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Cut Him Some Flack

May 25, 2007

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Daniel Larison

By the way, Senator Obama, it’s a ‘flak’ jacket, not a ‘flack’ jacket. ~John McCain

Indeed.  A “flack jacket” is what the admiring media fans of McLieberman wear.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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