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Douglas, does the N.R.A. have videotapes of you playing golf with Satan?

— Sheperd ‧ The American President

A white golf ball sits inside a small brass birdcage on grass, with a silver golf club leaning beside it.
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The question imagines the N.R.A. possessing footage of Douglas playing golf with Satan, turning suspicion of influence into an outrageous joke about blackmail. The absurd activity makes the insinuation vivid: something compromising, the speaker suggests, might explain Douglas’s relationship with the organisation.

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