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Douglas, does the N.R.A. have videotapes of you playing golf with Satan?
— Sheperd ‧ The American President
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
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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