Word: zinger
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...plays unfazed ignorance to a tee with lines like: '"The economy's in the toilet. Who gives a sh--? I don't care. I got so much money," and "I've never fought a war on drugs. I've never done sh-- on drugs besides played Halo 2." The zinger: "I got 19 kids. Never used abortion once." He is Superbad. This...
While a good sparring partner can help prepare a smooth retort or well-planned zinger, a bad stand-in can damage a performance...
...words was already heating up. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe released a statement attacking McCain for playing politics. "Apparently they would rather contrive a political issue than foster a genuine discussion about the future of our country," Plouffe said. McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly struck back with a zinger. "Barack Obama requires more preconditions to meet with voters and John McCain than he does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," he said, referencing the Iranian President...
...them, comedians and candidates, are thrown off their game in these encounters. Ironists like Stewart and Colbert have to do an awkward dance between sobriety and sarcasm when the real goods walk into the studio. Interviewing Obama just before the Pennsylvania primary, Stewart played it straight, before a closing zinger - demanding to know, on behalf of the American people, "Will you pull a bait and switch, sir, and enslave the white race?" Obama's ear-to-ear grin was maybe his least sincere moment of the campaign...
...successful gambits have hinged upon implicit or explicit criticisms of Clinton: An e-mail solicitation prompted by CNN's coverage of the "beat the b**ch" episode, during which McCain played along with an overzealous questioner who used an obscenity to describe the former first lady, and his debate zinger that contrasted Clinton's earmark support for a Woodstock museum with his own experience in the Woodstock era - "I would have gone, but I was tied up at the time...