The wednesday Word - "political correctness"

Not technically a wednesday word, but here is a definition of "political correctness":

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

This definition won an annual contest at Ohio State University which called for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term