Critics, he reminds himself, are the unwitting mouthpieces of Resistance.
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And in China, it's not — they're mouthpieces for the propaganda.
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"Our critics have already been calling us mouthpieces," he told Reuters.
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How many of these mouthpieces do you have to carry with you?
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President Putin: Use your power over access to create lackeys and mouthpieces.
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Recent remarks by Russian officials and Kremlin mouthpieces have highlighted the danger.
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Again, that doesn't mean simply acting as mouthpieces for the president's political opposition.
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Even when the messages are harmless, though, celebrities on Cameo function as mouthpieces.
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It requires no masks, mouthpieces, chin straps, or anything else cumbersome and uncomfortable.
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Since last year communist-party mouthpieces have been excoriating games companies for poisoning young minds.
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As a result, Trump has found himself without any effective celebrity mouthpieces, except for himself.
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But California isn't free to force its citizens to serve as mouthpieces for its message.
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They sink to a low level, becoming mouthpieces for the misogynistic edges of the gay community.
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A violinist blew into his instrument; brass players removed their mouthpieces; a tuba made dyspeptic blares.
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There is nothing to debate there, no matter what right-wing media mouthpieces in India say.
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" Her representative accused "Saudi Arabian trolls and mouthpieces" of targeting Omar with "misinformation and conspiracy theories.
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Despite that recent rhetorical wrist-slapping, Beijing's propaganda mouthpieces have been equally critical of Trump and Clinton.
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The next targets might be Catalan public television and radio, which the government sees as separatist mouthpieces.
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One of their loudest television mouthpieces, Vahid Yaminpour, hailed his "ejection from an aircraft in free fall".
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Its Turkish characters are either domination-obsessed psychopaths or blank mouthpieces for Western ideals of enlightened monarchy.
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It's not their job to be political mouthpieces, but they don't shy away from these themes either.
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I have also heard from critics who have said the patients are just mouthpieces for drug companies.
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He tells supporters that they can trust only him and his loyal mouthpieces to speak the truth.
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The influential online outlets that remain, such as Fresh News, now function as mere mouthpieces for the regime.
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That hasn't stopped the Global Times, one of China's most notable government mouthpieces, from giving its take, however.
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In the Balkans the media act as "mouthpieces of factions and oligarchs", says William Horsley of the AEJ.
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But too often Layla and Imran feel like mouthpieces (and fine, yes, eye candy) for the larger arguments.
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But they will not stop her through complaints issued through mouthpieces on cable news and right-wing papers.
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In this weather, the instruments would soon grow soft and the mouthpieces gummy, or they might dry out.
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Some of its continued salience is due to its deployment by Trump and other Republicans, and by conservative mouthpieces.
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"Our ruling class and their TV mouthpieces — whipping up fear over this virus," Fox host Steve Hilton said Sunday.
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Under Mr. Orban, public broadcasters have been turned into mouthpieces for the Orban government and rarely feature opposition voices.
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In doing so they serve as mouthpieces for the intelligence agencies, or at least for those 'hand-picked' analysts.
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"Our customers are our number-one mouthpieces and evangelists," Weiss said at the 2017 Women's Wear Daily Beauty Summit.
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His mouthpieces in the Russian media now have useful material to decry the perfidious Ukrainians and praise Russia's great protector.
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Two of pizzagate's loudest mouthpieces have backed off their support after a man armed with a AR-15, a Colt.
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While government mouthpieces were celebrating the youngest member of Iranian government, activists like Hamzeh Ghalebi, were already against the appointment.
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The Hudson Institute and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies seem more than ever to be mouthpieces for Arab autocrats.
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A few agreed and then backed off, skittish or weary of being mouthpieces for the larger problems of their field.
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Some of them have been buying up independent media outlets in recent years and turning them into pro-government mouthpieces.
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Less successful are See's treatments of larger historical moments, during which the characters are often reduced to mouthpieces for exposition.
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So, before it's too late, Trump and his mouthpieces should ditch the Alternative, and get back to using just the Facts.
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The fact that Russian mouthpieces seem to approve of Gabbard and Stein is hardly sufficient to level such a grave charge.
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So we also whipped up some of Trump's closest advisors and mouthpieces to keep him focused on the task at hand.
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Korajlic also said public broadcasters had become mouthpieces of the dominant nationalist parties, underlining the case of RS television in particular.
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One of the mouthpieces is located at the back of the arrow and the other on the bottom of the heart.
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Our anchors privately said they felt like corporate mouthpieces, especially when they found out no edits of the script were permitted.
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Instead of showcasing P.R. mouthpieces, how about featuring policy surrogates, the wonks who churn out the position papers that become laws?
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In Turkey traditional customs and modern attitudes find unusual mouthpieces; such ideas are constantly in dialogue with each other, jostling for supremacy.
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It is a message that both stewards and mouthpieces of the largest media (and social media) platforms would do well to heed.
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Once-successful establishment Republicans like Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer became mouthpieces for absurd propaganda before being pushed out of the administration.
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Inside a Heinlein story you either agreed with the characters who were very, very clearly his mouthpieces or you were the villain.
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State-run media in China is often viewed as mouthpieces for the government and scrutinized for any insights into opaque policymaking in China.
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In this, West has become the latest in a long, unfortunate line of black people who have become mouthpieces for white supremacist ideas.
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So here's what The Mandibles leave us with: flat characters who exist as mouthpieces for smugly condescending straw-man arguments on economic theory.
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Eighty-one percent said that the drumbeat of charges from Trump and his GOP mouthpieces would have "no effect" on their caucus vote.
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No, believes the Imam, who sends Ahmed and his cousin as mouthpieces; it is heretical to learn Arabic through means other than the Koran.
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It also comes about two years after cuts in welfare benefits were enacted with furious responses from the effected communities and their political mouthpieces.
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One of your bought-and- paid-for mouthpieces made a point of quoting a "prominent black political leader" he couldn't be bothered to name.
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It stands opposed to the supercilious voices of journalists, officials, and other mouthpieces for "Babylon," that wondrously flexible Jamaican slang term for systemic power.
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They are firmly embedded within a cycle of marginalization and abuse that mouthpieces of our dominant political culture like David Young perpetuate, however unwittingly.
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When Wade was joined by LeBron James and Chris Bosh in 2010, Haslem was again grinding mouthpieces to dust under the brightest of spotlights.
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Even during moments of romance, in Mr. Adams's hazy, shimmering music, the lovers sound as if they were mere mouthpieces, singing past each other.
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They argue that these programs serve as mouthpieces for Chinese policy in a way that conflict with cooperative global institutions such as the G-20.
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Whereas some private television channels are seen as eager mouthpieces, others face pressures that range from reprimands on the phone to threats and unfortunate incidents.
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Too many politicians in the GOP, and their media mouthpieces, have insulted them, smeared them and pawned their futures in exchange for short-term gain.
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The latter has largely shunned Western media in favour of Kremlin mouthpieces such as RT and the occasional interview with sycophants such as Sean Hannity.
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"For these thought crimes, we are branded by @IranDisinfo and similar social media accounts as Tehran's 'mouthpieces,' 'apologists,' 'collaborators,' and 'lobbyists' in the West," he wrote.
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Then they watched Republican congressmen, conservative mouthpieces and, on Tuesday night, the president himself mock and discredit Ford and, by extension, all survivors of sexual assault.
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Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and Betsy McCaughey have cited Beyoncé and Minaj's lyrics as evidence that Hillary Clinton and the Obamas are the real misogynist mouthpieces.
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That's true, and also something to keep in mind when one of Murdoch's mouthpieces tries to claim the real complaint is that Google is censoring conservatives.
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Yet he's also come to care about her, casting aside his natural instinct to see hosts as mouthpieces for his dialogue and vessels for his plotting.
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Boulegue said that another option was the British broadcasting regulator Ofcom cracking down on Russian media outlets, such as RT and Sputnik, seen as important propaganda mouthpieces.
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The Beijing media mouthpieces also did not waste any time in pulling the U.S. into the fray, noting that the country was the world's biggest nuclear power.
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Framing it as a debate is a way of both-sides-ing the issue, a specialty for a network that has hired Trump mouthpieces like Jeffrey Lord.
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Ms. Tarr coaxed him back to speech, and Mr. Tarr taught him to carve trumpet mouthpieces out of wood, which are now much sought after by players.
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Many writers respond to this dilemma by making their experience broadly "relatable," becoming mouthpieces for certain ideas and demographics, a tactic that ends up diluting their authority.
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Unlike their N.B.A. counterparts, highly paid coaches are the faces of the college game and the main mouthpieces to the referees, and allegiant fans follow their lead.
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As the most visible mouthpieces for the movement, they've spent the past year raising awareness about the particular plights of women of color through social media and protest.
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In response to an assured campaign by gun-control activists, fronted by some of Parkland's surviving students, the National Rifle Association and its mouthpieces have offered further absurdities.
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At four high schools with predominantly lower-income African American and Latinx students, eight e-cigarette items were collected, in addition to 71 cigarillo plastic wrappers and mouthpieces.
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By utilizing mouthpieces like Richard Spencer and more "palatable" organizations, the extreme movement is able to "penetrate new audiences" who normally would be repulsed by the fringe right.
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With the lightest touches, he turns mouthpieces into people—a small miracle, given that the actors speak directly into microphones, rather than to one another, as if testifying.
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Government mouthpieces and Mr. Hun Sen himself have asked the public to consider who might benefit from Kem Ley's death, seemingly implicating the C.N.R.P. But Cambodians won't be duped.
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It has acted as mouthpieces for lawless administrative-state actors and agents of Russian misinformation, by swallowing hook, line and sinker the dossier's contents and running with that information.
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But Murugan works his themes with a light hand; they always emanate from his characters, who are endowed with enough contradiction and mystery to keep from devolving into mouthpieces.
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Similarly, the most reliable journalists I found to follow online on Friday night were those who had recently been fired or laid off for refusing to turn into government mouthpieces.
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The president tweets out the polls, his media mouthpieces echo them, and his voters feel pacified — and, several top strategists I've interviewed fear, less motivated to show up in November.
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Xinhua, one of the Chinese government's media mouthpieces, reported in August 2016 that 80 percent of Chinese people would support a ban of South Korean stars appearing in Chinese TV shows.
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Apple's many mouthpieces will be the first to tell you about how the company is working to revolutionize the world — but this feature has the potential to be truly life-changing.
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Manafort spun his contacts in Washington, pinballing reports among legislators that painted Yanukovych as some kind of reformer, and enlisting former Western politicos to act as mouthpieces for Ukraine's budding autocrat.
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That's been a red line for China's leadership, and Beijing mouthpieces and officials have repeatedly emphasized that Hong Kong's relationship with the rest of the country is not up for discussion.
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As Donald Trump rose to take over the Republican Party, conservative media splintered: Some outlets became his mouthpieces, some his enemies, and others found shelter in an anti-anti-Trump stand.
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If some states can use third parties as their mouthpieces to broadcast an anti-abortion message, other states should have the same power to inform women of all their reproductive health options.
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State-owned newspapers and television were official mouthpieces of 94-year-old leader Robert Mugabe, but they quickly switched allegiance to Mnangagwa after Mugabe was forced out by the military in November.
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Tyga is no stranger to mouthpieces -- this being his 5th grill commissioned by Johnny -- and if you remember he made a very similar purchase for Kylie Jenner last month around Valentine's day.
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Responding to the outcry, the Lower House of the National Assembly issued a formal complaint, and government mouthpieces like the newspaper Cong Chung (The Public) charged the United States with destroying Hue.
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But now, Mr. Gardner said, characters are being conjured less as experts and more as what he calls brand-mnemonics: mouthpieces who will be overwhelmingly associated with a company and its products.
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Instead, pro wrestling managers act as mouthpieces and figureheads for pro wrestlers who are a little slower on the mic or need a little extra heat from the nearly always obnoxious, weaselly managers.
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In this era of an alt-right president and mouthpieces like Breitbart, Chapo Trap House is the leftist media outlet that best understands the power of dominance politics and answers it in kind.
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Gottlieb's aim, admirably fulfilled, is to help us see what older and newer philosophers have to say to us but not to turn them into mouthpieces for what we already think we know.
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These "tastemakers" have massive social audiences and are arguably more valuable as unofficial mouthpieces for young consumers than jaded technology journalists whose jobs are to thoroughly report on Apple and review its products.
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Mr. Awda, 62, has been a towering figure in the kingdom's religious sector for decades, known for keeping his distance from the government in a kingdom where many clerics are mere government mouthpieces.
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Such dialogue does not exist in the language landscape of this president or his mouthpieces on TV. This president and his echo chamber depart from conservativism time and time again in their policies.
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The law, which took effect in January 2016, represents the ultimate attempt to un-level the playing field by specifically targeting the pregnancy centers, forcing them to become mouthpieces for the abortion lobby.
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Since taking power in 2015, PiS has turned public broadcasters into mouthpieces for its agenda, and state firms have hugely increased spending on advertising in private publications that stoke homophobia and anti-Semitism.
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Then the party removed independent oversight from the secret services, asked the justice minister, a party stalwart, to also act as chief prosecutor and transformed public-owned news media into pro-government mouthpieces.
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It's a strategy, conducted in alliances with Trump's populist conservative media mouthpieces, that the President pioneered during then-special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and succeeded in dampening the political impact of his findings.
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There are plenty of mouthpieces who insist the heteronormative distinctions between men and women are biological and not learned, but when I see all of our work in the show, it's like, no way.
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Look at the outrage directed not only at Trump but at the dumb, cruel, entitled, tunnel-vision people who vote for him by the donor mouthpieces like the National Review and the Weekly Standard.
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The Herald newspaper and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation - state and ruling ZANU-PF party mouthpieces - routinely heaped lavish praise on the 93-year-old Mugabe and his wife Grace in sycophantic articles and commentaries.
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With most of the mainstream media, especially the influential TV news channels, acting as government mouthpieces, Internet shutdowns exacerbate under-reporting on local issues -- which leaves India's citizenry less informed about the government's activity.
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Here's a bit more from Xinhua English: Media run by the Party and the government must serve as mouthpieces and be subject to the Party's absolute leadership and management, Yang stressed in the article.
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Kremlin mouthpieces Sputnik and Russia Today flooded the airwaves and social media last month with footage of Russia's athletes expressing their dismay at the IPC and hoping for a reversal that ultimately would not come.
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Kiselyov and other Kremlin mouthpieces also slammed the first family, including Ivanka Trump's role in the White House, according to the news site, saying Kim hasn't given his 4-year-old daughter an official title.
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"There were mouthpieces of the movement, like [Milo] Yiannopoulos, who were happy to provide enough of a justification that suddenly [they could claim] it was not just the story of a harassing campaign," he said.
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Everyone in China knows better than to take what Communist Party mouthpieces tell us at face value, but when 1.4 billion lives are at stake, is it still possible to live with the half-truths?
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Unlike other prominent figures at Fox News like Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham, who have become de facto mouthpieces for the Trump administration, Wallace has regularly criticized Trump ― and the president has returned the favor.
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At the same time, there is an extreme danger in conflating companies' statuses as a bellwether for their target demographics' values and their de facto status as mouthpieces for some imagined form of the public good.
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A column carried on Tuesday by DPRK Today, one of the reclusive and dynastic state's mouthpieces, described Trump as a "wise politician" and the right choice for US voters in the November 8 US presidential election.
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At four high schools with predominantly lower-income students, eight e-cigarette product waste items and 71 little cigar or cigarillo plastic wrappers and mouthpieces were collected, among which 94% were flavored, according to the note.
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But when it came to the conspiracies peddled by the GOP's conservative mouthpieces -- that he was born in Kenya, a closet Muslim, or a secret socialist -- the strategy had been to remain largely above the fray.
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While China'a Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai stressed in comments to reporters in Washington that Beijing's preference was to resolve the trade dispute through negotiations, Beijing's official mouthpieces were taking a more belligerent line.
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In recent days his microblogs have taken on Mr Xi himself, commenting scornfully on the president's inspection tour on February 19th of the party's main mouthpieces: the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television.
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Each Jawzrsize is either a "pop 'n' go" model, which means it's ready for use upon arrival, or a "custom fit," which comes with two mouthpieces that you can boil and mold to fit your teeth.
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In particular, it has taken control of the public media, turning public broadcasters into government mouthpieces, and launched controversial reforms of the judiciary which critics labelled an unconstitutional purge which eroded the independence of the courts.
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Once again, the Democrats, their media mouthpieces and a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story with no regard to the monumental damage they're causing to our public institutions and to trust in government.
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The Vienna Philharmonic wind players may be accustomed to playing toy instruments, as they did here, in some of their Strauss family oddments, but to hear the brass players braying on their detached mouthpieces was novel.
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What we do know is that climate mouthpieces like the New York Times will only ramp up their personal attacks on so-called deniers, push climate doomsday scenarios and blame every weather incident on America's carbon output.
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Qatar is under a blockade by Saudi Arabia and the UAE for its alleged support of the Muslim Brotherhood, and for funding the Al Jazeera channels which the other Gulf states claim are mouthpieces for the Brotherhood.
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The team plan to test their machine—essentially a large breathalyser that has one-use disposable mouthpieces—at clinics later this year, with the help of volunteers who have already been diagnosed with either bacterial or viral infections.
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Health has of course become an issue in the campaign of late, as Trump and his various mouthpieces (Rudy Giuliani, Katrina Pearson, Sean Hannity) have cast a series of bizarre aspersions on Hillary Clinton's neurological condition and stamina.
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Following the lead of Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator who is one of the biggest mouthpieces advocating for "Medicare for All," about eight candidates in the Democratic Party's crowded field support the idea in some form, Cramer noted.
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In recent months a crackdown on opponents of Erdogan and his ruling AKP party has seen newspapers seized and resurrected as government mouthpieces, journalists arrested, and as many as 1,845 cases opened against people accused of insulting the president.
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His Fidesz party has altered the electoral system to make an opposition victory nearly impossible, dismantled the independence of the courts, and turned roughly 20143 percent of the country's media outlets into mouthpieces for the government's populist, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Kellyanne Conway, one of the Trump administration's most reliable mouthpieces — except in the most extreme instances — appeared to break with the White House public statement on Monday in her response to sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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The G.O.P.'s pro-Russia caucus, channeling Trump's ideological id through such simpering mouthpieces as Fox News's Tucker Carlson, continues to gain ground, with the percentage of Republican voters with a favorable view of Putin more than doubling since 2015.
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China on Tuesday expelled American journalists with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post in retaliation against the US for the State Department's recent decision to treat five Chinese news outlets as a mouthpieces for Beijing.
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"The difference between then and now, though, is the mushroom growth of media organizations willing to muddy the waters by either playing right into the hands of the suppressors or, in some glaring cases, becoming their mouthpieces," Ms. Burki said.
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The shrinking space for a free and civil society in Hungary has been spurred on by pro-Kremlin mouthpieces, such as RT and Sputnik, along with increased corruption, economic state capture, and opaque financial flows – all contributed to by the Russians.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Leading Cuban independent media said they want nothing to do with a Trump administration initiative to foster more such outlets on the communist-run isle, contending it interferes in Cuba's politics and creates the impression they are U.S. mouthpieces.
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But let me ask you, do you really see all the Bush era neocons and Clinton acolytes and national security blob mouthpieces that fill out the ranks of the "liberal" networks these days standing by while Sanders claims the nomination?
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"Sure looks like a quid pro quo: friendly coverage and full employment for ex-Trump mouthpieces in exchange for a green light to get as big as Sinclair wants," Aaron, the Free Press CEO, said in a statement after the deal was announced.
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A litany of fourth-wall-breaking meta-jokes served as mouthpieces for criticisms that a subset of fans waged against the last season, with others serving as stand-ins for co-creator Dan Harmon's response to those criticisms (to paraphrase: "fuck off").
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It goes like this: Entrenched powers oppose campaign finance reform because they have a vested interest in the free flow of money from corporate coffers into the pockets of elected officials who, as a result, become nothing better than paid-for mouthpieces.
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"Sure looks like a quid pro quo: friendly coverage and full employment for ex-Trump mouthpieces in exchange for a green light to get as big as Sinclair wants," Craig Aaron, CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a May statement.
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The collection includes 1,600 recordings; 650 home-recorded reel-to-reel tapes in hand-decorated boxes; 86 scrapbooks; 5,000 photographs; 270 sets of band parts; 12 linear feet of papers, letters, and manuscripts; five trumpets; 14 mouthpieces; 120 awards and plaques; and much more.
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Photo: Jose Luis Magana (AP)Jack Dorsey, CEO of social media platform Twitter—the company now emblazoned in the public eye as one of the primary mouthpieces of our very loud and angry president—wants you to know how about his powerful experiences with Vipassana meditation techniques.
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For all the determined signaling of the NFL and its many mouthpieces—those righteous boos and the comment-section Churchill of those anonymous executives, the attempts by branded bloviators to get things back on their own personal messages—there is a conversation going on independent of it.
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This was not, as his mouthpieces are trying to pretend, a call for gun rights supporters (of which I am one) to use their ballots to keep Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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While Vivier's works do often seem to be his mouthpieces (the narrator at the end of "Do You Believe" even states his name is Claude), this is a bit of a blunt solution, erasing what seems to have been intentional ambiguity between his avatars and Vivier himself.
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But while Ms. Lee's music — part of it conjured alongside Conrad Tao, on piano and electronics — had a loud, violent, expressionistic charge, Ms. Gee's was whispery and precise, both solo and with musicians of the Argento New Music Project, in examples of her ongoing "Mouthpieces" series.
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HONG KONG — China has ordered several of the country's most popular internet portals to halt much of their original news reporting, in a move that could confine an even larger share of the journalism in the country to Communist-controlled mouthpieces ahead of an important party meeting next year.
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It's been fruitless so far: There are bottles with mouthpieces so big they spill on your lap during meetings, ones prone to slipping out of your hands in the cafeteria and others so cold they keep your ice tea frozen if you forget and leave it out overnight.
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A grouping of 175 silver and gold hookah mouthpieces takes pride of place beside a reflecting pool because it includes two pieces that Mr. Dhaddha received from his grandfather when he was 16 years old, igniting his passion for collecting — "even though he never smoked," Arun Dhaddha said.
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READ: The 3 biggest takeaways from the whistleblower complaint against Trump "Once again, the Democrats, their media mouthpieces, and a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story with no regard to the monumental damage they're causing to our public institutions and our trust in government," Nunes said.
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If your sleep sensor detected snoring, when you open up your Google chrome browser the next day the ads you see may be for snore guard mouthpieces and mattresses that allow your partner to adjust your side of the bed to elevate your head and reduce the noise.
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This exchange between Kornilov and Svyazin, one of many revealed by the Skype logs, indicates the lack of independence of the websites, which, as the documents show, formed part of a propaganda operation orchestrated, funded, and managed by Rossiya Segodnya, as it set up outlets that acted as mouthpieces for Moscow in Europe.
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While Iran's traditional media like TV and newspapers, predominately used as mouthpieces for conservative hardliners, still dominate, experts say Telegram — as well as other social media — is transforming the way political campaigns are run while also helping reform-minded Iranians express their thoughts and encourage others like them to get out to vote.
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From Spicer's famous/infamous insistence that the crowd sizes for Trump's inauguration were the largest ever to Monday's argument by Sanders that Trump calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocohantas" somehow reflected poorly on the Massachusetts Democratic senator, this administration's mouthpieces have consistently chosen to blindly defend the President -- even when that means bending or breaking the truth.
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Last month, of course, Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE released an incredibly selective"summary" of Mueller's findings, allowing President Trump and the mouthpieces who serve him to trumpet the lie that Mueller exonerated him.
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But they want their people to believe that these are ideological mouthpieces similar to their own media, and that unfavorable reporting about their leaders or the treatment of ethnic minorities and dissidents is the other side "making fake news through the so-called freedom of the press," as Tuesday's statement from the Foreign Ministry put it.
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An intellectually dishonest media, as mouthpieces for the Democratic Party, may try to spin the Sanders candidacy as the lesser of two evils, but the degree to which his policies would transform our economy, polity and society dwarfs the New Deal, Great Society and most certainly anything associated with President Trump, in both word and deed.
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What they clearly missed is that they've actually set sail from the shores of common sense into alternate reality world in which it's perfectly acceptable to sleep with sources and use said sources to "break news," or to act as the compliant and willing mouthpieces of the deep state and then hire deep state actors as though it were all perfectly normal.
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While YouTube says the panels, which began rolling out in Western markets last year and is now live in 10 regions, is intended to provide more context about publishers, it is being criticized for not drawing a clear distinction between media that receives government funding, but are editorially independent, and ones that serve as government mouthpieces, like Xinhua News Agency or the China Global Television Network.
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But the creation of an official broadcast in which Trump mouthpieces repeat the Trumpian line is just one of several developments that suggest the Trump era has brought conservative media to its evolutionary endpoint: sheer propaganda, stripped even of the veneer of professional journalism that traditional Republican Party organs like Fox News ("Fair and Balanced") have cultivated since the end of the Fairness Doctrine in 229.
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There is some unarguable textual resonance with 2015's heated racial climate (the Charleston massacre of June 2015 looms large, as does activist Bree Newsome's removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, and conversations around extrajudicial killing), but Tarantino's characters are mostly cartoonish mouthpieces for his windy dialogue, and moreover subordinate to his ostentatious narrative manipulations, many of which arrive without significant payoff.
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But less attention was paid to the original "exclusive source" that got the scoop: a new weekly Facebook Live TV show on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN — also the network behind the wildly popular and long-running The 700 Club), whose position at the intersection of faith, news, and propaganda may make it one of the Trump administration's most potent — and dangerous — mouthpieces yet.
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It's true that not all horror films serve as mouthpieces for Christianity—there are even a few examples that condemn church leaders—but nearly any horror film that touches on the supernatural will either condemn the faithless ( The Conjuring, The Rite ), frame non-Jesus religions as spooky (The Wicker Man, The Exorcist, Sinister ), or claim that Biblical prophecy is coming to pass (Legion, The Omen).
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Fox News's Steve Hilton said late Sunday that "our ruling class and their TV mouthpieces" are spreading fear over the coronavirus and shared a theme that President TrumpDonald John TrumpNorth Korea asking for aid, while denying any coronavirus cases: report Iranian official maintains Tehran has 'no knowledge' of American hostage's whereabouts Unemployment claims surge to 3.2 million as coronavirus devastates economy MORE appeared to echo hours later.
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" The United States was "attempting to invent a pretext for increased sanctions against the DPRK by mobilizing all their servile mouthpieces and intelligence institutions to fabricate all kinds of falsehoods..." "As long as the U.S. denies even the basic decorum for its dialogue partner and clings to the outdated acting script which the previous administrations have all tried and failed, one cannot expect any progress in the implementation of the DPRK-U.
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For actually existing ordinary Americans—including the 800,000 or so federal employees plunged into desperate economic uncertainty by the shutdown—this was a singularly bizarre spectacle to behold: The man in Washington arguably most responsible for prolonging the ordeal of the shutdown was now pronouncing that an effort to enlarge the sphere of democratic participation was a venal, bureaucratic power grab, and a brazen affront to the sacred liberty of big-money political donors and their legislative mouthpieces.
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