"Papa, what's chutzpah?"

I heard the word "chutzpah" for the first time when I was in grade school, and asked what it meant. At the time, I didn't quite understand the "orphan plea" explanation, so it was later explained:

A bully beat up another person so badly that he had to go to the hospital. While the person was being treated for his injuries, the doctors discovered the poor battered soul had cancer in its early stages. The person was treated and cured.

The bully took credit for saving the person's life by forcing him into the hospital in the first place. That's chutzpah.

Hmmm. Sounds familar. Harry Reid takes credit for Rush Limbaugh's successful fund-raiser....