"They rewrote the playbook," Cohen said. "Every weekend was Black Friday for them."

You only have to look at Iran's performance over the past few days to see that Washington's credibility has become a laughing stock, particularly in the Middle East . First Tehran locks up an American journalist on trumped up spying charges - a repeat of the familiar hostage-taking tactic that served Tehran so well during the 1980s.

The Oxford English Dictionary credits the first documented use of "blah" to American journalist Howard Vincent O'Brien, in his 1918 memoir Wine, Women & War - "[He] pulled old blah about 'service'..." Then three years later, the US magazine Collier's: The National Weekly used a double blah - "Then a special announcer begin a long debate with himself which was mostly blah blah,Michael Kors Outlet."

Others say

She added in another tweet: "So if youd like to meet up and talk lemme know in your next letter. [sic]," Cyrus tweeted.