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Madeleine Albright zings Conan O'Brien on Twitter

Lesson learned: If you take aim at Madeleine Albright, you should be prepared to get it as good as you give.

Conan O'Brien learned this firsthand Thursday, after tweeting a joke about the former Secretary of State and his choice of Halloween costume.


Albright soon fired back with a joke of her own:


Zing!

Their back-and-forth continued, with O'Brien expressing delight over his "first Twitter war with a former secretary of state" and Albright warning him against getting into a war of words with a diplomat.


After that, the "Conan" host finally admitted Twitter war defeat, which Albright accepted graciously:


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