I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ann Coulter chooses the wrong word:
The French Revolution was a revolt of the mob. It was the primogenitor of the horrors of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler’s Nazi Party, Mao’s cultural revolution, Pol Pot’s slaughter and America’s periodic mob uprisings from Shays’ rebellion to today’s dirty waifs in the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd.
She's confusing primogeniture with progenitor, and spelling it incorrectly in the bargain.
Iñigo, you tell her:
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And the editor didn't catch it.
@ProudHillbilly: I don't think columnists are edited, really.
I don't think many in the media can do jack without a Microsoft spellchecker.
But Inigo is so spelled. No tilde on the "n".
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