The Chicago Sun-Times sums up the recent exchange between John Kerry and T. Boone Pickens:
Calling his bluff
News Item: Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, a bankroller of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, offers $1 million to anyone who can disprove anything the group said about John Kerry.
News Item: John Kerry accepts the challenge, adding that the $1 million would go to the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
News Item: Pickens starts changing the conditions of his offer.
News Item: Pickens answers critics by saying that changing the conditions of an offer is only “like playing poker.”
QT Abridged Too Far Dictionary of the English Language:
poker player. n. 1. one who plays poker. 2. one who reneges. 3. one who chickens out. 4. one who weasels out. 5. one who worms out. 6. but what do you expect from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth [see: run, cut and].
