And it panders to that audience from start to finish.
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Once again, the president blatantly panders to his fundamentalist base.
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First it panders then it polarizes then it pushes us apart.
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The movie "panders wildly," writes Michael O'Sullivan at The Washington Post.
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For O'Sullivan, the film "panders wildly," and deserved 2 out of 4 stars.
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It means I simply and unequivocally reject a candidate who panders to a racist electorate.
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He panders to an audience that despises above all else the appearance of American weakness.
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It was showing how Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party panders after the black vote.
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It's been derided as a fad that panders to the weaker facets of human nature.
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This is how FOX News covered it: 'President panders to extreme left-wing of batter box.
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While Trump panders shamelessly to populist sentiment, Bloomberg doesn't have a populist bone in his body.
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The film panders to the current Black Lives Matter era: Police preparing to harm a Black man?
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If they pick a champion who panders to that narrow identity, they will condemn themselves to irrelevance.
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If Kanye panders, it's to those who see art at its apex as a postmodern dream board.
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Whether or not you believe a politician when he panders, it's wise to believe him when he doesn't.
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His comedy panders shamelessly, but he is hardly the first entertainer in Las Vegas to commit this sin.
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Palestinians in particular disapprove of the plan, which they say is racist and panders to Israeli interests. 5.
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To black people in South Carolina and any particular group to whom the left panders, you are being lied to.
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They say Parris then panders to local mega-churches and employs racial dog whistles to galvanize a deeply conservative Christian base.
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Like the Phantom Menace before it, Fantastic Beasts panders to a new audience, rather than satisfy the one it already had.
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" Trump on Tuesday accused Clinton of "bigotry" toward black voters, adding she "panders to and talks down to communities of color.
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Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times As a pure ride, "Justice League" nicely panders to the lowest common denominator of moviegoing expectations.
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He panders to his base — around 33 percent of voters — to keep his leverage over Congressional Republicans and boost his reelection chances.
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The African-American pastor Mark Burns has said that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, panders to African-Americans and endorses black genocide.
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The addition of the concept of "mandatory" panders to the segment of the populace that loathes the concept of individuals owning firearms.
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who openly panders to white supremacists, is now defending rape and incest as a means of conception.
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From the very start of his run, one of the most serious charges against Mr. Trump was that he panders to racists.
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If Trump is already the only choice for social conservatives, what strategic value is gained by picking a VP who panders to them?
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You know it as the yellow-green citrus soda that heavily panders to BMXers and gamers, but it's so much more than that.
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But there's a pattern here: Time and time again, when Trump has a chance to condemn white supremacists, he panders to them instead.
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But this act of retroactively making characters queer off-screen — which we'll call the Rowling Rule — panders to audiences without actually offering real change.
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However, if Duterte panders too heavily to Beijing, it could drastically transform regional geopolitics by allowing China to deepen its grip on Southeast Asia.
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Instead, they sort themselves into groups that reinforce their own narrow viewpoints—sometimes doing so with the aid of fake news that panders to them.
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We can see it in the mutant campaign of Ed Gillespie, a moderate Republican who now panders to Trumpists so he can become Virginia's governor.
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The sum is a movie that panders not at all to Western sensibilities, giving few pointers on a theme beyond the fortifying power of faith.
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It's not that his humor tends toward the infantile — we have no problem with that at all — but rather how he panders to his audience.
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Like every tribune of the dirty right, Mr Trump thinks his voters are dupes: that is why he panders and lies to them without a qualm.
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She could have tried to deny the accusation that she panders to black people, but knowing Charlamagne's on-air personality, he would've almost certainly pushed back.
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We're talking about a camp that neither panders to our sad sense of self nor tries to convince us that our glory days are long gone.
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" And J. B. Pritzker, another Democrat running for governor, praised the signing but said "Bruce Rauner's only sense of morality is whatever panders best to voters.
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In a season when pop culture panders with noisy space battles and singing cats, Mulaney offers counterprogramming, a quirky variety show with a modern Broadway sensibility.
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Russia gets that Ankara believes that its power and status demands that the world should listen when it speaks, and panders to Turkish delusions of grandeur.
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We live in strange times, with an American president who panders to right-wing hate, in a world that seems to have taken several steps backward.
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But Mr Trump likes Mr Pompeo, his nominee as the next secretary of state, largely because he skilfully panders to the moods and instincts of his boss.
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American evangelicals embrace them; the Supreme Court takes them seriously; Donald Trump, a man David Green enthusiastically endorsed, is president and panders to the family's political allies.
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Trump panders to prejudice by liberating previously repressed aggression, viciousness, and mockery and redirecting it at immigrants, people of color, women, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
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YG's new album, Still Brazy, is not the kind of rap album that plays to the meme-driven music discourse of 2016 or panders with flashy guest artists.
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The animated "hot Colonel," as he's dubbed by fans of the game, panders to gamers, fans of Japanese culture, and anyone looking for love, Zahuemsky told me in an email.
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In art writing, these qualities are rare, as enough of it panders to an art market which has given every indication of carrying on with business as usual under Trump.
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Many elite liberals are happy with this strategy precisely because it doesn't really challenge them very much: it panders to their vanity without forcing them to step outside their comfortable cocoons.
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So when Trump panders to Putin and talks about leaving NATO and questions whether our allies are fulfilling their responsibilities, it's a gift to Putin and a blow to democracy everywhere.
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"By slow-walking its legal duty to protect our climate, EPA panders to fossil fuel polluters at the expense of communities around the nation," said Trip Van Noppen, president of Earthjustice.
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It is a growing phenomenon that will only grow further, as people find newer ways to game the system, and as the system in turn panders to us to mine more information.
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Defense lawyers say the trial panders to President Tayyip Erdogan, whose relations with Germany are under strain after the German parliament labeled the 1915 mass killings of Armenians an act of genocide.
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During his time in office, he always got a kick out of embracing the awkward panders of political life, even if — especially if — they mocked the refinements of smoother politicians than him.
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It is clear that Trump is a hero among white supremacists: He panders to them, he is slow to condemn them and when that condemnation manifests, it is often forced and tepid.
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And due to the current political climate, it's become increasingly popular for content creators to make a living off hateful content that panders to bigots and fringe political groups like the alt-right.
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Lewis might be considered the anti-Trump: A brilliant yet humble leader who, even in the face of extraordinary odds, never panders to American' worse impulses but instead inspires the best in us.
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While Mr. Trump panders to Mr. Putin, his criticism of Mr. Mueller is becoming harsher, as the investigation raises increasingly serious concerns about a web of ties connecting Mr. Trump's associates to Russia.
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The lesson: Whatever your personal beliefs, if you are taking a case to Washington, D.C., it helps to ensure that your case does not flout—and preferably panders to—the ideology prevalent there.
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We do not need elitists and social justice warriors such as Kaepernick to profit on our travails in a way that panders to base emotions and eradicates home, self-reliance, commitment, industry and thrift.
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Along with the composer Teho Teardo, whose music panders to our inner sentimentalists, these collaborators function as instruments of the Devil, or of the unseen arbiters of Mr. Walsh's version of an Orwellian future.
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Whether or not the president panders to white supremacists—and there's a strong case that he does—it behooves him and his allies to deflect, change the subject, and, perhaps most effectively, to strike first.
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Two For The Money hits a lot of my sweet spots, and panders to my pleasure centers especially egregiously with the use of USFL stock footage as a match for the pro and college action.
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She's also touted the endorsement of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a group that hosted a press call Monday called "Sanders panders on guns," just hours before the candidates attended a campaign forum in Iowa.
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Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellLawmakers prep ahead of impeachment hearing Trump: Fox News 'panders' to Democrats by having on liberal guests Democrats could introduce articles of impeachment next week MORE (D-Calif.), a Judiciary Committee member, told The Hill.
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Known in the French media by her initials "NKM", the 42-year-old mother of two has distanced herself from the former conservative president in recent months, criticizing a stance she says panders to the far-right National Front.
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"We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes, that's all they care about, not as human beings worthy of a better future," he said.
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They believe that the president panders to white racial resentment, and think they heard a similar appeal when, shortly after his trip to Arizona, Mr Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, the 85-year-old former sheriff of the county around Phoenix.
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But the result is a game that panders to "good guy with a gun" advocates, NRA members, everyday carry die-hards, and those who dream of spilling the blood of unsavory interlopers and false patriots upon this great country's soil.
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But while Rest in Power does act as an appropriate perspective of the Trayvon Martin case, it stands in contrast to so much other content that panders to white audiences such as Dear White People or 12 Years a Slave.
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Canon Jeremy Pemberton, who in 2014 became the first Church of England priest to wed his same-sex partner, said the move to exclude LGBT+ spouses "panders to the views of the most extremely conservative" members of the Anglican Church.
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Platform algorithms are also still encouraging Internet eyeballs towards polarized and extremist views by feeding a radicalized, data-driven diet that panders to prejudices in the name of maintaining engagement — despite plenty of raised voices calling out the programmed antisocial behavior.
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If this were an election between Clinton and Johnson or Clinton and Stein, more people would learn that Johnson wants to abolish the income tax, or that Stein panders to anti-vaccine activists, and Clinton would suddenly start looking like an acceptable alternative.
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The clip — which begins with the actor in full Deadpool gear with, of course, a Bachelor rose in hand — wisely panders to the show's audience by introducing one of the movie's badass female leads (played by Morena Baccarin) and, yeah, okay, a shirtless Ryan Reynolds.
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Either the faulty "scholarship" on violence that panders to a popular desire for reassurance, or the political rhetoric that claims violence in our cities is "the highest it's been in 45 years" and thus needs to be met with more violence, promotes the status quo.
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Taking what curators describe as the "diverse, ambiguous and often incommensurable manifestations" of art and politics, the exhibition panders to zombie millennials, confused and bewildered by the lack of alternatives under capitalism, completely tone deaf to what is clearly an emergent and divisive culture war.
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Fox News anchor Shannon BreamShannon BreamFox News re-signs Shannon Bream to multiyear deal Trump: Fox News 'panders' to Democrats by having on liberal guests Trump attacks Fox News for interviewing Swalwell MORE has signed a new multiyear deal, the network announced on Thursday.
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It confirms the survival of Mr Assad's regime, potentially divides the rebels, puts Turkey on the back foot and panders to Western concerns by promising a more concerted effort against IS and the possibility of a political settlement that helps staunch the flow of refugees into Europe.
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It panders to audiences who are presumably partly made up of the affluent, heat-seeking souls it parodies, and ultimately it lets us all off the, uh, hook — including our Patrick, who winds up being far more a victim of his times than the people he eviscerates are of his blade-wielding rage.
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Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellLawmakers prep ahead of impeachment hearing Trump: Fox News 'panders' to Democrats by having on liberal guests Democrats could introduce articles of impeachment next week MORE (D-Calif.) telling Politico on Sunday that "We're all on the same page" in terms of which articles of impeachment will be drafted.
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Their goal: Skewing democratic outcomes by putting out misleading, deceptive or incorrect information that's packaged as real news about politics, economics or culture — yet presented in a way that panders to prejudices and is more likely to get virally spread on mainstream social media platforms where it has the chance to influence people's views.
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Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellLawmakers prep ahead of impeachment hearing Trump: Fox News 'panders' to Democrats by having on liberal guests Democrats could introduce articles of impeachment next week MORE (D-Calif.), a close Pelosi ally who serves on both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, has been pushing to keep the articles narrow and focused.
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By contrast, when she attempts ordinary celebratory love songs, the tone collapses: "Want You In My Room," a jaunty, glittering dance romp, fades out with yet another saxophone solo that panders to received ideas about '80s retro (the only '80s saxophone solo that manufactured such corny forced enthusiasm was Clarence Clemons's on Aretha Franklin's "Freeway of Love").
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The producers of Everlasting are very self-aware of how they capitalize on archetypes, playing them to their advantage to make sensational TV. But UnReal has a blindspot for actual Black experience, and spends only minimal time teasing out the subtleties of what it means for a Black man to find love on a network that panders to white interests.
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We just celebrated International Women's Day and the progress that women are making around the world," Gabbard told anchor Shannon BreamShannon BreamGabbard slams 'the DNC and their corporate media partners' for shutting her out of next debate Fox News re-signs Shannon Bream to multiyear deal Trump: Fox News 'panders' to Democrats by having on liberal guests MORE on "Fox News at Night.
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Heather Lander Where I used to be confident in the unassailable strength of the Constitution, now I watch in horror as our president talks out of both sides of his mouth and the GOP slowly erodes our government's checks and balances, stacks the Supreme Court, and panders to Big Oil, all while I fill my first prescription for anxiety medication.
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For me, that's because they have a wide selection, carry most of the brands I want, list them at near the lowest or the lowest prices I've seen in price comparison research (with shipping in mind), and, last but absolutely not least, because I'm a Prime member and the internet has made me a glutton for instant gratification — something that two-day (or two-hour) shipping panders well to.
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Content doesn't take pains to explain why she pounces on every scrap of viral fame, or what different platforms are (it uses real-life social media interfaces and native smartphone apps in almost every case), any more than it panders to the uninitiated by explaining who the IRL influencers and YouTubers (including Nat Tran, the Fairbairn brothers and Wengie) are when they cameo in montages where Lucy comes closer to her goal.
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News and Hardball with Chris Matthews.Boston Herald "Mitt Romney's grits and catfish act goes too far for Southern critics" BostonHerald.com. March, 2012 Yahoo! News "Romney Grits: A Michigan Yankee Inexpertly Panders for Southern Vote" news.yahoo.com.
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The film has been cited as an example of sexual fluidity in recent queer European cinema. Different from Whom? was criticized by a panelist at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival as a film that was "made for straight audiences" and claimed that the film panders to heterosexuals who are uncomfortable with homosexuality.
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After the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, Yiannopoulos said that he condemned the violence but wrote on Facebook that attacks like that happen "because the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures." He was widely criticized for this description and banned from making an intended speaking tour in Australia in 2019.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the budget passenger-centric and said that it caters to all sections of the society. Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari called the budget reformative and claimed that it will change the basic infrastructure of the railways. The Aam Aadmi Party in a statement called the budget oblivious to the needs of the common man. It claimed that the budget panders to the corporations.
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Karlie Kloss on the runway at the Anna Sui show in September 2011. For her innovative work, Sui has been called a designer who "never panders" by The New York Times, and earned the distinction of being named to Time magazine's list of the decade's top five fashion icons. Sui's work has been extensively covered both by the journalist industry as a whole and by the fashion press in particular. Her seasonal shows are regularly covered by Vogue, Style.
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This, in combination with increased political polarization and filter bubbles, led to a tendency for readers to mainly read headlines. Numerous individuals and news outlets have stated that fake news may have influenced the outcome of the 2016 American Presidential Election. Fake news saw higher sharing on Facebook than legitimate news stories, which analysts explained was because fake news often panders to expectations or is otherwise more exciting than legitimate news. Facebook itself initially denied this characterization.
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In 2008, he directed Seval, with Bharath. Ayyappa Prasad from Nowrunning.com stated that Hari "panders to the taste of his rural audience all the way, but the movie is bound to disappoint city-dwellers, since neither the story nor its treatment appeal to anyone with high IQ." In 2010 Hari directed his tenth film Singam, with Suriya, marking their third collaboration. The film was one of the top box office films of the year, although reviewers identified it as a standard masala entertainer.
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ClickHole aims to mock content posted on media sites, using satire, and tries to make its content shareable. According to its website, ClickHole wants "to make sure that all of [its] content panders to and misleads [its] readers just enough to make it go viral". In most of its posts, ClickHole tries to convey an underlying message, usually poking fun at social media users or societal behaviors. The website aims to publish content frequently, setting a target of 7–10 new posts daily.
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" Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode 4/5 stars stating, "'Dogtown' panders to puppy love and yet somehow manages to mangle the mutts into a mangy mess of mischievous mayhem. Who doesn’t love cute puppies, playing piano, getting their snouts stuck in pickle jars or scratching their butts along the concrete to clean their fire hydrant debris? Cats will get their day, but doggies are adorable. They are instant memes, man’s best friend, blind people’s eyes and the saviors of drunken arctic explorers.
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Greg Kot from the Chicago Tribune found Maxwell's lyrics far more straightforward than Embryas "almost impenetrable" songs, while applauding his ability as a singer to achieve an "enlightened empathy" that "neither panders nor demands" to his fictitious lovers. James Hunter wrote in The Village Voice that Maxwell and Stuart Matthewman had avoided the gratuitous productions of Embrya in favor of more grounded music, against which the singer performed masterfully. "He is, as throughout Now, a soul singer who knows precisely what he's doing", Hunter wrote.
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Awarding it only ✦✧✧✧ (1 star), Slant grappled with the film's "insufficient imaginativeness" and forced "theme of duality". Maitland McDonagh, a critic specialist in horror films, wrote that Tamara "panders to horror buffs" and "squanders the efforts of a competent cast", calling it a "rehash of Carrie", and awarding it ✦✦✧✧✧ (2 stars). Jessica Reeves of the Chicago Tribune was even more critical, panning the film with a harsh grocery list of descriptions: "dismal, depressing, embarrassing and utterly lacking in any artistic or social worth". Some reviewers were slightly more magnanimous.
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Green Party ballot, February 5, 2008, listing "Ralph Nader" In February 2007, Nader criticized Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton as "a panderer and a flatterer". Asked on CNN Late Edition news program if he would run in 2008, Nader replied, "It's really too early to say...."Nader Leaves '08 Door Open, Slams Hillary Reuters, February 5, 2007. Asked during a radio appearance to describe the former First Lady, Nader said, "Flatters, panders, coasting, front-runner, looking for a coronation ... She has no political fortitude."Ralph Nader: Hillary's Just a 'Bad Version of Bill Clinton' Feb.
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The promise of France brings the two together in love and excitement again, and Frank seemingly ends his relationship with Maureen. While April sees the emigration as an opportunity to escape their bland environment, Frank's plans are more driven by vanity of his own intelligence, which April panders to. When the dull and prim neighbor Mrs. Givings begins bringing her "insane" son John around to the Wheelers' house for regular lunches, John's honest and erratic condemnation of his mother's suburban lifestyle strikes a chord with the Wheelers, particularly Frank.
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Jake Coyle called the film's use of real-life animals "a tad hypocritical" for the environmental message of it as well as other Participant films like The Cove (2009). According to Screen Daily, the film's main problem was that it "dependably panders across the board to the lowest common denominator, both in action and dialogue;" Kumble's directing "abandoned any attempts at nuance, instead embracing flatly shot set piece histrionics. Here he awkwardly blends CGI critter effects with animatronics and live-action work." The film was also criticized for its use of some stereotypes, especially against Asian people and against elderly people.
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Catcher in the Rye—although I like it very much—is profoundly and disturbingly misogynistic and yet seems to get a critical pass both online and off. This happens a lot, I think, with books by men, and I don't want male writers (including me!) to get that pass." Relating to this issue, Green has stated that he considers himself to be a feminist. In 2015, a Tumblr post from user virjn generated media controversy, as it claimed Green is "a creep who panders to teenage girls so that he can amass some weird cult-like following.
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By the time of Saul's introduction in Breaking Bad, he has fully adopted the identity of "Saul Goodman", and rarely mentions the name McGill. Saul is an astutely aggressive defense attorney, aided by his working knowledge of Spanish, but also engages in questionable as well as blatantly criminal activity, such as abetting money laundering. He routinely dresses in loud, gaudy colors, and now drives a Cadillac DeVille. Saul has established an office in a strip mall, adorned with Roman columns, and the US Constitution wallpapered behind them, his tasteless, ostentatious advertising panders to the criminal mind and includes a large inflatable Statue of Liberty balloon.
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She further states that she loves "Bateman's work for its strong construction, sharp satirical writing and inventive characterization" as well as his "attention to detail, and witty observation". RTÉ also reviewed the novel, with Tom Grealis stating that the novel was "a funny and highly entertaining tale of narcotics, terrorism and eh, moviemaking". He does mention that "one thing that has to be pointed out about Shooting Sean is that the plot becomes somewhat ridiculous in the latter stages", following this with "[Bateman's] decision to go for suspense over characterization certainly panders to the mainstream, but it is a pandering one cannot but enjoy". Grealis also concluded that he found the novel to be "engaging, funny and eminently readable".
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Designed by Theo Slot, who was responsible for all of Pander & Sons original designs, the Multipro is variously described as a side-by-side two-seat or three-seat light aircraft. It had high and almost constant chord wings, braced on each side by a V-form pair of struts fixed to the lower fuselage longerons. The fuselage was a rounded, plywood-skinned structure, contemporaries remarking, as they had with other Panders, on the quality of the finish. It was powered by a Pobjoy R seven-cylinder radial engine; the two-blade propeller was driven via spur gears that reduced its speed and placed the output shaft above the engine centre, an unusual arrangement for a radial.
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" Harlan Ellison, writing in March 1977, said: "Lipstick panders to the basest, vilest, lowest possible common denominators of urban fear and lynch logic. It is the sort of film that, if you see it in a ghetto theater filled with blacks, will scare the bejeezus out of you. The animal fury this film unleashes in an audience is terrifying to behold. It gives exploitation a bad name; and it has less to do with rape, which is the commercial hook on which they’ve hung the salability of this bit of putrescence, than it does with the cynicism of Joseph E. Levine, a man who probably has no trouble sleeping with a troubled conscience.
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Roger Ebert, reviewing for the Chicago Sun-Times, called Fight Club "visceral and hard- edged", but also "a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy", whose promising first act is followed by a second that panders to macho sensibilities and a third he dismissed as "trickery". Ebert later acknowledged that the film was "beloved by most, not by me". He was later requested to have a shot-by-shot analysis of Fight Club at the Conference on World Affairs; he stated that "[s]eeing it over the course of a week, I admired its skill even more, and its thought even less." Jay Carr of The Boston Globe opined that the film began with an "invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz", but that it eventually became "explosively silly".
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As of April 2008, the first five volumes of the Lucky Star manga have collectively sold over 1.8 million copies. Lucky Star became an immediate hit in Japan, receiving a broad following in the anime fandom. Explaining this phenomenon, the analyst John Oppliger of AnimeNation, for example, suggested that a major factor in the series' success is its similarity to an earlier work by Kyoto Animation—The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (the show itself makes numerous references to the same series). However, he also admitted that Lucky Star is quite different from its "predecessor" and that the second major factor is its "unique" composition that "panders to the tastes of otaku, but does so with good humor and sly wit", thus, making it "the ultimate in fan service", a "witty, self- indulgent, guilty pleasure".
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The Countess has seen Dorina and her jealousy overcomes her again; she is angry with Poppone for the boorish treatment received (Aria: Chi son io, pensate prima / "Before, think about who I am"). When the Countess leaves, Poppone speaks with the Count about the treasure in the cellar and reveals his attraction for Dorina; the Count panders to the strange behaviour of Poppone (Aria: Un tenero affetto / "A tender feeling"). Falco advises Poppone to pay in advance the Turks for their help in discovering the treasure. Falco meets then Dorina and realizes that Poppone thinks she is the Countess; he advises Dorina to try to wangle as much as possible out of Poppone and for himself asks only a benign glance (Aria: Se con quell'occhio moro / "If with your brown eye").
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Andy Lowe from Total Film gave it a lower review, giving it three stars out of five and calling it "as phony and frustrating as it is funny... The clothes may be new and more fabulous, but the emperor seriously needs to go shopping." Others felt it was not as good, feeling it would insult and offend the gay community: A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that the film shows "that lampooning homophobia has become an acceptable, almost unavoidable form of homophobic humor," and called the film "a lazy piece of work that panders more than it provokes." At the Movies critic Ben Mankiewicz criticized the film for being too demeaning and playing on homosexual stereotypes. He later named Brüno the worst film at the halfway point of 2009.
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Tira never knows Pander's real name, only referring to him by nickname as he effectively sells Tira to the general and panders to the General's every whim. To Tira's surprise, the relationship initially works, and although she does not love the General, he accepts this and she lives in relative luxury and comfort, Tira considering the General a fair trade to any alternative. While in Liberty Tira meets a repentant terrorist whose final attempt at terrorism - to kill the general by way of an exploding microphone - ironically ensured his survival as it meant he was stranded in the army base when the snow arrived, and thus the balloon city that became Liberty. She begins an affair with the terrorist, but is captured by the city police and taken to an internment camp in the depths of the snow.
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They address Castlemaine as a prostitute herself and list the sites of the brothels where her fellows struggle. It is addressed as: > The Poor Whores' Petition to the most splendid, illustrious, serene and > eminent Lady of Pleasure the Countess of Castlemayne &c;: The humble > petition of the undone company of poore distressed whores, bawds, pimps, and > panders ... Signed by us, Madam Cresswell and Damaris Page, in the behalf of > our sisters and fellow sufferers (in this day of our calamity) in Dog and > Bitch Yard, Lukenor’s Lane, Saffron Hill, Moorfields, Chiswell Street, > Rosemary Lane, Nightingale Lane, Ratcliffe Highway, Well Close, East > Smithfield etc.University of Massachusetts archive, Politics, Literary > Culture & Theatrical Media in London : 1625–1725 "The Whores' Petition". Given her great experience in whoring, Lady Castlemaine would, they argued, be able to deeply sympathise with prostitutes across the city.
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The book has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, particularly for its treatment of female characters, its attention to historical detail as regards 1980s era 42nd street, and its portrayal of a female villain. Bloody Disgusting named the novel one of the ten best horror books of 2018, praising it for "great character work and gritty horror" and for not "being afraid to get brutal". Izzy Lee, writing for Diabolique, favorably compared Fassel to Joe Lansdale, writing "Fassel's observations on humanity go way further than his years on this planet...well-paced, full of intimate detail, and so unlike anything I've ever read that I can’t help but give it my highest recommendation to fans of genre and those interested in the plight of the downtrodden. The story is full of strong women and never panders or feels exploitative, regardless of its subject matter… That in itself is extraordinary".
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Javid was rebuked by MPs and human rights campaigners for tweeting about "Asian paedophiles", with the director of the Runnymede Trust commenting: "racialising this crime and focusing on the ethnicity of the sexual predators has done little to address why and how these victims were vulnerable to the prey of these sexual predators". The Independent suggested Javid had ulterior motives with an impending leadership battle and said, "If Javid imagines his racial and religious origins offer any defence to the charge of incendiary race-baiting, he must be out of his tiny mind." His comments were defended by Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, who said "The way to stop populists is for mainstream politicians to address difficult and important issues calmly and directly." Baroness Warsi has criticised Javid for dog-whistling: "he should read what these people are saying, because however much he dog-whistles, however much he panders to the right of our party, sadly the right of our party still believe he's far too Muslim to be leader of the party".
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Following the riot, a satirical petition began to circulate, addressed from Page and Cresswell and other London madams. Written to Lady Castlemaine, the King's lover, notorious for her own wild promiscuity, the brothel owners requested that the aristocrat act on the behalf of her 'sisters' and repay the madams for the rebuilding of their brothels, funded by the national tax coffers. They address Castlemaine as a prostitute herself, a great practitioner of "venereal pleasures", and list the sites of the brothels where her fellows struggle. It is addressed as: > The Poor Whores' Petition to the most splendid, illustrious, serene and > eminent Lady of Pleasure the Countess of Castlemayne &c;: The humble > petition of the undone company of poore distressed whores, bawds, pimps, and > panders ... Signed by us, Madam Cresswell and Damaris Page, in the behalf of > our sisters and fellow sufferers (in this day of our calamity) in Dog and > Bitch Yard, Lukenor’s Lane, Saffron Hill, Moorfields, Chiswell Street, > Rosemary Lane, Nightingale Lane, Ratcliffe Highway, Well Close, East > Smithfield etc.
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