{"id":5101,"date":"2004-10-30T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/10\/30\/first-thing-we-do-lets-kill-a"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:17","slug":"first-thing-we-do-lets-kill-all-the-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/30\/first-thing-we-do-lets-kill-all-the-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"first thing we do — let’s kill all the cliches!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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day before yesterday
yesterday, today…
mountain cuckoo<\/DIV>
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                   Issa<\/FONT><\/A>\/<\/FONT>Lanoue<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>
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Our recent kvetch about campaign cliches [<\/FONT>synonyms ain’t sins<\/FONT><\/A>], did absolutely no good.  Still,<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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we make one more very specific plea to America’s media, in a desperate attempt to preserve <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the sanity of the nation:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Please stop saying “vote early and often<\/EM>” or variations thereon<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(<\/FONT>you<\/FONT><\/A> know who you<\/FONT><\/A> are)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"vampC\" Your editor’s humble hope<\/EM>: by next Wednesday, we will no longer have to hear the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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above-referenced <\/FONT>phrase (which is attributed<\/FONT><\/A> to Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson) AND <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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no longer be tortured <\/FONT>with broadcasters saying “Curse of the Bambino<\/FONT><\/A>.”  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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