"Given the choice between a far-left ideologue and a stooge — but the stooge they know — they're probably going to go with that stooge," he said.
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Listen, you sit here and call me a Russian stooge.
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Unless you wanna be a stooge for somebody else's bullshit.
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Unlike Trump, Sanders would not be a stooge for Russia.
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Is he seen as an ally, a foe, a stooge?
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For his replacement, "they'd be sure to appoint essentially a stooge".
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Mr Trump himself has denounced the author as a Democratic stooge.
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S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, former Goldman Sachs stooge/U.
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I suppose I've taken the place of Curly, the third Stooge.
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To her, you're a stooge of the oligarchy that runs this country.
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Others called me a shill for Bloomberg, a corporate stooge, stupid, uninformed.
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But some in the country have assailed her as a Western stooge.
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They deny the allegations, and accuse Khan of being a military stooge.
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So, if the idea -- he is Russian&aposs -- I don&apost know, stooge.
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Anyone who doesn't play the 'blame Russia' game automatically becomes a 'Kremlin stooge.
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I'm sure it's possible to play Shadowrun as a corporate stooge for Renraku.
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Most chavistas take it as self-evident that Guaidó is a Yankee stooge.
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Inevitably, the big question in Moscow has become: Is she a Kremlin stooge?
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But he is a Russian stooge, and a traitor and defector by default.
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"Another Trump stooge on the payroll, Don Don!" a plump-looking Zucker says.
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"They will put in a stooge who will shut down this investigation," Toobin said.
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Kamala Harris shot back by accusing Gabbard of being a stooge for Fox News.
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"Heck is an absolute stooge for these right-wing nut cases," Mr. Reid said.
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That's when Bloomberg accused Sanders of being a stooge of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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"Clyne went from being a successful actress to a stooge for this cult," he says.
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He treated her silence as evidence that she was either a dolt or a stooge.
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What's obviously really going on here: He's clearly also a stooge of the conspiracy, duh.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC HOST: The president looked like a weak, dumpy stooge to a KGB spy.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump is literally the president and his stooge Mike Pence is second in command.
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Is Wayne LaPierre also Putin's stooge — or just another run of the mill demon from hell?
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Thankfully for her, Mr Moussa is not a police officer, merely a stooge running for president.
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"In today's Republican party, that's kind of like saying Moe is the smart Stooge," she said.
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Gersdorf, the court's chief justice, is not, on the face of it, a likely communist stooge.
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But once they sent the funds, he vanished into the ether to find his next stooge.
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He was, at alternating times, a hero and a villain; a keeper of wisdom and a stooge.
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Or it may be that Trump, desperate to prove he is no Kremlin stooge, leads the charge.
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We might want to let him act first before we declare him to be stooge or savior.
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Too warm a meeting would allow Trump's domestic opponents to accuse him of being a Kremlin stooge.
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Now he must prove that he is not a stooge of Álvaro Uribe, as his critics claim.
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But we'll have to see what Trump's liar-stooge Spicer has to say about all of this.
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I kept waiting for the reversal where he revealed that O'Malley was a government stooge or something.
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Lamb weathered $10 million in Republican attack ads casting him as a stooge of the Democratic leader.
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"The terrible art of the candidate is to coddle the self-deception of the stooge," Johnson wrote.
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And yet he is now being maligned as a Democratic stooge out to sabotage the Republican Party.
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Gianforte's career led Quist to seek inroads with voters by portraying his opponent as a corporate stooge.
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He may be the worst Russian stooge ever because he&aposs been tougher on them than Obama has.
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The letter also set out to rebuff Maduro's frequent allegations that Almagro is a stooge of US imperialism.
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Venezuela's opposition and its many supporters came to see Mr Samper as a stooge for the Venezuelan government.
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PETKANAS: You are a Russian stooge who used to work for Vladimir Putin and it is coming back.
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The outreach can also signal to Iraq's Sunni minority that the Baghdad government is not an Iranian stooge.
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Gianforte's career has led Quist to seek inroads with voters by portraying his opponent as a corporate stooge.
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Thomas L. Friedman The big story everyone is chasing is whether President Trump is a Russian stooge. Wrong.
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She bills Macron, a pro-European Union former investment banker, as a stooge of banks and the elite.
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" It's also when Nancy Pelosi called him a "stooge" for President Trump who "acted outside the circle of respect.
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Mr Zhou is one such author—he flashes anger at the notion that he might be a party stooge.
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Yanukovych was a Kremlin stooge, one who (per the New York Times) paid Manafort millions between 2007 and 2012.
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" In an editorial this week, the leading newspaper in Mr. Nunes's district, The Fresno Bee, called him "Trump's stooge.
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His only rival for the presidency, Mousa Mostafa Mousa, was accused by Sisi's detractors of being a stooge candidate.
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Ms. Yovanovitch was disdained by Mr. Trump's allies as an Obama-appointed stooge (Don Jr. called her a "joker").
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Ms. Wahl calls Mr. Camp a "stooge" and told me that his comedy plays into the channel's disinformation campaign.
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The backing of the Lima group will help refute Mr Maduro's taunts that Mr Guaidó is just a gringo stooge.
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King Abdullah now has to show he's not Israel's stooge and needs a solution in which he doesn't lose face.
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They see Mrs Lam, who took over in 2017, as the party's stooge—as they will see her successor, too.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California called Nunes a "stooge" for Trump, citing his work on Trump's transition team.
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Maria Furmanets, a villager of the Moscow Patriarchate faith, says it is unfair to paint her as a Russian stooge.
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He claimed to create this world of transparency and openness and ended up a lackey and stooge of Vladimir Putin.
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One wonders whether Mr. Trump is an unwitting stooge, or whether he is compromising the United States for personal gain.
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The most important question for Ecuador, so far unanswered, is whether he is his own man, or merely Mr Correa's stooge.
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O'Reilly's ego was such that he never let himself be typecast or played as a stooge for a rote ideological agenda.
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Another depicts him as a stooge of the Congress party, which appointed him to the job but is now in opposition.
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Others, such as CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, dismissed Whitaker as a "stooge" put in place to sabotage the Russia probe.
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Detractors have accused Moussa of being a stooge candidate, though he has insisted his campaign to become Egypt's leader is genuine.
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Assuming Trump is not literally a Russian stooge (doubtful, but don't tell Clintonites), he has still expressed cavalier indifference for NATO.
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Detractors have accused Mousa of being a stooge candidate, sanctioned by the regime to give the election a veneer of legitimacy.
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Bacon (R-Neb.), for example, repeatedly blasted Ashford as a Pelosi stooge in 2016, eventually defeating in their last match-up.
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His campaign chairman Paul Manafort is a convicted tax cheat who was trying to keep Putin's stooge in power in Ukraine.
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We won't put up with this behavior from him; we certainly won't put up with it from a hapless stooge like Pai.
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Opposition leaders have attacked Falcon - a former Chavez ally or 'Chavista' - as a stooge who is only running to legitimize Maduro's reelection.
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If anything, Whitaker's prior statement puts greater pressure on him to avoid such an allegation of being a "stooge" on a mission.
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Before long, even Claire has a single vote for VP, courtesy of Kentucky senator Scott Sheer (yes, he's a stooge for Frank).
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It seems there is a communist stooge behind every poll, as people like Clinton make support for the establishment a loyalty test.
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Protesters want a new pro-democracy leader but given the latest events, they now fear he'll be replaced by a political stooge.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wondered aloud if he was a "willing stooge" or had just been "duped" by the White House.
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Despite what could be a thankless role as a government stooge, he more than keeps up with the cogs turning around him.
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With Mr Hariri out of the way, Saudi Arabia can now denounce Lebanon's government as a stooge of Iran and its Shia proxy.
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David is a liar and a stooge, whereas Efraim's ugly-American boorishness is accentuated by Mr Hill's wired intensity and seal-barking cackle.
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The editorial board earlier this year wrote that Nunes had become Trump's "stooge," and criticized him for leading GOP attacks on the FBI.
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The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote that if Schroeder accepted the post, "a former German chancellor would be a stooge of an authoritarian system".
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We realize that he hasn't been sent into the mission by Colonel Campbell, but instead he was the stooge of a shadowy conspiracy.
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There is nothing to indicate that ESPN's premier access stooge has any moral quandary about being the official launderer of the NFL's bullshit.
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If your work stalls, either by commission or because the case is too thin, you are apt to be scorned as a presidential stooge.
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However much you might otherwise disagree with him, the guy who graduated first in his class from West Point is not a Russian stooge.
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Undaunted, Helms moved to have King's F.B.I. files declassified, so that the Senate might explore the specious claim that he was a Communist stooge.
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Perhaps if Democrats had not spent the last three years calling Trump a Russian stooge and traitor then they would have some credibility today.
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In response, Hill contributor Kristofer Harrison published an essay denying the neo-Nazi elements of Azov and accusing Khanna of being a Russian stooge.
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These are all gifts you can buy and have shipped to the mom in your life in time to not look like a total stooge.
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Meanwhile, every other stooge in the country has gronked the fact that saying "Nazis are bad" is the easiest political win they've ever been handed.
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Its local partner, despite efforts to spread patronage and to exploit fears of Islamic radicalism, faces charges of acting as a stooge for New Delhi.
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Democrats are making it crystal clear they'll cast McConnell as a Trump stooge if he doesn't run what they consider to be a fair trial.
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Democratic leaders have alternately raised the possibility that the sitting president is an actual Kremlin stooge and then suggested they'd really rather talk about Medicaid funding.
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Parliament sacked the finance minister after he made a short speech defending his record and rejecting the characterization of him as a stooge for Ukraine's creditors.
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Compared with a president who is a willing stooge for the Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, a little vodka-induced dancing with the red bear is peanuts.
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I hope his team continues to take advantage of the fact that it takes only one inexperienced stooge to undo the accomplishments of 100 normal workers.
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Many skeptical analysts of Russian politics have accused her of being an opposition stooge -- allowed to run by the Kremlin in order to legitimize the election.
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Just last month, the FCC responded to a Gizmodo request for emails containing jokes about Ajit Pai being a Verizon-back stooge, also citing b5 exemption.
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It came back to haunt Fox when Castro played a tape of the private conversation a few months later and accused him of being a US stooge.
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Surtr the fire giant is a much more devastating force in Norse mythology than he is in the film, in which he acts as Thor's unwitting stooge.
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But four others—Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand—are American allies, while the sixth, India, as Mr Kausikan puts it, is "hardly a Chinese stooge".
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Critics have accused him of harboring dangerous nationalist tendencies with one fellow activist suggesting he was a Kremlin stooge designed to create the illusion of political competition.
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The only point is that assuming Whitaker is a stooge or saboteur ignores the reality that scuttling the investigation would be the stupidest option available to Trump.
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An American nominee who is hawkish on China and opposes the bank's green-finance projects, or is seen as a political stooge, would set off a row.
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Mr. Nunes also has earned a reputation of being a staunch Trump loyalist — or "Trump's stooge," as his hometown newspaper, The Fresno Bee, called him last week.
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Progressive activists and Democrats in Congress both routinely refer to President Trump as a "fascist," a "tyrant" and a witting stooge of President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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Willkie's stand on Lend-Lease was the last straw for the party bosses, who had long regarded him as a "Republican Quisling" and a stooge for Roosevelt.
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For decades, one of the key charges against Lai has been that he is a CIA stooge, and the Apple Daily a tool of the United States.
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Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is simply a "stooge" for Trump who can't be trusted to lead an unbiased investigation into ties between Russia and the White House.
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He's overcome impeachment and a special counsel investigation; he's survived being called a rapist, racist, liar, tax-evader, Putin stooge, clown, mentally ill, traitor — you name it.
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That announcement will then be used to whack Democrats in the 2020 election, and show that Trump was framed as a Russian stooge during the last election.
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It would mean that in a week, the Russians will have installed a stooge — and done it with the right wing of this country cheering them on.
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Gillum, who also called DeSantis a Trump "stooge," took the question as an opportunity to tie his opponent to the President "Donald Trump is weak," Gillum said.
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You can rest easy because CFPB, an agency run by a Trump stooge like Mick Mulvaney who wants to kill the agency, assures us they're on the case.
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Bernie supporters: lol your a corporate stooge die of cancer idiot I criticized Elizabeth Warren's debt forgiveness plan for being regressive & I got a data driven debate w.
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After it emerged that she voted for Mr Macron in 2017, if only to keep out the nationalist Marine Le Pen, she was accused of being a stooge.
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For instance, he could have his Justice Department stooge appoint a crony as a replacement special counsel for Mueller, who will make sure the investigation progresses no further.
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Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is simply a "stooge" for President Trump who can't be trusted to lead an unbiased investigation into ties between Russia and the White House.
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The Moscow Patriarchate sees itself as the one true church but authorities accuse it of being a Kremlin stooge helping to spread Russian propaganda and aiding the rebels.
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Mr. McCain denounced the meeting with Mr. Lavrov, whom he called "the stooge of a thug and a murderer" — a reference to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
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He was a communist stooge to the American officials who repeatedly tried to kill him, presiding over an outpost of the Soviet Union just off the coast of Florida.
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Celtic fans might argue that any match broadcast on Israeli television is fair game for protest, but that leaves Hapoel Be'er Sheva as nothing more than a convenient stooge.
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For the sake of the Jeremy Kyle analogy, Jose Mourinho was the censorious chat show host, Fisher the bewildered stooge being forced to take an awkward public paternity test.
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In February 2019, after NBC News released a report suggesting Russian propagandists were backing Gabbard, she accused the media outlet of attempting to smear her as a "Kremlin stooge."
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Not everyone, of course, supports Mr. Nunes, and The Fresno Bee, in a recent editorial, called Mr. Nunes "Trump's stooge," for pushing for the release of the classified memo.
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Detractors portrayed Mr. Ban as a weak diplomat who would be unable to institute badly needed reforms, or as a stooge for a conservative establishment desperate for a candidate.
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In order to defeat the imaginary Sovereign Territory Bill, a hard-line law the government is about to pass, they find a stooge to run for the Australian Senate.
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They are people with close ties to the Russians and including individuals who have made large sums of money (and) who was the Russian stooge as the President of Ukraine.
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Mr Ossoff was variously portrayed as a stooge of Democratic bigwigs, an associate of terrorists (his company has worked for Al Jazeera) and wearing a Han Solo costume at college.
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The top Democrat in the House, Nancy Pelosi, on Thursday described Nunes as "a willing stooge" of Trump who had "committed a stunt at the White House" with his comments.
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Unfortunately, Zula has also caught the piggy eye of a Communist Party stooge (Boris Szyc) who thinks that the ensemble's repertoire should include some catchy numbers about Stalin's agriculture reforms.
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But if Democrats can successfully prosecute the case that Trump is a Putin stooge with dangerously thin knowledge of foreign affairs, they could keep independent voters out of his column.
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The "Trump is a Russian-controlled stooge" was different and unique, especially since concerns over its possible veracity made it all the way to the level of a congressional investigation.
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Honestly it seems like Kevin just has a deep-seeded thirst for blood, and it can only be sated by the murder of a bumbling and loveable working-class stooge.
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Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman until August 2016, is credibly alleged to have received $12.7 million in "undisclosed cash payments" from then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a Russian stooge.
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After ignoring Mr. Moon for months, calling his South Korean government an American stooge, Mr. Kim used his New Year's speech on Monday to embrace the South Korean leader's overture.
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But his detractors call him a "stooge" for old politics, beholden to conservative allies of former President Park Geun-hye, whose impeachment and ouster last month led to the election.
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Mr. Maduro, who has called Mr. Guaidó a Trump administration stooge, said the promises of emergency aid masked an American plot to invade Venezuela, and he vowed to thwart it.
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Because of his visit to Israel, Salem was blacklisted in Egypt, expelled from the Writers' Union and denounced in print as a stooge or even as a paid agent of Israel.
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And while Republican senators have so far avoided attacking Garland's qualifications, conservative interest groups are already pledging to run television advertisements portraying the judge as a mindless liberal and Obama stooge.
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Another flavor of clue that appeared more than once was container entries, like 2D: A "Stooge in the sack" is a LACKEY in a BED; "with a shiner," or BLACK EYED.
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Although she has gained worldwide acclaim and recognition, Ms. Yousafzai is still viewed by many in Pakistan's conservative society in a critical light, and some portray her as a Western stooge.
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And so, at the advice of Pycelle (always a Lannister stooge) but against the advice of Varys and Jaime, Aerys opened the gates and made possible the Sack of King's Landing.
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Maryam Nawaz, the daughter and political heir apparent of the ousted prime minister, goes as far as calling Mr. Khan a "stooge" and "pawn" of the military and its intelligence agencies.
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Allawi appealed to Iraqis for their support hours after his appointment by President Barham Salih earlier this month, but protesters have already rejected him as a stooge of the political elite.
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Consecutive sequences were filmed many months and thousands of miles apart; Welles would claim that he was never able to get Iago, Desdemona and Iago's stooge, Roderigo, together for a single shot.
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He was one of three experts whose research found that a larger proportion of the misinformation targets Widodo, with some posts depicting him as anti-Islam, a Chinese stooge or a communist.
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Accused of being a Russian stooge, Gontareva had called for the protesters to end a campaign to vandalize and obstruct the work of Kremlin-owned lenders, warning of the threat to financial stability.
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The problem is not that Mr Fillon will become a Kremlin stooge at the heart of the EU. It is that he may make it harder for Europe to manage Mr Putin's caprices.
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Perhaps this particular insult simply stems from many British people's long suspicion of the EU as a German expansionist project -- and therefore Soubry, a pro-EU politician, as some kind of Germanic stooge.
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A stooge for his former clients, this Trump nominee was the deputy secretary, while the top job was held by a strange man, Ryan Zinke, who paraded around on a horse named Tonto.
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Varys tried to counsel King Aerys to keep the gates closed to Tywin, but Grand Maester Pycelle, always a Lannister stooge, advised King Aerys to open the gates, and his advice won out.
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About 100 students were ordered into the main auditorium to watch two short films attacking the opposition leader as both a United States State Department stooge and a would-be Nazi-saluting Hitler.
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His opposition to the provisional government, the temporary cabinet of liberals and businessmen that was trying to run exactly such a war on Russia's part, fueled suspicion that he was a German stooge.
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Indeed, my only impression of him was shaped by the image, repeated in endless media segments, of a shady character who was at worst a Russian spy and at best a Russian stooge.
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Hunter also was asked to be a director of a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma Holdings, owned by a government minister and close associate of bloodsoaked former president and Russian stooge Viktor Yanukovych.
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Its new name allows it to portray itself as a vanguard of the Syrian people rather than a stooge of al Qaeda, which has been eclipsed by Islamic State within the global jihadist movement.
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In 2016, the head of one centrist party denounced him as a stooge for the AfD, a new far-right party that won thirteen per cent of the vote in last year's federal elections.
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Americans don't dislike Trump because they think he's a Russian stooge; they dislike him, according to a Quinnipiac poll because they think he's dishonest, doesn't care about them, and is a bad role model.
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Naturally that has to stop, and all this stooge Trost did was make the case by throwing a bone to the New York Glitterati he so desperately wants to come back to the stadium.
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"That's My Boy" (1951), "The Stooge" (1953) and "The Caddy" (20133) approached psychological drama with their forbidding father figures and suggestions of sibling rivalry; Mr. Lewis had a hand in the writing of each.
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Three Western diplomats in Baghdad said their governments would find Abadi the easiest candidate to work with but that very pliability is seen as a weakness by some constituents who consider him a foreign stooge.
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She said House Intel Chair Devin "Nunes is deeply compromised" and was "either duped or a willing stooge" for briefing Trump on how his team may have been caught inadvertently in surveillance of other targets.
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If you've been paying attention to the Nunes saga, you're probably not surprised by the news that Trump's stooge in Congress will no longer lead an investigation that could potentially lead to the president's impeachment.
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Mr Trump attacked Mr McCabe as both a Clinton stooge and as a friend of James Comey, the FBI director he fired in May 2017, after Mr Comey rebuffed a presidential demand to swear loyalty.
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"We must not allow Austria to become a stooge for the political world power the USA," Boehmdorfer told the court, depicting Firtash as the victim of a U.S. strategy to minimize Russian influence in Ukraine.
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A poor showing by the already fractious opposition prompted a bitter public dispute between the two most high-profile liberal politicians, with one denouncing the other as a Kremlin stooge even before the polls closed.
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The Moscow Patriarchate, which hews close to the presidency of Vladimir Putin and at times defends it from popular protest, regularly pours scorn on its counterpart in Istanbul for acting as a stooge of American diplomacy.
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Proclaiming a willingness to die for their cause, Mr. Banks and Mr. Means demanded the ouster of Richard Wilson, the elected leader of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, whom they called a corrupt white man's stooge.
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He'd want a stooge, a willing executioner, more loyal to him than to the Constitution — someone to blindly do his bidding, fire Mr. Mueller, and suppress the F.B.I. agents leading the investigation of the White House.
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They ran political ads all over the country morphing the pictures of Democratic candidates into images of Pelosi and issuing stark warnings to voters that any Dem running for the House would be a Pelosi stooge.
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Nisar has previously denied being a military stooge and has shown no signs of pulling punches ahead of the general election, serving contempt of court notices to senior PML-N figures who have criticized the judiciary.
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Trump's hypothetical stooge at the Justice Department would have to not just be willing to dismiss Mueller, but to affirmatively act to shut down (or at least, rein in) his investigation and the seemingly separate Cohen probe.
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In short: not too many surprises/upsets: Senate: House: Tweet from National Journal's Josh Kraushaar: SORE LOSERS: Canova called DWS a "corporate stooge" AFTER losing; Grayson called Murphy a "Republican"; Beruff: Rubio made "life mistake" http://bit.
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Opposition lawmakers denounced the government's move as an attempt to silence criticism, especially YouTube videos used by conservative critics to attack the progressive government of President Moon Jae-in, whom they often call a North Korean stooge.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration's actual Russia policy, with its combination of the public bromance with Putin and more hawkish policies behind the scenes, would be a pretty strange way for a Kremlin stooge to play his part.
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Over all, the general sense was that whether she was a Kremlin stooge or not, the entrance of a glamorous young woman into mainstream Russian politics would make what many consider a farcical race even more fantastic.
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A senior Taliban leader said on Sunday that Mr. Trump was fooling himself to think he could bring the Taliban and Mr. Ghani together at Camp David "because we do not recognize the stooge government" in Kabul.
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One dangerous aspect that doesn't get covered, however, is how the existence of Russia has given smear artists the green light to assign blame for virtually anything, simply by accusing their target of being a Russian stooge.
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In the village where her grandmother is buried and her 87-year-old grandfather still lives, Jamala says her relatives are abused and she is branded an American stooge or a fascist for appearing to side against Russia.
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For nearly two years now, the intelligence community has kept secret evidence in the Russia collusion case that directly undercuts the portrayal of retired Army general and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn as a Russian stooge.
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And I would love him to actually stop abusing our privacy, stop compromising our democracy, let government in to regulate what it needs to regulate, not lobby against that in Washington with that stooge who sat behind him.
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Saturday Night Live had plenty of fodder to work with in parodying the last week of news, but in the end, writers decided to kick the show off with everyone's favorite target: former Trump fixer and stooge, Michael Cohen.
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What it should confirm for us once and for all is that the caricatured narrative of Tillerson being a stooge for Russia and an opponent of any form of sanctions being imposed thereon, under any circumstance, is pure invention.
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"I know this: Mr. Lavrov is the stooge of a thug and a murderer," McCain said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose government many critics have accused of being responsible for the killing of opposition leaders and journalists.
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Her campaign got a polling bounce here after Clinton implied on a podcast that Gabbard is a Russian stooge and Gabbard replied in a tweet that Clinton is "the queen of warmongers" leading a conspiracy to destroy her reputation.
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What started as a ring-a-ding vaudeville act, with Ms. Newman as the star stooge, descends uncomfortably into a series of soliloquies about imparting liberal values to children, which contain more than a few notes of self-congratulation.
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"We have no doubt that Trump will appoint another fossil fuel industry stooge as Pruitt's replacement," Doyle continued, while casting doubt on Deputy EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler's ability to uphold the agency's mission leading the EPA in the interim.
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"A Deep-State Hillary Clinton-loving stooge," read a Saturday headline on the American Thinker, a far-right website, latching on to a WikiLeaks-released email that showed Fauci praising Clinton for her Benghazi testimony as secretary of State.
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When Pelosi essentially accuses Trump of being a Russian stooge and someone like Rooney responds by saying, "She's got a point," it feels like there's a level of growing Republican frustration with Trump that will eventually find an outlet.
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There is a lot of attention on who will replace Gontareva, a figure praised by the International Monetary Fund but vilified by some lawmakers and street protesters, who have accused her of corruption and of being a Russian stooge.
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Beyond fundraising and field operations, Ossoff is moving more to the middle to sway independents and Republicans he'll need in the runoff after months of Republican attacks that framed him as a Democratic stooge close to Washington and Hollywood. Sen.
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More than a stooge for Vladimir Putin or the embodiment of a disgruntled — and mythical — white working class, Mr. Trump is at his core a landlord, turning a handsome profit while the rest of us live in increasingly precarious conditions.
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A radical (takfiri) interpretation of Islam, imported from Saudi Arabia and perfected during the Afghan jihad, has become so normal that any citizen who opposes violence committed in the name of religion is called an American stooge or a heretic (kafir).
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WARSAW — Judge Igor Tuleya has been labeled an enemy of the state by the Polish government, threatened with violence, forced to evacuate his courtroom for fear of anthrax attacks and demonized in the right-wing media as a communist stooge.
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He laughed about being bashed as a "Kremlin stooge" after sitting on the official commission of archaeologists who decided that the Bronze Age materials unearthed from roughly the third millennium B.C. were an aberration, that uninterrupted habitation started about 2,000 years ago.
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"They wanted to know whether she is a stooge of the USA or something like that, how much her thoughts and her ideology is Westernized, but they soon found that she's quite independent," said NLD central executive committee member Han Tha Myint.
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And yes, I have a vested interest in this business — not because I'm a Hillary shill, not because I'm a corporate stooge, but because wonkdom is a key part of who I am and why I think I can play any positive role.
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Guzman's defense team attempted to use this continued success to convince the jury that he was merely a figurehead, a stooge of the true mastermind of the cartel — Zambada — and that he was not one of the top leaders of the cartel.
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"When you start putting the top cop in the country as just a stooge, just the guy who's there to do the bidding of the supreme leader, that's the slow-moving coup," Maher said during an interview with veteran journalist Bob Woodward.
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One of the great takeaways of the 2016 campaign was that the Democratic Party was damaged by its close ties to corporate and financial interests—that it allowed Donald Trump, of all people, to credibly paint Hillary Clinton as just another stooge.
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For all the appeal of the 700 million Chinese internet users, Facebook still gets 50 percent of its entire revenue from North America, and the reputational damage of being seen as a stooge of the Chinese government could hit its bottom line.
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What's obviously really going on: O'Malley is a government stooge, duh, and he was sent by the old conspiracy (headed up by the Cigarette Smoking Man, whom we see briefly at episode's end) to divert Mulder from whatever the truth has mutated into.
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Nunes's local paper, the Fresno Bee, recently characterized him as "Trump's stooge" in an editorial: "What, pray tell, does Rep Devin Nunes think he's doing by waving around a secret memo attacking the FBI, the nation's premier law enforcement agency?" the paper asked in January.
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The Democratic aide said Democratic lawmakers do not have a favorable view of either Ratcliffe or Grenell, believing it would allow Trump to have a "stooge" in charge of the intelligence community, though the aide acknowledged the decision will ultimately come down to Senate Republicans.
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The left-wing prosecutor, who emphatically rejects the tough-on-crime philosophy that has prevailed for decades in cities across the country, has been called pro-criminal and anti-police, the "worst district attorney" in America, and a stooge of liberal billionaire George Soros.
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"With millennia of civilization, Iranians have the historical depth to ignore the absurd insults of an arriviste leader; one whose entire command of history, politics and diplomacy can be condensed into 280 characters - but even so, still superior to his juvenile royal stooge," Zarif wrote.
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Whether Ki-taek's relish of illicit pleasures makes him the ultimate rebel or a gullible stooge for the sweet life is open to debate, and it's no surprise that, with half an hour to go, the plot of "Parasite" could yet turn in many directions.
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She was a brave young Dutch student and a conscience-stricken gentile who risked her life to save Jews from death camps in the early 1940s, in one instance shooting a Nazi stooge before he could seize three little children she had been hiding.
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It'd take something more like a loss of faith in existing congressional probes, the selection of a real stooge to replace Comey, or the definitive death of the FBI's Russia probe, and subsequent strong demand from a majority of their caucus to change that dynamic.
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They splashed the Breitbart homepage with wall-to-wall coverage of the race for weeks, amplifying Strange's ties to a company that profited from the EB-5 Visa program, which conservatives loathe, and painting him as a stooge of McConnell and the GOP establishment.
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So Rogen is less of a super villain and more of a stooge in this story, especially in an argument with the network in which Rogen doggedly insists on keeping a shot of Kim Jong-Un's face melting off because it is "universally received as awesome".
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It faces either a third election that could further weaken its position after a string of poor results or the prospect of being derided as a stooge for the conservative party at a time when the far-left Podemos ("We Can") is biting at its heels.
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The embattled president has fought back by depicting Mr. Guaidó as a stooge of Washington and its right-wing allies in Latin America, an optic Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have assisted by inveighing against "socialism" as an evil to be crushed wherever it appears.
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After years of denouncing the South as an American stooge, Mr. Kim, the North Korean leader, used his New Year's Day speech to propose a dialogue to discuss his country's participation in the Winter Olympics being held in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang beginning Feb. 7.
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The campaign is in its early stages, and López Obrador – "AMLO" as he is always referred to in Mexican media – has reined in some of his more extreme past rhetoric in an effort to reassure middle class voters that he is not another Hugo Chávez, or a Russian stooge.
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It's a trial about the astonishing ways in which Vladimir Putin effectively transformed Manafort into a Kremlin subsidiary, first in Ukraine and then in the United States, turning a famed Washington political operative like Manafort – once adviser to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush – into a Russian stooge.
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That seductiveness is exerted on characters as diverse as his earthy wife; his Desdemona-besotted stooge, the wealthy Venetian, Roderigo (a perfectly fatuous Matthew Maher); and the young soldier Cassio (a radiantly open-faced Finn Wittrock), the central pawn in Iago's scheme to convince Othello of his wife's infidelity.
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We caught up with the Trump ally at the center of the Russia controversy We caught up with the Trump ally at the center of the Russia controversy Carter Page has been called a Russian stooge, an American patriot, a key Trump adviser, and a hopeless hanger-on.
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His re-election campaign ran out of money this week, he cannot get TV air time, his meetings are disrupted by people shouting him down, and a fake newspaper handed out to voters has cast him as a U.S. stooge involved in a shadowy Jewish-Ukrainian conspiracy to seize power.
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What emerges is a portrait of the artist at odds with society, a nomad in the truest sense, averse to the art market, yet accepting of it at the same time, an "official" stooge, an "unofficial" bum, a poignant commentator on social conditions — whether capitalism or communism — while actually ascribing to neither.
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But in addition to blustering on Twitter about his party's great success—Republicans did win seats in the Senate—Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a man once derided by Democrats as an unreformed possibly neo-Confederate stooge but who had emerged as a sort of check on Trump's worst impulses.
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Among a triumvirate of opposition figures who led Georgia's Rose Revolution in 2003 and started pushing Georgia out of Moscow's orbit and toward the European Union and NATO, Ms. Burjanadze, a 52-year-old lawyer, is reviled by her erstwhile colleagues as a stooge bent on keeping her country under Russia's thumb.
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Timothy Egan In normal times, you could bank the bet that a man who was a Russian stooge, gave comfort to neo-Nazis and spent his first year in office trying to take health care from 22 million Americans was going to get destroyed when voters finally had a chance to send him a message.
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Over the past several months, Ms. Yovanovitch, a decorated 33-year veteran of the State Department, has been vilified in the right-wing news media, denounced by the president's eldest son as a "joker," called a Democratic stooge by the president's personal lawyer and then abruptly recalled from Kiev this May, months ahead of schedule.
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" She added that Nielsen was "lying to the American people," and that her "Standing up and lying for a racist is a horrid thing to watch," referring to the secretary on Instagram as "yet another Trump stooge" who is a "complete fumbling bumbling mess" engaging in "A HORROR SHOW" and ended the press briefing "full of lies.
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The white guy (Dan Bucatinsky) who gets the job is a stooge with a Duke M.B.A. She has a G.E.D. Fortunately, her best work friend (Leah Remini) has a whiz-kid son who sends out a doctored résumé and cooks up a phony Facebook page that turns her into the mountain-climbing go-getter she swore she'd never be.
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Using this third-person "Shostakovich," but often switching into an unlocatable voice, like a biographer behind a literary veil, Barnes deftly covers three big episodes in the composer's life: denunciation in Pravda and subsequent implication in an assassination plot; his trip to America, where he is humiliated as a Soviet stooge; and lastly, being forced to join the Communist Party.
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Sen. Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) on Thursday rejected the idea that he is President Trump's "most loyal stooge," after being labeled as such in a New York Magazine article.
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He reads from his own, so while the media panics over Trump&aposs refusal to play the lead in their movie, he stars in his own, building up the military, demanding NATO pay for their defense, toying with Putin&aposs pipeline, Army Ukraine, it&aposs like Sergeant Rock versus The Three Stooges, but if Trump is Putin&aposs stooge, he&aposs doing a total Curly to their Moe.
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What's interesting and I think challenging to some audiences about the play is that all of the characters, no matter their opinions of Bannon, think Donald Trump is at best a useful but disgusting stooge, and they all voted for him, because they see him as a big rock in a river that runs for miles — part of an ongoing conflict arc in the history of the world.
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Yet Democrats have been quick to point to the signs of Russian cyber activity as evidence that GOP presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is a stooge for the Kremlin, using rhetoric seemingly unprecedented in modern U.S. politics.
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In the piece, the Bee's editorial board refers to Nunes as President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's "stooge" and criticizes him for prompting GOP attacks on the FBI with a classified memo that Republicans have latched onto as potential proof of political bias in the FBI.
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A content review board that will inevitably remain linked to (if not also reimbursed via) the company that establishes it, and will not be granted powers to set wider Facebook policy — but will instead be tasked with facing the impossible of trying to please all of the Facebook users (and critics) all of the time — does certainly risk looking like Facebook's stooge; a conduit for channeling dirty and political content problems that have the potential to go viral and threaten its continued ability to monetize the stuff that's uploaded to its platforms.
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