One tactic Foval used with success was "bird dogging," planting activists at Trump rallies to provoke violence.
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In fact, a lesser-known side effect of bird-dogging is what it does for the careers of young, ambitious staffers.
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But civil rights groups and federal lawmakers need to keep bird-dogging this agency whose job is to protect America's schoolchildren.
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Common Defense may be most famous for bird-dogging conservative lawmakers with questions on camera; a number of these encounters have gone viral.
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In these, he is inventively abetted by Marc Spicer's bird-dogging camera, which noses around closet doors and into cellar corners with shivery curiosity.
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The self-described strategy is "bird dogging," a deliberately aggressive strategy designed to hound and heckle a political candidate or legislator into answering pointed questions.
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Bird-dogging is an ancient art in itself: The term refers to a dog sent by hunters to charge into the brush and flush concealed birds into the open, where they can be shot.
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The language he uses now, bird-dogging Amazon and Disney, is remarkably unchanged from the mid-1970s, when he accused companies of "blackmail" for seeking out tax incentives in exchange for keeping their businesses at home.
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All of the above work — the superbug bird-dogging, the research into and use of genetically modified phages, and their application in agriculture and OTC uses — are happening now, and will likely continue to grow as superbugs continue to kill, and novel uses for phages are discovered.
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As new details emerge about Trump's behavior, and as his Republican enablers continue to deflect and distract, we're driving tens of thousands of calls to Congress every week, bird-dogging dozens of members of Congress across Capitol Hill, and organizing hundreds of in-district events during congressional recesses to hold Trump and his Republican supporters accountable.
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Interviewed at that time by Politico.com, Adler said, "We've been bird-dogging it from the beginning; the first research document that I put together was a response to the 'Who is Barack Obama?' email." Ben Smith and Carrie Budoff Brown, "Email Smear Taxes Obama Campaign," Politico.com, January 26, 2008.
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On October 18, 2016, O'Keefe released a series of videos on Project Veritas' YouTube channel titled "Rigging the Election" that apparently showed former national field director Scott Foval of Americans United for Change discussing planting agitators, including "mentally ill people that we pay to do shit" in front of Donald Trump rallies to ask questions near reporters, a common practice known as "bird dogging".James O'Keefe's New Story About the 47 Percent Video is Totally False; Mother Jones; David Corn; October 27, 2016. Foval also said "We've been bussing people in to deal with you fuckin' assholes for fifty years and we're not going to stop now." Foval later said he was talking about busing people to rallies.
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The higher amount of African-Americans voting in elections was taken into account by the Ravenel campaign, which sought to gain this group of voters by reviving interest in older statements by Thurmond. Thurmond was noted, in his courting of black voters, to have not undergone "any ideological transformation" but instead devote himself to making personal contact with members of the minority group. Thurmond's influence in national politics allowed him to have correspondence with staffers from the Nixon administration which gave him "a unique advantage in announcing federal grants and bird-dogging federal projects of particular interest to black voters." By May 1978, Thurmond held a 30-point lead over Ravenel among double digits of undecided voters.
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A Military Training Instructor at graduation parade at USAF basic training Air Force MTIs are non-commissioned officers ranging from Staff Sergeant (E-5) through Master Sergeant (E-7). They are trained at the Military Training Instructor School at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas. Course length has changed several times during the last decade, but generally includes a period of assignment to a senior instructor to observe training (called "bird-dogging"). MTIs initially conduct basic training at Lackland Air Force Base as part of the 737th Training Group, but a select few conduct military training at the Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB and at the Air Force Academy during basic cadet training.
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