Collateral Friendage

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"Collateral Friendage"
was featured by Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. on "The Wørd" segment of "The Colbert Report"
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Collateral Friendage (type of guilt)

1. the fall in polls or political damage caused by or expected from links to a nutty or otherwise peculiar associate with whom one has formerly been friendly, but due to the public disclosure of the relationship one must now denounce to save one's political face

Collateral Friendage was The Wørd on the May 6, 2008 edition of "The Colbert Report".