A white golf ball sits inside a small brass birdcage on grass, with a silver golf club leaning beside it.

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Sheperd

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

— The American President ‧ 1995

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What it means

Our 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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