A person who vapidly, unthinkingly yet wholeheartedly repeats, shares and takes to heart phrases and ideas he/she hears from his perceived leader. Most often (
OK, damned near exclusively) applied to followers of right-wing media magnates
like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage Weiner, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, et al. A ditto monkey is often a raging dullard who can't normally put two syllables together without a paper clip, yet when the topic of their idol'
s specialty comes up (usually
politics), his eyes glaze over and he eloquently spews
words you know he couldn't otherwise possibly understand.
"Oh great... E-mail from Patrick. Hideous
spelling, every fourth word in ALL CAPS, punctuation looks
like a typewriter threw up, and he's blaming the weather on the Clintons. What a flippin'
ditto monkey!"