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Lenny Skutnik

Lenny Skutnik
 n.— «Every president since has used the device—planting people in the audience to illustrate a key point in the speech—to the extent that speechwriters now use the term “Lenny Skutniks” as slang for any such person used to make a predetermined point.» —“The Moment That America Embraced” by Neely Tucker Washington Post Feb. 4, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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