Is it about signaling, however disingenuously, a commitment to diversity?
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Photo: GettyMark Zuckerberg disingenuously poses as a friendly critic of algorithms.
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Regardless of what he may disingenuously say now about Roe v.
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Democratic socialists are disingenuously cagey about the exorbitant tax burden they require.
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It's also very often invoked disingenuously, as a bludgeon to assert one's will.
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"Watching him disingenuously promote himself as a feminist candidate has been extremely disheartening."
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Andrew Cuomo, critics are accusing the administration of disingenuously pushing its aggressive immigration agenda.
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And then stop disingenuously pretending that the Democrats are the defenders of the FBI.
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Justice Kavanaugh will vote for most restrictions while purporting—disingenuously, if necessary—to uphold precedent.
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Merkel is now disingenuously arguing that her country has little influence over the euro's value.
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All along, the company — disingenuously, it would seem — maintained that this was not its intent.
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People like Clinton disingenuously make rich conclusions as to why people like Trump manufacture abroad.
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What did he say to Cersei to get her to agree (however disingenuously) to a truce?
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And where in that ruthlessness is respect for the lofty principles that Sessions so disingenuously espoused?
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"Everything will be different in Paris," Nadal said somewhat disingenuously after his victory at the Foro Italico.
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He did the usual Bettman routine, making snide comments while disingenuously pretending he was there to help.
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She unequivocally supports "Medicare for All" on the debate stage, which several centrist Democrats have disingenuously done.
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Of course this is a major story and not a time to be disingenuously demanding respect for privacy.
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Judge Furman's decision drew on evidence that Mr Ross came up with the Voting Rights Act justification belatedly and disingenuously.
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The Facebook page for television network RT takes things further, disingenuously proposing the frigid find could be an underwater UFO.
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They are more relaxed about immigration than the greying voters to whom Boris Johnson and Michael Gove so disingenuously pander.
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Most others wouldn't even allow a real trial, blocking witnesses and then disingenuously claiming there was insufficient testimony to convict.
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There are a lot of people who are disingenuously trying to manipulate the news about somebody to ruin their careers.
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"As far as I know, they are not a party," the deputy prime minister, Prawit Wongsuwan, disingenuously averred in mid-August.
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The 2013 law that the justices gutted today was disingenuously framed by Texas Republicans as a measure to protect women's health.
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It's even better that they make music specifically to spread messages of body-positivity, and not in a disingenuously woke way.
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Media critics often disingenuously ignore reporting on policy and governance yet pine for more of it as if it isn't there.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is part of the coalition that runs the municipal government, disingenuously called the tragedy "a natural calamity".
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Much of this trend was fueled by the disingenuously named Australian Vaccination Network, which claimed (falsely) that vaccinations were linked to autism.
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What I wish to suggest here, however, is that there is more than one alternative to posthumously and disingenuously praising deceased bad people.
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And they will loudly and disingenuously smear all four levels of the system, from law enforcement, to prosecution, to sentencing, and to incarceration.
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At least Fallon has the integrity to admit it, even as Senate Democrats pretend disingenuously that politics couldn't be further from their minds.
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Rather than portray him as a bully or a clown or (disingenuously) as a liberal, they called him a con artist and a manipulator.
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Appeals for the white ethnostate are often disingenuously couched in proclamations of love for members of their own race, rather than hatred for others.
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When you honestly believe or disingenuously assert that you've been outmaneuvered rather than outvoted, why declare a truce, let alone cooperate, in the aftermath?
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His budget director once disingenuously claimed that SSDI is not part of Social Security even though the words "Social Security" are in its name.
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Ms. Furchtgott-Roth disingenuously argues that when companies engage in sham transactions for the purpose of avoiding taxes, they are serving American interests. How?
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Set against this ongoing furor, Schlesinger accused Juul of disingenuously presenting itself as a tool to help wean adult smokers off traditional, combustible cigarettes.
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Still, Russia continues to deny it is in violation and instead disingenuously claims that the United States is independently seeking to leave the treaty.
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Still, many people felt she had disingenuously made Kanye look like a villain when in fact she'd been aware of the song since the beginning.
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And to those contending that women are disingenuously lumping all sorts of sexual misconduct together as equally bad … well, Bee flat-out rejected that idea.
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The leaner operation of Mexican Summer offers a more-intimate, safer space, even as Pink's presaged deconstructions of cherubic-diva-cosplay manifest disingenuously in mainstream pop.
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Democracy is built on majority rule — not on blank votes — electoral abstention or misplaced calls for consensus, as Murkowski disingenuously suggested in her committee's recent hearings.
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FOR the biggest constitutional crisis in a generation, as some have labelled the drama currently roiling India's courts, the setting and the action proved disingenuously genteel.
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Dirks' battle cry that his university is not a "battlefield" disingenuously suggests universities are mere sanctuaries of unperturbed learning far from the madding crowd of exasperating extremists.
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The second referendum is disingenuously termed a "People's Vote", whereas it is envisaged by many as a re-run of the last referendum—in which people also voted.
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Bendis's message, when taken disingenuously, gives power to those who have always benefited from it (predominantly white men) by framing fans' desire for representation as a frivolous complaint.
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"These are the same people who disingenuously seized the moral high ground as they attacked our president based on a standard they do not live by," Bannon said.
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It says a lot about Theresa May—the Prime Minister for now—that she couldn't respond to that question last week with anything more than a disingenuously childlike anecdote.
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But by then the letter had reignited news stories and discussion about whether Clinton had acted dangerously and disingenuously for using a private email server while conducting state business.
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Education researchers have documented how the rise of vouchers, charter schools, and tuition tax credits prompted an ideologically suspect education reform accountability movement disingenuously marketed to improve educational equality.
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"Big Tech companies are disingenuously calling for 'regulation' of facial recognition because they want help write the laws to make sure they're friendly to their business models," Greer said.
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To that end, like similar online marketplace plays, which are sometimes rather disingenuously referred to as the sharing economy, HomeTouch connects families/those requiring home care with freelance care professionals.
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Pretty soon a, not very bright but permanently grinning chap, who's been to a decent private school (which the Brits disingenuously call "public school"), will be flogging Igor shooting lessons.
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In the absence of the bygone haunts Elaine's and Swifty's, Mr. Benson now sees society friends and famous subjects at Sette Mezzo, the disingenuously unassuming Italian restaurant in his neighborhood.
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"I am appalled that the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia disingenuously posted this incomplete and misleading video," Engel said in a letter to Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonState Dept.
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And right on cue comes news of the creation of a powerful new lobby formed by Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford and Volvo, disingenuously named the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets.
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Yet the firefighters are not appeased by his assurances or convinced by a station house visit where he claims, disingenuously, that he knew the families of those who died on Sept.
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The FBI's last-minute decision to press pause in their legal fight with Apple over the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone is roiling the agency's critics who accuse it of acting disingenuously.
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Perhaps most disingenuously, Damore also claimed that he had no voice, even after penning a long memo that he was able to send companywide and also was read by millions more.
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Despairing, the party has been playing the Trump card, disingenuously reimagining Mrs Merkel's defence spending increases (which they agreed to in government) as an "arms race" designed to please the American president.
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Corker can disingenuously claim he didn't know how the bill would help him out, secure in the knowledge that any Republican tax bill would have a positive effect on his bank account.
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"Falsely and disingenuously, the Attorney General's filing claims that the NRA is blocking access to documents possessed by its former ad agency," William Brewer III, counsel to the NRA, told The Hill.
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It's a convoluted way of improving America's byzantine healthcare structure, but despite many Republicans disingenuously pretending not to know how insurance works, the individual mandate is a key part of the ACA.
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As Kratz disingenuously summons the poor, unfortunate specter of victim Halbach, the woman in the background happily lays herself out on a fake police outline of a dead body — presumably for the 'gram.
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The depressing thing about trending stories around social justice and racial awareness is the blurred line between the media mission of 'raising awareness' and disingenuously covering stories for the sake of trend baiting.
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His Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would right the historic wrong of India's Partition in 1947, when—as he disingenuously put it—the rival Congress party had agreed to split the country along religious lines.
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Perhaps most disingenuously, the author also claimed that he had no voice, even after penning a 3,000-word memo that he was able to send companywide and also was read by millions more.
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It shows how much better Yachty can be when he's not disingenuously parading himself as an all-inclusive friend-of-all, but rather someone who makes music that inspires uncontrived happiness in his listeners.
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Ly herself also hopped on her Instagram stories with a screenshot of a Cosmopolitan article that confirms the show's editors disingenuously spliced in shots of her making sour faces after sincere moments from Weier.
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A week later Santander announced the U-turn, claiming - somewhat disingenuously given the precise figure laid out in its letter - that the costs of compensating Orcel for leaving UBS had been greater than expected.
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Worse, they disingenuously argue that exposure of a litany of corrupt payments (the remittances to Manafort represented a small fraction of the larger, corruption-soaked list) amounted to Ukrainian "interference" in the 85033 election.
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There's talk of the girl's having been underage, but Bobby brushes it off disingenuously, claiming that he saw her ID and that it said she was 19, likely ignoring what his eyes were telling him.
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Since 85033, when the Puerto Rico's current Constitution was promulgated with the approval of Congress, the federal government has been able to sidestep the status controversy, disingenuously referring it back to the people of Puerto Rico.
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While Congress failed to fully repeal the A.C.A. last year, the Trump administration has been busily whittling away health care benefits, disingenuously arguing that these changes will help working-class families by lowering health care costs.
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Much of "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst," written by a man who disingenuously declares himself "eggheady, meek and amorphously pacifistic," is the textbook you will regret never having had in college.
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When a presidential candidate — cravenly, disingenuously, in this case — undermines that, he also undermines legitimate efforts to recruit and train election officials and poll watchers to ensure that this election is free, open, fair, and honest.
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He accused Clinton, rather disingenuously, of wanting to "force people who don't have health insurance to buy it," and suggested she lacked "the kind of judgment that will ensure that we are using our military power wisely."
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"After consultation with my Generals and military experts", Mr Trump wrote, apparently disingenuously, "please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the US military".
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It seems unlikely Trump will find a way to get more coverage at less cost — though he may certainly find a way to disingenuously market worse coverage at higher costs, or to essentially repackage Obamacare as Trumpcare.
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As he advised his allies to allow "young Muslim boys and girls (to) be able to grow up free from fear, safe from violence and innocent of hatred," he disingenuously pretended that the Arab Spring never occurred.
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"He added: "All previous reporting on the subject suggests that the truth was much, much hornier, and the fact that Zuckerberg's speech began so disingenuously caused lots of the folks I read to tune out the rest.
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And in Jay-Z becoming the new face of the NFL's social change initiative, critics claim he is also disingenuously capitalizing on Kaepernick's protest, using the NFL's desire to deflect criticism to make more money for himself.
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Diverse Medical Management is suing James Biden and his partners in Tennessee, alleging they disingenuously offered to invest in the firm as part of a fraudulent scheme to drive it into bankruptcy and steal its business model.
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President Donald Trump, who's normally not shy about saying whatever's on his mind (even when it's explicitly illegal), has not supported the Christchurch Call, arguing disingenuously that the best way to fight "bad" speech online is more speech.
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Yes, the lie drudged up endless hours of press coverage and deflected from the actual Russia investigation, but at least those tweets brought to an end a period where President Trump was being disingenuously nice to President Obama.
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The reason for that is simple — there is no plan that would allow Britain to have its cake and eat it, too, as disingenuously promised by Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary and most shameless of Brexit propagandists.
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When Mr. Trump did briefly note Mr. Khashoggi's murder — "a terrible one" — the president repeated Saudi slanders that the journalist was an "enemy of the state" and an Islamist, disingenuously adding that this did not affect his thinking.
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Yet his executive orders so far have been crudely theatrical—as with this week's repeal of Barack Obama's environmental rules, which will not lead to the renaissance of mining jobs that he has disingenuously promised coal country (see article).
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When Wheeler and others cite contrary numbers they are (disingenuously) comparing 1990s apples (low-resolution cable with 55 channels of programming) with today's supercharged oranges (440 channels of high-def TV, on-demand programming, cloud-based DVRs and more).
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The disingenuously named hoverboards, or self-balancing two-wheeled scooters, were all the rage a few years ago, prompting Sean Bandzar, an emergency physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, to investigate the rate and nature of injuries caused by the devices.
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If de Blasio is still campaigning by the time the debates roll around, his mere presence on stage will enable conservative media to paint the entire Democratic party as disingenuously progressive, incompetent and corrupt, supported by out-of-touch elites.
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When Facebook's product designer for the GDPR flow was asked if she thought this hyperlink was the best way to present the alternative to the big "I Accept" button, she disingenuously said yes, eliciting scoffs from the room of reporters.
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"A freeze is not the same as a cut, and somewhat disingenuously, keeping crude production at January levels actually implies higher-than-expected annual output ... and so can hardly tackle the current market oversupply," JBC Energy said in a note.
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This is clearly a morally bankrupt move, but that is no surprise in the morally bankrupt realm of college sports—a multi-billion-dollar industry whose "firms" are obsessed with winning, but disingenuously claim they are not running a business.
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While the response to our proposal in Native American circles, and with the public in Utah, has been heartening, some in Congress have resorted to centuries-old tactics to divide Native people – disingenuously pitting one tribal group against the other.
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Walking away from the Iran deal was, among other things, a public message from Mr. Trump to Mr. Kim that we can act just as aggressively and disingenuously as he can, and that he, Mr. Kim, is now negotiating with realists.
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Turnout will be high in this group, because they will see the difference (between the Republican and Democratic nominees) unless the Democratic nominee chooses to not talk about the environment, or chooses to talk about the environment rarely and disingenuously.
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"The de Blasio administration is disingenuously attempting to rewrite the terms of an agreement made with its predecessor and is acting in its own political self-interests that are completely at odds with what's best for New Yorkers," it said in a statement.
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The proposed £123bn ($21.4bn) expansion of Heathrow is to be financed privately; IAG fears that this will mean higher charges for BA. Even before the vote Mr Walsh, perhaps disingenuously, had come out against the building of a new runway for this reason.
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Since then, Trump and other conservatives have latched onto the idea that Twitter is stifling conservative speech, leading CEO Jack Dorsey to bend over backward to convince disingenuously upset members on the right that they are in fact welcome on the platform.
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When Mr Cameron goes they will probably pick a similarly mainstream replacement: Mr Osborne (down but not out following the recent dramas), Mr Johnson (who is only disingenuously Eurosceptic), Theresa May (the underestimated home secretary) or Stephen Crabb (Mr Duncan Smith's dynamic replacement).
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My observation, and that of others, found that Mueller's system engaged several astounding and potentially unlawful practices such as disingenuously charging employees with lying, misrepresenting or omitting evidence to support such charges, and preventing the acquisition of evidence to refute such charges.
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The film itself makes no reference to this conflict of interest, and publicity for the film treats this fact disingenuously by referring to Thompson as simply 'writer and journalist' Jennifer Trainer in both her South by Southwest director bio and in her official festival interview.
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On Saturday morning, during our team leads call prior to the all-hands meeting, I was angry that the management team disingenuously latched onto a cat that was already out of the bag Sarah Kunst's case as the excuse for these internal investigations and changes.
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The PRC complained, not without reason, that after treating Hong Kong as a colony with only the most limited of suffrage, London was now disingenuously introducing democracy to Hong Kong as a cynical parting gift to the scheduled handover that would occur three years later.
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"The de Blasio administration is disingenuously attempting to rewrite the terms of an agreement made with its predecessor and is acting in its own political self-interests that are completely at odds with what's best for New Yorkers," the company said in a statement.
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In 2017, Alan Potamkin prevailed upon Jordan to amend the jointly filed tax returns, disingenuously explaining to Jordan that in the eyes of the taxing authorities, Andi and Jordan were not married for tax purposes because their marriage had not been filed in a New York Courthouse.
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The court argues disingenuously that the absentee voting act requires states to provide absentee ballots to its former residents living outside of the United States, but does not prohibit them from providing such ballots to former residents residing in Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
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As far back as 1983, Mr. Trump was being uncomplimentarily branded as a "young P. T. Barnum" (of real estate) when he disingenuously offered to house homeless people in an apartment building on Central Park South that he was trying to rid of long-term tenants.
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"I need some water/something came over me/way too hot to simmer down/might as well overheat," he drones, nailing the eerie feeling; later, when he impersonates a lech asking, disingenuously, to only put "the head in," the extent to which desire correlates with self-hatred is unclear.
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Rather than the sort of "simple decision" framing that Miller himself disingenuously invokes as a call for order, it is a very difficult question indeed, one that involves the complex dynamics of social power and speech, and the differing responsibilities and roles of governments, private companies and individuals.
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His history of capriciousness when it comes to deal-making and deal-breaking -- coupled with a perception that no one is really empowered to speak on his behalf -- is probably giving the Iranians even more pause as they publicly and perhaps disingenuously lay out avenues for de-escalation.
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"While we look forward to potential meetings, both of these Democratic senators and many of their colleagues have publicly opposed Judge Kavanaugh's nomination, while continuing to disingenuously demand millions of pages of documents from former President Bush that are irrelevant to evaluating the Judge's judicial thinking," Shah said. Sen.
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Trump's chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, instead disingenuously tells an interviewer "we told you so," claiming that the lack of a giant border wall is the reason why so many people, mostly from the so-called Northern Triangle -- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala -- are suddenly at the border.
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But while we can applaud the program itself, it's hard to forget that telemedicine was treated disingenuously in the net neutrality debate; proponents of the repeal argued that net neutrality would somehow interfere with medical data transfer by putting it on the same level, internet architecture-wise, as cat videos.
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But it's incredible how blatantly deceptive the practice can be: Chappell's review, which claims rather disingenuously that he has "historically not been a big Facebook or other social media user," but also "took a chance and got 4 Portals and 1 Portal plus for the family," isn't a great look for the company.
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He couldn't possibly have thought that insulting the Khans, who had lost a son in combat, or dithering over whether to support the speaker of the House, Paul D. Ryan, or disingenuously hinting that the only way to stop Hillary Clinton was to shoot her, would have boosted his prospects for winning.
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The $2628 trillion cost of the tax cuts ($28500 trillion if they are made permanent) — which supplanted a once-in-a-generation opportunity for true tax reform to clean up the code, provide certainty and grow the economy — were disingenuously sold as the key to such massive growth that they would pay for themselves.
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And in Jay-Z becoming the new face of the NFL's social change initiative, critics claim he is also disingenuously capitalizing on Kaepernick's protest, calling attention to recently unearthed January comments the rapper made at a press event to argue that he is using the NFL's desire to move past the former quarterback to make more money for himself.
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Caught between his unforgiving supporters and what he knows is a politically dangerous path if he does not pass DACA, Trump is now disingenuously accusing Democrats of "doing nothing for DACA" even though they have been the ones, along with sensible Republicans, who have worked on a DREAM Act that would protect Dreamers and allow them to continue their valuable contributions to our country.
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Despite candidate Trump's promises to leave Social Security untouched, the President's budget proposals have called for billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), which Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyNew Warren ad touts Obama's 2010 praise for consumer bureau Democrats tear into Trump's speech: It was a 'MAGA rally' Collins will vote to acquit Trump MORE disingenuously declared was not really part of Social Security.
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Disingenuously or not, Cohen and his lawyer have tapped into the extraordinary characteristics of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's pardons and have insisted on washing their hands of at least that shame.
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" Yet, just as President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has leveraged decent Americans' fears that our porous borders are of no consequence to the left, Democrats are now deftly employing identity politics to disingenuously pretend the right is "anti-immigrant.
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