Eleventh Commandment of Politics (dead woman or live man)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:39 AM -0500 1/8/07, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>I was just looking through the internet movie database's "memorable quotes
>from DALLAS" and came across the 11th Commandment of Politics. Did
>we establish
>  a date on this? Is there a date of this episode? Did Grant Barrett research
>it  for his book?
>...

Wouldn't that one have to be (at best) the 12th, if the 11th is "Thou
shalt not speak ill of any other Republican"?  Or is that too
party-specific to count?

LH

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>_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/quotes_
>(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/quotes)
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>Memorable Quotes from
>"Dallas" (_1978_ (http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1978) )
>_J.R._ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001306/) : Barnes just broke the
>cardinal rule in politics: never get caught in bed with a dead woman
>or a live  man.
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