Those caricatures must be protected

Here’s a funny instance of a misguided press flack choosing the wrong word (via TBogg).

“The last sign of a defeated and intellectually bankrupt party is a hate-filled strategy of caricature assassination,” said Jonathan Grella, a DeLay spokesman. (emphasis added)

We’re intellectually bankrupt, but he wants to protect caricatures?

Sure, I know what he meant, but it’s amusing anyway.