But in a televised address he did utter one ominous reference to the Americans preventing his militias from striking at the "takfiris"—that is, at the Sunni ultra-puritans whom Shias blame for most attacks.
The crisp seven-minute televised speech predictably omitted any reference to the ethical lapses that will always shadow Mr. Clinton's reputation.
This was a reference to a televised interview several weeks ago when the former two-term governor of New Mexico, having been asked "What would you do if you were elected, about Aleppo?" on MSNBC's Morning Joe, responded with the question "What is Aleppo?".
Referencing Sam's televised, headline-making kiss with boyfriend Vito Cammisano, the outspoken anti-gay activist apes the rhythm and meter of Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" in the poem, which he's titled "I Saw the Kiss by Michael Sam.
"Ryan's grasp of the facts is tenuous," and "Biden was clearly unhinged". some quotes from talking-head political pundits in reference to the recently televised Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates.
For any Widnes supporters wondering about that last line, and why their team would have flown home from Wigan, this is not a reference to Saturday night's televised Super League fixture but to a Super XV match in the other code between the Sharks and Melbourne's Rebels played a few hours earlier.
Dinosaurs are ubiquitous in advertising; numerous companies have referenced dinosaurs in printed or televised advertisements, either in order to sell their own products or in order to characterize their rivals as slow-moving, dim-witted, or obsolete.
At times, he said, the network can feel "like watching televised Pravda at the height of the Brezhnev era," a reference to the old Soviet propaganda arm.
This plot strand was dropped from the televised version, although the title Our Friends in the North – a reference to how staff at BP in South Africa referred to the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith – remained.
