"Mush from the Wimp" was a joke headline at the top of an editorial in The Boston Globe that accidentally passed through to publication in 1980.
Headline
On March 15, 1980, The Boston Globe ran an editorial that began:
The editorial was not particularly critical of Carter, but was given the headline "Mush from the Wimp".
Aftermath
The phrase had been created by Globe editorial writer<!--Note: Scharfenberg was not the Globe's editorial page editor when the incident occurred--> Kirk Scharfenberg; in 1982, he wrote an op-ed piece discussing it. "I meant it as an in-house joke and thought it would be removed before publication", he explained. "It appeared in 161,000 copies of the Globe the next day." He remained with the Globe until his death in 1992 from cancer at age 48.
A month after the headline was published, Theo Lippman Jr. of The Baltimore Sun declared "Mush from the Wimp" as being "on its way to becoming one of the most famous headlines of our time". He placed it behind "Wall St. Lays an Egg" (Variety, 1929) and ahead of "Ford to City: Drop Dead" (New York Daily News, 1975).
The New York Post used "Mush from the wimp", with credit to Scharfenberg, as the title of an opinion column published on June 20, 2013, criticizing President Barack Obama following a speech in Berlin.