Democrat (sic)

We might expect Republicans to choose to look and sound stupid, but it is truly a shame when our paid corporate media personnel make the same choice.

Pick up a fifth grade grammar book if you aren't sure about the difference between a noun and an adjective.

There is no Democrat party. There is also no Republic party.

Wikipedia has a long tretament of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_party
Democrat Party is a political epithet used in the United States by some conservative commentators and by some members of the Republican Party in speeches and press releases instead of the name (or more precisely, the proper noun) Democratic Party.

Many members of the Democratic Party object to the term. New Yorker commentator Hendrik Hertzberg wrote: "There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. 'Democrat Party' is a slur, or intended to be - a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but 'Democrat Party' is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams 'rat.'"[1]
"Democrat Party" has a long history of occasional use by opponents of the Democratic Party and sometimes by others. The earliest known use of the term, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in Great Britain in 1890: "Whether a little farmer...is going to rule the Democrat Party in America."[2] The term was used by Herbert Hoover in 1932, and in the late 1930s by Republicans who used it to criticize Democratic big city machines run by powerful political bosses in what they considered undemocratic fashion. Republican leader Harold Stassen said in 1940, "I emphasized that the party controlled in large measure at that time by Hague in New Jersey, Pendergast in Missouri and Kelly-Nash in Chicago should not be called a 'Democratic Party.' It should be called the 'Democrat Party.'"[1]

The noun-as-adjective has been used by numerous Republican leaders since the 1940s and appears in most GOP national platforms since 1948.[3] In 1947 the Republican leader Senator Robert A. Taft said, "Nor can we expect any other policy from any Democrat Party or any Democrat President under present day conditions. They can not possibly win an election solely through the support of the solid South, and yet their political strategists believe the Southern Democrat Party will not break away no matter how radical the allies imposed upon it."[4] President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term in his acceptance speech in 1952 and in partisan speeches to Republican groups.[5] Ruth Walker notes how Joseph McCarthy repeatedly used the phrase "the Democrat Party," and critics (as shown in the cartoon) argue that if McCarthy used the term in the 1950s, then no one else should do so. [6]

Many rural and also heavily-Democratic areas still refer to themselves as members of the Democrat party. If this is a result of any well coordinated misinformation campaign or if it's simply an archaic useage, it is definitely a term that I find a little grating.

If it was simply a grammatical mistake that would be one thing.

But the N&O is not an arm of Luntz and Gingrich. The public expects better from all of our actual media sources.