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Sunday, October 28, 2012

269. Internecine

Excerpt from, "October Surprise Shows Ever-Loosening Grip On Commonest Courtesies: The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Oct. 2" by Jason Linkins and Elyse Siegel, Huffington Post, Posted:


THE INERT ARGUE MOMENTUM: Meanwhile, as the country started to tip, slightly, in the direction of end-of-the-election insanity, the political media sort of took leave of their senses, and pitched themselves a weird little internecine war over which media outlets were being worked by whose campaign, for the purpose of spinning a narrative of "momentum."

Internecine: destructive to both sides in a conflict

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