bat-phone

Morgan's trick in retelling the familiar has been to keep a tight focus, which on this almost elegiac outing – Blair's Clinton years – had us looking in vain for a Brown or a Blunkett or even Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam (here, the IRA peace process was eased into the history books over Bill and Tony's bat-phone).

Rewind TV: The Special Relationship; The Road to Coronation Street; First Light; Wellington Bomber 2010

Anyone who watches MSNBC knows that Mitchell has a virtual bat-phone to Carly Fiorina, the Senior McCain advisor, and has her or other McCain surrogates on many more times a day than Obama people.

Eric Schmeltzer: Senator John Complain 2008

Once you've got this rigged, you can pick up that bat-phone on your desk, ring your loved one in the next room, and bark, "Schweetheart, get me rewrite!"

Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006

Members of Congress do not use blackberry's primarily as some kind of "lobbyist bat-phone".

CrackBerry Addicts vs Twittering Sunlighters on the Floor of Congress Sifry, Micah L. 2008

Somebody get on the bat-phone to the Kerry people RIGHT NOW.

09/25/2004 2004

In their hour of need, Mowbray's bat-phone flashed and the heart warmed so much at the prospect of coming home, that he passed up the small fortune Celtic still owed him to succeed Gordon Strachan.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

But if you are Goldman Sachs or if you have got essentially the red bat-phone to Washington, D.C., you are first in line.

Reason Magazine 2009

Kinda doubt that Alaska's governor is phoning the local air force base bat-phone and launching interceptors.

Libertarian Blog Place 2008