mole; dressage

[Jonathan Lighter]

A disgruntled former Fox News employee has been revealing hideous network
secrets on the Net. The media call him a "mole":

  http://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-digs-mole-suspends-him-022042144.html

A "mole," however, is a spy planted by the enemy.  In this case, there is
no enemy. The word they want is "turncoat" or "rat" or, for those of a
certain age, "fink."

The same article tells how Gov. Romney inadvertently broke a verbal taboo
opening him to further ridicule.  The "mole" exposed him.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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