A day after the delegates at the Democratic National Convention reintroduced the words God and Jerusalem to the party’s platform, musical guest Mary J. Blige had one more addition: crunk.<\/p>\n\n\n
Mary J. Blige: "Now that we've established that we're family, let's make it a family affair & get it crunk for Pres Obama for 4 more years!"<\/p>\n
— Molly Ball (@mollyesque) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n First time the word "crunk" is used in a Convention? #DNC2012<\/a> #historic<\/a><\/p>\n — Christina Gomez (@stayupearly) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Can someone confirm? Is this the first time "crunk" has been part of a nominating convention? #DNC2012<\/a><\/p>\n — Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @Philip_Elliott<\/a> Well there was the 1892 Democratic Convention when Grover Cleveland said "Get Crunk, Vote for the Democrats!"<\/p>\n — Scott Candage (@ScottCandage) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n The delegates proceeded to dance, but did they really get it crunk? What is crunk? Professor?<\/p>\n\n\n One theory of its etymology is that "crunk" is a portmanteau of "chronic" (as in marijuana) and "drunk."<\/p>\n — Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Mary J. Bilge. says "Let's get it crunk for Obama." "Crunk" is slang for getting high and drunk. Way to go, #DNC2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n — Bill Hobbs (@billhobbs) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n I enjoyed the guy with the ponytail pictured getting crunk to Mary just then on C-Span.<\/p>\n — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n We think we get it…. Could someone use it in a sentence for us?<\/p>\n\n\n Gettin crunk. Watching spongebob. Yeeeeeeh budday!<\/p>\n — Sam (@SassySamOnTheGo) September 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Got it, thanks.<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/09\/06\/mary-j-blige-urges-delegates-to-get-it-crunk-for-obama\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ryanbeckwith\/status\/243835724456140801 A day after the delegates at the Democratic National Convention reintroduced the words God and Jerusalem to the party’s platform, musical guest Mary J. Blige had one more addition: crunk. Mary J. Blige: "Now that we've established that we're family, let's make it a family affair & get it crunk for Pres Obama for … Continue reading Mary J. Blige urges delegates to ‘get it crunk for Obama’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}