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What was dumb was her speaking on national TV about murdering someone, assuming that her audience would understand it was meant as an absurd joke. Unfortunately for her, this is not an assumption that should be made about a medium that reaches so many people. Joking about killing someone runs the risk of someone not getting that it's a joke, especially when you use language that hearkens back to a much grimmer time.
The fact it was in her vocabulary probably speaks more to recent coverage of lynching as a hate crime than it does to her Old West roots.
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