[Ads-l] skinback

[Jonathan Lighter]

David Axelrod on CNN:

"It is inconceivable to me that minutes after an Oval Office address in the
midst of a major crisis, that [sic] you have to engage in a series of
skinbacks to correct what the nation just heard."

Etymological comment gratuitous?

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

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