"dacting", from _Veep_

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Jun 9 01:42:31 UTC 2012


...which I get this weekend, since our carrier is providing free HBO for a few days.  Mike McClintock (Matt Walsh), the press secretary for the eponymous Veep, Selina Meyer (Julia L-D), has just boasted that he's getting very good at "dacting", i.e. "taking the black off" (and hence unredacting) material that has previously been redacted.

LH

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