You see, he's not pandering to ignorant voters; he's pandering to an ignorant elite.
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"I've covered politics and I've learned a thing or two about pandering, and I guess it's my way of pandering to the locals," he quips.
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With national elections looming in April, the party is pandering to pious Hindus, who have not exactly been short of pandering since Mr Modi took power in 2014.
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But there's a huge difference between pandering to anti-vaxxers in 2008 — as Clinton and Obama did — and pandering to anti-vaxxers in 2016, as Jill Stein has repeatedly done.
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In other words, if Donald Trump weren't so good at pandering to a certain group of white Americans, Paul Manafort wouldn't be so worried about a VP pick pandering to anybody else.
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In 1993, she was arrested on multiple charges, including pandering.
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Having a presence at DragCon could've been seen as pandering.
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It does, but not when it's in a pandering way.
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Cheesy pandering will be reorganized into imagined conversation with teens.
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Regular Americans are sick of this pandering to special interests.
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He's basically pandering to what some people want to hear.
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Mr. Schmidt said her tour of Appalachia felt like pandering.
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So, you know, I think she's pandering to a base.
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Here's an obvious one: Stop pandering to extremists in Congress.
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Both paths are ways of pandering to a privileged audience.
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The developer knows its audience, and loves pandering to it.
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The thing that we're most upset about is the pandering.
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His pandering, bullshit schtick is what's naked here, not Ciara.
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His common touch was not humility, but pandering to prejudice.
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It's a shame that cultural institutions are pandering to this.
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This could easily have been pandering, yet it somehow wasn't.
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The candidates outdid themselves in pandering to African American voters.
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Buttigieg, "Hispandering" (pandering to Hispanics) is not a good look.
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The political pandering on immigration is not limited to California.
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" Fox News's Laura Ingraham is a "volatile, pandering, obvious racist.
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" But, on the other hand, "When you reach out, you're pandering.
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Nor can they veer from the centre by pandering to nativism.
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I am completely stuck on the stupid, pandering surface of Paperclips.
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He's young, different, and not interested in pandering to rap's canon.
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This is just pandering to SJWs that don't buy video games!
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This book is not gripping me — it feels a little pandering.
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How much of this shameless pandering will we have to endure?
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Trump, they say, is unknowledgeable of policy and pandering to fear.
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It's not pandering or trying to copy Americans, it's very British.
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Instead conservatives are accused of having, or pandering to, hard hearts.
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Those are all the Duffers' visions, not them pandering to anyone.
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Could it be Clinton is just pandering for the Hispanic vote?
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And the pandering on things she actually can't or won't do.
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At least no one could accuse him of national pastime pandering.
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Or are you pandering to Latinos, what some would call Hispandering?
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He's pandering to the 12 million ignorant Americans who support him.
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The rhetoric, the pandering, the blatant bullshit—it's all too much.
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Sometimes, what looks like pandering winds up being good civic hygiene.
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Pandering is so cool when you're the one being pandered to.
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Mr. Cuomo has been bedeviled by accusations of pandering as well.
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Without pandering, they've made another significant contribution to the art form.
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Economic anxiety is real even when it overlaps with racist pandering.
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It's political pandering at its best and governing at its worst.
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It will take leadership — and the willingness to forgo political pandering.
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Clinton was pandering to black voters by expressing support for President Obama.
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Pandering to the base is a tradition as old as politics itself.
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However, despite Trump's pandering and bluster, rural communities are not seeing improvements.
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Some, though, may also be pandering to the preferences of their customers.
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When Hillary tries to be on-trend, she comes off as pandering.
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Because apples are healthy — just like a little shameless social media pandering.
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This is the grin of someone who knows exactly who he's pandering.
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The comedian was just pandering to the folks with whom she hangs.
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Clinton assailed her probable general election rival as pandering to the group.
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Stop pandering to one constituency; let the cards fall where they may.
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You don't hear him, beyond a pandering nod, ever mention their plight.
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What makes us think that they didn't also write his pandering speech?
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She also chided Palin for "pandering" and distancing herself from conservative values.
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This is misguided public policy at best and political pandering at worst.
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"In fact, that would be viewed as pandering, I think," Manafort said.
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A few even suggested that Hough was pandering to the male gaze.
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Loyalists seek diverse views whereas loyalty seeks pandering and falling in line.
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Despite Cruz's pandering for white Christian votes, the majority voted for Trump.
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An exercise in pandering, this ritual can also be misleading and dangerous.
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Sonic Adventure 2's soundtrack represents the perfect amount of zeitgeist pandering.
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Instead of pandering, he answered as seriously and intelligently as he could.
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"Pandering takes on a whole new definition," said Elizabeth Milstein, another attendee.
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It was couture for the casual, everyday era, without pandering or gimmicks.
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Despite its generic setup, it's hard to accuse the film of pandering.
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Does "sucking it up" mean pandering to cultural angst or nativist fears?
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This "roundup" feels to me like cheap political pandering and headline chasing.
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Eric McDaniel said he sides with those who accused Yang of pandering.
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"I ain't no ways pandering to African Americans," the cartoon image says.
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They must not think it's whitewashing or pandering or anything like that.
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It was a sign that Trump was deliberately pandering to white supremacists.
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Critics have praised the gameplay while condemning the pandering and grotesque sexuality.
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I assume Trump knows this and is intentionally pandering to people who don't.
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PETE HEGSETH, CO-HOST: I&aposll go to great pandering sage, Mitt Romney.
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Others thought she was "pandering" — not just to young people, but to minorities.
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The cinematography is colorful and striking; the storyline is relevant, but not pandering.
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Where is the line between acknowledging systemic challenges facing particular groups and pandering?
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Your next CEO will therefore have to do plenty of pandering to Congress.
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Pandering to spectators and sponsors means compromising pilots' ideas of the perfect race.
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The statement seemed like yet another example of Trump pandering to white supremacists.
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No need to do that friend, you deserve better than pandering to YouTubers.
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Snapchat populism would then just swap one type of grievance-pandering for another.
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We must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal population of this City.
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The integrity of the military justice system must outweigh the pandering of politicians.
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Yet pandering politicians promise even more free lunches, paid for by our kids.
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But too many of them base their appeal strictly on cheap nostalgic pandering.
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It limits and demeans us Parisians by pandering to us as passive recipients.
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But consumers are given that impression by pandering politicians and ideologically driven competitors.
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But no doubt there was also the pandering and strategic capitulations you mentioned.
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At best, Jeff Sessions' speech in California was clumsy pandering to the base.
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Republicans on Friday accused her of pandering to liberal members of the base.
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Was he pandering to a constituency in the run-up to his reelection?
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Trying to appeal to an individual voter segment will be seen as pandering.
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Until recently, there was no pork on the menu of the Pandering Pig.
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Some candidates are even directly pandering to young voters, with videos like Sen.
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If this is pandering to a European palate, I am totally on side.
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So, I feel like you should never do anything in a pandering way.
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I imagine the part where you accuse Heidi of "pandering" usually gets laughs.
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But Christie's remarks make sense if you know that he's pandering to GOP mythology.
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Freak fights, no drug tests, and unapologetic pandering to the nostalgia of PRIDE fans.
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At times, the use of Spanish can be awkward and feel like extreme pandering.
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Maybe he'll finally denounce neo-Nazis unequivocally without pandering to the nation's worst racists.
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We're definitely not creating products that are pink and sparkly and pandering to women.
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It's a pandering beer commercial that is shown on TV during the Super Bowl.
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But with the M4, it feels like that appeal has turned into senseless pandering.
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If we had done Rihanna's show, we would be accused of pandering without question.
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These declarations of praise are earnest over corrections at best and pandering at worst.
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Some will see nothing more than opportunism by two politicians pandering to popular grief.
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Clinton and her campaign have proved frequently just how abysmal they are at pandering.
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For all his orotund pandering, in London he spoke to a half-empty hall.
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This political pandering has irrefutably tied Mike Pence to Donald Trump's brand of belligerency.
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"I wish I just saw this a little less like pandering," Meghan McCain said.
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This wasn't a case of the fusty establishment pandering to a hot new hitmaker.
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Such pandering is a reminder of how we got here in the first place.
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Pandering politicians who wrote the restrictive bail laws that empower them to do it.
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His acts should speak for themselves, he insists, eventually ripping off that pandering tie.
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Last week in Miami, Trump went hardline, abjectly pandering to a Cuban-American audience.
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The segment echoed complaints by some that the additions amounted to politically correct pandering.
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But it would be a mistake to dismiss this move as just partisan pandering.
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And Disney's other pandering do-overs tend to be just as awkward and clumsy.
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Kavanaugh, in his decision, wasn't interpreting the Constitution; he was pandering to the base.
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There was also the fearmongering and the racial pandering and the "welfare queen" rhetoric.
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But cynical pandering, at this point, is all the NFL knows how to do.
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Israeli voters recoiled at the shameless pandering, the ignoble kowtowing, the self-serving recklessness.
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"I beg you to stop pandering to racists," said one message directed at Haley.
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To the 2020 candidates: the key to earning our vote isn't pandering to us.
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If there was any pandering that happened on this album that was the moment.
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This adaptation of the Marvel comic book about a blind vigilante doesn't pander to its audience, unless your definition of pandering includes taking the demands of the superhero and crime-noir genres seriously and conscientiously to be a form of pandering per se.
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Supporters are drawn to what they see as their independence, and a lack of pandering.
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Some people would call that pandering, but Taylor's too much of an artist for that.
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Photos of Clinton, who was preparing her Senate run, were slammed as brazen political pandering.
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Perhaps he was just pandering to conservatives to improve his chances to succeed Mr Castro.
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South Koreans go one further, describing themselves as cat "butlers", pandering to every feline whim.
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There is no need to rally supporters to the polls by pandering to their prejudices.
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" When asked if she was pandering to black people, she jokingly said ... "Is it working?
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It would be comforting to think that such fantastical pandering was what undid the doctor.
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But there is political peril to pandering too nakedly -- particularly when it comes to football.
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They also hope that the US would stop pandering to India and prefer Pakistan instead.
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Yet his commitment to pandering to the far right has never truly been in question.
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But the platform is a charade when everyone knows the party's leader is just pandering.
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Finally, Dems need to quit pandering to a base that craves a full gun ban.
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Critics of the growing anti-China stance from some politicians say it amounts to pandering.
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"Stacey Abrams has that undeniable relatability that doesn't cross the line into 'pandering,'" she said.
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For good measure, he's now an anti-Semite, too, which on Broadway feels like pandering.
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But is he addressing legitimate interest-group concerns or is he pandering to racial fears?
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It does it without pandering, veering into cheesy After School Special territory, or feeling exploitative.
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There's a pandering, stagy political debate and too many Big Messages wrapped in tearful professions.
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Grimes released the song herself, but fans were upset she was "pandering to the radio."
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The script (by Tim Minear and Gina Welch) sometimes veers toward pandering in Pauline's scenes.
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Now is not the time for politics or pandering to corporations and wealthy special interests.
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It's popular to want to punish flag-burners — pandering politicians, including Hillary Clinton, have tried.
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has a long history of pandering to anti-vaxxers.
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There's no longer any room for reasonable doubt — making Stein's recent pandering all the worse.
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After years of pandering to racists, Trump has finally condemned them in a clear way.
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By pandering to fears and resentments, Trump both deepens the prejudices and satisfies his base.
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The woman, Marina Lonina, was also charged with pandering sexually explicit material that involves a minor.
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But gun owners (along with everyone else) have long known enough to dismiss that as pandering.
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A whole lot of the film is given over to naked fan service and shameless pandering.
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If they're pandering to this Brooklyn Feminist, I don't care because I am eating it up.
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And last night, we went off on the pandering-ass Green Book for winning best picture.
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The most important conservative television news source in America is currently pandering to an extremist president.
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Make no mistake: However pandering, their kisses and lyrics were still revolutionary in the early 2000s.
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The Hindu-nationalist BJP had excoriated the secular Congress for pandering to religious and ethnic minorities.
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Directed by Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli), Alpha is definitely sentimental, even pandering at times.
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If the President thought he would win over Jewish support by pandering via tweet, he's wrong.
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He won three big Southern states—Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida—without pandering to conservative whites.
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It was hard not to see the association's move as a cynical act of political pandering.
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I didn't want it to be overblown or embellished in any way or pandering to myths.
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But their presence in jackets and ties at Trump headquarters telegraphed their pandering, according to Ceglowski.
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What truly paved the way for Trump is the long history of Republican pandering to prejudice.
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Both have been charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery and pandering sexual matter involving a minor.
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"NYC politicians better stop pandering — ending stop & frisk would be a disaster," he wrote on Twitter.
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"It's always at his rallies, and he's always pandering and playing to the crowd," she said.
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Of course, she does have a different problem — she may have to address whether she's pandering.
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"Wonder" is that rare thing, a family picture that moves and amuses while never overtly pandering.
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Pilar Bakery has slid easily into the neighborhood without much pandering to the dandelion-latte set.
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It's a sign that Trump sympathizes with — or at least is deliberately pandering to — white supremacists.
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It has a genuine innocence, heartfelt without any pandering and completely respectful of the young reader.
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Hours are spent poring over each ad to ensure they're funny, original and not too pandering.
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Whether these moves come off as pandering or connect with young people remains to be seen.
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Lonina has been charged with rape, kidnapping, sexual battery, and pandering sexual matter involving a minor.
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"The Great Wall" was in many ways meant to be a solution to the pandering problem.
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"It's a nasty law, pandering to the very worst of Quebecois isolationism," James I. Hymas wrote.
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Here's the thing: It's not just Trump's critics who see what Trump is doing as pandering.
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Here's the thing: It's not just Trump's critics who saw what Trump was doing as pandering.
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ABC's homophobic pandering worked, since Modern Family was the most successful new comedy of its freshman season.
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During the Bush era, we condemned Democrats for substantive incoherence and misguided pandering to a mythical center.
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Kevin Cramer at his side, it's evident that Trump's energy plan is just pandering to corporate interests.
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But Hollywood has also made more direct, if still clumsy and pandering, attempts to woo Chinese audiences.
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I think 'honest criticism' can only be interpreted by internet audiences as 'trolling' or social-share-pandering.
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It's a cute, pandering, sometimes irritating movie for kids or for nostalgic adults of a certain age.
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Pandering to the coal industry -- and bickering over solid science -- should be left well in the past.
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Hypocritically but perhaps unsurprisingly, the BJP has lashed out at its rival for pandering to identity politics.
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If that character comes off unconvincing or strange, it's because he's pandering in several directions at once.
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His criticism that Clinton is pandering to black voters by cozying up to Obama was gone entirely.
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The GOP's partnering with and pandering to Trump in these circumstances will likely cost it patriotic credibility.
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The company has made appeals to African-Americans in its advertising, stoking criticism that it is pandering.
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Hoyer accused Republican leaders of pandering to the National Rifle Association (NRA) in rejecting expanded background checks.
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They brought it on themselves, with eight years of pure obstructionism and pandering to the Tea Party.
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Now is the time for solutions, not empty promises or ideological pandering about the role of government.
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It's pandering to all the art majors on campus who won't be able to get a job.
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Democrats could only win below the Mason-Dixon, the thinking went, by pandering to white "swing" voters.
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Some of the media has also prioritized ideology over truth, opinion over reporting, and pandering over challenging.
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We need to demand the safety and constitutional rights for our fellow minority citizens now, without pandering.
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Last week, Gates was charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery, and pandering sexual matter involving a minor.
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The obvious pandering and implication the law would allow anti-LGBTQ discrimination led to a national firestorm.
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His predecessors had also made pandering campaign promises in support of moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
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It's going to feel like shameless pandering, and it's just going to make the awards less meaningful.
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Mr. Trump needs to stop shameless pandering, grow up and end the gross misuse of public funds.
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A. This game is a reaction to feeling many times like I need to do that pandering.
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Guthrie's songs were seen as honest and lived-in, not pandering — essential to a successful protest song.
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"Pandering is when you show up before election day and we haven't seen you in twenty years."
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Plus, they have other, more important things to do and they need your support, not your pandering.
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From the Democrat camp, pandering seems to be the norm (see Hillary's attempt to relate to abuelas).
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Nor is he nihilistically pandering to our worst impulses: the filmmaking is too measured and too intelligent.
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The days of pandering to the perceived tastes of Asian collectors, they said, seemed to be over.
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And that pandering is unlike what he does with nearly any other people and groups he dislikes.
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There was no intention whatsoever of pandering, not to a public, or a dealer, or a critic.
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We can't be sure of Trump's motivation: sociopathy, politics, pandering to Big Oil, or some combination of these.
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Such pandering is dangerous at a time when Britain should be standing up to American policy on Iran.
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And even with that one change in statement, that news conference was very much pandering to Mr. Putin.
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You don't want to seem like you're pandering to what you think the hiring manager wants to hear.
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Fleiss smiles before her arraignment on five pandering and drug distribution charges in a Los Angeles courtroom, Aug.
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When last in power, from 2001-06, it had gained a reputation for cronyism and pandering to Islamists.
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Despite Hugh Jackman's elephantine presence (he also produced the movie), it's been described as bland, pandering, and opportunistic.
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But Miller's fashionableness also suggests that directors have stopped confronting their audiences, and have started pandering to them.
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But even if there was some pandering there, Clinton's status as a fire-breather traces back much further.
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"Pandering to the audience without subtlety, the film makes the most obvious choices," Emmanuel Levy wrote for Variety.
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I joke with Senator Ted Cruz about this that he was pandering right to the instincts of Texas.
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The two leading Democratic presidential candidates are pandering to their liberal base on private prisons and mass incarceration.
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State dinners, motorcades, the pandering of Fox & Friends and endless ego-stroking were all that he ever wanted.
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But that's not real change, and we must call it what it is, political pandering at its worse.
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What we disparage as cheap and pandering in Beats headphones is actually the thing that makes them appealing.
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So forgive me if I have not prioritized pandering to the people that feel entitled to be coddled.
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Anyhow I see various forms of rebellion and oppression and pandering… effects of the history and the now.
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Pandering to such sentiments will only strengthen them, and convince their propagators that they were right all along.
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Scare-mongering headlines, followed by pandering and guesswork by politicians, have driven criminal-justice policy for too long.
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She was widely panned for a tweet in August that struck some watchers as a tad too pandering.
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On top of its incompetence, corruption and authoritarianism it was also seen as pandering to extremist Islamist groups.
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He went for full-throated Second Amendment pandering before the National Rifle Association, which endorsed him, last Friday.
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Tim McGraw is popular pretty much everywhere, proving that patriotism pandering cannot be contained by mere state borderlines.
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And both games accomplished this without bending over backwards to be "current" or "modern," or pandering to nostalgia.
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Prominent film critics voiced dismay, contending that the academy was pandering and undercutting the prestige of the Oscars.
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Pandering for votes come election time, only to disappear until the next one, will no longer cut it.
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The party wins elections pandering to culture war issues that mostly aren't even executive branch issues at all.
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" She adds, "It's tricky because teen readers are very quick to know when you are pandering to them.
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Ashe was able to move back and forth between diverse socioeconomic streams without pandering or compromising his beliefs.
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"And the Oscar for Best Achievement in Pandering goes to...," wrote the L.A. Times film critic Justin Chang.
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In their mind, the film, if anything, was conceived as an effort to avoid another diversity problem: pandering.
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As far as internet content goes, it doesn't get much more pandering than medleys of popular '90s songs.
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Remember the pandering popular-film Oscar, or the show's decision to present several categories during the commercial breaks?
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And instead of pandering to the far right, Mr. Van der Bellen presented himself as a clear alternative.
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" The result is that white supremacists see his comments as coded pandering "and they love Trump for it.
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" "All the changes that happened afterward were not about, you know, pandering to the noise in any way.
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Trump's base-pandering will continue to alienate independent voters and may cost him the White House in 2020.
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Instead, moviegoers here have become especially sensitive to pandering, another common Hollywood tactic that can have several meanings.
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The devastating result suggests that moderate conservative voters have punished the CSU for pandering to the far right.
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We've seen this all before—the avoidance of questions, the pandering, the almost pathological focus on talking points.
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But much like the overreliance on well-known properties, that pandering is just a symptom of the larger problem.
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"I used to think this place was all about pandering to your baser instincts," he tells his new bae.
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It showed that the Democrats under Mr. Clinton would stop pandering to him and helped him clinch the nomination.
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Pandering to different tastes — especially when we're talking about popular entertainment — makes an already difficult task infinitely less possible.
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If you're familiar with the watch company Romain Jerome you'd know that they do the best kind of pandering.
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Most of the hate ripped the bank for making a buck off Tubman's image and pandering to black customers.
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" He later tweeted after her remarks, "Hillary Clinton's short speech is pandering to the worst instincts in our society.
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Mr Omelyan directly accused Mr Riabikin of pandering to UIA, his main customer, at the expense of the country.
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It's news commentary through the lens of experience: What do I think of the colonial pandering of "Victoria & Abdul"?
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Penalize both undisguised racist pandering like Trump's, and the subtler appeals to white resentment that Republicans have long used.
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What many would consider an example of growth and maturity will be labeled as a "flip flop" or pandering.
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It is as if The Bachelorette has finally realized that it's high time they start pandering to me, personally.
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So there's no sense, morally or politically, in the Democrats' returning to Sister Souljah–style racial pandering to whites.
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The first involves maximising turnout on voting day, too often by pandering and stoking the passions of core supporters.
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Yet the mutual resentments unleashed by Mr Erdogan's grandstanding and Mr Trump's pandering will in any event be enduring.
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He's a very smart man, it's just calculating, pandering and it's really sad," Ellison said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe.
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They were right this time, though it hardly mattered, given their party's own addiction to shameless pandering to cameras.
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There's a tendency to break national problems into small, interest-group-size chunks and then deliver pandering policy promises.
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Nor is it about pandering to Islamist radicals: Experience suggests that repression in Egypt breeds, rather than eradicates, extremism.
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"To me, it was a little bit pandering, off the top," Joy Behar said Thursday morning on the show.
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Though "pandering" was my first thought, too, it turns out that beer is a key part of SeaWorld's history.
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I ask how she was able to get so far in her career without pandering or mincing her words.
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Now that my job no longer requires pandering to cheese obsessives, I have to say: Fuck the cheese pull.
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"I want to make sure it's valuable and not just pandering to the fears of our clients," he said.
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His voice — his real voice, not his pandering-to-the-extreme-right voice — will be missed more than ever.
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Other mainstream European politicians facing threats from a growing far right should take heed: pandering to them doesn't work.
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"I think he needs Nevada in the election so he's pandering and saying he won't put it in," Rep.
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This routine, senatorial press-pandering conduct would cause a mistrial and a contempt citation in a normal criminal trial.
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Still, Jaffe paints Senator Kirk's advocacy for the pro-peace measures as un-American and, pandering, somehow anti-Israel.
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Charlamagne told Harris at the time that people would accuse her of "pandering to black people" with that comment.
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The pandering calories, the dishes baptized in butter and other cooking fats, are meant to be burned off outdoors.
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By pandering to the belief that Washington elites sell America short, Mr Trump is doing enduring harm to American leadership.
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Now it's time for Barr to get called out publicly on his most important misstatements and his overt political pandering.
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It's naked pandering to bigots, and especially that particular brand of bigot eager to stigmatize trans people as mentally ill.
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Trump has been pandering to coal miners in his typical ham-handed way, promising to bring mines and jobs back.
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Megan: I realize that so much of this movie was pandering to Marvel fans, but you know what I learned?
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Of course, this type of pandering isn't unusual, and is in fact expected of politicians, particularly those running for president.
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It's because people like the ones Trump is pandering to above understand him as a symbol of things they hate.
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Pandering to "special interests" has led rights groups to disavow "established rights that do not suit their agendas", she wrote.
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She sharpens outsiders' eyes and ears without pandering or diluting the acts themselves or reducing the dialogue to facile takeaways.
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Then there was the White Dude Who Is Somehow Concerned About the Chilling Effect of Condemning Racism, And Also Pandering.
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It's unclear whether Cruz knows this and just believes that accommodating people's diet restrictions are a sign of political pandering.
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Johnson and Williams were booked into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of human trafficking, pimping and pandering and kidnapping.
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After the outraged fact — of YouTube being shown monetizing extremism, for example, or (a more recent accusation) pandering to pedophiles.
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We were so fiercely devoted to not pandering to our readers, and, whenever possible, illuminating the machine behind shiny objects.
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But even then, it's just another form of pandering, and that's not what the news media is supposed to do.
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Was this destined to be another Hollywood version that undermined its potentially strong message by pandering to society's common misperceptions?
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The first part of that plan is pandering to seniors, telling them "something other than what's the truth," Kerrey said.
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Cruz's failures of reason, compassion, decency, and humanity are products of his Christian pandering, if not an actual Christian faith.
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When Listerine mouthwash released their Pride antiseptic this spring, queer Twitter understandably erupted and accused the brand of corporate pandering.
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Some other feelings might've gotten into the mix, making it feel more like pandering of some sort rather than talk.
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Our political leaders have only exacerbated this problem by ginning up outrage among their supporters and pandering to their base.
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A gesture that felt patriotic to some felt, in the midst of a polarizing election cycle, like pandering to others.
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"It was pandering and disingenuous," said Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio, who has since endorsed Senator Kamala Harris of California.
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But they do, at least, aptly exemplify Chen's overall approach to her work: Creating designs that are personal, not pandering.
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He said politicians draw districts that reward them for "pandering to the extremes" rather than trying to win persuadable voters.
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Many people refuse to pay because they don't watch NHK, often out of distaste for its pandering to the government.
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The song's blatant evocation of God is, to me, completely inappropriate, its music over the top and its lyrics pandering.
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A socialist, Jewish, non-pandering candidate who didn't kiss babies but lectured their parents on social justice won 22 states.
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But the prime minister has to walk a tight rope as pandering to populist policies could risk damaging investor confidence.
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Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has accused national governments of pandering to eurosceptics by using the EU as a scapegoat.
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Probably juggling hectic WhatsApp group chats, clumsily pandering for attention from school crushes, and fantasizing about the school day ending.
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Those voters want what most voters want from politicians: to be disrespected, via shameless pandering and the occasional blatant lie.
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Trump may see political advantage in pandering to the dwindling coal industry (and lying to its workers for populist theater).
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Merkel has opted for fiscal responsibility for investments in infrastructure and youth, pandering to a soaring number of retired boomers.
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That might sound a bit like pandering to producers and publicists looking to manage the first impressions of their films.
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But there is one overarching message: You win by matching the emotions of the nationalists, not by pandering to them.
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Likewise, members of Congress perpetually seeking reelection are rewarded for pandering to military forces, veterans, and an influential defense industry.
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"I enjoyed playing this kind of character, the smiling girl," Frances confesses, but Bobbi considers such agreeableness to be pandering.
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If that's a bipartisan State of the Union address, I'd hate to see one where he's pandering to his base.
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"The knocking of wealthy people is pandering to a different sector of the economy and misleading people," he told me.
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He also accused the president of ignoring popular opinion in the U.S. and pandering to a small number of people.
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They felt rudely intrusive: not like escapes or pandering exhortations but, even at their most playful, urgent invitations to act.
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Foreign leaders have tested a variety of techniques to deal with him, from shameless pandering to keeping a studied distance.
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Baswedan made public appearances with the leaders of the rallies and FPI but denied pandering to Islamist groups to win support.
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As Mobutu did before him, Kabila's government accused the bishops of straying beyond their ecclesiastical role and pandering to foreign influences.
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They accuse the agency of pandering to a false notion that the Palestinians will get back their old homes in Israel.
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And he's pandering to the left's machine by funding a campaign that aims to get rid of our nation's bail system.
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"We're tired of watching our politicians pandering to the religious and ignoring us as if we don't even exist," Germain said.
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They pointed out that critics would accuse her of pandering to the black community, but Hillary offered the Clintoniest of explanations.
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Both have been charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery and pandering sexual matter involving a minor, The New York Times reported.
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His unflappable denial and pandering show someone who is committed to no real issue other than the self-interest and power.
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Analysts say these comments are political pandering and that Abe is posturing to his domestic audience to ramp up military options.
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Yet repeated insinuations of a looming Muslim menace, including from Congress pandering to its supposed "Muslim vote bank", have been effective.
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But to do this, the Latino community needs bold leadership from our public elected officials, not pandering and short-term gimmicks.
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In their more pandering moments, it can feel like the duo resort to memes when they can't think of anything better.
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If the "I" is aimed out, towards the world, it isn't pandering to the audience and craving approval at all times.
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If Stop & Frisk is struck down by the pandering NYC politicians, increases in crime & eventual terrorist attacks will be on them.
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Our economic policies should be focused on protecting workers and putting America first, not pandering to the desires of Big Labor.
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Pandering to Trumpism previously seemed like a necessary way to win rural votes, and now it's not an entirely sure bet.
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A history of pandering to the ultra-Orthodox in Brooklyn goes back at least to the days of Mario M. Cuomo.
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They have accused him of pandering to right-wingers, and past versions of the legislation failed to make it through parliament.
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"OK, this is the most pandering we've ever done," Porter said, laughing, before scuttling off to grab a place in line.
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Still the Magic Realist landscapes seem best, partly because they give us the thrill of seeing with children's eyes without pandering.
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The spectacle of superhero franchises trying to engage women can be amusing when it's not insulting, pandering or straight-up weird.
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There's a kitsch quality to a lot of Latino outreach and some pretty silly pandering — you know, a sombrero, a piñata.
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Luscious though it all was, the stuffing had been let out; couture for the casual everyday era, without pandering or gimmicks.
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They accused the authorities of pandering to widespread anti-chaebol sentiments and building their case against Mr. Lee with little evidence.
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There's a more effective way to defang dog whistling that emerges from recognizing that playbook involves far more than racial pandering.
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In today's hyper partisan environment, pandering or convincing others that your viewpoint is the only way forward no longer are effective.
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Fortunately, a growing number of legislators are calling upon the VA to break this pattern of pandering to the perpetually offended.
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So to accuse Lizzo of pandering to the white gaze, when all she does is her work, is silly and unfair.
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To the accusation of pandering to the SUV-enthralled masses, Lamborghini's best defense is that it has created an awesome machine.
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Seeing the Enterprise, Pike and a child Spock all felt like organic parts of the story, rather than pandering fan service.
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It just reminds those of us who can that the only thing worse than an obnoxious gringo is a pandering one.
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But it's hard to deny, as Vox's German Lopez argues, that Trump is pandering to those with a white nationalist worldview.
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Not everyone thought the scene was necessary, though, and some have even argued that the film was "pandering" to its women audience.
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Some of Trump's strongest supporters are Northeastern Republicans, like Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie, whose ideological pragmatism eventually blurred into careerist pandering.
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So just how authentic is all of that sustainability messaging, and how much of it is simply pandering to the modern consumer?
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The big picture: Many people felt that the Academy was "pandering in reaction to declining ratings" for the awards show, writes Rottenberg.
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The policy backlash against globalisation in America is not based on a popular revolt; rather, it is pandering to a dwindling minority.
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It's hard," adding, "It's not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day.
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And while some people accuse her of pandering when she talks to any African-American, there is much evidence to the contrary.
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Such substantive issues as unemployment, housing and the cost of living are being virtually ignored in favor of fearmongering and populist pandering.
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Its naked pandering to prejudice was worse than anything since Pat Buchanan's culture wars speech at the Republican convention 24 years ago.
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Corbyn himself is now pandering to the right wing; he ordered Labour MPs to vote to begin the Brexit process in Parliament.
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With money and ambition on his side, the conservative candidate does anything to win—including intense scheming and unabashed pandering to voters.
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This realm of statistical content is a break from content based on anonymous sources, unfulfilling clickbait, beef imagineering, and net-zeitgeist pandering.
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Some major food companies are pandering to activists by eliminating GMO ingredients from their products, but consumers might not like the results.
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Too much, and it just becomes pandering, which was one of the main (few) complains of this show in the first place.
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In case the pandering these-coddled-kids-today point isn't clear enough, one of his officemates proudly displays a soccer participation trophy.
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Marvel Studios will have to craft a narrative that can actually show them becoming a couple, otherwise, it'll only feel like pandering.
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While invoking the country's honor, Indian politicians are pandering to their vote banks, in some cases by indulging their dislike of Muslims.
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"It is sad that Chairman Nadler is only interested in pandering to the press and pleasing his radical left constituency," Sanders continued.
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What we have seen from the Democrats with their offers of free college and student loan forgiveness is pandering at its worst.
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Lux, a lifelong Democrat, launched into a tirade against Hillary Clinton, accusing her of always pandering to African-American or Hispanic voters.
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In fact the UFC has decided to stock this card almost entirely with Australians and Kiwis in pandering to the Perth crowd.
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The result is not just pandering and overdetermined but abstract and, in a strange way, sad in terms of what it reflects.
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Like Trump, Ford was a scandal-plagued candidate who won the election by pandering to downscale voters and blasting Toronto's urban elites.
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With the media pandering to universal audiences, will 'niche' humor like left-leaning societal satire even scale to Onion heights ever again?
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But this was more than mockery — we were protesting Clinton's political pandering to black voters, something she's been doing throughout her campaign.
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"I have friends who think Kamala Harris is pandering for the black vote, talking about hot sauce in her purse," Jacobs said.
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"It's a very small group of politicians who are pandering to the local politics," he said, according to the New York Post.
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" Then the pandering begins, with a line about how women are not a special interest group, and that "all issues are women's issues.
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The success of Christian films at the box office, and Trump-country pandering sitcoms like Roseanne, proves there's a significant market out there.
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John Kerry accused Dean of pandering to the National Rifle Association, but then in the general election he did exactly the same thing.
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Democrats and Republicans need to focus on those priorities and leave the pandering to the middle class and the rich for another day.
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His many Sinhalese-nationalist admirers care little for reconciliation and resent pandering—as they see it—to the sensitivities of the tiresome Tamils.
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Shahbaz Taseer, the son of the assassinated governor, believes Khan's strategy of pandering to religious conservatism is dangerous, because it mainstreams religious fundamentalism.
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When he's not pandering to Bachelor fans, Christensen is advocating for a "mental health crisis center" as a way to combat gun violence.
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If a Republican thinks the Democrats are going to vote for him because of one little addition to this bill, that&aposs pandering.
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" Liz Hill, press secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, said: "The accusations lobbed at the secretary are nothing more than political pandering.
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More important, there's an endless list of startups pandering to their impulse to stay indoors, with services from online shopping to food delivery.
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Voters on both sides need to figure out when a politician is actually doing something and when he or she is just pandering.
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At a time when the Japanese entertainment industry viewed anime as lowbrow and pandering, Evangelion challenged the medium's boundaries and its audiences' expectations.
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Stop Pandering, Start Listening Millennials are naturally skeptical when it comes to promises from politicians, and they know when they're being pandered to.
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Donald Trump is in large part the product of the Republican Party's pandering to a shrinking base with ever-more unrealistic, maximalist promises.
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This is a topic with the potential for stereotype and pandering, and that is the last thing we would ever want to do.
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"Great question" - Martin O'Malley officially pandering for speaking time — Colin Diersing (@cdiersing) January 18, 2016 I saw Martin O'Malley for a second there.
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Yet his front-runner status is based less on Mr Trump's wit than on his gift for understanding and pandering to people's fears.
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Done badly, it's pandering and forgettable—done well, as on this lush Lorde-ish pop gem, it's gorgeous, tender, and a bit scary.
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Dollarhyde mentioned comments she's seen from queer players of The Outer Worlds who see Parvati not as pandering, but a fully developed person.
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One of those measures included scrapping a wealth tax, which seemed evidence of a Rothschild banker like Macron pandering to his wealthy friends.
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Maybe all that these fliers signify is pandering to the Kremlin by local bureaucrats eager to impress the authors of a propaganda blitz.
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Trump has repeatedly used the former first lady's gender against her, arguing that she plays "the woman's card" while pandering to female voters.
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Analysts say Mr Silverman also prioritised keeping consumers happy — hence the discounts — over pandering to the artisans peddling their trinkets on the site.
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Front Burner Mother Wit Cluckity Chicken Bone Broth, from the chef behind the Pandering Pig in Upper Manhattan, is rich and deeply flavorful.
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Thankfully, though, Ms. DuVernay has dispensed with the winking and cutesiness that are Hollywood's preferred ways of pandering and condescending to grown-ups.
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He and Edmund Malesky at Duke University argue in a new book that much of what's going on here is pandering by politicians.
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Other critics have also accused the Morales's government of pandering to drug traffickers, but the basis for some of those accusations is questionable.
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Not solely for this reason but their pandering to the black community has become a trap for the party and for black people.
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"I want you to know that people are going to see this and say, 'she's pandering to black people again,'" he told Clinton.
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Political pandering is nothing new in Appalachia, where the coal industry has wooed and intimidated generations of state lawmakers to favor mine owners.
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But she said she had been frustrated watching past debates because she saw candidates' appeals to voters based on their identities as pandering.
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Keep pandering to the politically incorrect and the privileged if you want, but do not expect the depth and nuance that experience brings.
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I want an interrogating love-letter that is firm but reverent of the source material, not a pandering retelling with too many adjectives.
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There's nothing about Venom that feels particularly tailored to or pandering to China, unlike many other films that have courted the country's interest.
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Audiences would aggressively demand encores of the entire performance if they had enjoyed it (Toscanini, however, did not like pandering to such extravagant requests).
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You see it in his extraordinary position on immigration, pandering to the Democrats' extremist open borders base with his utterly irresponsible "sanctuary state" preening.
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State-sanctioned pandering to the Buddhist majority's hatred of the Rohingyas, a Muslim group, has driven about 720,000 from the country following appalling violence.
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The two were indicted Wednesday on multiple charges, including kidnapping, rape, sexual battery and pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, the prosecutor said.
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Perhaps Maine Republicans doubt their ability to appeal to a majority of voters, and instead must discourage turnout while pandering to their own base?
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"He's pandering to the sort of visceral reaction people have for revenge against terrorists, which is not what motivated the Bush administration," Yoo said.
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The review, much like music itself, runs the risk of becoming an artform diluted by the internet's shameless pandering to its lowest common denominator.
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Pandering to a handful of billionaires and special interests would impose huge harm upon our generation, upon future generations, and upon our fragile planet.
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Mr Rama insisted that his country's efforts to join the EU would continue, and blamed governments pandering to populist parties for keeping it out.
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Cameron's 2005 pandering, which he repeated several times before his ascension to the premiership in 2010, illustrated Cameron's approach to the Euroskeptics: appease them.
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So if prosecutors start to go down this road of -- the word I used before was "pandering," somebody's going to get caught in that.
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The world is your audience, so you need to start selling to it instead of pandering to who you think is buying your product.
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In the final months of the 2016 election cycle, Hillary Clinton was regularly mocked for attempting to understand memes and pandering to younger voters.
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The festival's organizers, the story suggested, were pandering to the writers of color who were policing them with their paranoid insistence on political correctness.
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For all its talk about creating a more "open and connected world", Facebook appears to be quietly pandering to more government requests for censorship.
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That "explicitness," though, also gives English-speaking artists the opportunity to create pandering homages to Latin sounds in the hopes of finding a hit.
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Speeches were given; pandering promises were made; delegates cheered; balloons fell; and then the media began to dissect and criticize everything that was said.
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Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, although fellow Cubans, seem woefully misaligned with the majority of Hispanic values, despite pandering to have us believe otherwise.
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Mr Trump's AIPAC speech, which unusually for him he read from a prepared text, was a mixture of pandering, implausible bluster and contradictory promises.
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In the US, Breitbart has gained notoriety for pandering to the alt-right: a loose online movement that rejects multiculturalism, feminism, and political correctness.
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I'm sure plenty of people have declined to repost the call to action for fear of appearing needy or like they're pandering for engagement.
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This can be a grim business if a campaign pursues a core-vote strategy of pandering and stoking the partisan passions of their base.
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Sinn Fein's northern leader Michelle O'Neill accused Brokenshire of "pandering to the DUP" who she said were blocking the legitimate demands of Irish nationalists.
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He accused the government of pandering to a hard right-wing agenda and said he would call on independent lawmakers to block the proposal.
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From that moment of combustion, it became clear that Mr. Trump's views were matters of dangerous impulse and cynical pandering rather than thoughtful politics.
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Y.) on Sunday said some Democrats are vilifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a form of political pandering to the party's left wing.
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" Bloomberg also had choice words for Cruz, saying that while his "pandering on immigration may lack Trump's rhetorical excess," he is "no less extreme.
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The apology struck Hal as both defensive and pandering, suffering, as all acts of public contrition do, from a confusion over the intended audience.
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After decades of pandering to intolerance while working against the needs of working-class Americans and minorities, the Republican Party appears headed for disaster.
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His Vine account is full of brutally funny six-second remixes of right-wing politicians, washed-up musicians, evangelical Christians, and pandering comedians alike.
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Both Lonina and Gates, the man accused, have now been charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery, and pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor.
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We need an end to the sort of pandering that says "of course immigration controls are necessary" when that isn't the problem we're facing.
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Rock music, inherently, is corny, gross, pandering, stupid, stubbornly unaccepting of changing trends while also extremely self-conscious of how it's perceived by others.
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He's made a career out of making his conservative pandering appear like contrarianism and this is one of the more strained attempts at it.
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Insults, invective and pandering have been poor substitutes for serious debate about the direction in which this country is going — or should be going.
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Liberal supporters of Widodo have criticized him for pandering to conservatives, raising concerns over the erosion of Indonesia's reputation for religious tolerance and pluralism.
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That mix is the best of both worlds for politicians: It proves they can still legislate, while pandering to ideological voter bases for 2020.
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"This is clear pandering to an extremist contingent of government leaders who believe that transgender people don't or at least shouldn't exist," Strangio said.
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When he was a student in the 1990s, Mr. Goddard said there was no interest in pandering to the general public, let alone tourists.
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Its content is fake and pandering and boring and repetitive—how many times will Lucy post variations on the same recipe for buttermilk biscuits?
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Karlan "should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it," the first lady tweeted.
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By concealing his failures, suppressing academic rivals and pandering to Stalin, Lysenko survived for decades, although his influence began to wane in the 1950s.
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Some leaders were described as dependent on popular support, others as uninterested in it, in case dependence made a change of mind seem like pandering.
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The museum inaugurated the opening with several exhibitions, each curated with children in mind, but by no means pandering or dumbing down the artistic mission.
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Amid and after both elections, liberals complained to and warned conservatives—as they have for decades—that Republican politicians were pandering to racists for votes.
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It'd be easy to dismiss as election-season pandering, but Siemiatycki said you'd be surprised how many transportation projects get kickstarted by an offhand remark.
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As defined by many pandering politicians, "religious freedom" is in danger of becoming code for accepting public money while imposing faith-based values on others.
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Mr Trump, too, faces a difficult balancing act between pandering to his Mexico-phobic base and getting along with the United States' most important neighbour.
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However, she reneged after the school honored Trump on Friday, saying she would not be complicit in "pandering" to the president's record on racial issues.
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Being objectified like this refutes many of the positive messages Rousey has so far epitomized about achieving tremendous success without pandering to traditional gender norms.
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It is her intransigence, her pandering to hardline Brexiteers and her refusal to compromise on her red lines that have made Britain a laughing-stock.
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But while it's easy to write off the return of the physical keyboard as a bit of nostalgic pandering, it's not worth writing off entirely.
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Instead, Marge attempts to rewrite the story in the most pandering way possible, making the main character a net neutrality activist who rescues wild horses.
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There are other, even more brutal, historical precedents for presidential candidates pandering to racial fears and winning elections by appealing to our worst racial impulses.
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But the genius of the Trump campaign's racial pandering -- on its most dazzling display in his acceptance speech -- is also part of its moral decay.
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But in this case, the obvious pandering to millennials, many of whom are genuine activists and search out brands that are socially conscious, royally backfired.
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Mr Trump, more extremely, is disliked by 220% of Americans, especially non-whites, a contempt he has earned by pandering to white Americans' ugliest prejudices.
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Both sides need to go back to the drawing board to fix these problems with something better than the usual short-term pandering... and fast.
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She is not only pandering to Republicans for their support, but she is seeking the endorsement of President Nixon's former secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.
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It can also provide the wisdom and courage to ignore the incessant financial pandering by conflicted financial firms, the media and others — including Uncle Joe.
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Yet the adoption of Spanish by politicians is rarely risk-free, inviting questions of authenticity, inevitable accusations of pandering and the potential for overzealous use.
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But Valenti short-sells her peers when she suggests humor is a pandering concession or a rictus grin women must wear to mask their pain.
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Part of the strategy gap I see among many in the GOP is a goal of not pandering to anyone based on gender or race.
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If we do, then maybe the voters (and hence, the pandering pols) will understand why it's important for us to spend more time addressing security.
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Pretty without pandering, it contains fleeting allusions to folk music and sends the cellist on an excursion into the spidery upper harmonics of the instrument.
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Nevada Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto slammed the silence of opponent Joe Heck after a former aide accused her of "Hispandering" — pandering to Hispanics.
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It's in part thanks to abstract issue appeals — Democrats support action on climate change and mostly avoid pandering to anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists.
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The core of the GOP argument is that Biden is guilty of pandering to women instead of seeking the best qualified person for the job.
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More of the tired pandering and insulting appeals to identity politics, which does little more than pay lip service to minority voters every four years.
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Scorning any pandering route, Dreamlands instead asks us to revel in its disorder and embrace the shape-shifting nature of moving image art's motley forms.
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It is brimming with references that only parents will get, and though I find them pandering, I have legitimately laughed out loud at the show.
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This was obvious pandering to regressive generals and right-wing zealots as well as an effort to shift the focus from his dysfunctional White House.
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In 1999, she wore a Yankees hat when the team visited the White House following a World Series win, and was criticized for political pandering.
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This is, in part, because the early Chavista governments rammed home the idea that increasing the cost of gasoline would be pandering to neoliberal economics.
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A thoughtful, serious argument about why single-payer isn't the best path forward would have won Clinton more fans than this kind of obvious pandering.
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The cynical takeaway is that movies like these are pandering to social progressives (for what it's worth, both appear to be set in California suburbs).
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He is, instead, pandering to the party's elite, consisting mainly of big donors and the network of apparatchiks at think tanks, media organizations, and so on.
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Last month, Mr. Mullins accused the commissioner of "political pandering" in disciplining a sergeant present for the encounter that led to Mr. Garner's death in 2014.
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Ed Yardeni, president of investment advisory Yardeni Research, shrugged off the latest iteration of antitrust efforts as "populist pandering," not an existential threat to the companies.
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Having "Glee" alum Darren Criss essentially serve as the evening's too-giddy emcee also felt like overt pandering to social media while squandering his considerable talents.
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Upon arrival at the pits, Dennis is immediately struck with the futility of such a pandering contest when our time on this planet is so finite.
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That conclusion, sharpened by the failure of elected Republicans to resist the president's pandering to Vladimir Putin, has forced Never Trumpers to a moment of reckoning.
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Pandering to the Base: With the exception of Mr. Paul, every senator became less congenial with members of the opposite party once the presidential campaign began.
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And this broader voter base would force politicians to stop pandering to ideological extremes and instead satisfy a wider cross section of a more diverse electorate.
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He uses a lot of classic JT pandering about dreams and miracles and souls while still using the word freak, because he's old school like that.
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It was during his 22 years as prime minister that the party's reputation for cronyism, high-handedness and pandering to the ethnic-Malay majority was honed.
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Granted, instant messaging is only a part of it, but I fear we risk feeding the technology addiction by pandering to this urgency in replying instantaneously.
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Clinton has also tried playing into the meme game, although the tone of jokes like "delete your account" come across as less weird and more pandering.
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But because much less of what he says now is gut-level extemporaneous pandering, Trump has also compelled us to treat his pronouncements with more seriousness.
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He has been charged with pandering, which can send him to prison for 20 years, for allegedly coercing a woman into prostitution, Sheriff Wriggelsworth tells PEOPLE.
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The article itself is well written and very objective with the evidence, which is refreshing in today's pandering and force-fed biases in most media outlets.
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I mean, now they're suddenly born-again internet haters, but they were, as I said on Twitter, they were pandering suck-ups for a long time.
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" According to the Washington Post, Rose's lawyers believe the plaintiff does not deserve anonymity because she's "openly pandering to the media on a nationwide blitz tour.
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In short, it depends on the nature of the flip, the outcome of the flop, and whether his shifts are received as pandering or simply evolving.
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And then in four years, Republicans will realize that this anti-intellectual, white power pandering resonates with Americans, and they'll birth an even more monstrous candidate.
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Earlier this month, conservative pundit Erick Erickson wrote that the LP needed to "grow up" by pandering to #NeverTrump Republicans who hate gay marriage and abortion.
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In the past, with Iron Man and Transformers films, the pandering included casting a few Asian actors or setting the final act in major Chinese cities.
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He was arrested for abetting a prostitution ring (the charge was later reduced to felony pandering) and says he has been raided by the FBI twice.
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The heart of the complaint is that a Socialist government, meant to be the guardian of workers' rights, is pandering to corporate bosses by dismantling them.
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" Trump described Clinton as "weak, ineffective, pandering" and said an investigation into her handling of classified material shows she is "either a liar or grossly incompetent.
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Any source with which you completely agree all the time is not credible; it is pandering to you and luring you into false facts or beliefs.
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In terms of reaching conservatives where they live, Democrats could learn a thing or two from Republicans—without pandering to the prejudices that the party promotes.
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Disney sells some silly tropes, and its current attempts to seem corporately woke too often turn into pandering that misses people's problems with those silly tropes.
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TV and film studios tend to prioritize audience over subject, and so Hollywood consistently finds itself pandering to white audiences who simply don't know any better.
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There's a clarity to such commitment that keeps people in their seats, a ruthlessness toward pandering to the prevailing winds (or rain) that is itself desirable.
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Also from Germany, Veronica Solomon's wonderfully original and weirdly hypnotic "Love Me, Fear Me" is a stop-motion claymation toying with themes of transformation and pandering.
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Deloach wonders if this election cycle will bring about real change for her and her community — or if candidates are just pandering for the black vote.
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His young viewers trust him because he speaks to them without condescension or pandering, and also without pretending he is anything other than a grown-up.
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Americans with disabilities want to be recognized as an interest group worth pandering to — not as a source of inspiration or pity for the general public.
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They see the new proposals by both candidates as pandering to black votes, although they each mentioned that Sanders had been active in the civil rights movement.
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" However, The Global Times, a provocative but state-sanctioned tabloid, has gone further, calling Trump "ignorant as a child in foreign policy" and "pandering to irresponsible attitudes.
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The then-Democratic frontrunner was only seen as out of touch, and was regularly mocked throughout her run for pandering to the youth with incredibly corny slang.
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By those standards, her latest failing—pandering to the demands of Islamist agitators and refusing to defend the secular principles of the constitution—may seem relatively mild.
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This breaking of the fourth wall is one of the easier laughs, pandering that emphasizes the reduced expectations of improvisation instead of the aspirations of scripted comedy.
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Often accused of pandering to racist, Fascist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic elements within the electorate, she is rally-savvy and her campaign style is doggedly impressive.
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But debasing the debate about race into senseless finger-pointing and disingenuous pandering further humiliates minority communities without offering concrete solutions to the complicated challenges we face.
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The rest of the trailer, with the shots of fancy cars and Thompson and Hemsworth running dramatic, would feel like pandering if it didn't look so cool.
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In one popular interpretation of comics history, American superhero comics started out as simple, pandering stories for kids, but have matured and become more sophisticated over time.
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That's surprising, and unfair, even, considering those same fans have criticized the star for being too politically vocal or pandering to the LGBTQ community in the past.
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Pointing to a rise in drug overdose deaths in recent years, the deputy attorney general denied that the new policy was just political pandering to law enforcement.
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"We deserve better, but what we saw tonight was a promise that the bickering, the pandering and the polarization will continue," the former New Mexico governor added.
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The recent shallow Pride pandering from YouTube while they clutch their purse strings tighter around algorithmically-enforced hate speech click generators demonstrates that this is not enough.
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"Playing with these references, we kind of did the whole fetish/bondage thing," remarks Li, noting the propensity for submission to be viewed as pandering to men.
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He acknowledges that his sales plan has become schizophrenic, pandering to both the left and the right, but he says it's necessary for his business to survive.
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Anything that encourages candidates to spend more time doing on-the-ground organizing and less time pandering to the superrich is probably a good thing, on balance.
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Nothing's worse than someone pandering to the kind of idiots who keep pens in their pockets to write "for a good time" while they're taking a shit.
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Perhaps instead of either writing off minorities or blatantly pandering to them, the party needs to examine itself carefully and ask what it really wants to achieve.
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"Ambiguities in the law will create an opportunity for litigation by the very extreme environmental groups that President Obama was pandering to," said Mike Anderson, Sullivan's spokesman.
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Yet despite the breathless warnings of impending Islamic conquest sounded by alarmist writers and pandering politicians, the risk of Islamization of the West has been greatly exaggerated.
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Dr. Bronner's has become this not by pandering to consumers or following fads, but by being the only thing it's ever been: its unapologetically off-kilter self.
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But the fabulous standards, which include "Cloud Nine" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," have been reimagined with a heightened Broadway flair that stops short of pandering.
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The country's populist government argues that austerity has worsened Italy's malaise, though even some supporters of its approach wonder whether the budget is more pandering than plan.
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"Within the African-American community in the 1970s, if you were an abstract artist you were considered the enemy pandering to the white world," said Ms. Pindell.
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Mr. Modi's rule has highlighted the antagonism between his party's pandering to the dominant upper castes and the radicalism of Dalits fighting for the elimination of caste.
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Depending on whom you ask, this preponderance of rainbow swag is an encouraging sign of the progress the LGBTQ+ community has made, annoying corporate pandering, or both.
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As in a match, where the home team benefits from the crowd's support, the audience plays an essential role throughout, even if the result can feel pandering.
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Democrats who aren't fans of putting Iowa at the perpetual start often point out that it leads to a whole lot of pandering to the corn lobby.
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Social media users accused the bank of pandering, while others pointed out the disconnect of featuring a former slave on a monetary device like a debit card.
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All that from a German brand that built its reputation on high-performance sport sedans and was once criticized for pandering to American tastes by building S.U.V.s.
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President Trump's decision to move our embassy to Jerusalem is impetuous and harebrained, pandering to the worst extremists in the United States as well as in Israel.
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His gestures earned him accolades from his administration members and Republican supporters gathered in the House chamber, but others criticized Mr. Trump's checklist-style approach as pandering.
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Extensive research on public opinion suggests it would only intensify the corrosive patterns that characterize campaigning in the modern age: a reliance on money, pandering and demagogy.
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Instead, it seems Trump is pandering to some people among his base, particularly in this instance, some Christian Evangelicals and some supporters of right-wing Israeli policies.
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" Karlan later apologized after backlash from critics, including First Lady Melania Trump who said Karlan "should be ashamed [of] using a child [for her] biased public pandering.
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"Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it," she said in a tweet.
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That might sound like pandering on its face, but he says if you keep that goal in mind it really acts as an anchor to the entire process.
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Pandering to indigenous voters, the two rivals upbraided each other for having sold off indigenous land to develop tourist resorts and for incurring too much debt to China.
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To be clear: It's not Chinese viewers or cinematic expectations that are the problem here; it's Hollywood's lazy pandering to overseas viewers, which makes movies worse for everyone.
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Moon, who leads the leftist Democratic Party, has long advocated a policy of engagement and detente towards Pyongyang even as he comes under criticism for pandering to Kim.
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It means both pandering to coal miners and claims of a "war on coal" to stop climate change may resonate less today than they did a decade ago.
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Their endorsements didn't stop accusations that the mothers were being exploited for political points, in part because the Clintons have a long history of pandering to black voters.
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The problem is, party leaders like Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Reince Priebus can't constantly police the right for evidence of race and gender pandering, and related scams.
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And in an attempt to cut at Cruz's own conservative credibility, Rubio has been slashing the Texas freshman for political pandering to the right wing of his party.
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Many of Pakistan's problems, including violence against religious minorities, were the result of the government failing to be sufficiently Islamic and instead pandering to the West, he said.
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In the past you could take MTV to task for pandering to its audience, but in the absence of a coherent message, who exactly is being pandered to?
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It doesn't particularly help that many of these attempts can be viewed as shallow pandering (see: the time she tried to do the "Whip/Nae Nae" on Ellen).
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Because she has been really ugly in trying to destroy Bill's mistresses, and she is pandering to women so obviously when she is only interested in getting power.
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The Cuomo administration's environmental policy has always been a slipshod agenda of progressive pandering, but before this, its impact on many average New Yorkers had not been noticed.
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Trump also accused Democratic governments of pandering to black and Latino voters while perpetuating policies unfavorable to them, and argued he could bring real change to those communities.
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And Adams hardly fits the profile of a pandering nostalgist; otherwise, he would not have written " The Death of Klinghoffer ," the most politically divisive opera of recent decades.
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However, in retrospect, Cruz's answer seems to have been nothing more than the type of phony, disingenuous rhetoric that many have come to expect from pandering Washington politicians.
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While the week was billed as a public-private sector conclave, those who attended were heavily scrutinized for pandering to President Trump while simultaneously opposing his political ideologies.
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There was very little excess verbiage, no pandering to the decorative or the shock of the underboob, and no falling back on the safety net of the tux.
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I wanted to be cool and desired by men, because even as a teenager I knew implicitly that pandering for male approval was a woman's most effective currency.
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There's celebrity cheerleading, troop-rallying and youth-pandering, and then there's using the tools available to speak to audiences often deemed too unreliable to depend on for votes.
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At least she can take comfort in the fact that these accusations of pandering have been lodged at some of our greatest black artists, from Whitney to Prince.
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The Republican Convention in Cleveland last week was like a four-day-long Fox-fest, full of fearmongering, demagoguery, xenophobia, third-rate show biz, pandering, and raw anger.
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"You have to wonder if the [presidential] candidates are committed to these issues or if they are pandering to the pulse of the community right now," she said.
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Then there are judges like Aaron Persky, who amid the uproar over his sentencing of Brock Turner voiced frustration that public opinion and reelection pandering could rule his bench.
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The now-52-year-old, who managed an upscale prostitution ring that catered to the rich and famous, was arrested in 1993 and charged with five counts of pandering.
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An ad placed by Warner Brothers Records was seen as too pandering and gleefully downvoted into obscurity (Imgur also features a Reddit-like voting system of upvotes and downvotes).
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Sites like OKCupid, JDate, and Christian Mingle followed, catering to the introverts of the world, pandering to people's loneliness, promising relationships and even, later, flexing with married user testimonials.
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Stuart Dunnings III, a former prosecuting attorney in central Michigan's Ingham County, was arrested in March and charged with 15 criminal counts, including felony pandering and multiple prostitution misdemeanors.
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Lost had none of Game of Thrones' mass appeal, nor its knack of pandering to audiences with dragons and twists based in character, not in metaphysics and smoke monsters.
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" They're all for freedom and equality, they say, but sneer at the mechanisms that might actually help get us there as bleeding-heart pandering to the dreaded "politically correct.
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And after her 1993 arrest for pandering, pimping, and narcotics possession, Corbally gave her tens of thousands of dollars in cash to help Fleiss pay her mounting legal bills.
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Mr Peña's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is torn between pandering to its traditional base and appealing to younger Mexicans who, like their peers elsewhere, are more relaxed about cannabis.
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The Omaha World-Herald reports that 45-year-old Douglas Goldsberry of Elkhorn was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court after pleading no contest in September to pandering.
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It bounces between sounds in an almost disorienting way, a pointed way of avoiding the sort of pandering pop that sometimes follows a consensus-building behemoth like Modern Vampires.
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It's the most pandering sort of cliffhanger, both unearned (where was the Enterprise during this entire Klingon war?) and a shameless attempt to lure viewers back for next season.
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We have a primary system that encourages pandering because you got to find the lowest common denominator because that&aposs where the bucket of votes that you need is.
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I see a Jewish woman with living memory of the Holocaust who is more likely reacting to the normalization of neo-Nazi propaganda than pandering to Notorious RBG readers.
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A pandering charge can be applied if a partner drives me to work one day, or even just by the fact that I share material wealth in my marriage.
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Our life could be torn apart by pandering laws despite the fact my partner also does sex work and is just another struggling queer and disabled person like me.
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Then again, Edinburgh—and indeed, Greyfriars Kirkyard—has form when it comes to pandering fantastical bullshit to tourists, cynically exploited by local business owners, and indulged by the press.
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Sanders, meanwhile, accused his rival of pandering to African-American voters by cozying up to Barack Obama and even accused the President himself of being wrong on some issues.
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Clements was arrested in September 2016 on six counts of rape and six counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
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Blackford said the government was "pandering to an anti-immigration mantra to drive the net UK migration numbers down" and said he would continue to fight the family's cause.
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There was even a robust discussion about her decision to blast music from R&B legend Mary J. Blige at her rally and implications about pandering to black voters.
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Some suggestions—nix the rainbow-colored Manhattan plot (pandering), describe a single same-sex encounter as a behavior not a sexual orientation (imprecise, not supported by the data)—stuck.
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By requiring candidates to take a definite stand on the issues and basing each voter's ranking on those explicit commitments, our nudge undermines the effectiveness of any such pandering.
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Refusal to do so is not merely an act of pandering to a vocal minority of predatory propagandists, but will directly cause the disability and death of innocent children.
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The USMCA is too important to be derailed by the kind of politics and pandering to the socialist wing of the Democratic Party we saw with the border bill.
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His chief strategist, Paul Manafort, was criticized for saying on a Sunday show that the candidate would be "pandering" if he went with a woman as a running mate.
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The Democratic party is facing an existential crisis, with some arguing that a centrist stance is a stale and pandering one that cost the party in the 2016 election.
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The pictures "are not about pandering to some perceived male gaze but instead about embracing the fun of being young and in your body," Dunham wrote in the newsletter.
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But without context to counterbalance it, latching onto every vulnerable moment confirms the absolute worst media stereotype of pandering to athletes who volunteer even the smallest crumbs of authenticity.
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"To be honest with you — I don't want to sound like I'm pandering or excusing terrorism — but both the FARC and the AUC, they were model inmates," he said.
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The mayor, his aides and supporters have defended Mr. de Blasio's stances as a reflection of his true self and say that anything else would be pandering or false.
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From Richard Nixon's Southern strategy to Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen" and "strapping young buck" to George H.W. Bush's Willie Horton ad, the G.O.P. has prospered by pandering to prejudice.
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He spends much of his time pandering to Reddit bros and Rick and Morty fans on social media; the rest is spent bankrolling a series of futuristic transportation endeavors.
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"Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it," Melania Trump wrote in a rare tweet.
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It's not just that Republicans fear primary challenges from candidates pandering to the racist right, although they do; Trump is already supporting challengers to Republicans he considers insufficiently loyal.
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Unserious about the country's tradition of global engagement, this generation has squandered the prestige of Britain's place in the postwar international order, all for petty party advantage and pandering.
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SARA EISEN: AS IT RELATES TO THE STOCK PRICES, MIKE, DO YOU THINK THERE'S TOO MUCH PANDERING OVER THE YIELD CURVE, THE SHAPE OF THE YIELD CURVE RIGHT NOW?
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But of course, Cosby's legal team is pandering to this identity, saying that this whole thing is "a political scheme to destroy America's Dad," according to the Associated Press.
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And even though the Rohingya may be unpopular in Myanmar, pandering to racism and atrocities, even if it ensures broader public support, is an unacceptable stance for any leader.
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And while Jordan Valley annexation isn't inevitable under Netanyahu — many Israeli observers think this is empty pandering to right-wing voters — others think he's quite likely to follow through.
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Indeed, Brexit follows years of pandering to fears over immigration, cast as legitimate concerns, with polling consistently placing the issue at the top of the public's list of concerns.
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It's the quadrennial spectacle when the divisiveness and base pandering of the warring political parties and their campaigns shift from its background roar into a riot of partisan absurdity.
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It is a testament to Trump's prowess as a pandering politician — more than the evolving immigration views of Republican voters — that his idea has caught on with such fervor.
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What these early artists knew deep down was that the pandering of commercial messages to our inner desires was having long-term effects on our individual and collective health.
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What's more, Trump appears to be recklessly pandering to the uninformed part of the American electorate that does believe in such a connection between the mainstream and the fringe.
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Much has been said about chefs pandering to social media, often to the detriment of their dishes, and this particular piece of insanity might just be the trend's logical conclusion.
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When the photos were taken in 2008, Drake may have been trying to offer a conscious critique on the rap industry becoming a modern minstrel show pandering to white audiences.
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In the New York Times interview, Bateman repeatedly spoke for, or cut off, his female costars, all while pandering to the patriarch, in life and fiction, of the family: Tambor.
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As is, our volunteer Army overwhelmingly comprises young working-class people who, in the eyes of most unaffected Americans and despite all the patriotic pandering, have become mere collateral damage.
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But he had to know that this type of humor was, at best cribbed from some of the most hateful corners of the internet and at worse pandering to them.
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By pandering to Democrats and pursuing liberal policies—most notably the disastrous Iran deal—the Tennessee senator acted against the interests of his constituents and sabotaged his own political career.
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"You are more concerned with consent decrees, settlements, pandering to police-hating groups than negotiating a contract with us," Patrick Murray, union vice president, said, according to the newspaper report.
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"Many people find its take on games and so-called genre art to be a dull, pandering tableau of reference points as an end unto themselves," the A.V. Club informed.
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So instead of "stories that are queer that are pandering to straight audiences," Revry seeks out shows, movies, music, and podcasts that are by, for, and about the queer community.
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Tumbles is alone at night, after participating in a right-wing debate show, drinking herself into a stupor after reading transphobic comments from the very right wingers she's pandering to.
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An idealistic liberal college student—aggrieved by money in politics, disgusted by the mainstream candidates' empty pandering, desperate for real change—is preparing to cast his first vote for president.
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"You are more concerned with consent decrees, settlements, pandering to police-hating groups than negotiating a contract with us," said Patrick Murray, union vice president, according to the newspaper report.
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Instead, Trump is more likely trying to push the media and political elite into a frenzy, pandering to his populist base with his ability to make their enemies mad online.
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She spells "you" phonetically, hence "thank u, next," which is either Grande pandering to our nostalgia for early 2000s SMS-based text or inviting us in—or maybe it's both.
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Separately, local media reported that ANC supporters in the port city of Durban marched to protest against what the party says is the pandering of the judiciary to the opposition.
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Their pandering to that base, mixed with their fanatical commitment to tax cuts, has brought them to the cusp of passing a bill that is a political and substantive orphan.
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Mr. Cruz, a Texas senator, has long professed his affections for the Wisconsin staple, which he had called his favorite food well before the laws of local pandering required it.
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Given his proven track record of partisanship and pandering to the White House, it's difficult to take something authored by Nunes that seriously, regardless of what it claims to prove.
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Initially drawn to the Trump campaign by his promise of restoring jobs in the country, she sees better options for attracting voters than the use of rap, dance, and pandering.
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Koon pled guilty in the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas to four counts each of rape, kidnapping, and pandering obscenity involving a minor, reports the Lorain County Chronicle-Telegram.
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Perhaps pandering to viewers who these days expect a higher yuck factor, this new iteration is more gruesome yet much less scary, its sleekness and efficiency poor substitutes for foreboding.
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At this stage it seems unlikely that either man will become president, but the voters they are presently pandering to won't disappear even if both men's political careers flame out.
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Recent articles such as "On Pandering" by Claire Vaye Watkins—and critical responses to it—demonstrate the struggles women artists still have today in expressing themselves and in finding audiences.
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Worse, her refrain about the strength of mothers and motherhood seemed tepid enough to border on pandering, the equivalent of the male candidate who says his hero is his wife.
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Making one character black or queer or trans in a book or movie or TV show that is otherwise white or straight or cis can often feel like transparent pandering.
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When sex workers live together, support each other financially or materially, or even drive each other to work, they're at risk for state violence and can be charged with pandering.
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President Donald Trump criticized NBA coaches for what he called "pandering" to China on Wednesday even as he declined to take a stance on the sports league's dispute with Beijing.
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House Democrats, including Schiff, have said it is standard procedure for investigators to seek phone records and suggested GOP lawmakers are pandering to their base in a public relations effort.
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" Bishop's committee did the same, parodying the Patagonia message and claiming the company is "lying to you" and pandering to "wealthy elitist urban dwellers from New York to San Francisco.
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Honor John's memory by not remaining in complicit silence against injustice and abuse, by not looking the other way when democracy is threatened, by not pandering to divisions and bigotry.
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Already, we have presidential candidates and congressmen weighing in on the issue on both sides, pandering to their bases without any real understanding of the intricacies or the broader implications.
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Former campaign manager Paul Manafort said at the time that Trump was unlikely to pick a woman or minority for the position because "that would be viewed as pandering, I think."
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"Republican politicians may offer pandering promises of lower deductibles and co-pays, but the coherent conservative position is that cheaper plans with higher deductibles are a very good thing," he said.
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"Today, due to the political conditions in China, I have again been forced out," he said, accusing Europe of pandering to Beijing on human rights so as to win more business.
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" In May, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told The Huffington Post that the billionaire was unlikely to pick a woman or a minority so as to avoid being seen as "pandering.
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There is a great risk that you become so concerned with keeping ratings up that you become addicted to pandering to your audience, and you're unwilling to tell them inconvenient things.
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Clustering a number of primaries together means (theoretically, at least!) that candidates have to discuss national issues like foreign policy and the economy, rather than pandering to voters in specific states.
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In what couldn't possibly be construed in the least bit as pandering, Trump took some time during yesterday's town hall debate to pimp for some of his favorite fast food chains.
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Newcastle hasn't been the easiest place to find converts to the Neapolitan way, and Kitchin says he is not in the business of "pandering" to the pale, stodgy Northern status quo.
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They've also criticized Rouhani for pandering to the West, signaling that a hardliner win would mean a shifting of diplomatic gears and a possible heightening of tensions with the international community.
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In an interview with BET that aired over the weekend, he accused Clinton of pandering to the African-American community by cozying up to President Barack Obama on issue after issue.
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"We fundamentally reject the assumption that Democrats can only win in red states by pandering to racists and big bankers," co-founder Claire Sandberg said in an interview with The Hill.
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In Rushden part of the explanation is that David Cameron, like mainstream leaders elsewhere, has played his hand badly in the past: too often pandering to populists rather than confronting them.
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As if to distract voters from the budget pain, the Republican-controlled Legislature focused on social issues, pandering to conservative voters with proposals and debates about banning transgender restrooms and abortion.
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Ergo, the latter's retreat to the gun control issue is merely its way of pandering to those who have long been reluctant to air the black community's dirty laundry apropos criminality.
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As vile as this racist pandering was, it all pales next to Trump, whose constant appeals to racism call to mind segregationist leaders like George Wallace more than earlier modern presidents.
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Hollywood can also stack the deck somewhat by pandering to Chinese audiences, but that comes at a cost: It grants enormous leverage to the Communist Party over how China is portrayed.
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While pandering to unions seems like a no brainer for candidates in the Democratic primary, their strong alliance is in direct opposition to the preferences of much of the Democratic base.
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And even though they're slightly older now — Swae Lee is 23, and Slim Jxmmi is 24 — they're not above, depending on your angle, playing to meme culture or pandering to it.
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The right controls the courts and the police, and have, through a combination of stubborn refusal and bald-faced pandering to special interest groups, kept Iceland out of the European Union.
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But if she talks about racism, although some people will see it as pandering, they won't see it as her trying to advocate for a group that she's a part of.
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It's a move many saw as Bredesen pandering to moderate conservatives, or conservative Democrats, in the wake of a CBS poll that showed the former Governor trailing Blackburn by eight points.
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"His zeal for pandering for the extreme left's money and agenda in his race for governor is making it impossible for him to fulfill his duties as attorney general," Berger said.
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But what's also unclear, and far more pressing, is whether the country and its institutions can survive the right's shameless pandering to the mob and its ever-shifting hunt for enemies.
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Clinton's unquestioning partisanship vis-à-vis Israel, embarrassing pandering to its supporters, and deliberate ignorance of basic rights for Palestinians upsets and alienates many of us, and not just Arab Americans.
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HB: Outside the committee room, the first lady tweeted, Pamela Carlin you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering and using a child to do it.
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But regardless of whether Spielberg's latest wins the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday night, Americans should never forget the media's long history of pandering to presidents and the Pentagon.
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"The First Lady reacted to Karlan&aposs mention of her son&aposs name via Twitter, saying the Stanford professor should be "ashamed" for her "very angry and obviously biased public pandering.
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Carly Fiorina responded to critics on Sunday who said she was pandering to Iowa voters by rooting for the University of Iowa over her alma mater, Stanford, in the Rose Bowl.
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But whether his stances hint at a real rejection of multilateral engagement or represent political pandering during campaign season will reveal themselves more clearly when he takes office on January 1.
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During a separate court appearance, Osborne pleaded guilty to four counts of complicity to rape, complicity to kidnapping and pandering obscenity involving a minor, a Loraine County Court official confirms to PEOPLE.
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But consumer advocates say that the repeal is just pandering to big business and that cable and phone giants will now be free to block access to services they don&apost like.
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" The argument, in a nutshell, is that "a broader voter base would force politicians to stop pandering to ideological extremes and instead satisfy a wider cross section of a more diverse electorate.
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Moon's decisions, such as allowing South Korean athletes to march alongside their northern peers under the Korean Unification Flag, revealed a leader who was pandering to Pyongyang, experts said at the time.
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Like Identity Evropa, Vanguard America is one of the many new hate groups that have emerged in recent years and are pandering to a new, younger generation of angry, young white men.
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Many people working in tech have suggested that rather than hiring a truly diverse workforce, tech companies have resolved to deal with their diversity issues with lip service, pandering, and downright dishonesty.
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In the face of criticism for borrowing from and pandering to Caribbean, West, and South African audiences, he started the year by considering unhappy customers and went back to the old formula.
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The Southern whites it was supposed to keep in the fold kept going Republican, and the centrist, pro-business positioning and cultural pandering to white conservatives diluted the party's progressive economic message.
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This hard fought contest pits the defenders of the uncivil and cynical status quo against reformers looking to change the incentive system that rewards politicians for pandering to the most extreme voters.
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Some Republican members of Congress hope that Trump's actions and words will be downplayed by the media and by the voters as just the antics of an outsider pandering to his base.
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" [Cross Talk] Charlamagne Tha God: "I just want you to know that people are going to see this and say 'okay, she's pandering to black people again'" Hillary Clinton: "Is it working?!
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We act against our values: by procrastinating from work, by avoiding our feelings, by pandering to other people's opinions, by participating in a hateful mob reacting to the news, and so on.
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Some of the jokes didn't sit well with the audienceMany called out Niki and Gabi, who have 8.9 million subscribers on their channel, for pandering to harmful racial clichés about black women.
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She discusses the social problem of wanting to be one's crush, referencing Claire Vaye Watkins's essay "On Pandering," but also burns to a crisp certain bad apples who have broken her heart.
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" Elizabeth Hill, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, dismissed Warren's statements about DeVos on Monday, writing in a statement to CNN that they are untrue and "nothing more than political pandering.
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We've been getting used to the hijinks of the NCGA for a few years now, but this rushed law pandering to the worst of elements of human nature came out of nowhere.
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That was when Meg Wolitzer and Lorrie Moore were in the group, but we fired them because they had talent and knew how to play, which we consider pandering to the audience.
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This time it's Hillary, who, through her shameless pandering to black people in her current presidential campaign, demonstrates little interest in me beyond my capacity to get her into the Oval Office.
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But she said she wasn't interested in pandering to liberal audiences elsewhere; one of the tests of her success was whether she could perform her edgiest social commentary in more conservative Malaysia.
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It was this: If I used the British "tomahto," the very word from which I had boldly declared independence, was I cravenly pandering to foreign usage in contravention of my own beliefs?
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No major political party has since made reinstatement of the right to property a campaign issue, lest they be seen as pandering to the rich, Rajadhyaksha wrote in Mint, a daily newspaper.
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This incident was significant, not only because Jakarta is a bellwether for the national political mood, but because it demonstrated that pandering to intolerant hardliners can pay dividends at the ballot box.
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Swap "chick lit" for "sensation stories" and Bhaer's critique — this is silly, pandering, dangerous; this is not real literature — could have been cut from the 19th century and pasted into the 21st.
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I appreciated the juxtaposition of new and old that make up the evening performance, but I don't think it's a prerequisite, nor do I consider an evening without it to be pandering.
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In particular, analysts say, Ms. Raggi has shown her party's lingering penchant for protest, for playing on popular anger and for pandering to key constituencies, whether on the left or the right.
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Beatrizet is clearly pandering to buyers, as he has opted to include more elements in his engraving than were in the original: more flora, more clouds and sky, more architecture from antiquity.
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There's also the reality that the first black president has running room to engage in a certain amount of pandering to white fragility that might not play as well coming from others.
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In the 2017 elections in Virginia and Alabama, the increase in support among white voters for Ralph Northam for governor and Doug Jones's Senate candidacy affirmed that racial pandering also alienates whites.
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Without access to meaningful data how can we tell whether time spent here or there or on any of these prejudice-pandering advertiser platforms can ever be said to be "time well spent"?
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Tampa, Florida (CNN)Hillary Clinton shrugged off calls Tuesday for more congressional inquiries into her email usage as nothing more than right-wing conspiracy pandering, saying that the FBI has "resolved" the matter.
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The prospect of a President Trump is indeed worrying, but after years of nativism and cynically pandering to the baser instincts of the masses, Mr Trump is the candidate the Republican Party deserves.
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These bills, the Thin Blue Line Act and the Probation Officer Protection Act of 22019, which are scheduled for a vote in the House this week, prioritize divisive political pandering over meaningful reform.
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While DaniLeigh's version does much better than most, with a reconfigured beat and her newly recorded vocals done predominantly in Spanish, the general opportunism and pandering of the strategy nonetheless stays wholly transparent.
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"Furthermore, evidence showed that Dunnings also allegedly induced a woman to become a prostitute who had not previously been one, resulting in the charge of pandering, a 20-year felony," Schuette's statement said.
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The teenager, Marina Lonina, was charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery and pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor — the same charges leveled at Raymond Gates, 29, the man accused in the attack.
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At the bottom of the winding staircase, in the little lounge known as Bread Bar, he showed us that a serious chef could pull off a more affordable and accessible menu without pandering.
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As Mashable's Angie Han pointed out, it's not that Dumbo's cuteness is a problem on its own, but it often feels like unearned pandering in a film with little else going for it.
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But even when Democrats deign to declare that they are opposed to Republican rule, it frequently seems forced, as if they're pandering to their supporters while secretly hoping their nonsupporters won't get offended.
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Otaku focused media can become dependent on this small group, and becomes caught in a back and forth between pandering to this need for wish fulfillment and operating creatively inside these established frameworks.
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The dates of the arrests "were specifically selected to be near the Super Bowl, as this is always a time of increased prostitution and pandering activity in the host city," the department said.
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"Cruz's failures of reason, compassion, decency and humanity are products of his Christian pandering, if not an actual Christian faith," Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves said on Thursday, according to The Friendly Atheist.
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Mr. Bush first ran to the right as an unsuccessful Senate candidate in 1964, but regretted his pandering on race and returned to the center in his winning House bid two years later.
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Knowing that early in his career Mr. Fraser worked in an ice-cream parlor makes the heavy presence of sundaes on the dessert menu seem less pandering than it would in another restaurant.
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Whether this was pandering ahead of an election year or not, much of the general praise Mr. Trump offered up was accurate: The legacy of H.B.C.U.s is in every thread of American life.
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The menus were beautiful: richly colored, ornately decorated and full of fascinating details including purposefully misspelled words pandering to stereotypes ("flied lice" as opposed to "fried rice") and lyrics to Broadway show tunes.
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Trump has faced his own charges of pandering to China as he seeks a trade deal with the world's second--largest economy and looks for Beijing's help in the denuclearization of North Korea.
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This would not only afford Mr. Trump a (rare) modicum of balance, countering the impression of pandering to a specific constituency, but it would also be a major step toward solving both problems.
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GZERO notes that Hamas is left stuck in the middle — wary of the Islamic Jihad starting a full-blown conflict, but not wanting to be seen as pandering to Israel by cracking down.
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Whatever its occasional pandering, "Better Living Through Criticism" mostly exemplifies the rhetorical virtues it so enthusiastically celebrates as being peculiar to the critic: attentiveness to detail, alertness to context, a hunger for larger meanings.
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Kaine accompanied musicians Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp during a cover of "Wagon Wheel"—obviously pandering to the Oogle vote—and then joined the two on "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" afterward.
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During a separate court appearance last week, Osborne pleaded guilty to four counts of complicity to rape, complicity to kidnapping and pandering obscenity involving a minor, a Loraine County Court official confirms to PEOPLE.
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Whether you think Elizabeth Warren's and Bernie Sanders' calls to forgive student loan debt are thoughtful policy solutions or pandering to Millennial voters, there's no question the senators are speaking to a jarring problem.
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Instead of disparaging immigrants generally as "criminals" and "rapists" and pandering to the bigoted elements of his base, he's now professing incredulity that anyone would want to deport this particular subset of that population.
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Mr Baswedan denies pandering to radicals: he says he visited just to "answer questions", and to quell rumours that he is a Shia (most Indonesian Muslims are Sunni; Shias have been prosecuted as "deviants").
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Marina Lonina, 19, was initially arrested last year on charges of rape, sexual battery, kidnapping, and pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor after 29-year-old Raymond Gates sexually assaulted the other teenager.
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If Spotify is going to position itself as an authority on taste for gamers, it needs to demonstrate a better grasp on them, instead of pandering to an imagined audience sprinkled in Cheetos dust.
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To publicly embrace this spice blend is to brand yourself as "basic" (if a person), as pandering (if a brand), or as contrarian (if also acknowledging the status of pumpkin spice in the culture).
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Why it matters: The advent of 5G has been sold to the public as a global race, but that framing oversimplifies the issue and opens the door to nationalist pandering and special-interest promotions.
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Let's hope that over the next few days in Cleveland, at the Republican National Convention, we hear from some people who actually understand this complexity, can stop the pandering and bigotry, and get serious.
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Pop-loving straight girls misplaced the film, with all its queer sexual tension, as heterosexual pandering and considered it similar to college bro releases of the time, like Eurotrip and the American Pie movies.
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Warren's calls for impeaching Donald Trump and forgiving nearly all current college loans is pandering at its finest, as I suspect her views on both are right in the sweet spot for most Democrats.
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Law enforcement often tries to arrest and prosecute family members of sex workers, calling them pimps and panderers, and politicians have tried to push bills to make the definition of pandering even more broad.
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By all rights, the Jack-Jack stuff should be pandering and insufferable, but Bird's enthusiasm for the character is contagious, and he knows that every parent can relate to the boy's ingenuity for chaos.
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He portrays leaders as captives of a simple-minded public and only late in the book considers whether a supposedly bottom-up ideology may reflect top-down manipulation and pandering by politicians and lobbies.
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Macron's centrist administration has so far resisted pressure from right-wing rivals on immigration, in part because many of his own liberal supporters are uncomfortable with any measures they feel are pandering to xenophobia.
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For the 2020 Democrats criticizing Trump's pandering to autocrats, his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and other arms control treaties, while calling for U.S. withdrawal from "endless wars" are all low-hanging fruit.
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" Clinton's hot sauce looked a lot like pandering — even though, back in 2001, the journalist Michael Tomasky wrote that Clinton was "known to carry around a little bottle of Tabasco sauce on her person.
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" Kohn explained that while Trump is clearly "running a xenophobic campaign that's pandering to white nationalism," most of his supporters are filled with "resentment that is partly about identity but also about economic suffering.
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In nearby Douglas County, 16 people were arrested in a joint operation the Department of Homeland Security on charges of human trafficking, pimping, prostitution and pandering the Douglasville Police Department said in a statement.
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That fact certainly can't be attributed solely to a social media voice that many criticized as insincere and pandering, but it had a lasting impact on the ways we expect politicians to behave online.
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More fundamentally, granting one state — any state — a perennial lock on the pole position of presidential voting fosters a sense of entitlement resulting in a quadrennial parade of pandering that borders on the absurd.
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But a spate of recent flubs have marred the efforts of both candidates, with some voters saying the outreach reads as pandering, and only reminds them of how their votes are taken for granted.
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But others also pointed out how this could be more than just lazy storytelling, arguing that the move feels ignorant of Islamic theology and shows an obvious pandering to English-speaking, non-Islamic audiences.
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" Nurse Holly's wrong about a lot of things, but she's extremely wrong in thinking that her "young audience" hasn't already been exposed to the medically debunked, moral pandering of "saving sexuality for one partner.
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As Stephen Colbert pointed out in a 2015 "Late Show" segment called the "Pander Express," pandering can mean accommodating the Chinese government by altering story lines to ensure that references to China are positive.
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On Friday, the ruling African National Congress accused the judiciary of pandering to the opposition in ordering Zuma to explain why he fired Gordhan, and urged Zuma to appeal against the High Court's ruling.
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Through their comparison, a counterintuitive and skewed relationship with elitism is brought to light — conceptual art that you need an MFA to "unpack" and elite artists pandering to the masses with sexy luxury objects.
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He is not popular with the democratic establishment because unlike all the other candidates, he is not pandering to the industries accelerating Earth's Climate Disaster, the end of the world as we know it.
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For those who believe they are demeaned by wine or wine writers, I would suggest it is the wine populists who are doing the demeaning, by pandering to inchoate feelings of fear and resentment.
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After the demonstrations and violence, Trump said that there were "fine people on both sides" — a statement that was taken by both critics and supporters of the Charlottesville protests as pandering to white supremacists.
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Still, analysts believe that conditions are ripe for a shift, amid public disenchantment at the handling of Brexit, fierce internal party rifts, and a perception that both main parties are pandering to their extremes.
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It's a continuation of the strategy, if not the exact content, that made his mixtape trilogy so effective: Keeping his head down and solidifying a spot in the industry by not pandering to it.
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Though image control is certainly essential for stars, it's not pandering to fans—or constantly seeking new revenue streams, with or without these kinds of technology—that give stars their staying power these days.
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READ MORE: Italy's populist government is pandering to anti-vaxxers during a measles epidemic It has pandered to the growing anti-vaxx movement, fueling public mistrust of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination.
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"In trying to win the nomination, every one of the leading candidates dug themselves into a deep hole pandering to the anti-immigrant base of the Republican Party that idolizes Donald Trump," the letter says.
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" Pitchfork reviewed his 2010 album Thank Me Later: "Whereas the unofficial mainstream hip-hop LP rulebook previously demanded a couple 'ladies' night' tracks that were often pandering, insulting, or both, Drake lives for such softness.
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Obama rode modest economic growth and the GOP's tone-deaf business class pandering to reelection, and took his second-term oath hoping that the party's massive resistance would give way to more level-headed partisanship.
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So, while Farage may have won the early race to be President Trump's best British buddy, May knows full well that the British public expect her to be a wary partner, not a pandering friend.
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Lonne was 15 when he first spent Christmas in prison, which was the start of an endless string of prison stints on account of—among other crimes—theft, violence, smuggling, pandering, and handling stolen goods.
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President Trump's racist rhetoric makes the country less safe for people of color by encouraging and emboldening and pandering to those who wish to do harm to others based on the color of their skin.
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Inevitably, someone will be the bigger personality in the relationship and that person often ends up getting their way on the grounds of confidence alone, but there's no point pandering to that at this stage.
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Missandei and Grey Worm are exposed to be the bores that they are; Tyrion spouts obnoxious internet-pandering one liners we saw coming so long ago I think they actually popped up in Bran's flashback.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) accused the judiciary of pandering to the opposition in ordering President Jacob Zuma to explain why he fired finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a cabinet reshuffle.
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Meet the new American Girl doll: Melody Ellison Cynical folks might see a new African-American American Girl doll as pandering after the dollmaker was criticized for discontinuing two of four minority dolls in 2014.
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Then Sanders lashed out, insisting that Obama has been wrong on some issues -- largely because he thought (and said publicly, on BET) that Clinton was pandering for African-American votes by repeatedly embracing Obama's policies.
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"This is one of the most homogenous pro-abortion states in the union … This whole legislation is an exercise in posturing and pandering," said C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts.
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While this suggestion may be simple pandering, considering how unlikely legalization of prostitution would be at the federal level, it is a worrisome possibility at the local level for law enforcement and anti-trafficking advocates.
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The invaluable folks over at RioOnWatch identify three recurring categories: First are the very visible, expensive architectural projects which look nice but are seen as pandering to tourists rather than serving favela residents' true needs.
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On Tuesday, the author of the ThinkProgress piece — editor Ian Millhiser — publicly defended the thesis of his piece and accused Facebook of "pandering to the right" by allowing a conservative magazine to block liberal articles.
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In recent years, Broadway has conditioned audiences to expect either high-budget remakes with canned messages and blatant crowd-pandering (last season's Spongebob comes to mind) or high-budget sophistication à la Dear Evan Hansen.
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It is a bit of a trope in politics to turn a passion into a political asset, though nothing helps offset the whiff of pandering like a verifiable devotion that brings a sense of authenticity.
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President Trump's racist rhetoric makes the county less safe for people of color by encouraging and emboldening and pandering to those who wish to do harm to others based on the color of their skin.
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Trump simply makes explicit (that this kind of rhetoric is ultimately just pandering for votes) what other Republicans hope you won't notice—and by doing so draws them out where we can see their true colors.
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And when he indulged in the pandering to Iowa institutions that is typical of political supplicants here, he did so in his exaggerated, almost comic style — as if he were playing the role of presidential candidate.
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Those who could not bring themselves to vote for him may wonder how half of their compatriots were willing to overlook his treatment of women, his pandering to xenophobes and his rank disregard for the facts.
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In an economy growing in a slow and choppy way, displaying a vexing mix of early- and late-cycle messages, an honest weight-of-the-evidence approach could be mistaken for fickleness or pandering to investors.
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Mrs Pelosi and her fellow leaders are sustained by a sclerotic patronage system, of which her pandering to Mr Conyers was indicative, which has banished accountability and fresh talent from the upper reaches of the party.
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She meant it derisively, but if the juxtaposition between her speech and the coming Trumpocalypse reveals anything, it's that pandering to the "law and order" crowd is a lot easier than trying to make everyone happy.
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The "trying to be hip" strategy both reinforces the idea that Clinton is a pandering robot and trivializes young voters—as if millennials won't be able to digest their politics unless it is sugarcoated with emojis.
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Despite that rhetorical caution, however, on the issue of deportations both candidates ventured from standard Democratic National Committee talking points and platitudes about the American dream, launching into a frenzy of outright pandering and promised lawlessness.
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Sadly, with a microphone in her hand, all the $85033 haircuts, all the political pandering, all the pantsuits tailored to look like tuxedos, and all the braying to feign passion couldn't put Hillary back together again.
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Although criticizing the Hague-based institution for perceived anti-African bias has long been a favorite pastime for many African leaders, in most cases it amounted to pandering to a domestic audience without much real intent.
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The show's version of the black woman's experience feels pandering and stilted at times: a scrapbooked womanhood that's brimming with wit and complexity, but so deliberately curated that it feels artificial and almost devoid of personality.
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The government, closely allied to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, is walking a political tightrope because it is under pressure too from its own supporters who oppose any measures they view as pandering to the far-right.
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But mainly it's pure unadulterated fun without for one moment being pandering — the kind of book called for when, say, a sluggish mood has descended upon story time, and you're the one in the reader's seat.
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But this R&C achieves nostalgia without pandering to restriction, without going down the throwback art route, or relying too heavily on fourth-wall breaking winks and nudges—although I accept it does have its share.
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Errol Louis: Why Trump chose a Beltway soldier President Trump took a break from pandering to his base Monday night, throwing a bone to establishment Republicans he'll need to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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"His windshield-wiper party affiliation – in 1999 he switched from Republican to independent, then to Democrat in 2001, then to Republican in 2009 – suggests either internal conflict on the issues or blatant pandering," Abdul-Jabbar said.
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The more it became about what I guess we can call Benioff and Weiss's vision, the worse it got — more arbitrary, more pandering, less able to connect its grand spectacle to anything on a human scale.
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Her recent forays into jazz, country, and now the 90s R&B of "The Cure," aren't relevance grabs or pandering to convention—they're an artist leaning into who she is instead of who she's up against.
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Gates has built one of the most passionate fan bases in hip-hop through years of persistence and a total lack of pandering, writing songs that lay his thoughts and feelings out in plain, inescapable terms.
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When voters pick not just their first choice but their second, third or fourth choices too, politicians can win not by pandering to their partisan base, but by appealing broadly for second- or third-choice votes.
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Reactions by Stern — the 2005 player dress code he championed, for one — would be criticized as pandering overreaction to that same segment of society he had denounced for speaking in racial code or objecting to cornrows.
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The government, closely allied to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, is walking a political tightrope because it is under pressure too from its own supporters who opposed any measures they view as pandering to the far-right.
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White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham on Twitter called Karlan "classless," and first lady Melania Trump said Karlan should be "ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering" for mentioning her 13-year-old son.
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For every Tangerine or Viva that dominates the indie and foreign film circuit comes another whitewashed rehash of queer history, like Stonewall, or pandering attempt at inclusiveness with a mostly straight, white cast, like Jenny's Wedding.
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So did the performances by perennial nominee Laurie Metcalf (as Hillary) and non-nominee John Lithgow, whose Bill Clinton was a disarmingly fresh take on a very, very famous person, without the pandering ickiness of impersonation.
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He seldom seems interested in connecting with his audience through the familiar—in pandering to their desire for the "old Kanye"—and is driven instead by blunt honesty, which was the Old Kanye's true strategy anyway.
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READ: Italy's new government is pandering to anti-vaxxers "These trolls seem to be using vaccination as a wedge issue, promoting discord in American society," Mark Dredze, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins, said.
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In an essay called "On Pandering," which appeared in Tin House magazine in 2015, the novelist Claire Vaye Watkins wrote about the struggle to establish herself as a woman artist in the face of the patriarchy.
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The idea of him starting his first answer of the debate by speaking Spanish might have seemed like a good idea in his debate prep room but it played as pandering and overly planned in the moment.
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Their folly crosses the line into the darker world of pandering, racial accommodation, and identifying so strongly with white power as to be blinded by its destructive impact on the community they profess to defend and support.
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"The Liberals want to get tough on everyone except bankers and multinationals," thundered Lodewijk Asscher of the Labour Party, which itself was accused of pandering to business interests while in coalition with the Liberals in 2012-17.
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February 14 is just a week away, but we can't say we're quite as impressed by any of the Valentine's Day revenge stunts this year—especially since so many of them are just more pandering from brands.
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His critics have accused him of pandering, but Kasich's allies argue that if the goal of the gun control debate is to change minds, then the governor shouldn't be demonized for approaching it with an open one.
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"His main message is going to be some combination of trying to arrest the panic in fixed income markets without being seen as pandering to trump," said Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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But the winner of the Republican nomination is almost guaranteed to be an ironclad defender of the gun lobby, pandering to voters by portraying the government as intent on trampling gun owners' rights and confiscating their firearms.
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She shrugged off calls for additional congressional inquiries into her email usage as nothing more than pandering to right-wing conspiracy theorists, suggesting that the FBI "resolved" all the questions into her email use during their investigation.
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Brown, who says his organization takes a harder stance on the Second Amendment than the NRA does and opposes most forms of gun control, argued that the NRA is simply course-correcting years of pandering to lawmakers.
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"This judgment signifies unfettered encroachment of the judiciary into the realm of the executive - pandering to the whims of the opposition who want to co-govern with the popularly elected government through the courts," the ANC said.
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"In an era where we are so reliant on electronic surveillance and death by drone, there are some who will see it as little more than pandering to extremists but I think it's very good," Horgan said.
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It was a mix of defensiveness (trying to atone for her previous position on the Iraq War) and pandering (We're going to defeat ISIS!), with a hint of her real strength: her passionate and comprehensive policy knowledge.
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All we can ask after Mr. Trump's disgraceful performance this weekend pandering to the Russian strongman is why, if Mr. Putin has no compromising material on him, does Mr. Trump continue to behave as though he does.
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Justin Timberlake, fresh from releasing an album that's troubling and pandering and most of all just a bit shit, will play the Super Bowl LII halftime show at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, tomorrow afternoon.
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The pandering nostalgia, mixed with its depiction of female characters, makes Pixels feel like a movie that is aimed squarely at the kind of angry men who ranted online about the cast of the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot.
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Contributing Opinion Writer Like most Americans who don't live in the handful of swing states that decide close presidential elections, I've watched the pandering, politicking and passion directed at those lucky voters and wondered, what about us?
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What you won't hear them say, not in so many words, is that they're the ones pandering to a pacifist, progressive base — because that's where the heart and soul of the new Democratic Party seems to be.
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He says his employer is "pandering" and "jumping on the left's agenda" with the new policy, but also that people like Andreychenko who go out seeking attention give the rest of the gun community a bad name.
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The GOP responded to this data not by reinventing itself, but by trying to hustle an immigration reform bill through Congress before the very voters they'd been pandering to got a hold of the legislation and killed it.
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Trump's most grounded staffers, if not the man himself, must realize that pandering to his base will not allow him to turn around his plummeting poll numbers, as his core supporters will vote for him no matter what.
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You already know that by "rap" they mostly meant "black people," and the resulting pandering-by-caricature insulted everyone involved—the Rednecks, the Southerners Vince Russo was mocking, and the hip-hop fans and minorities they were targeting.
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"It at least leaves me with only the issue of it being political … a pandering to what was going on in the world at that point in time," Ganek said, referencing anti-Wall Street sentiment at the time.
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And the good news is that I think he's going to operate from a position of doing what he thinks is right and he knows a lot about how the system works as opposed to pandering to populism.
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This isn't to say that Antonoff isn't talented; he's clearly able to write an effective pop song, and he's helped the careers of several prominent stars, but his taste can be too a little too familiar and pandering.
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How will you draw people together to work towards the common good versus pandering to individual or "special interest" groups and how do you convince people to switch from seeing you as "Killery" to Glinda the Good Witch?
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If the rise of right-wing populism from Austria to America in recent months teaches us anything, it is that moderate pandering over immigration only raises its salience and thus benefits those for whom it is home turf.
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The Pit, one of LA's scrappier and more visionary galleries, includes the highly intellectual paintings of Allison Miller that engage your mind without a trace of visual pandering, and Florian Morlat's cardboard collages, wrily funny and unforgettably original.
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Trump's recent defense of Sanders's accusations of unfairness are based less on reality, and more on pandering to Sanders's supporters in the hope of corralling them into the so-called "silent majority" that will support Trump in November.
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Mother Wit is the brand, and it's owned by Nicole O'Brien, a self-taught chef who owns the Pandering Pig, a tiny Franco-Californian bistro in Upper Manhattan where the rich, deeply flavored organic chicken broth is made.
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Propping him up as The Superstar Basketball Player For People Who Dislike Basketball Players is point-missing, ham-headed pandering, and as such fits squarely within Bayless' job description, which is sports talk for people who dislike sports.
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READ: Italy's government is pandering to anti-vaxxers — during a measles outbreak "Halting compulsory vaccinations to surrender to the no-vaccination lobby sends us right back to the Middle Ages," said Stefano Bonaccini, the governor of Emilia Romagna.
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"Tonight's outcome was entirely predictable, and if they had been prepared to listen at any stage and engage constructively instead of simply pandering to Brexit extremists, they could have avoided it," Ms. Sturgeon said in a written statement.
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While MTV should be applauded for trying to ostensibly focus on the music and avoid the groan-inducing internet culture pandering, this, unfortunately, all feels pointless when there are no risks taken and nothing truly feels at stake.
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That sort of pandering stuff is pretty par for the course for Trump, who as president has tried to ban people from Muslim-majority countries from coming to the United States while leaning into his support from Christians.
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Davis, the Emmy Award-winning ABC correspondent, brought heat to the debate, asking candidates about the racial divide in America, criminal justice reform, and public education, while also pressing them to offer actual solutions—not just more pandering.
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Still, his speech repeatedly argued that "globalization" was an elite-driven set of policies that helped enrich the wealthiest and hurt American workers — exactly the sort of argument that most conservative thinkers have long derided as pandering protectionism.
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The pro-Trump media's leaders, publications, and followers claim the moral high ground with their denouncements of political violence and the alt-right on one hand, while pandering to the most unseemly corners of the internet on the other.
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According to multiple creators, this sort of algorithmic pandering is likely responsible for the glut of content around hugely popular children's genres, like one that features kids in medically compromised positions — receiving flu shots or injured in some capacity.
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"It just feels very pandering, and it makes you feel like maybe you can't even live up to that projection onto you, [like] you need to be the 'good gay,'" A said, instead of just being who you are.
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This smells like an awkward attempt to pander to the Youths and cash in on the de facto song of the summer—unless Ryan is actually making a reference to the song's true meaning: Uh, probably just awkward pandering.
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The first is a gripe you can find at any dinner table across America and comedy's more pandering stand-up specials: If you don't look up from your Twitbook and Facegram soon, "real life" will just pass you by.
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So, the first thing that I would say about that is for many voters establishment versus anti-establishment is really a more important barometer than the typical left right spectrum, or maybe authentic versus inauthentic or principled versus pandering.
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And then there are those who think the combination of algorithms and editors that influence the Trending Topics list — which is often a mix of hard news, celebrity pandering and shark attack videos — are not exactly understanding the audience.
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Corey Stewart ran against Gillespie in the Republican primary with a campaign that The Washington Post editorial board described as mix of "bombast, nativist venom and red-meat, race-tinged pandering"—and lost to Gillespie by just 1.2 percent.
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Ultimately, this latest move by President Trump reveals that he is solely concerned with pandering to his base, regardless of however his actions might affect his popularity with the rest of electorate or with members of his own party.
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Lashing the ANC for its patchy record in providing basic services and accusing it of pandering to the middle-class, Malema pledged that the EFF would give the poor land, water and electricity, as well as free internet access.
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From stereotyping a black reporter to pandering to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to cracking a joke about the Trail of Tears, Trump hasn't stopped with the racist acts after his 2016 election.
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Such rhetorical pandering failed to placate the rising tide of jihadism around the world in 2015, and may well have given pause to our Muslim allies about the seriousness of Obama's fight against the enemy he refused to name.
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This is the same man who hypocritically declared during his campaign that the Bible was his favorite book, even quoting from "Two Corinthians," while relentlessly pandering to the evangelical community, whose overwhelming support put him in the White House.
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International Women's Day is the perfect time to highlight the real problem: that other corporations are playing it safe by pandering to social justice warriors with absurd initiatives like disclosing gender pay gap data, which benefits absolutely no one.
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Romcoms have a long history of exploring not just love, but what it's like to fall in love right now, and Set It Up effortlessly evokes everything about being a 22000-something in 210 without pandering or feeling clueless.
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Ideologically, he was flexible: moderate sometimes (indeed, in one Texas race, left of the Democrat), while at others he would traipse round pandering to conservatives, as George Will cruelly put it, with a thin tinny "arf", like a lap-dog.
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Not long after he did some serious pandering for the Dad vote, the former governor of Arkansas made a revelation on the campaign trail today that may hurt his chances with that particular demographic: Huckabee says he's never tasted beer.
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Atlanta, whether purposeful or not (though likely intentional, given Donald Glover's unorthodox nature) dissociates itself from its most surface-level audience (black folks) by neither pandering to white audiences nor to people of color, but by landing somewhere in the middle.
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Some ARMY also asserts that the band received criticism, particularly around their first BBMA nomination for social in 2017, from those who said they were pandering to the U.S. and were only popular because of their digital footprint, not their talent.
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And he's pandering to concerns that undocumented immigrants are taking native-born (read: white) Americans' jobs — by pardoning a sheriff who was found in contempt of court for profiling Latinos as unauthorized immigrants after a court told him not to.
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Frances McDormand suggested inclusion riders in her Oscar speech — and while positive discrimination can feel like pandering to some, the data seems to suggest that waiting for the industry to catch up with the times is too complacent to work.
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Editorial Just when President Obama was attempting a reasoned debate on gun control this week, Donald Trump was engaged in his latest pandering to the gun rights crowd — vowing as president to strike down laws that bar firearms from schools.
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And the more organic stuff all feels like trolling now -- because if you put an ounce of thought into something funny (or trying to be funny) it risks appearing as if you're pandering for clicks over a more 'natural' joking vibe.
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You can look at this as a way to stuff in the few progressive wish list items that she hadn't yet mentioned — a typically overambitious, pandering move for a candidate who's long been accused of being both of those things.
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None of this pandering appears to be working, since now the male fans have taken on the part of the hysterics, with their apoplectic, inexplicable rage, their obsessive down-voting of trailers and positive reviews, their constant acting out for attention.
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Between the emphasis on CGI visuals over the story; the cheap, pandering humor; and the retroactive rewriting of continuity, Phantom Menace regressed a beloved older franchise to make it more palatable for a younger audience — one eager to buy countless toys.
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As tech coverage has moved away from gadget reporting and more toward the business and culture of the industry, the leaderboard pandering has faded some, but the site's influence remains in the back of the minds of reporters and editors.
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It is hours of endless drivel that proffers completely childish conceptions of intimacy and togetherness for the sole and pandering purpose of tricking you into the fake warmth of delusionally believing that you relate to something you only wish you did.
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On the other hand, if Trump's so-called flexibility on his core issue, immigration, is received as pandering to a gullible voter base without any real intent to follow through, his campaign might find it difficult to keep its footing.
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Gamergate's tactics included "brigading" — the act of a group targeting specific subjects and strategizing ways to collectively harass or threaten them — and sustained negative focus on any media product deemed to be pandering to feminism or progressive calls for diverse representation.
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In Februrary of 2012, Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio publicly stated that his new strategy was based on "trafficwhoring," which is the practice of pandering to the lowest common denominator of content and audience to attract the largest number of pageviews.
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In a Twitter post, the teachers union seemed pleased by the finding: While the poll showed sympathy for the Chicago Teachers Union, some respondents said the city's troubles were caused by pandering to municipal unions and an entrenched work force.
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From single-payer health care and the elimination of private health insurance to free college and massive student loan debt forgiveness to letting imprisoned convicts vote, there seems to be no line they aren't willing to cross in their pandering.
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The hypocrisy of Biden's move is seen not only in his blatant pandering, but in the fact that it undermines one of his suggested core competencies — the ability to find common ground on tough issues and forge compromise as a result.
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It's a bold statement for the English pop-rockers to include three generations of the Kuti family on a single track, and the result is one of the band's loudest and most danceable songs with no EDM radio pandering in sight.
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Preaching — and pandering — with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is absolutely no respect for a differing opinion.
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And while Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has generally resisted, his poll numbers are weak and his government is now being accused of pandering to the anti-immigration mood of his party's fringes in a populist appeal to his conservative base.
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It's been about four years since the last Macklemore and Ryan Lewis album, too, and the unlikely pop sensations' new album This Unruly Mess I've Made carries all of the pandering to jibing demographics of a campaign for political office.
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American life is increasingly polarized by age, with our politics tilted rightward by aging baby boomers voting Trump to hold off a millennial-ruled future and our cultural and commercial spheres devoted to pandering to the fashions of the adolescent.
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Like most other recurring late-night franchises of the modern era, it's pandering, juvenile, and faux-spontaneous, likely engineered by a marketing research firm to appeal to our basest desires like the flavor crystals in Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Crunch sauce.
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But more importantly, I'm a black millennial, empowered with enough historical hindsight to know the weight of my vote, and who, under no uncertain circumstances, will let pandering suffice for any candidate — least of all a Clinton — trying to get it.
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Miners across the country — like Forsman and his colleague John Daby — reacted much like Bill Rom's opponents did in the 1970s: They took it as a personal slight, evidence of a Democratic Party pandering to a radical, politically correct environmental fringe.
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President Trump criticized the NBA on Wednesday for "pandering to China" after the league issued an apology to Chinese fans over a controversial tweet from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, CNBC reports.
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"Once again the Trump administration has shown its affinity for pandering to fossil fuel interests and that it cares very little for the protection of our environment or for Indigenous Peoples," wrote the Indigenous Environmental Network in a statement. 6900.
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But those who want to come back will find a way, and policies pandering to fear and prejudice ignore the benefits of an early intervention in the lives of radicalized children, and simply force them into ever more dangerous situations.
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There are plenty of gamers and creators out there who favor a different aesthetic than the overly aggressive look that's long been associated with gaming hardware and — pandering or not — there's no reason they shouldn't have laptops to match their tastes.
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Republicans who thought Trump dropped the ball pointed to an erratic week — which included shifting positions on key issues, pandering tweets and an interview with The Associated Press in which Trump suggested he would eschew the mechanics of modern politics.
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"The BC government is pandering to industrial interests, endangering the few remaining mountain caribou, and sacrificing the wolves in the process," Gabriel Wildgen, the group's campaign manager at Humane Society International, a group supporting Pacific Wild's claim, said in a statement.
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But it's quite another to be actively pro-Trump: Welcoming a would-be strongman because he's pandering to you on a single issue rarely turns out well, and a vote for the rhinoceros is usually just a good way to end up gored.
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"The Black Census shows that the Black electorate want policies that improve our lives, not pandering photo ops at Black institutions," Alicia Garza, a principal of the Black Futures Lab, an advocacy organization that led the survey effort, said in a statement.
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"Surely, we can rise above pandering to party and Putin to act on behalf of our freedom and our security," Hoyer said to applause from Democrats, over the bangs of the gavel as the House was called to order by the speaker.
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Twitter users said Fiorina was pandering to Iowa voters after the GOP presidential hopeful announced in a tweet that she was rooting for the Iowa Hawkeyes to win the Rose Bowl, even though they were playing against her own alma mater, Stanford.
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After all, Tony Hawk's skating games had seen a run of weakness: American Wasteland, Project 8, and Proving Ground had all become diffuse and watered down with additional mechanics, clear pandering to the Jackass crowd, and the malaise of the yearly sequel.
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Widodo, who is a popular moderate, has chosen a 75-year-old Islamic cleric, Ma'ruf Amin, as his running mate in next year's election, sparking concern among some that he is pandering to conservative Muslims in a pluralist country with significant minority communities.
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We see it time and again — with the hotel industry, with cable TV, now with razors: Shrinking markets are not allowed to simply shrink, but instead inspire aggressive pandering, bizarre advertising, and nichification of products that have no reason to be so differentiated.
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The point is, if the GOP put half as much time and energy pandering to embattled retailers and retail workers as they did coal miners and manufacturers, we could go a long way toward shoring up this crucial segment of the American economy.
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Both of the primary candidates seem to be doing their best to scare away the youth voter unicorn; however, our demands really aren't that difficult to meet—show some decorum and respect for the office being pursued, but avoid nauseating degrees of pandering.
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Comments like those set to air in a BET town hall on Sunday morning -- in which Sanders accuses Clinton of pandering for African-American votes by aligning herself with Obama, and saying Obama has been wrong on some issues -- could prove damaging.
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After months of primaries, the race has come down to Donald Trump — a bombastic personality whose temperament has turned the Republican Party upside down; and Hillary Clinton — disingenuous, pandering, and someone who couldn't tell the truth if it made a better story.
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Mr Vance is a conservative in the oldest and best sense, and his prescription is a bracing tonic for the poison being sold to his people by the pandering huckster seeking the presidency: "We hillbillies must wake the hell up," he urges.
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Leave your identity politics at the door and start evaluating people by the content of their character and their record and not by some BS woke signaling that no one believes anymore, including, I might add, the demographic groups you are pandering to.
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She was a brilliant political operative who successfully modified her case for women's suffrage based on her audience, even if it meant pandering to racist politicians in the south who feared having their votes outnumbered if black women were to become enfranchised.
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And while Trump's outright pandering to right-wing extremists during his stump speeches and throughout his presidency made clear that he would pursue policies that favor those in power, all candidates during this cycle should unequivocally commit to dismantling this system of oppression.
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So, in front of a standing-room-only crowd, Ren delivers an impassioned, pandering speech at a town council meeting He cites Bible verses from the Psalms, 2 Samuel, and Ecclesiastes that unequivocally endorse dancing, imploring the council to reconsider the law.
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Throughout Trump's campaign, as he was signing anti-porn pledges and representing a party with a national platform declaring porn to be a "public health crisis," commentators suggested he was probably just pandering to his base rather than expressing a deeply-held belief.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018 He defected to the Democratic Party after Richard M. Nixon won the presidency in 1968, in part by employing what critics later described as a "Southern strategy" of pandering to white voters.
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At worst, Clinton's youth-outreach efforts have come off as naked pandering, like her op-ed for capital-M millennial outfit Mic, titled, no joke, "Here's What Millennials Have Taught Me." More than being told how great they are, however, millennials love authenticity.
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Earlier this week, the company released video clips widely seen as racist, pandering to old stereotypes (they featured a Chinese model being taught to eat spaghetti, pizza and a cannoli with chopsticks) in advance of a planned extravaganza of a show in Shanghai.
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In speeches, statements and interviews over the past 72 hours, the Democrats running to replace Trump have -- in the most direct terms yet -- sought to confront the racial animus fueling his politics, while attacking the President over his pandering to white supremacists.
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Cutesier material — a story about how Allison once performed with Willie Nelson at a bar — adds levity to a heavy subject but also plays like pandering, and slow-motion footage of, say, Allison walking the streets of New York just looks like padding.
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As touching as each story was, there was an inescapable sense of pandering to certain voting blocs -- Pennsylvania and Florida on issues of school choice and criminal justice reform for minorities, Latinos on both Cuba and Venezuela policy -- that couldn't be ignored.
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" Before accusing her of pandering to the analytics of the best-seller list, note that this book's epigraph is from Elizabeth Bishop's indelible poem "Casabianca," which begins: Love's the boy stood on the burning decktrying to recite "The boy stood onthe burning deck.
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In December, Congress passed a budget that contained a half trillion dollars in tax breaks (some retroactive, some blatant political pandering to special interests and powerful constituencies, and some that will increase the costs of healthcare further) and $2.2 trillion in spending increases.
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The government of Prime Minister Theresa May has acknowledged in recent days that it is withholding a study on the Saudi role in fostering extremism in Britain, and opponents have accused her of pandering to the Saudi royals to protect British trade deals.
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Books of The Times It wasn't long ago that the term "middle class" suggested security, conformity and often complacency — a cohort that was such a reliable feature of postwar American life that it attracted not just political pandering but also cultural ridicule.
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These dark times have the potential to enclose us in despair: a daily onslaught of ecological destruction, white supremacy and racism, the dismantling of safety nets and public education, a pandering to the wealthiest among us, and lies, lies, and more lies.
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She became a voracious reader, and in her teens began to discover music on her own terms—Lauryn Hill, riot grrrl, Nirvana, and notably Fiona Apple, whose unfiltered honesty gave Adia the confidence to be herself, to stop pandering to other's expectations.
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" In October, when the Wall Street Journal published an article saying Tesla was facing a "deepening criminal investigation," Musk's army came in hot with tweets like "Fu** SEC... corrupted b***" and "...the WSJ is corrupt and pandering to Big Oil/Auto advertisers.
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We know, not only from the Trump campaign, but also from the successes of Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and others, that pandering to the anxieties of lower-income, less-educated or older white voters is where we find the most energy today in American politics.
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But in truth, it was the relentless pandering of the Conservative Party to simplistic anti-Europeanism between 1997 and the beginning of the Brexit campaign in 2016 that created the culture of hostility to European partnership that led to the vote to leave Europe.
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She also pleaded guilty to four counts of kidnapping, another four for pandering obscenity involving a minor, three counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and one count each of tampering with evidence and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.
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But it also underscores the superficial, almost shameless way the campaign approaches minority voter outreach, pandering to the different identity groups under the Democratic Party umbrella, as if they are demographic boxes to be checked off on a spreadsheet (which, of course, they likely are).
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Authoritarian rulers in many other countries (Pakistan leaps to mind) have tried to bolster their legitimacy by pandering to religious sentiment only to find themselves in a vicious cycle, in which moderates are cowed, giving rise to ever more extreme demands from the religious fringe.
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A particularly generous reading might claim that Fallen Kingdom's weaknesses are their own clever subversion of the franchise, that they strip away the distracting, pandering spectacle that made this series work in order to reveal how cruel and corrupt the entire conceit has always been.
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In prior days, the riff - which has become an embedded part of his new appeal to minority voters - was delivered as a variation of asking voters to "reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton" for what Trump called pandering and condescension to communities of color.
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I think it leaves you -- or at least leaves me with only the issue of it being political, of it being of a pandering to what was going on in the world at that point in time; that we're going to show these guys.
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Lane crossing, particularly for a breaching artist, and even more so for one who is a woman of color, is a risk; a lot of the time, especially in a pop world gambit, it can feel like pandering, or something unfocused and watered down.
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The substance of that first half, however, was so full of blatant pandering to Latino voters and wild promises to wield executive power on their behalf that it could come back to haunt the eventual Democratic nominee (likely Hillary Clinton) in a general election.
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Mr Cruz, who has spent a career pandering to the conservative fringe on issues such as gun rights or Obamacare while denouncing the establishment, found that he was dismissed as yet another member of the elite; as a populist, he had been literally Trumped.
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So far, Britain's decision to leave the European Union has been the anti-globalists' biggest prize: the vote in June to abandon the world's most successful free-trade club was won by cynically pandering to voters' insular instincts, splitting mainstream parties down the middle.
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It was a magical moment in which the fearless O'Rourke spoke great truths about American values without taking a poll, mouthing a talking point, pandering to prejudice or appealing to the lesser instincts of our nature as certain politicians do in our troubled times.
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Anyone expecting Pete Buttigieg to be the Democratic Party's centrist savior in a deeply divided presidential race ought to consider that last remark carefully, because it's a perfect example of the sort of pandering that alienates voters on both ends of the political spectrum.
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Richard and Judy campaigned to have the music video banned for "pandering to paedophiles" (despite the fact the whole 80s and 90s had already happened, and nobody complained when Britney was dry humping the air by a school locker in "…Baby One More Time").
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Yet even with seemingly strong support from the black community, Clinton's overtures to black pop culture have been treated as pandering and met with backlash, especially across social media, where she's been turned into a daily source of running jokes communicated through memes and GIFs.
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But it's also a good example of the confusion that marks public discourse today, in which kindness far too often is decried as weakness, courtesy as political correctness run amok, respect as pandering, and the belief in each individual's dignity and worth as narcissism.
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And this was where his lack of pandering to Timesian sensibilities was striking: He refused to yield much ground when faced with questions about the ethics of being a businessman-president whose beloved family plays both sides of the Trump Organization-Trump administration line.
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But the 3-2 partisan vote at the FCC is only the beginning of the real fight, and ISPs (and the FCC that's now blatantly pandering to them) have a steep uphill climb in the coming months if they want the repeal to stick.
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On Saturday, after delivering a few pandering sentences at the headquarters of the CIA, an institution he just ten days prior likened to Nazi Germany, he launched into a 209-minute rant about what was clearly weighing on him: the previous day's inauguration coverage.
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"Instead of pandering to billionaires we have a government here which has chosen to listen to the needs of working families," said Mr. Sanders, who in 2016 made a bid from the left to become the Democratic Party presidential nominee, losing out to Mrs. Clinton.
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Manchin is high on the list of endangered red-state Democrats, and many of his supporters were rooting for Blankenship, figuring it would be easy to beat a crazy guy with terrible business ethics and a gift for pandering to the lowest possible denominator.
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The notion that female choreographers are underrepresented at major dance companies has hit the mainstream, so much so that just about any program with the word "women" in its title is starting to feel more than merely unimaginative: It has an air of pandering.
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