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!"