"Mush from the Wimp" was a joke headline at the top of an editorial in The Boston Globe that accidentally passed through to publication in 1980.
On March 15, 1980, The Boston Globe ran an editorial that began: Certainly it is in the self-interest of all Americans to impose upon themselves the kind of economic self-discipline that President Carter urged repeatedly yesterday in his sober speech to the nation.
"[6] He placed it behind "Wall St. Lays an Egg" (Variety, 1929) and ahead of "Ford to City: Drop Dead" (New York Daily News, 1975).
[4] The phrase became well known enough that in 1995, a Globe editorial chastising the Iditarod Race for caving in to pressure from animal rights activists was titled "More wimps from the mush.
"[7] The New York Post used "Mush from the wimp", with credit to Scharfenberg, as the title of an opinion column published on June 20, 2013, criticizing President Barack Obama following a speech in Berlin.