bork

I just can't wait to see how Sony manages to bork this, because you know they will, somehow.

She said, "We're going to bork him.

And how great is it to reclaim the verb "to bork" from the Senate Judiciary Committee?

A few years later, in 1991, Senator Kennedy tried to "bork" another nominee to the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas.

Frank Rich quoted William Safire's definition of "to bork" as to "attack viciously a candidate or appointee, especially by misrepresentation in the media."

A new verb was later coined; "to bork" a candidate or nominee by mounting such voluminous research and vocal opposition that the person in question would be forced to withdraw.

Then there's DRM that install ala rootkits that bork your PC so bad you have to do a complete reformat and re-install.

Referring to the failure of Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork, she said of Thomas, "We're going to 'bork' him."

Safire defines to bork by reference "to the way Democrats savaged Ronald Reagan's nominee, the Appeals Court judge Robert H. Bork, the year before."

I'd agree that he's really helped to bork the situation by releasing the hack, but there will always be people who defend Teh Little Guy over Big Bad Brand X, especially if he's a hacker.

The Quayling of Al Gore If to "bork" means to tar someone as a political extremist, and to get a "lewinsky" means, well, you know, then to "quayle" someone means to make some personal limitation seem so overwhelmingly ridiculous that the victim becomes a permanent national laughingstock.