If I sound like an apologist for OnePlus, let's narrow that down to making me an apologist for the OnePlus 3.
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Being a feminist doesn't require you to be an apologist.
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Simmons shot back, accusing M. of being an Obama apologist.
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The Trump apologist Kayleigh McEnany was asked for her reaction.
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John Mann MP: You're a disgusting Nazi apologist, Livingstone'. pic.twitter.
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But it's going to be trotted out as evidence by every conspiracy-leaning Putin and Trump apologist out there—and no one is a bigger conspiracy-leaning Putin and Trump apologist than Trump himself.
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I don't think I'm being some kind of apologist here, either.
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That isn't defeatist or apologist; simply put, we never have been.
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In an article on the soul, for example, a Catholic apologist
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"I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority," Wittes says.
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He was already declared a "rape apologist" by the Women's March.
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I've time and time again outed myself as a Taylor Swift apologist.
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While you're at it, don't enter the fray as a harassment apologist.
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Still, Russia's brazenness is raising the costs of being a Putin apologist.
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After the President's resignation, Stone remained an ardent Nixon apologist and loyalist.
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Phil Witmer is a Noisey Canada staff writer and nu-metal apologist.
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That's Congress's job — especially with a Putin-apologist in the White House.
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Ghobash is not an apologist for Islam because there is no need.
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That said, I think there has been, I'm not an unabashed apologist.
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CAVUTO: And I -- believe me, I&aposm neither an apologist or a critic.
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But that's progress only because he was previously the Russian despot's premier apologist.
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I'm routinely described on social media as an Arab-hating, climate-denying, pedophile apologist.
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I'm not going to be a Michael apologist, but I can't say 100 percent.
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Those who have joyfully followed after Trump and played the role of gleeful apologist?
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As a middle school student, Mr. Coon had been a Confederate apologist, he said.
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" And he took aim at "internet feminists" and those who use the phrase "rape apologist.
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His nominee cannot be another belligerent Trump apologist, like John Bolton, his national security adviser.
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But House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), has become an apologist for Trump.
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Gabbard's performance further fueled the perception she's an apologist for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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In an instant he went from General Kelly to Kellyanne Conway, just another Trump apologist.
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"We have a dictator apologist who is the frontrunner of the Democratic Party," Kirk said.
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There was the controversy over hiring Bret Stephens, a climate denier and Woody Allen apologist.
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He was an atheist turned Christian apologist, and his theology makes for fascinating if dense intellectualism.
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Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain and apologist for military rule, took office as Brazil's president.
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B.'s prominent fellow flat Earth believer, also had the same strange apologist feelings about Hitler.
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" Just two weeks after the Democratic convention, Pence was already being labeled "Trump's apologist-in-chief.
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Maybe I'm just an apologist: I'm glad I got to see them live in any capacity.
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If he is there to defend himself, he's a dreadful guilty apologist and we burn him.
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"You just compared me to a Nazi apologist because I asked the question," Carlson fired back.
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Ms. Murphy called Ms. Young a "virulent anti-feminist" and an apologist for men's rights activists.
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I am ashamed that Mr. Darden would allow himself to become an apologist for this man.
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It's not even a very good song, and I'm a pathetic apologist for both Gallagher brothers.
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He's complained about liberals who think he's a Trump apologist, then defended Kanye West's conservative sympathies.
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Before he became Trump's legal apologist, Rudy Giuliani was a respected former mayor of New York.
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But I'm willing to hold onto some bands, and to become and eternal apologist for them.
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He does an extremely physical impression of a floundering apologist ("that thing outside of used car lots").
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"I don't think of myself as a radical, and I'm certainly not a rape apologist," Dillon said.
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Jean Ziegler, a Swiss revolutionary apologist for Fidel Castro and Qaddafi, is an adviser to the council.
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People who regard Mr Obama as the United States' "apologist-in-chief" think it strengthens their case.
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The third-century Egyptian Christian apologist Origen Adamantius compared Leonidas' self-sacrifice at Thermopylae to Christ's passion.
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But in a Jekyll and Hyde type switch Medvedev on Saturday turned into a soft-spoken apologist.
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", while the Clash's resident pop apologist, Mick Jones, delivered the sunny love song "1-2 Crush on You.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, has become the apologist for these mass atrocities.
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Many older Cuban-Americans cringed at Mr. Sanders's remarks, saying he sounded like an apologist for Communist indoctrination.
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Once capable of criticizing Trump as "religious bigot," Graham now functions as an abject apologist and craven enabler.
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John Barrasso, the head of the Senate Environmental Committee, who was, until recently, a major Pruitt apologist. Sens.
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I think Arianna Huffington, who I think has an incredible brand, looks like an apologist for poor behavior.
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Although many have called him a Party apologist, he continues to call for literature that promotes socialism and internationalism.
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PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP hasn't been sworn in yet & hes saved more jobs than Obama the apologist did in 8yrs!
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Hell, you can probably watch it during the procedure, as long as your dentist isn't some Tim Cook apologist.
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He is a defiant apologist for the drily theoretical work that Boulez and his acolytes produced in the 1960s.
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Gils Carbó was appointed by Fernández de Kirchner in 2012 and is considered an apologist for her former boss.
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" Whenever an American criticized the Soviet Union, the Soviet apologist would say, "What about the bad things America does?
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Peter Handke, the Austrian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is an apologist for Slobodan Milosevic.
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The conservative intellectual has traditionally achieved his greatest cachet as an apologist of just this sort of existential combat.
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There will be no way to shake the stench of this homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, racist apologist and accused pedophile.
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" Nason said he's working with other student groups to plan counterprogramming during what he alternately dubbed "hate-speech apologist week.
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To their shame, yet in their typical over-the-top rhetoric, the Women's March immediately called Collins a rape apologist.
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And so Your Honor, I am ashamed that Mr. Darden would allow himself to became an apologist for Mr. Fuhrman.
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On Monday, when Turkey had already leaked considerable evidence of a hit, Mr. Trump was behaving like a royal apologist.
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Tulsi Gabbard in Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate, accusing the Hawaii congresswoman of being an "apologist" for Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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He was neither an apologist nor a dissident; like so many Soviet intellectuals, he led an often tormented "double" life.
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"I am not a Pelosi apologist, even though my last name is Pelosi," the film pro said with a laugh.
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The iconic novelist was accused of being a victim-blaming rape apologist, all of which apparently stemmed from her "white privilege".
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But she is widely portrayed as an apologist for America's enemies and has had to deny she is a "Russian asset".
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You know, you guys are Trump apologists today, because the president-- GUTFELD: Oh. WATTERS: You&aposre a fake news apologist, Juan.
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I'm not an Arie apologist, I have no stake in this race, and from what I understand, Arie is exceptionally boring.
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Christie, the massively unpopular governor of New Jersey, has devoted the past few months as chief cheerleader and apologist for Trump.
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Even after the war ended, according to his memoirs, Davis remained a staunch apologist for slavery and espoused white supremacist views.
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Harris also noted Gabbard's very controversial decision to meet with Bashar al-Assad, calling her an "apologist" for the Syrian dictator.
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Depending on your perspective, Tsemel is either a principled believer in the concept of presumed innocence or an apologist for bloodshed.
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I imagine that Kayleigh McEnany, the Trump apologist on CNN, studies her moves the way a backup quarterback watches the starter.
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Bolsonaro, an outspoken apologist for Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship, came up short of a majority needed to avoid the runoff.
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It's unfair to paint Chastain as a Trump apologist, but her comments about being "grateful" to the president-elect are genuinely confusing.
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Making excuses for violence because the offenders are adherents to your particular political views makes you a partisan apologist and a hypocrite.
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" Schiff called Trump's refusal to blame the Russians for the cyberintrusions "troubling," saying Trump "has essentially become an apologist for the Kremlin.
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But even then — and I'm not trying to be an apologist for the looters — it didn't seem like a crazy, hectic environment.
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"I worry about always saying and doing the right thing," says Kirsten Corley, a writer who classifies herself as a compulsive apologist.
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" As for the often polarized conversation surrounding Jefferson, she said, "If you aren't constantly on the attack, people think you're an apologist.
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"I am not an apologist for my dad, and I think his work and his projects will speak for themselves," she said.
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Mr. Flynt described Ms. Lee as a Christian realist who was not sentimental about religion and enjoyed reading the apologist C.S. Lewis.
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As one of the Dalai Lama's most famous — and oldest — Western pals, Dr. Thurman is still his best and most passionate apologist.
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He does not paint an unduly flattering portrait of Russia's liberal opposition; at the same time, he is no apologist for Putin.
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" On Monday, the campaign told Fox News Sanders is "an apologist for the Iranian regime," willing to "appease states that support terrorism.
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I don't mean that in the way of a rape apologist, insisting someone has to "prove" to me that they were sexually assaulted.
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" Gabbard, herself, pushed back on the notion that she was an "apologist" for Assad during an appearance this week on ABC's "The View.
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"That&aposs funny, coming from someone that has slept with over 20 people," he said, enraging viewers who called him a rape apologist.
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At the same time the 2019 award was given to Peter Handke (pictured), an Austrian whom many see as an apologist for genocide.
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Picking Captain America represents choosing a beacon of freedom or, if you're an Iron Man apologist, a world where superpowered vigilantes run unchecked.
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"I want to be clear right now that I am not a racism apologist or defending my dad in any way," he told me.
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As a longtime Urban Outfitter shopper (akin to an apologist) of "old things" like record players and film cameras, I get the appeal here.
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"I think it's going to happen and it's going to be huge," Grover Norquist, the GOP tax king and vape apologist, told the paper.
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" Fox News blasted a piece from The Atlantic that analyzed why African-American leaders sometimes choose not to separate themselves from Farrakhan as "apologist.
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Any but the most blinkered apologist for Israel would have to concede that Israel's response went at least somewhat beyond its legitimate security needs.
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Every interview with Tulsi must include the obligatory "Assad apologist" question and conspiracies about her running third party or being a Russian asset abound.
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Bill O'Reilly has denounced me as a "chief apologist" for Islam, and I'll continue to decry what I see as Islamophobia in the West.
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During his YouTube broadcast on Tuesday, Mr. Cernovich denied accusations from critics that he is a misogynist, a rape apologist or a white nationalist.
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She may have been set up to look like "an apologist for a tyrant," but she doesn't appear to have done her homework either.
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You know, I'm not trying to be an apologist for Mr. Trump because I'm not familiar with his business practices in regards to this.
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I spent the better part of my time on the Obama campaign working to defeat then Senator Clinton, so I'm no apologist or Hillaryland loyalist.
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" Robin Hogen, the former Purdue communications executive, said, "I don't want to be portrayed as an apologist for what is clearly a public-health crisis.
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You don't need to be a Sonic devotee, or a superfan, or an apologist — you just need to be someone interested in playing good games.
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"So the idea that Barr is a Trump loyalist or apologist to me isn't supported at all by those fact patterns," Ratcliffe told The Hill.
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The Florida Republican alleged that Sanders is an "apologist of the Castro regime," noting the hardships faced by the Cuban people under the authoritarian government.
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I am not a Lynch apologist, by any means, and have found several of his films — including his most recent one, Inland Empire — trying to watch.
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The Ohio governor backs comprehensive immigration reform and expanded Medicaid in his state, tainting him as an Obamacare apologist in the eyes of the GOP base.
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Handke is the world's most prominent apologist for the Serbian dictator and alleged war criminal Slobodan Milošević, who was charged in 2001 with the Bosnian Genocide.
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"Collectively, his words and his actions are a huge testament to his character: that of uncontrollable misogyny, entitlement, and being a sexual-assault apologist," Drake said.
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The overall monstrousness of his behavior as described in this memoir might be, to an art historical apologist, chalked up to the crankiness of old age.
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Michael Flynn — who also happens to be a stop-and-frisk apologist and has tweeted that "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL" — as his national security adviser.
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She is now the effective leader of Myanmar's government and has emerged as not only an apologist for this genocide, but also as complicit in it.
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He directly accused her of responsibility for Boko Haram's schoolgirl kidnappings, calling her an "apologist" for one of the most brutal terrorist groups on the planet.
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Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist and apologist for the global economy, said on the Bill Maher show recently that Trump can't bring back jobs. Wrong.
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Ms. Harris later shot back, calling Ms. Gabbard an "apologist" for Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, whom Ms. Gabbard controversially visited in Damascus in January 2017.
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That is a truth that President-elect Donald Trump, a Putin apologist who is surrounding himself with top aides who are also Kremlin sympathizers, cannot ignore.
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The saga touches on many subjects of profound importance, but it began with something extremely unimportant — a Trump apologist whining about not getting invitations to dinner parties.
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On foreign affairs, by contrast, he was an embarrassing apologist for Russia's Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Crimea he bizarrely likened to the Western intervention in Kosovo.
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Just two days ago The New York Times put out an article saying that I'm a Russian asset and an Assad apologist and all these different smears.
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A religious nationalist and former army captain, he is anti-gay, pro-gun, and an apologist for dictators who tortured and killed Brazilians between 24.8 and 21.
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When asked why he includes people like Trump apologist Jeffrey Lord on panels, he says he sees these people as "characters in a drama" who need representation.
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"Listen, this coming from someone who has been an apologist for an individual, Assad, who has murdered the people of his country like cockroaches," Harris told CNN.
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He has been an apologist for Vladimir Putin, while belittling alliances that have preserved US and Western security since World War II. I cannot vote for Trump.
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Julia: Much in the same vein that I identify as a Kanye West apologist, I often feel the same push to do so with Martin McDonagh movies.
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Of course, only a rank apologist would deny that there is cause for concern about the role mobile devices are playing in children's and young people's lives.
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Yet even as Saudi officials lie low, Trump has become the kingdom's puppet and apologist, suggesting that "rogue killers" might have been responsible for the apparent murder.
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Just two days ago, The New York Times put out an article saying that I'm a Russian asset and an Assad apologist, and all these different smears.
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And yet, every Donald Trump apologist will try to say otherwise -- that it's just a hat, or that it is worn by different people for different reasons.
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After a hearing on a gang-rape case, do Rosário challenged Bolsonaro outside of Congress, calling him a rapist and a rape apologist in front of the press.
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They often have an in-house infrastructure that maintains their power which ranges from complicit subordinates, to apologist higher-ups, to a toxic workplace and/or social culture.
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But McMaster's comments when he was active duty with a top strategic planning unit in the Army show he's anything but an apologist for America's enemies – including Iran.
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Chuck Todd, a frequent "both sides" political apologist on Meet the Press, clutched his pearls when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called them concentration camps in an Instagram story.
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"They want someone to blow that system to hell," said his apologist and fellow TV demagogue Bill O'Reilly, at the height of Trump's success in the primary campaign.
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" Carlson said being compared to a Nazi apologist is a conversation stopper and "sweeping moral claims, grotesque ones, comparing people to Hitler, advances the ball not one inch.
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It doesn't take a Trump apologist to feel ABC or other networks and newspapers are so willing to bash Trump that these kinds of mistakes have been inevitable.
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During a post-debate interview with CNN, she said she had difficulty taking Gabbard's comments seriously since she had "been an apologist for" the Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
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Of course she said Trump's boasting of committing sexual assault in the Access Hollywood tape was not "appropriate," but that hasn't kept her from being a Trump apologist.
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Mnuchin signed on as his Treasury secretary to become his apologist, and was prodded to vouch for the president along lines having nothing to do with his portfolio.
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With more than 101 million subscribers currently, it's hard to imagine his channel taking a hit if even his most outraged anti-Semitic apologist fans unsubscribed in unison.
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And anyone making excuses for that hatred — who tries, for example, to turn it into a "both sides" story — is, in effect, an apologist for crimes against humanity.
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He begins with Lewis's memoir of mourning, "A Grief Observed," which the Christian writer and apologist wrote after the death of his wife of four years, Joy Davidman.
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As to policy, he seemed almost an apologist for Mr. Putin's aggressive behavior in Syria, his annexation of Crimea and his transparent efforts to undermine the NATO alliance.
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The Business Coordinating Council (CCE), the most prominent corporate lobby in Mexico, accused Salmeron of being an apologist for violence, and urged him to say he was sorry.
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Newspaper Folha de S.Paulo said it has tried to give fair coverage of Bolsonaro, an apologist for Brazil's 1964-1985 military government, based upon the strength of his polling.
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Fans of Rin Rodriguez, a beauty vlogger who goes by the pseudonym Gothfruits and who identifies as a nonbinary boy, are publicly calling him a bully and rape apologist.
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But by refusing to acknowledge the army's latest outrages, she risks turning herself into an apologist for the very people who tormented her and her country for so long.
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I should know—as a longtime Nickelback fan-stroke-apologist, I've been accused of idiocy, ignorance and, worse, irony for simply enjoying a big, beer-spilling chorus or ten.
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Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a decorated veteran of the armed services, called Zinke out for being a sexual assault apologist and worried aloud that he would ignore the problem.
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We learn Natalie has trouble with imagery and metaphor, Danielle might be a bad roommate, Rob is a bootlicking landlord apologist, and Austin has a worrying thing about wolves.
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But those who have suffered understand suffering, and Tyrion is soon revealed to be a well-heeled apologist for atrocity, a role familiar to lots of national security advisors.
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" Avoiding a question about whether Trump's lewd talk on the leaked 2005 "Access Hollywood" video swayed his views, Puzder said: "I'm not here to be a Donald Trump apologist.
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Bolsonaro, a former army captain and apologist for Brazil's 1970-1980s military dictatorship, has not been able to forge alliances with other parties, who view him as too controversial.
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The Trump story starts at around the 4:12 mark, so we'd recommend starting there unless you want to listen to a weirdly apologist conversation about Lyndon B. Johnson.
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In recent years, the proprietor of this mysterious building, Alejandro Cao de Benos, a 43-year-old Tarragona native, has become Europe's principal apologist for the North Korean regime.
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But wait: he devotes a scathing section of this scathing volume, entitled "On Imperial Poetics: Baraka's Defense of Olson," to chastising Baraka blisteringly as an apologist of imperial poetics.
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The question is how an American league that prides itself on promoting progressive values squares those values with allowing an apologist for authoritarianism to own one of its teams.
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To the Editor: Please let Maureen Dowd know that we'll set a place for her at our Thanksgiving table next year, with not one Donald Trump apologist in sight.
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Hogg in particular became the target of a wave of personal attacks and conspiracy theories, accusing him of being a "crisis actor," an FBI apologist, and a budding fascist.
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By pillorying Mrs Clinton as an apologist for a predatory elite—to which effort her lucrative past speechmaking on Wall Street provided ammunition—the Vermont senator assisted in her vilification.
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In his previous three visits to Japan, officials decided against a visit, both for logistical reasons and to avoid fueling the perception of Obama as an apologist commander-in-chief.
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Democrats believe the proceeding will put pressure on Republicans — particularly those facing tough re-election challenges — to condemn Mr. Trump or risk being cast as an apologist for the president.
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The reply that a theoretical Palm apologist would give to all of those criticisms is that I'm using traditional phone metrics to judge a thing that is not a traditional phone.
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"The essence of good settlement is that there was no winner," he said, adding that he is still branded a traitor by Afrikaners and an apartheid apologist by black South Africans.
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Front-runner Bolsonaro, a former army captain and apologist for Brazil's 1970-1980s military dictatorship, has not been able to draw allies or find a running mate outside his small party.
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" Far from being an heir to the progressive Mayor La Guardia, he said, Mr. Koch was a union buster, an apologist for President Ronald Reagan, a racial polarizer and a "pipsqueak.
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That was the line from Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law professor who has become a Trump apologist on cable news: "Candidates violate election laws all the time," he said on MSNBC.
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"What people don't understand is that they elected an outsider president," offered the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, still an apologist despite the abuse he has taken from Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Bolsonaro, a former army captain, had been criticized as an apologist for the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for decades, and had made demeaning comments about women, minorities and homosexuals.
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I&aposm not an apologist, certainly, but you can&apost blame him now, especially the more that comes to light with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and the disparaging comments they made.
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And, the way she reacts to his phone call — it's off-putting, even for the staunchest Sam apologist — speaks to a form of anger that's more dangerous for Sam than anyone else.
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How are we to explain that in the pages of this apologist for imperialism, the masses of India seem more alive and autonomous than in the pages of writers claiming political correctness?
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" He said her actions had led directly to the kidnapping of hundreds of young girls by the group, Boko Haram, and demanded a verdict for "an apologist for an Al Qaeda affiliate.
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The next logical question, of course, is whether Trump has become an apologist for men accused of sexual misdeeds, or, as Trump says, he's just trying to ensure due process against those accused.
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Which brings us to Stan, who we now know is a Robert Bork apologist — if he's going to learn the truth about Philip and Elizabeth, it will be in the next nine episodes.
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"His words and actions are a huge testament to his character — that of uncontrollable misogyny, entitlement, and being a sexual assault apologist," Drake said at a press conference with her attorney Gloria Allred.
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Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson got into heated exchange with Fox News analyst Ralph Peters on Tuesday, after Peters likened him to a Nazi apologist for his stance on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Ernst Nolte, a German revisionist historian who broke academic taboos by equating Nazism with Bolshevism and who was denounced as an apologist for Hitler and even the Holocaust, died on Thursday in Berlin.
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If we don't have a slavery apologist and accused child molester in the Senate, we can thank black women voters and those who spearheaded registration drives for people of color in the South.
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Perhaps because my own faith journey has at times been characterized by questions and uncertainty, I found the fact that the 20th-century's greatest Christian apologist would give voice to his doubts reassuring.
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This is not being an apologist for "the rebels" or a blind supporter of one or other of sectarian groups that have splintered from and out of the protests of 2011 to 2013.
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As for the mysterious person behind the tweets, it appears that BART's account is normally run by a few people, one of whom lists "professional apologist for America's crumbling infrastructure" in his Twitter profile.
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She's gotten attention for her supposed "anti-war" posturing but has also been an apologist for war criminals like Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has repeatedly gassed his own people with chemical attacks.
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It's a story that exemplifies the very best of Britain, like the spirit of Dunkirk or the Rudyard Kipling poem "If"—if Dunkirk wasn't actually a colossal military failure and Kipling a colonial apologist.
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An apologist for the inexcusable Greek position never should have been given equal time in order to spin its official and transparent position aimed at negating Macedonia and Macedonians' ethnic origin, language and identity.
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The leader of Myanmar's elected government went from being hailed as a democratic hope for southeast Asia to being denounced as an apologist for what the United Nations and the US call ethnic cleansing.
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Despite this behavior, despite the obvious need for the next president to be alert to Mr. Putin's mischief and to be willing to resist it, Mr. Trump has so far been Mr. Putin's apologist.
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Mr. Gilman said he would not be surprised to see a sketch on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" about which Democrat was the best apologist, and the satirical website The Onion has already joined in.
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Eli Pariser, Upworthy's most visible founder, a one-time clickbait apologist who has become fond of comparing Facebook to the weather (you prepare for it, but you can't change it) left the parent company's board.
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The site listed eight main stars of the show, including co-host and frontman Mike Cernovich, the Trump superfan and date rape apologist who publicized conspiracy theories about Clinton's supposed ill-health during her campaign.
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Look, I am no apologist for socialism but there is a difference between Cubist communism, Chavez&aposs high handed socialism bordering on communism, and Sweden for example, which does have a kind of democratic socialism.
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The book includes an awful lot of instances when Grant slipped up in his abstinence, but Chernow is deeply in his subject's camp, always ready to play apologist about the drinking and other troubling behaviors.
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Bolsonaro, a former army captain and apologist for Brazil's 1964-1985 military government, has struggled to forge alliances with major parties, partly because of a track record of offensive comments about women, homosexuals and racial minorities.
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The Indiana governor's role as Trump's apologist-in-chief has come into focus in recent days as Trump has kept up his hostility toward a slain soldier's Muslim parents and Republican Party leaders on Capitol Hill.
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It had hoped to get a bounce by selecting as leader last year Mary Lou McDonald, a personable and youngish Dubliner, to replace the ageing, Belfast-born Gerry Adams, once a full-throated apologist for violence.
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I don't for one minute, I don't for one moment and I won't allow you for one second to put me in a position of being an apologist for someone who is now a charged murderer.
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Instead, he has refocused his attention to the journalists who have covered Return of Kings in recent days, collecting personal information on them and promising vague retribution upon reporters who accurately describe him as a rape apologist.
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Microsoft today published an apology for its Twitter chatbot Tay, saying in a blog post that a subset of human users exploited a flaw in the program to transform it into a hate speech-spewing Hitler apologist.
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Even "Homeland" — which really tries to talk about the folly of government, of American policy, of misunderstanding, misapprehension, and has been called apologist for normalizing that — at the same time it's also been thought of as racist.
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Ms. Barr told reporters that she was not an "apologist" for Mr. Trump but said that her character in the reboot of the show was a way to address head-on the strong divide in the country.
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The FTC's successful track record illustrates not only the quality and consistency of its legal arguments but also the continuing egregious behavior of members of the industry, and the role of the trade group as dutiful apologist.
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Her statement at the International Court of Justice in The Hague capped a jarring turnabout, decades in the making, for Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, from champion of human rights and democracy to apparent apologist for brutality.
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"Anybody who says that the recent election is not, at least in part, a racial event is functioning as an apologist, whether they know it or not, for white prejudice," says, Joseph Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
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Mr Cruz is a master of talk radio's politics of insinuation, suggesting that Mr Obama has yet to defeat Islamic State not because that fight is complicated and hard, but because he is an "apologist for radical Islam".
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Shortly after Tyson beat Michael Spinks in 1988, he became Tyson's business adviser and Trump remained an outspoken apologist, blaming the 18-year-old victim for Tyson's rape charge and advocating replacing his jail sentence with a fine.
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Tulsi Gabbard has sparked controversy over her foreign policy views at times, facing accusations of being an apologist for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is widely regarded as a war criminal for using chemical weapons against Syrians.
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As a claimant lawyer, I value free speech as much as the next man — provided that the next man is not an apologist for the media watchdog viciously ripping apart the privacy and reputation of an undeserving individual.
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If you are still an apologist for non-feathered, naked ass raptors, you need to move aside and let the rest of the world fully embrace the spectacular birdlike plumages of these animals, as Dr. Alan Grant intended.
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An apologist can look at this sequence and fairly conclude that Paul George is smack dab in the middle of his passing lane, and would've closed out to the corner before Chandler could get a clean shot up.
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This week, Harvard decided to rescind ten admission offers after learning that the prospective students had been posting rape-apologist, pedophilic, and violently racist memes to an offshoot of the main Harvard Class of 2021 Facebook Memes group.
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" Later on Thursday, Mr. Livingstone was confronted by John Mann, a Labour lawmaker, who in a series of angry exchanges filmed outside a television studio described him as a "disgusting Nazi apologist" and accused him of "rewriting history.
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Some of Seder's supporters also raised the point that Cernovich himself seems to be a proponent of terrible rape jokes — and perhaps a sincere rape apologist — in order to illustrate exactly what a bad-faith argument Cernovich was making.
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"Frydman also wrote in a New York Times op-ed that "America's Mayor" — as Giuliani was called after the 9/11 attacks — had become President Donald Trump's "bumbling personal lawyer and henchman, his apologist and defender of the indefensible.
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At a time when the most prominent woman in government is CIA Director and torture apologist, Gina Haspel — someone who curates people's rage in the most perverse and sadistic ways — we need someone like Bee to show us rage's better half.
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Since Will & Grace has always essentially lived in our world, 45 was elected nearly a year ago in the comedy's universe, and the former reality TV host and sexual assault apologist has been in the White House for about eight months.
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In what is likely to be a deeply polarizing runoff, Bolsonaro, an outspoken apologist for Brazil's 1964-19883 military dictatorship, will now face leftist Fernando Haddad, the former mayor of Sao Paulo, in a second round of voting on Oct. 28.
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He stood by as Croatia's minister of culture, Zlatko Hasanbegovic, an apologist for the Nazi-backed Ustashe regime that ruled Croatia during World War II, embarked on a campaign to purge Croatia's media of journalists suspected of left-wing sympathies.
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Although Mr. Silver's days as a power broker are supposed to be over, his wife, his friends and a former aide managed to overpower the candidate-selection process earlier this year and maneuver a Silver apologist onto the Democratic ballot.
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So when Kelly considers what's best for her own career, she's likely thinking about the prospect of taking a job in the "mainstream media" — a media that's far more critical of Trump and wouldn't look positively on a Trump apologist.
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Mr. Bolsonaro, a former Army captain who ran on a far-right platform, has long been an apologist of Brazil's military rulers, and has called the coup that ousted a leftist president on March 219, 21968, a triumphant strike against Communism.
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What America saw clearly in Trump's disastrous handling of the violence in Charlottesville was a Nazi/white nationalist apologist if not sympathizer, a reactionary rage-aholic, a liar, and a person who has absolutely no sense or understanding of history.
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"It's the first time that an adviser to the American president knows Evola, or maybe has a Traditionalist formation," said Gianfranco De Turris, an Evola biographer and apologist based in Rome who runs the Evola Foundation out of his apartment.
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The man is also a #pizzagate truther, which means he claims to believe Hillary Clinton's campaign ran a child sex ring out of a pizza place in Washington, D.C. Cernovich is also a rape apologist, and has said Clinton has Parkinson's disease.
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Perhaps the best that can be said for his efforts is that, in rounds of emergency television interviews, arranged to discuss Mr Trump's latest rudeness or eccentricity, Mr Manafort was a more competent apologist for his boss than Mr Lewandowski had been.
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The EU's continued opposition to sanctions, unwillingness to participate in a multinational maritime-security mission, and selection for its new foreign-policy chief of an Iran apologist signal that Brussels intends to continue trying to placate Tehran instead of combating the Iranian threat.
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As a woman and a feminist, I am not only puzzled by Lepore's statements, but deeply concerned because they sound like the sentiments of an anti-feminist apologist, utterly in contradiction both to Showalter's book and to the rest of the review.
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In 1951, Lewis — the author of "The Chronicles of Narnia," Oxford don, medievalist, lecturer on philosophy and the leading Christian apologist in the 20th century — declined an offer from Winston Churchill to recommend him for an honorary Commander of the British Empire.
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The Communist Party's ties to the Soviet Union, which forced it into the role of apologist for the worst crimes of the Stalin regime, from the Moscow Trials to the Nazi-Soviet Pact, limited its appeal even at the height of its success.
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His meager political experience made Wilson the "change" candidate in 1912; there hadn't been a Democrat in the White House since 1897, and Wilson's immediate predecessor, William Howard Taft, was seen as an apologist for big business at a time of rampant inequality.
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Cohen is used to people calling him a Putin apologist for his views, while Mearsheimer created a firestorm in 2014 when he penned a piece arguing that the crisis in Ukraine was largely the fault of the U.S. and its Western European allies.
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"Just two days ago, the New York Times put out an article saying that I'm a Russian asset and an Assad apologist and all these different smears," Gabbard said, referring to a recent story that said she is being backed by Russians on Twitter.
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Born in 1976 into a family long established in Jerusalem, the son and grandson of Labour Party ministers in Israeli governments, Mr Baram seems an unlikely apologist for the compromises that might lead bright young folk to work for the architects of terror and genocide.
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Call me a Swift apologist, but I can't even imagine how hard it would be for the singer to be a bridesmaid for her BFF, knowing full well that fans would swarm the site of her pal's wedding day and possibly cause a scene.
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"Just two days ago, the New York Times put out an article saying that I'm a Russian asset and an Assad apologist and all these different smears," said Gabbard, a U.S. representative from Hawaii, who once met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
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Read more:The winners of the crowded Democratic presidential debate weren&apost on stage WednesdayHere are the 9 biggest moments from the Democratic debate in AtlantaKamala Harris rips into Tulsi Gabbard as being an Assad apologist and Fox News regular who criticizes her own party
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Editorial For most of this campaign, Donald Trump's admiration for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and his willingness to act as a Kremlin apologist on issues ranging from Syria to the computer hacking of individuals and political parties have been sources of bafflement and dismay.
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Allies of both sides are content to reinforce this "with us or against us mentality" where too often anyone who questions Palestinian actions is an apologist for the occupation and anyone who disagrees with Israeli policy is cast as anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic.
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"This is going to sound immodest, but I am obviously a top tier candidate, so I did expect I would be on the stage and take hits tonight," Harris told CNN's Anderson Cooper, slamming Gabbard as "an apologist" for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
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" The chaos was complete when Livingstone, a renegade figure of the old left, who has made anti-Semitic remarks before, was confronted on the stairs of the BBC's Westminster studio by another Labour M.P., John Mann, who accused him of being a "Nazi apologist.
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Like a majestic bald eagle with an uncanny knowledge of the American health care system, my trusted colleague and Iron Man apologist Ezra Klein came swooping in on Wednesday with a declaration: Rooting for Captain America in Captain America: Civil War is un-American.
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"There is some evidence that Nunes isn't just an apologist for the executive branch—the fear or the concern is that he is in effect obstructing the investigation," Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis who has written on intelligence oversight, told me.
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Jonah Engel Bromwich examines the story of a popular Facebook group, known as New Urbanist Memes for Transit Oriented Teens, which fractured into more than 245 splinter organizations (Social Urbanist Memes for Anarchist Communist Teens, Amchad Memes for American Rail Apologist Teens, etc.) amid political rancor.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE (D-Calif.) called Gabbard an "apologist" for Assad.
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A meeting between Gabbard and Assad in January has only heightened the critics' belief that she's acting as an apologist for a tyrannical leader known to employ brutal tactics, even against his own people, to keep a grip on power in the country's yearslong civil war.
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As a little sister, I am a Dawn apologist, but her first few episodes are a hard learning curve: Most of her material was originally developed with the understanding that the character would be around 2316 years old, before the casting of 2310-year-old Michelle Trachtenberg.
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The visit with the leader, who is accused of war crimes, was under nebulous circumstances, and she has since been widely accused of being an Assad apologist as she echoes many of his conspiratorial talking points about a supposed US-led regime-change war in Syria.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisComedian who predicted Trump's rise names Yang, Gabbard as top 2020 contenders 2020 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters Key moments in the 2020 Democratic presidential race so far MORE (Calif.), for being an "apologist" for Assad.
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All of this is playing out in a confused environment in which Russia has been accused of interfering in the American election and Mr. Trump has been an apologist for Mr. Putin, while the Pentagon and the intelligence community are ringing alarm bells about the Russian threat.
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The Trump presidency is in mortal peril because for every Trump apologist and enabler who parrots his party line or peddles his bogus conspiracy theories, there are a greater number of patriots who work for him but act for the nation and will not be silenced any longer.
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CRUZ: You know I understand why Donald made the comments he did and I understand why Americans are feeling frustrated and scared and angry when we have a president who refuses to acknowledge the threat we face and even worse, who acts as an apologist for radical Islamic terrorism.
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The copy used to describe them attempted to make exploitation sound sexy, most egregiously with the description for Offred: "It's useless to resist the wine's smooth and appealingly earthy profile, so you may as well give in," which is air-headed at best and rape apologist at worst.
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If you're an old-school conservative and you're alarmed by an erratic president with no functional institutional checks on his most outrageous ideas, the last person you want to send to the Senate on your behalf is a rabble-rousing Trump apologist with a gun in her purse.
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"There's a very palpable sense that the left has overplayed their hand," said Lanhee Chen, a native of Southern California and a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution who, as a onetime adviser to Mitt Romney, the former presidential candidate, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, is no Trump apologist.
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Five years after she'd re-embraced acting, "Veep" creator Armando Iannuci -- with whom she'd worked for on the similarly political satire film "In the Loop" -- cast her as the artfully profane Amy Brookheimer, Vice President Selena Meyer's ambitious, fiercely committed chief of staff, public apologist and primary grenade-taker.
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Mather was a difficult figure to take the measure of, in part because of his enormous output — 388 works appeared under his name — but also because of his fearsome reputation as the great ayatollah of American Puritanism and the sinister apologist for the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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But many have likewise pointed the finger at the segregated mentality and apologist culture that developed under Philippe Moureaux, who earned the epithet of "the sheikh of Molenbeek" for the patronage he offered his Moroccan-descended and his broader Muslim electorate during a two-decade tenure as the district's mayor.
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Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardCastro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates Native American advocates question 22019 Democrats' commitment The US can't seem to live without Afghanistan MORE (D-Hawaii) battled "The View" host Meghan McCain on Wednesday over accusations that Gabbard had acted as an "apologist" for Bashar Assad's government in Syria.
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Allies of both sides are content to reinforce this with an us or – "you're with us or against us" mentality where too often anyone who questions Palestinian actions is an apologist for the occupation and anyone who disagrees with Israel policy is cast as anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic.
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Not because I was reluctant -- I'm actually something of a prequel apologist and feel they contain some scenes, humor and myth that are on par with the originals -- but because the details just were not seared into my brain; I'd seen them only a couple of times each instead of dozens.
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Vox senior correspondent and Giannina stan Alex Abad-Santos and The Goods deputy editor and Jessica apologist Meredith Haggerty are here to recap how the reunion episode shook out, who ended it on top, and who revealed that they were a little more single now than they were when they started.
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I am, in general, a Mr. Robot season two apologist, but even I will admit that season two's early episodes were lengthy slogs that spent way too much time on Elliot trying to reconcile himself with Mr. Robot (Christian Slater), a devilish alternate personality who took the form of his deceased father.
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"Over the last eight years, Mr. Zandi has also been an instigator of, and chief apologist for, the failed Keynesian fiscal and monetary stimulus policies of the Obama presidency — a presidency marked by slow growth, stagnant wages, a near doubling of government debt, and a likely recession as Obama leaves office," he wrote.
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That last line above, which was reportedly added as an edit, caused so much of a stir that alt-right personality Mike Cernovich — of rape apologist and "maybe Hillary Clinton has lots of seizures" fame — started boosting the hashtag #CNNBlackmail, the idea being that CNN coerced this Redditor into apologizing on threat of doxxing him.
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Read more:Tulsi Gabbard won&apost call Syria&aposs Assad a war criminal as she dances around Stephen Colbert&aposs tough questioningTulsi Gabbard&aposs foreign policy frustrates centrist Democrats, draws cheers from anti-interventionists, and makes her political identity tough to pigeonholeMeghan McCain calls Tulsi Gabbard an &aposAssad apologist&apos in heated exchange on Syria
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While I am not an apologist for the Obama Administration (though I'm certain some readers and/or viewers will insist I am), there are few metrics by which the economy is not doing better than it was at its peak in 2007, at the end of 2008, nor at the beginning of the Obama presidency, in early 2009.
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THE FEET, LEGS, TORSO, ARMS, AND HEAD OF CLAY AWARD FOR THE FARTHEST FALL FROM GRACE TO FARCE To Julian Assange, who over the last seven years has gone from a radical "we open governments" cipherpunk hero to a more-or-less Putin apologist and apparent misogynist obsessed with Hillary Clinton who is now fundraising by selling CryptoKitties.
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They include: Yimby Memes for Developer Shill Teens Social Urbanist Memes for Anarchist Communist Teens Amchad Memes for American Rail Apologist Teens Tyler Walter, 25, created that last group as a subgroup for a certain kind of meme, which classifies French trains as "virgins" and bulkier American trains as "Chads," a widely used online nickname for macho dudes.
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In a district that went for Hillary Clinton in 2016 by a solid margin, look for Bloomberg's dollars to take on GOP incumbent Mimi Walters, who is a climate change denier (a cardinal sin in Bloomberg World) and unabashed Trump apologist who is defending her seat against Katie Porter, a Yale and Harvard-educated law professor.
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When we go looking for news on a particular subject that aligns with our beliefs, we will be introduced to the next most radical position on the topic and so on and so on until it seems very normal to be an apologist for white nationalists or to speak up on behalf of those who fantasize about the rape of children.
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LIVECHAT-GLOBAL ENERGY OUTLOOK with banker Gary Sernovitz of Lime Rock An energy banker, fracking apologist and author of "The Green and The Black", Gary Sernovitz comes back to the Global Markets Forum to take on questions about higher prices, the possible resurgence of shale production, the ouster of Saudi Arabia's energy chief and other issues driving the global oil market.
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It could be that in a nation defined by its melting pot status—but with two centuries of white hegemony under its belt—the ridiculous white savior trope is all too real for us and drags up that history of racial animosity, which we really can't escape now that Donald Trump and his white supremacist apologist administration is in the White House.
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Thus Trump is friendly to Putin for the same reason that he praised the Chinese Politburo after Tiananmen Square and now praises Xi Jinping; the same reason that he likes the Saudi royals and buddies up to Recep Tayyip Erdogan; the same reason that after a brief period of bellicosity he's ended up as a tacit apologist for Kim Jong-un.
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To have Donald Trump — the bone-spur evader of the Vietnam draft, the coddler of autocrats, the would-be destroyer of the European Union, the pay-up-now denigrator of NATO, the apologist for the white supremacists of Charlottesville — commemorate the boys from Kansas City and St. Paul who gave their lives for freedom is to understand the word impostor.
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At the same time, Princess Ashraf gained a reputation as a steely political operator, an unashamed apologist for the despotic regime of her brother, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a mink-draped sybarite, well known at the casinos of the French Riviera, who amassed a considerable fortune during her brother's years in power and lived in luxurious exile after he was overthrown in 1979.
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Celebrities from both the Christian world (like apologist Lee Strobel and the rock band the Newsboys) and the Fox News world (like Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson and, believe it or not, Mike Huckabee) made appearances as themselves in the first two films, giving audiences not just a Ready Player One-style thrill of recognition but also the sense that this story was happening right here, right now.
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After the Israeli election in April, I spent a week explaining to my classmates that there were plenty of people in Israel who didn't vote for Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party, just as there were and are many Americans who oppose President Donald Trump, only to be called an "apartheid-enabler," a "baby killer" and a "colonial apologist" by my peers in person and on social media.
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Chloë has indicated some in the above, and I agree with her that the painter paid insufficient attention to the primacy of her work's content over her own practiced, formalist approach, and that Hannah Black failed to recognize that her call to destroy the work was far too self-serving, opposing what she structures as a weak and apologist position against one that is tyrannical and vindictive.
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To that end, I spent a lot of the season wondering if I was watching an elaborate adaptation of the writer and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, a sort of modern parable of heaven, purgatory, and hell, in which the three are not separate places but are interrelated, and moving from one to the other often requires simply shifting one's state of mind.
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She drove hard bargains with Roger Stevens, the first head of the Kennedy Center, threatening to take her husband's name off the building if she didn't have a voice on the board; "blasted" even Schlesinger, the President's most enduring apologist, when he wouldn't further perfume his J.F.K. history, "A Thousand Days"; and helped drive an exhausted William Manchester, the family-appointed chronicler of the assassination, into a hospital.
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" Wilkie, who delivered the speech in front of a statue of Davis at the US Capitol during an event sponsored by the United Daughters of Confederacy, also said that while he was "no apologist for the South," viewing Confederate "history and the ferocity of the Confederate soldier solely through the lens of slavery and by the slovenly standards of the present is dishonest and a disservice to our ancestors.
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Read more:Andrew Yang says if he&aposs elected president he&aposll tell Putin: &aposI&aposm sorry I beat your guy&aposKamala Harris rips into Tulsi Gabbard for being an Assad apologist and Fox News regular who criticizes her own partyThe best memes from the impeachment inquiry so farA Pentagon official unexpectedly blew up Trump&aposs defense in the Ukraine scandal and Gordon Sondland threw everyone under the bus.
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He hosts a news conference at a black church where he receives tons of prayers and support from the clergy; he publicly says that Darden was only brought to the table because he's black; and, most shockingly, he calls Darden a "Mark Fuhrman apologist" when Darden tries to get the officer's prior racist statements deemed inadmissible, arguing that the inflammatory "n-word" would blind jurors to the truth.
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When it comes to agriculture, rather than relying upon the opinion of an oil company apologist, one might be wise to listen to any of the strong voices for farmers today, including the National Corn Growers Association, National Farmers' Union and the American Farm Bureau Federation, all of whom strongly support the RFS because they know it is the key to continued prosperity and opportunity for America's farmers.
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Maddow had her best ratings ever and she even beat out presidential apologist Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityHannity: 'Lunatic' Schiff 'the worst liar in all of politics' Hypocrisy is the currency of the realm for GOP in the age of Trump GOP threatens to weaponize impeachment witnesses amid standoff MORE, the Fox News Channel host who usually occupies the top spot in the ratings of the evening cable talk shows.
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Asquith was tarred as one of the many speculators who wanted to show that Shakespeare was "an Italian, a covert homosexual, a Jesuit, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, the Earl of Oxford ... a loyalist, a dissident, a Tudor apologist, an atheist, a Catholic, a Protestant, a Puritan, an elitist, a populist, a proto-Marxist, and the love-child of Elizabeth I." So, Asquith comes to this new book with a lot of personal baggage.
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Read more:Kamala Harris rips into Tulsi Gabbard for being an Assad apologist and Fox News regular who criticizes her own partyToday is Joe Biden&aposs 77th birthday — here are the ages of all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidatesPentagon official drops a bomb, reveals 3 separate inquiries about Ukraine military aid on the day of Trump&aposs July 25 call with ZelenskyDemocratic congressman gets applause for getting Gordon Sondland to say an investigation into the Bidens would benefit Trump
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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 himself has cravenly employed anti-Semitic tropes to further his own divisive political aims, invoking the specter of Jewish billionaire George Soros and his support for progressive causes, appointing individuals who maintain strong alliances to the alt-right, and acting as apologist-in-chief for the white nationalists who marched on Charlottesville shouting anti-Semitic epithets.
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While Lockwood makes clear at the end of the book that he is not an apologist for Castro's regime, which routinely abused human rights and civil liberties, his writing and photographs add dimensionality to a leader widely demonized in the US. He writes: I was amazed at the apparent discrepancies that existed between what was popularly being said and believed about Cuba in the United States and what I actually saw … After three weeks of traveling, including an eight-day, cross-country trip taken in Castro's company, I could find little evidence of the standard image of Cuba so luridly painted by American newspapers and magazines — that of a crumbling economy, a populace in tatters and near starvation, and a political regime that had lost its popular support and was maintaining itself in power through oppression and terror.
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