他们聚集在客厅的电视旁，媒体女士将拇指驱动器插入数字端口并播放广告：斯莫斯穿着一套银行家风格的灰色细条纹西装，但浅蓝色衬衫的领子敞开着。他在明尼苏达州参议院办公室，右边有一丝美国国旗，还有几条红白条纹——国旗的展示不足以引起讽刺，但它就在那里。
(They gathered around the living room TV and the media woman plugged a thumb drive into the digital port and brought the advertisement up: Smalls was dressed in a gray pin-striped suit, bankerish, but with a pale blue shirt open at the collar. He was in his Minnesota Senate office, with a hint of the American flag to his right, a couple of red and white stripes-not enough of a flag display to invite sarcasm, but it was there.)