[Ads-l] new meaning for "secret"?

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:06 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

> The Andrew Janz for Congress campaign (Fresno, California) sent out an
> email that reads:
>
> "ADD YOUR NAME to the secret memo we’re delivering straight to Nunes’s
> Washington D.C. office"
>
> If it's being publicly delivered to Congressman Nunes's office, I can't
> see how it can be "secret".
>
> The email is not specific but suggests the memo reads "YOU'RE FIRED"
>

They're clearly playing off the relentlessly hyped "secret memo" that Nunes
himself drafted, which was then declassified. I think this is just a way to
tell Nunes, "I got a 'secret memo' for you right here, buddy."

--bgz

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