Shut the shtup up!

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/is-the-new-york-times-trying-to-clean-up-yiddish-1.295581

This is fantastic -- if you're Helen Thomas.

According to the above, Jeffrey Goldberg, who works for The Atlantic, was interviewed by New York Times reporter Helene Cooper. During this interview, Goldberg said this: "I don't necessarily believe you solve all of America's problems in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen by freezing settlement growth. On the other hand, there's no particular reason for Israel to make itself a pain in the tush either."

Well, that's not exactly what he said. Originally, instead of "tush," he said "tuchus."

Goldberg says that a few hours after the interview Cooper called him up and asked him if he could come up with a "more elegant" way of saying tuchus. (This was at the request of Times editors.) Her suggestion? Tushie. Because, as we all know, tushie is the epitome of elegance.

Not to mention, it's very good to know that those Times editors are focusing on the, you know, important stuff.

Anyway, since Goldberg is a grownup, he declined to use the word tushie and finally, the elegant tush was inserted.