Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?
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A sycophantic media will try to absolve Democrats of ObamaCare's failure.
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"He has been a bit sycophantic to the President," Dawsey said.
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Even the president's most sycophantic defenders didn't bother denying the reports.
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Critics described him variously as pompous, sycophantic, unctuous, oleaginous and obsequious.
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Mr Modi himself has become the object of a sycophantic personality cult.
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She is portrayed as sycophantic to some, dismissive and patronizing to others.
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A sycophantic newspaper soon accused him of links to the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
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The 25-second video features the minority leader surrounded by his sycophantic staff.
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Coverage often seems maddeningly slanted, with partisan sycophantic reporting across the media spectrum.
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Dressed to the nines in a navy blue power suit, he was sycophantic.
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Newspapers have swung from sycophantic coverage of the former first family to decrying them.
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That is the only way out of the sycophantic bubble that Washington so often becomes.
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That sycophantic offering came from the head of Russia's state-controlled RT network, Margarita Simonyan.
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He didn't want it to be a sycophantic "greatest hits of UNKLE" documentary on screen.
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According to firsthand accounts, the "sycophantic praising of the Bongos" at these events is incessant.
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Pence's performance has prompted adjectives such as fawning, groveling, toadying, sycophantic and less polite pejoratives.
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There are sycophantic sites out there that he's using to create a White House media group.
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The names of frontrunners for appointments that have leaked so far have been almost comically sycophantic.
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By isolating themselves in a bubble of sycophantic loyalists, they set themselves up for disastrous errors.
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Day by day, you watch this charlatan and his strange, enabling family and his sycophantic courtiers.
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Critics described Mr. Netanyahu's intention to name a new Golan community for Mr. Trump as sycophantic.
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Broadly, others seem to be questioning the "sycophantic" nature of the conversations across Facebook's internal Workplace system.
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They point to his business dabblings in Russia, sycophantic comments about Mr Putin and his confidants' pasts.
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Institutions helmed by sycophantic yes men will discover that they also lack the credibility to restore confidence.
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Among the first questions Trump took was one from the ultra-sycophantic One America News Network (OAN).
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Some critics accuse Mr. Abe of being too sycophantic in pursuit of a bromance with Mr. Trump.
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The purpose is not to suck up to the boss; it's to draw the audience into sycophantic agreement.
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We will recruit anti-Trump conservative candidates at every level to throw his sycophantic supporters out of office.
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To conclude that this sycophantic debut is where Judge Kavanaugh's problems begin and end would be dangerously naïve.
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Taken to its worst extreme, food-based clientelism could force hungry citizens to behave like suppliant, sycophantic subjects.
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" The former official said that, in private, too, Pompeo is "among the most sycophantic and obsequious people around Trump.
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Finally, Rosenstein announced his resignation this week with a sycophantic letter to Trump, evidently meant to burnish Trump's image.
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Trump has already turned televised appearances with his sycophantic cabinet and his congressional cronies into Dear Leader praise-fests.
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But he's a Republican member of Congress in 2020, which means he's a sycophantic shell of his former self.
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It's even his nickname – Floyd 'Money' Mayweather – though you'd have to be pretty sycophantic to go around calling him that.
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His questions weren't softballs, they were downright sycophantic and often featured the interviewer attempting to supply Trump with the answers.
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The next time Offred (Elisabeth Moss) encounters Janine at a ceremony, she's a sycophantic convert to the new world order.
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Given his confidence and bravado, this Walton is different than the sycophantic, trembling man we see aboard the USS Callister.
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The real horror for me is watching people who I thought were principled conservatives become sycophantic propagandists for this guy.
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Even when the leaders are themselves fairly honest, their desire for total control and sycophantic advisers leads to policy mistakes.
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The attorney general is supposed to be independent and stand above politics, but Barr looks weak and sycophantic to Trump.
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He found adulation, meanwhile, in sycophantic advisers and angry white voters drawn to his platform of protectionism, nationalism, and immigration restriction.
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Trump likes loyalists and sycophants, and Pence's strategy, while smart for his 2020 hopes, was neither particularly loyal nor particularly sycophantic.
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"They keep pushing me away because they don't like what in their mind is not 100 percent sycophantic behavior," he said.
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Your new movie The Death of Stalin is about politics, but it's also about the seedy, sycophantic people that world attracts.
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One multinational's boss drew cheers with a sycophantic call for India to "export" Mr Modi to run his home country, America, too.
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The king has alienated his subjects not only by his absence, but also by his personal cruelty and insistence on sycophantic protocol.
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In addition to pulling all-nighters, Annie reveals she must battle hordes of sycophantic coworkers trying to get to Mae through her.
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He will make the work of journalism more difficult (calling only on sycophantic outlets during press conferences is likely just the beginning).
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Barney, the town wino, is funny because he's a drunkard, he explains; Smithers, Mr. Burns's sycophantic assistant, is funny because he's closeted.
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Instead, you dragged that motley skeleton crew into the White House and let them create a feuding, leaking, belligerent, conspiratorial, sycophantic atmosphere.
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Republicans, by contrast, spent the 2016 campaign being supportive of Trump and have spent the post-election era being sycophantic toward him.
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The president sat on a stately chair in the audience at the University of Dar es Salaam while sycophantic academics praised his tenure.
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Listen, I wouldn't say Corden is the worst late-night host: Jimmy Fallon is more abrasively sycophantic, and Trevor Noah is Trevor Noah.
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Parents, teachers and students were outraged at what they saw as biased, inaccurate information about mainland China and sycophantic praise of the central government.
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I can guarantee you that anything that comes out of Mariska Hargitay's mouth > than anything that comes out of Paul Ryan's sycophantic little face.
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"In what is probably the most embarrassing exchange, the mayor forwarded his ride history to the Uber CEO with the sycophantic message, "218 miles.
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The greatest worry about the sycophantic aspect of Pence's behavior is what it suggests about the operation of the presidency and the vice presidency.
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But don't be that person who is weird and sycophantic and loves to demonstrate their wokeness constantly to the people of color around them.
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The pundits Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, in successive sit-downs with Mr. Trump, came off as sympathetic at best and sycophantic at worst.
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" His sycophantic teaching assistant gushes to him about "the way you marry Epicureanism with presentism, then reboot them both into something deeply, deeply moral.
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By old tradition, coverage of the royals oscillates between sycophantic and brutal, avidly milking story lines about their laziness, profligacy, debauchery or low intelligence.
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The recent criticism from Mitt Romney — who alternates between critical and sycophantic, depending on his own political interests — is another sign of Trump's weakness.
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His targets didn't take kindly to the president's attacks: Your cabal of unprincipled, unethical, dishonest, and sycophantic cronies is being methodically brought to justice.
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Seeing Warhol show some of the charisma that would have been necessary to inspire sycophantic behavior is a refreshing change from the usual unpleasant caricature.
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The previously sycophantic and subservient media have started airing discussions of petrol shortages, the rigging of university-entrance exams and other social and economic woes.
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They're not as subservient to Scar as they were originally, and barely have any respect for him, unlike the sycophantic hyenas in the animated film.
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The Bodies Feud made people into ploys and signatures on bottoms of tank manifestos that would render earthwhilers doglike and sycophantic while Man reached upward.
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As with most titans of sports executive dickishness, Levine has a critical weakness—the sycophantic need to cling to the star athletes in their circle.
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Fourth, President Trump has misled and outright lied to the American people about the severity of the coronavirus, while his sycophantic acolytes have followed suit.
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The sycophantic interviewers can't get Trump to answer a policy question of any kind, no matter how much of a softball they lob at him.
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Khan said Boris Johnson&aposs government had been too "sycophantic" towards the United States and should start telling the president that his views are wrong.
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Then comes the isolation of the dictator within his palace—friendless and paranoid—and the pruning of his circle to an ever more sycophantic few.
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Bridgegate took its political toll (pun intended) but the fatal blow for Christie in the eyes of voters was his sycophantic, seemingly inexplicable embrace of Trump.
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The next president could hide their tax returns, or only grant interviews to sycophantic media outlets, or spread disinformation, or work to financially reward their friends.
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Disaffected followers told the Post his organization was a cult-like operation that demanded "sycophantic obedience" and even required married couples to inform on each other.
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While much reporting by the British press on the royal family is respectful, verging on the sycophantic, at other times it can be harshly critical, even cruel.
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Most important, Mr Sisi should overrule his most sycophantic supporters, who want to amend the constitution to let him run for a third, fourth or fifth term.
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There is a reverence in witnessing the craftsmanship of skilled artisans, but Crawford is careful to argue that reverence does not mean sycophantic obsession with the past.
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It encourages scholars to perform in real time for an audience of the like-minded, enabling a form of solidarity that is by turns sycophantic, hyperbolic, or cruel.
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I can't imagine any of us – save for the most sycophantic of United supporters – have looked at Giggs in quite the way since the revelations about his affairs.
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Most flashily, Monsieur Jourdain and his sycophantic enablers parade around in sumptuous periodish costumes by Christian Lacroix, whose extroverted style is perfectly suited to Sun King-style ostentation.
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"One of the things that concerns me is we are so obsessed with trying to please America that we act in a sycophantic way," he told Business Insider.
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Independent and moderate Republican voters are becoming increasingly dissatisfied, to put it mildly, with Donald Trump and the sycophantic Republicans who are molding the party in his image.
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He never gained serious support in his presidential bid, and made his impact on the contest in his relatively early endorsement of and sycophantic support for Donald Trump.
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Clinton was both sycophantic to President Obama and despising of him, a line of attack that aligns with that of Edward Klein, a conservative author whose books on Mrs.
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The well-chosen, well-qualified and well-intentioned Democratic choices on the left and the current stable of inexperienced, obsequious and sycophantic Trump administration cabinet members on the right.
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If they believe their own hype, they can become like a rock star surrounded by a sycophantic entourage, and the quality of their decisions will inevitably begin to decline.
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Since 2014, Mr. Modi's near-novelistic ability to create irresistible fictions has been steadily enhanced by India's troll-dominated social media as well as cravenly sycophantic newspapers and television channels.
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To get on it, be a member of Trump's family, support him with unquestioning and sycophantic loyalty, rule your country through blood and fear — or just throw money his way.
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Like Mr. Nixon, he regularly denounces real and imagined "enemies"; his White House is full of sycophantic assistants pressed to defend fantastic claims and policy distortions, as was Mr. Nixon's.
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Although he has increasingly clashed with opinion hosts in their at-times sycophantic rationalizations of President Trump's conduct, he did not indicate Friday that the friction contributed to his decision.
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Your loving language will empower Kim and other "bad dudes" to think they can act maliciously, so long as they remember to write you a sycophantic letter while they do.
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Which is not to say that we shouldn't be outraged about the endless parade of sycophantic cabinet nominees, the conflict of interest scandals, or the possibility that Russia hacked our election.
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Mr. Duterte has surrounded himself with a sycophantic cabinet, and his administration is trying to co-opt or intimidate the democratic institutions or traditional political forces that might act as counterweights.
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Everyone says so.) She's not as recent an arrival, though, as Weber (Skylar Astin), a sycophantic blowhard whose abundant lack of talent doesn't keep him from being assigned to project teams.
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He delivers the lion's share of comic relief with a sardonic wit that's a bit at odds with his character's sycophantic personality, but he's so funny it's hard to really care.
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Without sounding sycophantic, I could write for eternity about Grace Jones—there is so much more to say about an artist who bust open doors before other people could even see them.
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When his co-host, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston), reports to a chaotic pre-dawn set, her producer, Chip (Mark Duplass), says something sycophantic about how much America needs her, and she snaps.
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Theirs is a sycophantic aesthetic fantasy in which they imagine looking cool in SS uniforms and getting to bang Alison Doody as Dr. Elsa Schneider, Indy's treacherous Nazi paramour in The Last Crusade.
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In 2016, Wohl became an enthusiastic (and often sycophantic) supporter of Trump, replying to virtually every one of the president's tweets with fervent praise and even receiving a coveted retweet from Trump himself.
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At the very least, the maximum contract needs to go—it reduces the entire art of team-building into a sycophantic exercise of courting superstars who cannot be paid what they are worth.
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Twitter is full of sycophantic pundits who see each of Trump's gaffes as a masterly move in a game of 4-D chess, but Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, and Jones aren't among them.
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A Cohen freed from his almost-sycophantic relationship with Trump could be a dangerous thing for Trump -- not to mention the likes of Donald Trump Jr. and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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It also reinforces the sycophantic hierarchies Vienna's art world has taken up from the Habsburg empire: flattering people who think they are your superiors is just another game adapted from the imperial court.
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But assaults from the top, a perception that their work will not be valued or information heard, and seeing their leaders undermined for purely sycophantic political reasons will only degrade our national security.
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It revealed that 79 percent of Republicans approved of Trump's sycophantic performance at the news conference with Vladimir Putin, while 85 percent deem the investigation of Russian intrusion into our elections a distraction.
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And his most sycophantic Senate backers are echoing his attacks that Bolton is a disgruntled ex-employee only interested in selling books — while others in the GOP refuse to defend their old ally.
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He is a wannabe autocrat, who has made his goal clear: to remake America as he has remade the Republican Party -- turning a once-proud, strong party into a gaggle of sycophantic lickspittles.
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The White House wants to establish a political media monopoly, which seeks dominion over its own set of facts, by demonizing critical news sources (even those within the government) and promoting sycophantic alternatives.
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"I'm calling it now: no matter what the DOJ IG report actually says, President Trump's sycophantic supporters will try to claim that somehow he is the victim of FBI wrongdoing & bias," Connecticut Democratic Sen.
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Now we can be revolted to find that these two individuals also behaved in ways that, to many current and former bureau staff, appear as being juvenile, self-absorbed, narcissistic, sycophantic and foul-mouthed.
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Adding to their unease are the creepier aspects of the circles in which their brother travels, including a sycophantic manager (Ken Marino) who keeps acting like the barely pubescent kid is his best friend.
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The original film was a near-sycophantic love letter to a jazz legend, presenting Baker as a cool cat who traveled with the wind, floating through hazy noir shots of cosmopolitan streets at night.
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The Herald newspaper and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation - state and ruling ZANU-PF party mouthpieces - routinely heaped lavish praise on the 93-year-old Mugabe and his wife Grace in sycophantic articles and commentaries.
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It's a system of sycophantic elected leaders expecting a campaign cash flow, and in return, industry, interest groups, and big labor are rewarded with what they want: legislation and rules that favor their constituencies.
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" Kyle Pope, the editor of Columbia Journalism Review, pointed out the inevitability of that train wreck, observing that the event itself is "destined to be either sycophantic, on one extreme, or meanspirited, on the other.
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With the fresh blow of the 2016 election still sinking in, its indictment of America's sycophantic obsession with Black cultural production amidst its senseless perpetration of violence against Black people landed with a stinging blow.
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"Just stop with this sycophantic bullshit and actually do something to support us," said Jones, who works for Workshops for Warriors, a San Diego nonprofit that has trained more than 400 veterans for skilled manufacturing jobs.
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It's a weird old clang, and it's even weirder that nobody in Clinton's camp—for I can't believe this book didn't receive the eyeballs of many a sycophantic aide, prior to publication—thought it was weird.
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Current speculation is centered on whether Trump will fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (who oversees the Russia investigation since Jeff Sessions recused himself), then appoint someone more sycophantic who might can Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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Except, of course, he's renounced his power, dividing his kingdom among his sycophantic older daughters, Goneril and Regan (Elizabeth Marvel and Aisling O'Sullivan, whose accents suggest they grew up in very different parts of the world).
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Outside the government, Trump can call on a force with greater social influence: the ''sycophantic media,'' as Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican who, as a congressman, helped draft the impeachment articles against Bill Clinton, writes.
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That sycophantic acclaim for a president who just destroyed voters' trust in the GOP's ability to deliver good economic results is strong evidence the party has lost its identity as the standard-bearer of fiscal conservatism.
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"Instead of upholding every citizen's right to kneel, the owners showed their bellies to the orange-hued occupant of the Oval Office and his sycophantic enablers, praying that their prostration would keep the money flowing," Kluwe wrote.
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Unlike the sycophantic announcers on state-controlled television, Mr. Navalny has appealed to a younger generation with his irreverent humor and caustic denunciations of graft, insider deals and what he calls Russia's rigged political and economic system.
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Also, the funny thing about this whole "access" idea, it's a serious conversation, and there are always tensions when you're doing up-close reporting, but the irony is sucking up, being sycophantic actually doesn't get you anywhere.
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The Boss introduces many characters that seem ripe for callbacks and story arcs — Michelle's sycophantic-but-fickle bodyguard Tito (Cedric Yarbrough), her disappointed mentor Ida (Kathy Bates), grimly brutal scout Chrystal (Eva Peterson) — and then apathetically drops them.
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But even if they weren't, they still might find the insults refreshing after fielding so many variations on the same sycophantic questions during their time on the series's not-so-secret target: the junket and talk show circuit.
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I once also deeply humiliated myself in front of Amy Poehler, who was clearly so uncomfortable around me and my level of—it wasn't even being sycophantic, it was aggressive—'you're the reason I make movies' kind of bullshit.
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But liberals fear that a recent trend of Trump defying advisers who counsel caution will finally lead to him pulling the trigger — and that he'll get away with it, since a sycophantic Republican Congress would likely take little action in response.
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A 2016 documentary that tracked the rise in marriages of convenience between Filipinos and Israeli men — she gains a visa; he a maid — showed the men trafficking in familiar stereotypes: They praised their wives for being loyal, sycophantic and uncomplaining.
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On Wednesday, news broke that AMI's hedge fund backers are trying to sell the Enquirer, with the tabloid's spiraling subscription numbers, massive debt, and continual self-inflicted humiliation over its reporting tactics, and Pecker's sycophantic relationship with the president cited as factors.[CNN]
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Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the "American Dream" As some tech leaders trooped off to Trump Tower to talk peace with the President-elect, others argue that we should resist a "sycophantic response" to the election.
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This group is made up of women, supportive men, Democrats, progressives, independents, party-less Republicans and everyone else who is sick of what this country has become under Trump and sycophantic Republican members of Congress who are incapable of holding him accountable.
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As if to balance out the show's straight white male protagonists, Lance Reddick plays the company's autocratic CEO Christian DeVille, Anne Dudek and Adam Lustik (of Mad Men and The Office fame respectively) his sycophantic executives, and Aparna Nancherla the company's human resources representative.
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It speaks to Trump's habits of mind, to the sycophantic sources from which he prefers to get his news, that he heard something Feinstein said and has come to believe she has absolved him — yet misses the actual thing she said that threatens him.
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Frank Bruni One day it's all sun and sycophantic fun on one of the president's fancy golf courses, where you're telling yourself that to marvel at his putts and swoon over his swing are small prices for influence and will pay off in the end.
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And then there's IBM, whose current CEO, Ginni Rometty, inspired at least one of her employees to quit by writing a sycophantic letter to Trump the morning after the election that offered a cheery menu of IBM products for a Trump administration to choose from.
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Trump began a string of tweets on Wednesday by attacking the credibility of former National Security Adviser John Bolton, a witness under consideration, casting him as a feckless, sycophantic warmonger who frequently made mistakes and who is now looking to cash in by spreading gossip.
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" Paul Begala called the letter "Trump's governing philosophy distilled" and wrote, "He is a wannabe autocrat, who has made his goal clear: to remake America as he has remade the Republican Party -- turning a once-proud, strong party into a gaggle of sycophantic lickspittles.
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He is beyond the idea of a personal life, beyond the pursuit of a grand narrative (watch him tell sports reporters, the most sycophantic journalists possible in the presence of genius, to fuck off), beyond warmth, beyond pretty much everything that isn't winning at football.
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For months, Farage had been following Trump around on his campaign, slimy and sycophantic as only a Brit can be, and Americans (who, despite all their national guff about all men being created equal, can't resist a bit of old-school hierarchy) loved him for it.
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This repetitive, sycophantic, and self-serving book, which is oddly written in the third person, is meant to ingratiate themselves to Trump—or "the boss," as he's referred to again and again—a man whose intellect, leadership, and stamina they praise for a tiresome 264 pages.
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After Trump withdrew America from the Iran nuclear deal — even though Iran was abiding by its terms — his ambitious, sycophantic secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, gave a speech listing the 12 ways Iran had to change at home and abroad — demands that were tantamount to regime change.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A satirical TV show avidly watched by millions of Poles depicts a Poland ruled by one man who never leaves his office but orders around the prime minister and sycophantic aides, while the Polish president is kept waiting endlessly in the foyer for a meeting.
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Once-critical voices like Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have turned fully sycophantic, and congressional Republicans who welcomed Robert Mueller's investigation as a way of getting uncomfortable issues off their plate are now joining Trump in openly calling for a political purge of America's law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
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After the two fell out, Kirby, his former chief collaborator and one of the great comics artists, viciously caricatured Mr Lee as Funky Flashman, a slick, mercenary charlatan whose sycophantic sidekick, Houseroy, was seemingly based on Roy Thomas, Mr Lee's protégé and successor as Marvel editor-in-chief.
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True, they will put on a show if it does not cost much—as when officials from the sycophantic government of Henan province went to pay homage to a Paulownia tree planted by Mr Xi, who had urged delegates at the congress to "follow the leadership core", ie, him.
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A few days ago, the president replaced Maguire as acting director with Richard Grenell, the sycophantic ambassador to Germany whose qualifications for overseeing the nation's 17 spy agencies include being a former Fox News commentator and Trump superfan who boasts a gold-level card with the Trump Organization.
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When they at last confront Weinstein, in a Times conference room and later on speakerphone, he's the mouse that roared, the Great and Powerful Oz turned puny humbug, swerving from incoherent rants to self-pitying whimpers ("I'm already dead") to sycophantic claims of just being one of them.
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Sometimes he issues veiled criticisms; at other times, it's his silence that sends a message, as when he refused to join cabinet members defending Trump's decision to abandon the Paris agreement in June or when he refused to join the chorus of sycophantic tributes by other cabinet members shortly afterward.
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Look, I don't want to be too sycophantic, but your bank has transformed itself, while others haven't, whilst others have dallied around, as well, and you're paying the dividends now, the market really appreciates, in terms of, you know, measures like price-to-book of what you've done, as well.
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They do not view him or his spokespeople as honest, they chafe at the unprecedented restrictions on access to senior administration officials and virtual "imprisonment" in the White House Press Briefing Room, and are understandably bitter over the favoritism Trump and his lieutenants show to sympathetic (some would say sycophantic) media outlets.
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The program, which aired on HBO, used the late-night wars of Jay Leno and David Letterman as a starting point, but went much deeper: It satirized sycophantic sidekicks in Jeffrey Tambor's "Hey Now" Hank Kingsley, overbearing producers in Rip Torn's Artie, not to mention backbiting writers and two-faced celebrity guests.
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Rupert Murdoch and his children, heirs to the Fox media empire, are the obvious referents, but the dysfunctional, financially incestuous nature of the Roy's politics feels of a kind with Donald Trump and his sycophantic children (and son-in-law Jared Kushner), always grasping at whatever power might be available through their father's presidency.
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If, instead of going outside and enjoying the May sunshine, you were indoors hugging a cushion involuntarily crying at a declaration of love between two strangers whose wedding you'd helped to crowdfund but weren't actually invited to, you'll remember that there was, at least, one person who made the gross, sycophantic BBC broadcast worthwhile.
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The move dismayed senior State and Defense Department officials who saw General Hegazy as a check on Mr. Sisi in a circle of advisers that has become ever smaller and, some fear, ever more sycophantic, said the former official, who spoke anonymously to protect internal deliberations on an important ally that rarely receives public criticism well.
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Then there are the endless rallies that smack of a noxious sort of revivalism, complete with a loyalty "pledge" during the 2016 campaign; a steady stream of sycophantic fealty (at least in public) from aides in the administration and its congressional Republican allies; and an almost universal unwillingness by Republican congressional leadership to check or thwart Trump's worst instincts in any substantive way.
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James Lipton, who died on Monday at the age of 93, made his name conducting in-depth interviews of actors, comedians, filmmakers and others on the long-running series "Inside the Actors Studio" when it was on Bravo TV. Though Lipton could come off as self-important or sycophantic, and was parodied more than once, there's a reason the show was a hit.
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It is embarrassing that the president's staffers have taken to writing his name as often as possible in briefing documents for fear that he will lose interest otherwise, that they fill his press clips with sycophantic praise in an effort to distract him from Twitter, that they fight to appear on Fox & Friends because they know he takes advice from the television better than from his own advisers.
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But we know that the media will be the most attentive watch dog if Trump is president, followed by many in the GOP themselves, ready to pounce on anything that would be remotely out of bounds, while Clinton will enjoy the same sycophantic treatment that she always enjoyed: Excuses of misplaced evidence are accepted, repeated claims of not remembering when deposed are not a matter of concern, and complaints of corruption and wrongdoing poo-pooed as mindless conspiracy theories or dismissed as old news.
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It should have been blatantly obvious to everyone this side of sycophantic Star Wars lifers that the dreaded muppet was the most cynical possible play for attention and sweet merchandise dollars, and yet, no, here we are, awash in millions of the most mediocre memes and posts imaginable, sourced from a breathlessly embarrassing cash grab of a show that was cooked up by Disney execs for the sole purpose of hawking another streaming service that nobody needs besides nostalgics and children, though that distinction may be redundant.
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