[Ads-l] blame-shift

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 3 16:33:39 UTC 2016


Cf., though the syntax is not quite the same:

Candidate spokesperson, CNN: "[They're] trying to character-assassinate
D----d T---p."

(The term was not bleeped on the air.)

JL

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Gov. Mike Pence on CNN:
>
> "I know the administration wants to blame-shift to the Second Amendment."
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>



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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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