new use for "firewall"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
> So it goes from physical to electronic (digital communications) to
> metaphorical.
>
> http://goo.gl/eL45K
> > *His Super PAC is erecting a firewall in South Carolina. [...]

Ah, the old South Carolina firewall. See Safire, citing me, on John
Glenn's firewall in SC in 1984:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/magazine/24wwlnSafire-t.html

--bgz

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