cillizza four years ago, former "Talk of the Nation" host Neal Conan mentioned the 1984 Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro campaign and remarked, "That ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls." But Conan, semi-retired as a macadamia nut farmer in Hawaii (seriously), tells me that as far as he knows the term ismeant to connote genitalia. And he doesn't think his usage makes Trump's okay. ... [Conan said] I think there's a difference in the way [Trump and I] used it. I referred to the Mondale/Ferraro ticket, while he used it very specifically to refer to one person – a woman. So what Conan is saying is that if...(Read Full Post)