Sounds about right to me too and I do know what "bring-down-the-duck meant.
Laugh out loud funny and a great analogy.
Marvin Kalb is unwatchable. . . he never let Paul Gigot respond to his lies, but that's typical of liberals whose idea of debating is to provide no microphones for their opponents.
He and the driveby dribblers and scribblers won't be happy until we're all speaking Arabic.