You see, he's not pandering to ignorant voters; he's pandering to an ignorant elite.
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But there's a huge difference between pandering to anti-vaxxers in 2008 — as Clinton and Obama did — and pandering to anti-vaxxers in 2016, as Jill Stein has repeatedly done.
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In other words, if Donald Trump weren't so good at pandering to a certain group of white Americans, Paul Manafort wouldn't be so worried about a VP pick pandering to anybody else.
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Regular Americans are sick of this pandering to special interests.
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He's basically pandering to what some people want to hear.
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So, you know, I think she's pandering to a base.
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Here's an obvious one: Stop pandering to extremists in Congress.
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Both paths are ways of pandering to a privileged audience.
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The developer knows its audience, and loves pandering to it.
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His common touch was not humility, but pandering to prejudice.
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It's a shame that cultural institutions are pandering to this.
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The candidates outdid themselves in pandering to African American voters.
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Buttigieg, "Hispandering" (pandering to Hispanics) is not a good look.
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Nor can they veer from the centre by pandering to nativism.
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He's young, different, and not interested in pandering to rap's canon.
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This is just pandering to SJWs that don't buy video games!
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Trump, they say, is unknowledgeable of policy and pandering to fear.
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Instead conservatives are accused of having, or pandering to, hard hearts.
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Those are all the Duffers' visions, not them pandering to anyone.
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Or are you pandering to Latinos, what some would call Hispandering?
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He's pandering to the 12 million ignorant Americans who support him.
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Clinton was pandering to black voters by expressing support for President Obama.
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Pandering to the base is a tradition as old as politics itself.
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Some, though, may also be pandering to the preferences of their customers.
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The comedian was just pandering to the folks with whom she hangs.
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Clinton assailed her probable general election rival as pandering to the group.
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Stop pandering to one constituency; let the cards fall where they may.
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A few even suggested that Hough was pandering to the male gaze.
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Does "sucking it up" mean pandering to cultural angst or nativist fears?
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"I ain't no ways pandering to African Americans," the cartoon image says.
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It was a sign that Trump was deliberately pandering to white supremacists.
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I assume Trump knows this and is intentionally pandering to people who don't.
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Your next CEO will therefore have to do plenty of pandering to Congress.
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Pandering to spectators and sponsors means compromising pilots' ideas of the perfect race.
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The statement seemed like yet another example of Trump pandering to white supremacists.
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No need to do that friend, you deserve better than pandering to YouTubers.
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We must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal population of this City.
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It limits and demeans us Parisians by pandering to us as passive recipients.
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At best, Jeff Sessions' speech in California was clumsy pandering to the base.
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Republicans on Friday accused her of pandering to liberal members of the base.
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Was he pandering to a constituency in the run-up to his reelection?
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Some candidates are even directly pandering to young voters, with videos like Sen.
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If this is pandering to a European palate, I am totally on side.
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But Christie's remarks make sense if you know that he's pandering to GOP mythology.
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Freak fights, no drug tests, and unapologetic pandering to the nostalgia of PRIDE fans.
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Maybe he'll finally denounce neo-Nazis unequivocally without pandering to the nation's worst racists.
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We're definitely not creating products that are pink and sparkly and pandering to women.
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Some will see nothing more than opportunism by two politicians pandering to popular grief.
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This wasn't a case of the fusty establishment pandering to a hot new hitmaker.
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Last week in Miami, Trump went hardline, abjectly pandering to a Cuban-American audience.
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Kavanaugh, in his decision, wasn't interpreting the Constitution; he was pandering to the base.
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"I beg you to stop pandering to racists," said one message directed at Haley.
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To the 2020 candidates: the key to earning our vote isn't pandering to us.
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Perhaps he was just pandering to conservatives to improve his chances to succeed Mr Castro.
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South Koreans go one further, describing themselves as cat "butlers", pandering to every feline whim.
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There is no need to rally supporters to the polls by pandering to their prejudices.
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" When asked if she was pandering to black people, she jokingly said ... "Is it working?
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They also hope that the US would stop pandering to India and prefer Pakistan instead.
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Yet his commitment to pandering to the far right has never truly been in question.
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Finally, Dems need to quit pandering to a base that craves a full gun ban.
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But is he addressing legitimate interest-group concerns or is he pandering to racial fears?
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Grimes released the song herself, but fans were upset she was "pandering to the radio."
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Now is not the time for politics or pandering to corporations and wealthy special interests.
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has a long history of pandering to anti-vaxxers.
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After years of pandering to racists, Trump has finally condemned them in a clear way.
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By pandering to fears and resentments, Trump both deepens the prejudices and satisfies his base.
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If they're pandering to this Brooklyn Feminist, I don't care because I am eating it up.
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The most important conservative television news source in America is currently pandering to an extremist president.
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The Hindu-nationalist BJP had excoriated the secular Congress for pandering to religious and ethnic minorities.
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He won three big Southern states—Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida—without pandering to conservative whites.
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I didn't want it to be overblown or embellished in any way or pandering to myths.
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What truly paved the way for Trump is the long history of Republican pandering to prejudice.
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Pilar Bakery has slid easily into the neighborhood without much pandering to the dandelion-latte set.
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It's a sign that Trump sympathizes with — or at least is deliberately pandering to — white supremacists.
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"It's a nasty law, pandering to the very worst of Quebecois isolationism," James I. Hymas wrote.
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During the Bush era, we condemned Democrats for substantive incoherence and misguided pandering to a mythical center.
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Kevin Cramer at his side, it's evident that Trump's energy plan is just pandering to corporate interests.
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Pandering to the coal industry -- and bickering over solid science -- should be left well in the past.
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Hypocritically but perhaps unsurprisingly, the BJP has lashed out at its rival for pandering to identity politics.
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His criticism that Clinton is pandering to black voters by cozying up to Obama was gone entirely.
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The GOP's partnering with and pandering to Trump in these circumstances will likely cost it patriotic credibility.
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Hoyer accused Republican leaders of pandering to the National Rifle Association (NRA) in rejecting expanded background checks.
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They brought it on themselves, with eight years of pure obstructionism and pandering to the Tea Party.
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It's pandering to all the art majors on campus who won't be able to get a job.
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Democrats could only win below the Mason-Dixon, the thinking went, by pandering to white "swing" voters.
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Nor is he nihilistically pandering to our worst impulses: the filmmaking is too measured and too intelligent.
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The days of pandering to the perceived tastes of Asian collectors, they said, seemed to be over.
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We can't be sure of Trump's motivation: sociopathy, politics, pandering to Big Oil, or some combination of these.
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And even with that one change in statement, that news conference was very much pandering to Mr. Putin.
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You don't want to seem like you're pandering to what you think the hiring manager wants to hear.
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When last in power, from 2001-06, it had gained a reputation for cronyism and pandering to Islamists.
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But Miller's fashionableness also suggests that directors have stopped confronting their audiences, and have started pandering to them.
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"Pandering to the audience without subtlety, the film makes the most obvious choices," Emmanuel Levy wrote for Variety.
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The two leading Democratic presidential candidates are pandering to their liberal base on private prisons and mass incarceration.
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So forgive me if I have not prioritized pandering to the people that feel entitled to be coddled.
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Pandering to such sentiments will only strengthen them, and convince their propagators that they were right all along.
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On top of its incompetence, corruption and authoritarianism it was also seen as pandering to extremist Islamist groups.
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And both games accomplished this without bending over backwards to be "current" or "modern," or pandering to nostalgia.
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The party wins elections pandering to culture war issues that mostly aren't even executive branch issues at all.
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" She adds, "It's tricky because teen readers are very quick to know when you are pandering to them.
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And instead of pandering to the far right, Mr. Van der Bellen presented himself as a clear alternative.
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" "All the changes that happened afterward were not about, you know, pandering to the noise in any way.
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The devastating result suggests that moderate conservative voters have punished the CSU for pandering to the far right.
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"I used to think this place was all about pandering to your baser instincts," he tells his new bae.
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It showed that the Democrats under Mr. Clinton would stop pandering to him and helped him clinch the nomination.
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Pandering to different tastes — especially when we're talking about popular entertainment — makes an already difficult task infinitely less possible.
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Most of the hate ripped the bank for making a buck off Tubman's image and pandering to black customers.
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" He later tweeted after her remarks, "Hillary Clinton's short speech is pandering to the worst instincts in our society.
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Mr Omelyan directly accused Mr Riabikin of pandering to UIA, his main customer, at the expense of the country.
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It is as if The Bachelorette has finally realized that it's high time they start pandering to me, personally.
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So there's no sense, morally or politically, in the Democrats' returning to Sister Souljah–style racial pandering to whites.
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They were right this time, though it hardly mattered, given their party's own addiction to shameless pandering to cameras.
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Nor is it about pandering to Islamist radicals: Experience suggests that repression in Egypt breeds, rather than eradicates, extremism.
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Now that my job no longer requires pandering to cheese obsessives, I have to say: Fuck the cheese pull.
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"I want to make sure it's valuable and not just pandering to the fears of our clients," he said.
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His voice — his real voice, not his pandering-to-the-extreme-right voice — will be missed more than ever.
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Other mainstream European politicians facing threats from a growing far right should take heed: pandering to them doesn't work.
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Charlamagne told Harris at the time that people would accuse her of "pandering to black people" with that comment.
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By pandering to the belief that Washington elites sell America short, Mr Trump is doing enduring harm to American leadership.
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It's naked pandering to bigots, and especially that particular brand of bigot eager to stigmatize trans people as mentally ill.
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Trump has been pandering to coal miners in his typical ham-handed way, promising to bring mines and jobs back.
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Megan: I realize that so much of this movie was pandering to Marvel fans, but you know what I learned?
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It's because people like the ones Trump is pandering to above understand him as a symbol of things they hate.
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Pandering to "special interests" has led rights groups to disavow "established rights that do not suit their agendas", she wrote.
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After the outraged fact — of YouTube being shown monetizing extremism, for example, or (a more recent accusation) pandering to pedophiles.
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We were so fiercely devoted to not pandering to our readers, and, whenever possible, illuminating the machine behind shiny objects.
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Was this destined to be another Hollywood version that undermined its potentially strong message by pandering to society's common misperceptions?
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The first part of that plan is pandering to seniors, telling them "something other than what's the truth," Kerrey said.
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Our political leaders have only exacerbated this problem by ginning up outrage among their supporters and pandering to their base.
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A gesture that felt patriotic to some felt, in the midst of a polarizing election cycle, like pandering to others.
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He said politicians draw districts that reward them for "pandering to the extremes" rather than trying to win persuadable voters.
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Many people refuse to pay because they don't watch NHK, often out of distaste for its pandering to the government.
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But the prime minister has to walk a tight rope as pandering to populist policies could risk damaging investor confidence.
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Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has accused national governments of pandering to eurosceptics by using the EU as a scapegoat.
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Trump may see political advantage in pandering to the dwindling coal industry (and lying to its workers for populist theater).
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Merkel has opted for fiscal responsibility for investments in infrastructure and youth, pandering to a soaring number of retired boomers.
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That might sound a bit like pandering to producers and publicists looking to manage the first impressions of their films.
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But there is one overarching message: You win by matching the emotions of the nationalists, not by pandering to them.
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Likewise, members of Congress perpetually seeking reelection are rewarded for pandering to military forces, veterans, and an influential defense industry.
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If that's a bipartisan State of the Union address, I'd hate to see one where he's pandering to his base.
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"The knocking of wealthy people is pandering to a different sector of the economy and misleading people," he told me.
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He also accused the president of ignoring popular opinion in the U.S. and pandering to a small number of people.
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Foreign leaders have tested a variety of techniques to deal with him, from shameless pandering to keeping a studied distance.
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Baswedan made public appearances with the leaders of the rallies and FPI but denied pandering to Islamist groups to win support.
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As Mobutu did before him, Kabila's government accused the bishops of straying beyond their ecclesiastical role and pandering to foreign influences.
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They accuse the agency of pandering to a false notion that the Palestinians will get back their old homes in Israel.
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And he's pandering to the left's machine by funding a campaign that aims to get rid of our nation's bail system.
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"We're tired of watching our politicians pandering to the religious and ignoring us as if we don't even exist," Germain said.
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They pointed out that critics would accuse her of pandering to the black community, but Hillary offered the Clintoniest of explanations.
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Yet repeated insinuations of a looming Muslim menace, including from Congress pandering to its supposed "Muslim vote bank", have been effective.
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If the "I" is aimed out, towards the world, it isn't pandering to the audience and craving approval at all times.
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Our economic policies should be focused on protecting workers and putting America first, not pandering to the desires of Big Labor.
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Pandering to Trumpism previously seemed like a necessary way to win rural votes, and now it's not an entirely sure bet.
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A history of pandering to the ultra-Orthodox in Brooklyn goes back at least to the days of Mario M. Cuomo.
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They have accused him of pandering to right-wingers, and past versions of the legislation failed to make it through parliament.
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They accused the authorities of pandering to widespread anti-chaebol sentiments and building their case against Mr. Lee with little evidence.
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Fortunately, a growing number of legislators are calling upon the VA to break this pattern of pandering to the perpetually offended.
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So to accuse Lizzo of pandering to the white gaze, when all she does is her work, is silly and unfair.
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To the accusation of pandering to the SUV-enthralled masses, Lamborghini's best defense is that it has created an awesome machine.
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But it's hard to deny, as Vox's German Lopez argues, that Trump is pandering to those with a white nationalist worldview.
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Not everyone thought the scene was necessary, though, and some have even argued that the film was "pandering" to its women audience.
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So just how authentic is all of that sustainability messaging, and how much of it is simply pandering to the modern consumer?
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The policy backlash against globalisation in America is not based on a popular revolt; rather, it is pandering to a dwindling minority.
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Its naked pandering to prejudice was worse than anything since Pat Buchanan's culture wars speech at the Republican convention 24 years ago.
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Corbyn himself is now pandering to the right wing; he ordered Labour MPs to vote to begin the Brexit process in Parliament.
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With money and ambition on his side, the conservative candidate does anything to win—including intense scheming and unabashed pandering to voters.
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Some major food companies are pandering to activists by eliminating GMO ingredients from their products, but consumers might not like the results.
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While invoking the country's honor, Indian politicians are pandering to their vote banks, in some cases by indulging their dislike of Muslims.
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"It is sad that Chairman Nadler is only interested in pandering to the press and pleasing his radical left constituency," Sanders continued.
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Lux, a lifelong Democrat, launched into a tirade against Hillary Clinton, accusing her of always pandering to African-American or Hispanic voters.
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In fact the UFC has decided to stock this card almost entirely with Australians and Kiwis in pandering to the Perth crowd.
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Like Trump, Ford was a scandal-plagued candidate who won the election by pandering to downscale voters and blasting Toronto's urban elites.
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With the media pandering to universal audiences, will 'niche' humor like left-leaning societal satire even scale to Onion heights ever again?
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But this was more than mockery — we were protesting Clinton's political pandering to black voters, something she's been doing throughout her campaign.
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"It's a very small group of politicians who are pandering to the local politics," he said, according to the New York Post.
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John Kerry accused Dean of pandering to the National Rifle Association, but then in the general election he did exactly the same thing.
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Democrats and Republicans need to focus on those priorities and leave the pandering to the middle class and the rich for another day.
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Shahbaz Taseer, the son of the assassinated governor, believes Khan's strategy of pandering to religious conservatism is dangerous, because it mainstreams religious fundamentalism.
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When he's not pandering to Bachelor fans, Christensen is advocating for a "mental health crisis center" as a way to combat gun violence.
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More important, there's an endless list of startups pandering to their impulse to stay indoors, with services from online shopping to food delivery.
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Donald Trump is in large part the product of the Republican Party's pandering to a shrinking base with ever-more unrealistic, maximalist promises.
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Yet his front-runner status is based less on Mr Trump's wit than on his gift for understanding and pandering to people's fears.
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One of those measures included scrapping a wealth tax, which seemed evidence of a Rothschild banker like Macron pandering to his wealthy friends.
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Maybe all that these fliers signify is pandering to the Kremlin by local bureaucrats eager to impress the authors of a propaganda blitz.
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Trump has repeatedly used the former first lady's gender against her, arguing that she plays "the woman's card" while pandering to female voters.
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Analysts say Mr Silverman also prioritised keeping consumers happy — hence the discounts — over pandering to the artisans peddling their trinkets on the site.
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Other critics have also accused the Morales's government of pandering to drug traffickers, but the basis for some of those accusations is questionable.
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Not solely for this reason but their pandering to the black community has become a trap for the party and for black people.
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"I want you to know that people are going to see this and say, 'she's pandering to black people again,'" he told Clinton.
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Keep pandering to the politically incorrect and the privileged if you want, but do not expect the depth and nuance that experience brings.
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There's nothing about Venom that feels particularly tailored to or pandering to China, unlike many other films that have courted the country's interest.
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Audiences would aggressively demand encores of the entire performance if they had enjoyed it (Toscanini, however, did not like pandering to such extravagant requests).
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You see it in his extraordinary position on immigration, pandering to the Democrats' extremist open borders base with his utterly irresponsible "sanctuary state" preening.
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State-sanctioned pandering to the Buddhist majority's hatred of the Rohingyas, a Muslim group, has driven about 720,000 from the country following appalling violence.
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Perhaps Maine Republicans doubt their ability to appeal to a majority of voters, and instead must discourage turnout while pandering to their own base?
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"He's pandering to the sort of visceral reaction people have for revenge against terrorists, which is not what motivated the Bush administration," Yoo said.
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The review, much like music itself, runs the risk of becoming an artform diluted by the internet's shameless pandering to its lowest common denominator.
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Pandering to a handful of billionaires and special interests would impose huge harm upon our generation, upon future generations, and upon our fragile planet.
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Mr Rama insisted that his country's efforts to join the EU would continue, and blamed governments pandering to populist parties for keeping it out.
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The world is your audience, so you need to start selling to it instead of pandering to who you think is buying your product.
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In the final months of the 2016 election cycle, Hillary Clinton was regularly mocked for attempting to understand memes and pandering to younger voters.
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The festival's organizers, the story suggested, were pandering to the writers of color who were policing them with their paranoid insistence on political correctness.
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For all its talk about creating a more "open and connected world", Facebook appears to be quietly pandering to more government requests for censorship.
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Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, although fellow Cubans, seem woefully misaligned with the majority of Hispanic values, despite pandering to have us believe otherwise.
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In the US, Breitbart has gained notoriety for pandering to the alt-right: a loose online movement that rejects multiculturalism, feminism, and political correctness.
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Sinn Fein's northern leader Michelle O'Neill accused Brokenshire of "pandering to the DUP" who she said were blocking the legitimate demands of Irish nationalists.
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He accused the government of pandering to a hard right-wing agenda and said he would call on independent lawmakers to block the proposal.
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Y.) on Sunday said some Democrats are vilifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a form of political pandering to the party's left wing.
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After decades of pandering to intolerance while working against the needs of working-class Americans and minorities, the Republican Party appears headed for disaster.
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Liberal supporters of Widodo have criticized him for pandering to conservatives, raising concerns over the erosion of Indonesia's reputation for religious tolerance and pluralism.
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That mix is the best of both worlds for politicians: It proves they can still legislate, while pandering to ideological voter bases for 2020.
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"This is clear pandering to an extremist contingent of government leaders who believe that transgender people don't or at least shouldn't exist," Strangio said.
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When he was a student in the 1990s, Mr. Goddard said there was no interest in pandering to the general public, let alone tourists.
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By concealing his failures, suppressing academic rivals and pandering to Stalin, Lysenko survived for decades, although his influence began to wane in the 1950s.
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Amid and after both elections, liberals complained to and warned conservatives—as they have for decades—that Republican politicians were pandering to racists for votes.
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Mr Trump, too, faces a difficult balancing act between pandering to his Mexico-phobic base and getting along with the United States' most important neighbour.
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However, she reneged after the school honored Trump on Friday, saying she would not be complicit in "pandering" to the president's record on racial issues.
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Being objectified like this refutes many of the positive messages Rousey has so far epitomized about achieving tremendous success without pandering to traditional gender norms.
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It is her intransigence, her pandering to hardline Brexiteers and her refusal to compromise on her red lines that have made Britain a laughing-stock.
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There are other, even more brutal, historical precedents for presidential candidates pandering to racial fears and winning elections by appealing to our worst racial impulses.
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But in this case, the obvious pandering to millennials, many of whom are genuine activists and search out brands that are socially conscious, royally backfired.
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Mr Trump, more extremely, is disliked by 220% of Americans, especially non-whites, a contempt he has earned by pandering to white Americans' ugliest prejudices.
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She is not only pandering to Republicans for their support, but she is seeking the endorsement of President Nixon's former secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.
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Part of the strategy gap I see among many in the GOP is a goal of not pandering to anyone based on gender or race.
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Nevada Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto slammed the silence of opponent Joe Heck after a former aide accused her of "Hispandering" — pandering to Hispanics.
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It's in part thanks to abstract issue appeals — Democrats support action on climate change and mostly avoid pandering to anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists.
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The core of the GOP argument is that Biden is guilty of pandering to women instead of seeking the best qualified person for the job.
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This was obvious pandering to regressive generals and right-wing zealots as well as an effort to shift the focus from his dysfunctional White House.
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"I've covered politics and I've learned a thing or two about pandering, and I guess it's my way of pandering to the locals," he quips.
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This is, in part, because the early Chavista governments rammed home the idea that increasing the cost of gasoline would be pandering to neoliberal economics.
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The cynical takeaway is that movies like these are pandering to social progressives (for what it's worth, both appear to be set in California suburbs).
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He is, instead, pandering to the party's elite, consisting mainly of big donors and the network of apparatchiks at think tanks, media organizations, and so on.
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Having "Glee" alum Darren Criss essentially serve as the evening's too-giddy emcee also felt like overt pandering to social media while squandering his considerable talents.
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That conclusion, sharpened by the failure of elected Republicans to resist the president's pandering to Vladimir Putin, has forced Never Trumpers to a moment of reckoning.
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Pandering to the Base: With the exception of Mr. Paul, every senator became less congenial with members of the opposite party once the presidential campaign began.
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And this broader voter base would force politicians to stop pandering to ideological extremes and instead satisfy a wider cross section of a more diverse electorate.
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It was during his 22 years as prime minister that the party's reputation for cronyism, high-handedness and pandering to the ethnic-Malay majority was honed.
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Granted, instant messaging is only a part of it, but I fear we risk feeding the technology addiction by pandering to this urgency in replying instantaneously.
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" According to the Washington Post, Rose's lawyers believe the plaintiff does not deserve anonymity because she's "openly pandering to the media on a nationwide blitz tour.
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Earlier this month, conservative pundit Erick Erickson wrote that the LP needed to "grow up" by pandering to #NeverTrump Republicans who hate gay marriage and abortion.
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The heart of the complaint is that a Socialist government, meant to be the guardian of workers' rights, is pandering to corporate bosses by dismantling them.
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Any source with which you completely agree all the time is not credible; it is pandering to you and luring you into false facts or beliefs.
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In terms of reaching conservatives where they live, Democrats could learn a thing or two from Republicans—without pandering to the prejudices that the party promotes.
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TV and film studios tend to prioritize audience over subject, and so Hollywood consistently finds itself pandering to white audiences who simply don't know any better.
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There's a clarity to such commitment that keeps people in their seats, a ruthlessness toward pandering to the prevailing winds (or rain) that is itself desirable.
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Americans with disabilities want to be recognized as an interest group worth pandering to — not as a source of inspiration or pity for the general public.
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They see the new proposals by both candidates as pandering to black votes, although they each mentioned that Sanders had been active in the civil rights movement.
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" However, The Global Times, a provocative but state-sanctioned tabloid, has gone further, calling Trump "ignorant as a child in foreign policy" and "pandering to irresponsible attitudes.
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The then-Democratic frontrunner was only seen as out of touch, and was regularly mocked throughout her run for pandering to the youth with incredibly corny slang.
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By those standards, her latest failing—pandering to the demands of Islamist agitators and refusing to defend the secular principles of the constitution—may seem relatively mild.
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Often accused of pandering to racist, Fascist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic elements within the electorate, she is rally-savvy and her campaign style is doggedly impressive.
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That's surprising, and unfair, even, considering those same fans have criticized the star for being too politically vocal or pandering to the LGBTQ community in the past.
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Pointing to a rise in drug overdose deaths in recent years, the deputy attorney general denied that the new policy was just political pandering to law enforcement.
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"Playing with these references, we kind of did the whole fetish/bondage thing," remarks Li, noting the propensity for submission to be viewed as pandering to men.
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He acknowledges that his sales plan has become schizophrenic, pandering to both the left and the right, but he says it's necessary for his business to survive.
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Anything that encourages candidates to spend more time doing on-the-ground organizing and less time pandering to the superrich is probably a good thing, on balance.
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Nothing's worse than someone pandering to the kind of idiots who keep pens in their pockets to write "for a good time" while they're taking a shit.
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Perhaps instead of either writing off minorities or blatantly pandering to them, the party needs to examine itself carefully and ask what it really wants to achieve.
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"Ambiguities in the law will create an opportunity for litigation by the very extreme environmental groups that President Obama was pandering to," said Mike Anderson, Sullivan's spokesman.
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Dr. Bronner's has become this not by pandering to consumers or following fads, but by being the only thing it's ever been: its unapologetically off-kilter self.
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"Within the African-American community in the 1970s, if you were an abstract artist you were considered the enemy pandering to the white world," said Ms. Pindell.
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Mr. Modi's rule has highlighted the antagonism between his party's pandering to the dominant upper castes and the radicalism of Dalits fighting for the elimination of caste.
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Democrats who aren't fans of putting Iowa at the perpetual start often point out that it leads to a whole lot of pandering to the corn lobby.
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All that from a German brand that built its reputation on high-performance sport sedans and was once criticized for pandering to American tastes by building S.U.V.s.
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President Trump's decision to move our embassy to Jerusalem is impetuous and harebrained, pandering to the worst extremists in the United States as well as in Israel.
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Instead, it seems Trump is pandering to some people among his base, particularly in this instance, some Christian Evangelicals and some supporters of right-wing Israeli policies.
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Pandering to indigenous voters, the two rivals upbraided each other for having sold off indigenous land to develop tourist resorts and for incurring too much debt to China.
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To be clear: It's not Chinese viewers or cinematic expectations that are the problem here; it's Hollywood's lazy pandering to overseas viewers, which makes movies worse for everyone.
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Moon, who leads the leftist Democratic Party, has long advocated a policy of engagement and detente towards Pyongyang even as he comes under criticism for pandering to Kim.
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It means both pandering to coal miners and claims of a "war on coal" to stop climate change may resonate less today than they did a decade ago.
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With national elections looming in April, the party is pandering to pious Hindus, who have not exactly been short of pandering since Mr Modi took power in 2014.
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Their endorsements didn't stop accusations that the mothers were being exploited for political points, in part because the Clintons have a long history of pandering to black voters.
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And in an attempt to cut at Cruz's own conservative credibility, Rubio has been slashing the Texas freshman for political pandering to the right wing of his party.
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Many of Pakistan's problems, including violence against religious minorities, were the result of the government failing to be sufficiently Islamic and instead pandering to the West, he said.
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In the past you could take MTV to task for pandering to its audience, but in the absence of a coherent message, who exactly is being pandered to?
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Because she has been really ugly in trying to destroy Bill's mistresses, and she is pandering to women so obviously when she is only interested in getting power.
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Trump also accused Democratic governments of pandering to black and Latino voters while perpetuating policies unfavorable to them, and argued he could bring real change to those communities.
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While the week was billed as a public-private sector conclave, those who attended were heavily scrutinized for pandering to President Trump while simultaneously opposing his political ideologies.
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There was very little excess verbiage, no pandering to the decorative or the shock of the underboob, and no falling back on the safety net of the tux.
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"You have to wonder if the [presidential] candidates are committed to these issues or if they are pandering to the pulse of the community right now," she said.
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Sites like OKCupid, JDate, and Christian Mingle followed, catering to the introverts of the world, pandering to people's loneliness, promising relationships and even, later, flexing with married user testimonials.
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Lost had none of Game of Thrones' mass appeal, nor its knack of pandering to audiences with dragons and twists based in character, not in metaphysics and smoke monsters.
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" They're all for freedom and equality, they say, but sneer at the mechanisms that might actually help get us there as bleeding-heart pandering to the dreaded "politically correct.
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Mr Peña's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is torn between pandering to its traditional base and appealing to younger Mexicans who, like their peers elsewhere, are more relaxed about cannabis.
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I see a Jewish woman with living memory of the Holocaust who is more likely reacting to the normalization of neo-Nazi propaganda than pandering to Notorious RBG readers.
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Sanders, meanwhile, accused his rival of pandering to African-American voters by cozying up to Barack Obama and even accused the President himself of being wrong on some issues.
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Blackford said the government was "pandering to an anti-immigration mantra to drive the net UK migration numbers down" and said he would continue to fight the family's cause.
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There was even a robust discussion about her decision to blast music from R&B legend Mary J. Blige at her rally and implications about pandering to black voters.
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Refusal to do so is not merely an act of pandering to a vocal minority of predatory propagandists, but will directly cause the disability and death of innocent children.
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The USMCA is too important to be derailed by the kind of politics and pandering to the socialist wing of the Democratic Party we saw with the border bill.
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The pictures "are not about pandering to some perceived male gaze but instead about embracing the fun of being young and in your body," Dunham wrote in the newsletter.
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But without context to counterbalance it, latching onto every vulnerable moment confirms the absolute worst media stereotype of pandering to athletes who volunteer even the smallest crumbs of authenticity.
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From Richard Nixon's Southern strategy to Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen" and "strapping young buck" to George H.W. Bush's Willie Horton ad, the G.O.P. has prospered by pandering to prejudice.
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He spends much of his time pandering to Reddit bros and Rick and Morty fans on social media; the rest is spent bankrolling a series of futuristic transportation endeavors.
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It's not just that Republicans fear primary challenges from candidates pandering to the racist right, although they do; Trump is already supporting challengers to Republicans he considers insufficiently loyal.
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But of course, Cosby's legal team is pandering to this identity, saying that this whole thing is "a political scheme to destroy America's Dad," according to the Associated Press.
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And even though the Rohingya may be unpopular in Myanmar, pandering to racism and atrocities, even if it ensures broader public support, is an unacceptable stance for any leader.
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And while Jordan Valley annexation isn't inevitable under Netanyahu — many Israeli observers think this is empty pandering to right-wing voters — others think he's quite likely to follow through.
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Indeed, Brexit follows years of pandering to fears over immigration, cast as legitimate concerns, with polling consistently placing the issue at the top of the public's list of concerns.
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What's more, Trump appears to be recklessly pandering to the uninformed part of the American electorate that does believe in such a connection between the mainstream and the fringe.
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Much has been said about chefs pandering to social media, often to the detriment of their dishes, and this particular piece of insanity might just be the trend's logical conclusion.
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When the photos were taken in 2008, Drake may have been trying to offer a conscious critique on the rap industry becoming a modern minstrel show pandering to white audiences.
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In the New York Times interview, Bateman repeatedly spoke for, or cut off, his female costars, all while pandering to the patriarch, in life and fiction, of the family: Tambor.
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But he had to know that this type of humor was, at best cribbed from some of the most hateful corners of the internet and at worse pandering to them.
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By pandering to Democrats and pursuing liberal policies—most notably the disastrous Iran deal—the Tennessee senator acted against the interests of his constituents and sabotaged his own political career.
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"You are more concerned with consent decrees, settlements, pandering to police-hating groups than negotiating a contract with us," Patrick Murray, union vice president, said, according to the newspaper report.
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So instead of "stories that are queer that are pandering to straight audiences," Revry seeks out shows, movies, music, and podcasts that are by, for, and about the queer community.
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Tumbles is alone at night, after participating in a right-wing debate show, drinking herself into a stupor after reading transphobic comments from the very right wingers she's pandering to.
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"You are more concerned with consent decrees, settlements, pandering to police-hating groups than negotiating a contract with us," said Patrick Murray, union vice president, according to the newspaper report.
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Instead, Trump is more likely trying to push the media and political elite into a frenzy, pandering to his populist base with his ability to make their enemies mad online.
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She spells "you" phonetically, hence "thank u, next," which is either Grande pandering to our nostalgia for early 2000s SMS-based text or inviting us in—or maybe it's both.
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Their pandering to that base, mixed with their fanatical commitment to tax cuts, has brought them to the cusp of passing a bill that is a political and substantive orphan.
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Given his proven track record of partisanship and pandering to the White House, it's difficult to take something authored by Nunes that seriously, regardless of what it claims to prove.
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Perhaps pandering to viewers who these days expect a higher yuck factor, this new iteration is more gruesome yet much less scary, its sleekness and efficiency poor substitutes for foreboding.
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At this stage it seems unlikely that either man will become president, but the voters they are presently pandering to won't disappear even if both men's political careers flame out.
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President Donald Trump criticized NBA coaches for what he called "pandering" to China on Wednesday even as he declined to take a stance on the sports league's dispute with Beijing.
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House Democrats, including Schiff, have said it is standard procedure for investigators to seek phone records and suggested GOP lawmakers are pandering to their base in a public relations effort.
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" Bishop's committee did the same, parodying the Patagonia message and claiming the company is "lying to you" and pandering to "wealthy elitist urban dwellers from New York to San Francisco.
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Honor John's memory by not remaining in complicit silence against injustice and abuse, by not looking the other way when democracy is threatened, by not pandering to divisions and bigotry.
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Already, we have presidential candidates and congressmen weighing in on the issue on both sides, pandering to their bases without any real understanding of the intricacies or the broader implications.
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"Today, due to the political conditions in China, I have again been forced out," he said, accusing Europe of pandering to Beijing on human rights so as to win more business.
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There is a great risk that you become so concerned with keeping ratings up that you become addicted to pandering to your audience, and you're unwilling to tell them inconvenient things.
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Clustering a number of primaries together means (theoretically, at least!) that candidates have to discuss national issues like foreign policy and the economy, rather than pandering to voters in specific states.
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Newcastle hasn't been the easiest place to find converts to the Neapolitan way, and Kitchin says he is not in the business of "pandering" to the pale, stodgy Northern status quo.
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They've also criticized Rouhani for pandering to the West, signaling that a hardliner win would mean a shifting of diplomatic gears and a possible heightening of tensions with the international community.
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In an interview with BET that aired over the weekend, he accused Clinton of pandering to the African-American community by cozying up to President Barack Obama on issue after issue.
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"We fundamentally reject the assumption that Democrats can only win in red states by pandering to racists and big bankers," co-founder Claire Sandberg said in an interview with The Hill.
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In Rushden part of the explanation is that David Cameron, like mainstream leaders elsewhere, has played his hand badly in the past: too often pandering to populists rather than confronting them.
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As if to distract voters from the budget pain, the Republican-controlled Legislature focused on social issues, pandering to conservative voters with proposals and debates about banning transgender restrooms and abortion.
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Ergo, the latter's retreat to the gun control issue is merely its way of pandering to those who have long been reluctant to air the black community's dirty laundry apropos criminality.
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Hollywood can also stack the deck somewhat by pandering to Chinese audiences, but that comes at a cost: It grants enormous leverage to the Communist Party over how China is portrayed.
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While pandering to unions seems like a no brainer for candidates in the Democratic primary, their strong alliance is in direct opposition to the preferences of much of the Democratic base.
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And even though they're slightly older now — Swae Lee is 23, and Slim Jxmmi is 24 — they're not above, depending on your angle, playing to meme culture or pandering to it.
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The right controls the courts and the police, and have, through a combination of stubborn refusal and bald-faced pandering to special interest groups, kept Iceland out of the European Union.
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It's a move many saw as Bredesen pandering to moderate conservatives, or conservative Democrats, in the wake of a CBS poll that showed the former Governor trailing Blackburn by eight points.
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But what's also unclear, and far more pressing, is whether the country and its institutions can survive the right's shameless pandering to the mob and its ever-shifting hunt for enemies.
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Clinton's unquestioning partisanship vis-à-vis Israel, embarrassing pandering to its supporters, and deliberate ignorance of basic rights for Palestinians upsets and alienates many of us, and not just Arab Americans.
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But regardless of whether Spielberg's latest wins the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday night, Americans should never forget the media's long history of pandering to presidents and the Pentagon.
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Carly Fiorina responded to critics on Sunday who said she was pandering to Iowa voters by rooting for the University of Iowa over her alma mater, Stanford, in the Rose Bowl.
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But consumer advocates say that the repeal is just pandering to big business and that cable and phone giants will now be free to block access to services they don&apost like.
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" The argument, in a nutshell, is that "a broader voter base would force politicians to stop pandering to ideological extremes and instead satisfy a wider cross section of a more diverse electorate.
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Moon's decisions, such as allowing South Korean athletes to march alongside their northern peers under the Korean Unification Flag, revealed a leader who was pandering to Pyongyang, experts said at the time.
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Like Identity Evropa, Vanguard America is one of the many new hate groups that have emerged in recent years and are pandering to a new, younger generation of angry, young white men.
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In the face of criticism for borrowing from and pandering to Caribbean, West, and South African audiences, he started the year by considering unhappy customers and went back to the old formula.
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The Southern whites it was supposed to keep in the fold kept going Republican, and the centrist, pro-business positioning and cultural pandering to white conservatives diluted the party's progressive economic message.
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This hard fought contest pits the defenders of the uncivil and cynical status quo against reformers looking to change the incentive system that rewards politicians for pandering to the most extreme voters.
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Some Republican members of Congress hope that Trump's actions and words will be downplayed by the media and by the voters as just the antics of an outsider pandering to his base.
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" [Cross Talk] Charlamagne Tha God: "I just want you to know that people are going to see this and say 'okay, she's pandering to black people again'" Hillary Clinton: "Is it working?!
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We act against our values: by procrastinating from work, by avoiding our feelings, by pandering to other people's opinions, by participating in a hateful mob reacting to the news, and so on.
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Some of the jokes didn't sit well with the audienceMany called out Niki and Gabi, who have 8.9 million subscribers on their channel, for pandering to harmful racial clichés about black women.
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We've been getting used to the hijinks of the NCGA for a few years now, but this rushed law pandering to the worst of elements of human nature came out of nowhere.
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That was when Meg Wolitzer and Lorrie Moore were in the group, but we fired them because they had talent and knew how to play, which we consider pandering to the audience.
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This time it's Hillary, who, through her shameless pandering to black people in her current presidential campaign, demonstrates little interest in me beyond my capacity to get her into the Oval Office.
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But she said she wasn't interested in pandering to liberal audiences elsewhere; one of the tests of her success was whether she could perform her edgiest social commentary in more conservative Malaysia.
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It was this: If I used the British "tomahto," the very word from which I had boldly declared independence, was I cravenly pandering to foreign usage in contravention of my own beliefs?
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No major political party has since made reinstatement of the right to property a campaign issue, lest they be seen as pandering to the rich, Rajadhyaksha wrote in Mint, a daily newspaper.
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This incident was significant, not only because Jakarta is a bellwether for the national political mood, but because it demonstrated that pandering to intolerant hardliners can pay dividends at the ballot box.
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In particular, analysts say, Ms. Raggi has shown her party's lingering penchant for protest, for playing on popular anger and for pandering to key constituencies, whether on the left or the right.
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Beatrizet is clearly pandering to buyers, as he has opted to include more elements in his engraving than were in the original: more flora, more clouds and sky, more architecture from antiquity.
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There's also the reality that the first black president has running room to engage in a certain amount of pandering to white fragility that might not play as well coming from others.
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The prospect of a President Trump is indeed worrying, but after years of nativism and cynically pandering to the baser instincts of the masses, Mr Trump is the candidate the Republican Party deserves.
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But even when Democrats deign to declare that they are opposed to Republican rule, it frequently seems forced, as if they're pandering to their supporters while secretly hoping their nonsupporters won't get offended.
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Otaku focused media can become dependent on this small group, and becomes caught in a back and forth between pandering to this need for wish fulfillment and operating creatively inside these established frameworks.
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The menus were beautiful: richly colored, ornately decorated and full of fascinating details including purposefully misspelled words pandering to stereotypes ("flied lice" as opposed to "fried rice") and lyrics to Broadway show tunes.
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Trump has faced his own charges of pandering to China as he seeks a trade deal with the world's second--largest economy and looks for Beijing's help in the denuclearization of North Korea.
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This would not only afford Mr. Trump a (rare) modicum of balance, countering the impression of pandering to a specific constituency, but it would also be a major step toward solving both problems.
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GZERO notes that Hamas is left stuck in the middle — wary of the Islamic Jihad starting a full-blown conflict, but not wanting to be seen as pandering to Israel by cracking down.
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Kaine accompanied musicians Nikki Talley and Jason Sharp during a cover of "Wagon Wheel"—obviously pandering to the Oogle vote—and then joined the two on "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" afterward.
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Whether you think Elizabeth Warren's and Bernie Sanders' calls to forgive student loan debt are thoughtful policy solutions or pandering to Millennial voters, there's no question the senators are speaking to a jarring problem.
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Instead of disparaging immigrants generally as "criminals" and "rapists" and pandering to the bigoted elements of his base, he's now professing incredulity that anyone would want to deport this particular subset of that population.
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Mr Baswedan denies pandering to radicals: he says he visited just to "answer questions", and to quell rumours that he is a Shia (most Indonesian Muslims are Sunni; Shias have been prosecuted as "deviants").
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If Spotify is going to position itself as an authority on taste for gamers, it needs to demonstrate a better grasp on them, instead of pandering to an imagined audience sprinkled in Cheetos dust.
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Macron's centrist administration has so far resisted pressure from right-wing rivals on immigration, in part because many of his own liberal supporters are uncomfortable with any measures they feel are pandering to xenophobia.
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For the 2020 Democrats criticizing Trump's pandering to autocrats, his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and other arms control treaties, while calling for U.S. withdrawal from "endless wars" are all low-hanging fruit.
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" Kohn explained that while Trump is clearly "running a xenophobic campaign that's pandering to white nationalism," most of his supporters are filled with "resentment that is partly about identity but also about economic suffering.
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But others also pointed out how this could be more than just lazy storytelling, arguing that the move feels ignorant of Islamic theology and shows an obvious pandering to English-speaking, non-Islamic audiences.
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On Friday, the ruling African National Congress accused the judiciary of pandering to the opposition in ordering Zuma to explain why he fired Gordhan, and urged Zuma to appeal against the High Court's ruling.
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Through their comparison, a counterintuitive and skewed relationship with elitism is brought to light — conceptual art that you need an MFA to "unpack" and elite artists pandering to the masses with sexy luxury objects.
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He is not popular with the democratic establishment because unlike all the other candidates, he is not pandering to the industries accelerating Earth's Climate Disaster, the end of the world as we know it.
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For those who believe they are demeaned by wine or wine writers, I would suggest it is the wine populists who are doing the demeaning, by pandering to inchoate feelings of fear and resentment.
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After the demonstrations and violence, Trump said that there were "fine people on both sides" — a statement that was taken by both critics and supporters of the Charlottesville protests as pandering to white supremacists.
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Still, analysts believe that conditions are ripe for a shift, amid public disenchantment at the handling of Brexit, fierce internal party rifts, and a perception that both main parties are pandering to their extremes.
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It's a continuation of the strategy, if not the exact content, that made his mixtape trilogy so effective: Keeping his head down and solidifying a spot in the industry by not pandering to it.
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Though image control is certainly essential for stars, it's not pandering to fans—or constantly seeking new revenue streams, with or without these kinds of technology—that give stars their staying power these days.
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READ MORE: Italy's populist government is pandering to anti-vaxxers during a measles epidemic It has pandered to the growing anti-vaxx movement, fueling public mistrust of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination.
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"In trying to win the nomination, every one of the leading candidates dug themselves into a deep hole pandering to the anti-immigrant base of the Republican Party that idolizes Donald Trump," the letter says.
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Obama rode modest economic growth and the GOP's tone-deaf business class pandering to reelection, and took his second-term oath hoping that the party's massive resistance would give way to more level-headed partisanship.
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President Trump's racist rhetoric makes the country less safe for people of color by encouraging and emboldening and pandering to those who wish to do harm to others based on the color of their skin.
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Inevitably, someone will be the bigger personality in the relationship and that person often ends up getting their way on the grounds of confidence alone, but there's no point pandering to that at this stage.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) accused the judiciary of pandering to the opposition in ordering President Jacob Zuma to explain why he fired finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a cabinet reshuffle.
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The invaluable folks over at RioOnWatch identify three recurring categories: First are the very visible, expensive architectural projects which look nice but are seen as pandering to tourists rather than serving favela residents' true needs.
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On Tuesday, the author of the ThinkProgress piece — editor Ian Millhiser — publicly defended the thesis of his piece and accused Facebook of "pandering to the right" by allowing a conservative magazine to block liberal articles.
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President Trump's racist rhetoric makes the county less safe for people of color by encouraging and emboldening and pandering to those who wish to do harm to others based on the color of their skin.
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And when he indulged in the pandering to Iowa institutions that is typical of political supplicants here, he did so in his exaggerated, almost comic style — as if he were playing the role of presidential candidate.
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Those who could not bring themselves to vote for him may wonder how half of their compatriots were willing to overlook his treatment of women, his pandering to xenophobes and his rank disregard for the facts.
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In an economy growing in a slow and choppy way, displaying a vexing mix of early- and late-cycle messages, an honest weight-of-the-evidence approach could be mistaken for fickleness or pandering to investors.
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Mrs Pelosi and her fellow leaders are sustained by a sclerotic patronage system, of which her pandering to Mr Conyers was indicative, which has banished accountability and fresh talent from the upper reaches of the party.
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She meant it derisively, but if the juxtaposition between her speech and the coming Trumpocalypse reveals anything, it's that pandering to the "law and order" crowd is a lot easier than trying to make everyone happy.
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Although criticizing the Hague-based institution for perceived anti-African bias has long been a favorite pastime for many African leaders, in most cases it amounted to pandering to a domestic audience without much real intent.
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The government, closely allied to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, is walking a political tightrope because it is under pressure too from its own supporters who oppose any measures they view as pandering to the far-right.
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But this R&C achieves nostalgia without pandering to restriction, without going down the throwback art route, or relying too heavily on fourth-wall breaking winks and nudges—although I accept it does have its share.
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Errol Louis: Why Trump chose a Beltway soldier President Trump took a break from pandering to his base Monday night, throwing a bone to establishment Republicans he'll need to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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Her recent forays into jazz, country, and now the 90s R&B of "The Cure," aren't relevance grabs or pandering to convention—they're an artist leaning into who she is instead of who she's up against.
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When voters pick not just their first choice but their second, third or fourth choices too, politicians can win not by pandering to their partisan base, but by appealing broadly for second- or third-choice votes.
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The government, closely allied to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, is walking a political tightrope because it is under pressure too from its own supporters who opposed any measures they view as pandering to the far-right.
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He seldom seems interested in connecting with his audience through the familiar—in pandering to their desire for the "old Kanye"—and is driven instead by blunt honesty, which was the Old Kanye's true strategy anyway.
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READ: Italy's new government is pandering to anti-vaxxers "These trolls seem to be using vaccination as a wedge issue, promoting discord in American society," Mark Dredze, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins, said.
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"The Liberals want to get tough on everyone except bankers and multinationals," thundered Lodewijk Asscher of the Labour Party, which itself was accused of pandering to business interests while in coalition with the Liberals in 2012-17.
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"His main message is going to be some combination of trying to arrest the panic in fixed income markets without being seen as pandering to trump," said Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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But the winner of the Republican nomination is almost guaranteed to be an ironclad defender of the gun lobby, pandering to voters by portraying the government as intent on trampling gun owners' rights and confiscating their firearms.
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She shrugged off calls for additional congressional inquiries into her email usage as nothing more than pandering to right-wing conspiracy theorists, suggesting that the FBI "resolved" all the questions into her email use during their investigation.
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Brown, who says his organization takes a harder stance on the Second Amendment than the NRA does and opposes most forms of gun control, argued that the NRA is simply course-correcting years of pandering to lawmakers.
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"This judgment signifies unfettered encroachment of the judiciary into the realm of the executive - pandering to the whims of the opposition who want to co-govern with the popularly elected government through the courts," the ANC said.
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"In an era where we are so reliant on electronic surveillance and death by drone, there are some who will see it as little more than pandering to extremists but I think it's very good," Horgan said.
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All we can ask after Mr. Trump's disgraceful performance this weekend pandering to the Russian strongman is why, if Mr. Putin has no compromising material on him, does Mr. Trump continue to behave as though he does.
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What you won't hear them say, not in so many words, is that they're the ones pandering to a pacifist, progressive base — because that's where the heart and soul of the new Democratic Party seems to be.
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The GOP responded to this data not by reinventing itself, but by trying to hustle an immigration reform bill through Congress before the very voters they'd been pandering to got a hold of the legislation and killed it.
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Trump's most grounded staffers, if not the man himself, must realize that pandering to his base will not allow him to turn around his plummeting poll numbers, as his core supporters will vote for him no matter what.
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"It at least leaves me with only the issue of it being political … a pandering to what was going on in the world at that point in time," Ganek said, referencing anti-Wall Street sentiment at the time.
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And the good news is that I think he's going to operate from a position of doing what he thinks is right and he knows a lot about how the system works as opposed to pandering to populism.
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How will you draw people together to work towards the common good versus pandering to individual or "special interest" groups and how do you convince people to switch from seeing you as "Killery" to Glinda the Good Witch?
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Trump's recent defense of Sanders's accusations of unfairness are based less on reality, and more on pandering to Sanders's supporters in the hope of corralling them into the so-called "silent majority" that will support Trump in November.
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READ: Italy's government is pandering to anti-vaxxers — during a measles outbreak "Halting compulsory vaccinations to surrender to the no-vaccination lobby sends us right back to the Middle Ages," said Stefano Bonaccini, the governor of Emilia Romagna.
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"Tonight's outcome was entirely predictable, and if they had been prepared to listen at any stage and engage constructively instead of simply pandering to Brexit extremists, they could have avoided it," Ms. Sturgeon said in a written statement.
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The pro-Trump media's leaders, publications, and followers claim the moral high ground with their denouncements of political violence and the alt-right on one hand, while pandering to the most unseemly corners of the internet on the other.
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Ultimately, this latest move by President Trump reveals that he is solely concerned with pandering to his base, regardless of however his actions might affect his popularity with the rest of electorate or with members of his own party.
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Lashing the ANC for its patchy record in providing basic services and accusing it of pandering to the middle-class, Malema pledged that the EFF would give the poor land, water and electricity, as well as free internet access.
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From stereotyping a black reporter to pandering to white supremacists after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to cracking a joke about the Trail of Tears, Trump hasn't stopped with the racist acts after his 2016 election.
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This is the same man who hypocritically declared during his campaign that the Bible was his favorite book, even quoting from "Two Corinthians," while relentlessly pandering to the evangelical community, whose overwhelming support put him in the White House.
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International Women's Day is the perfect time to highlight the real problem: that other corporations are playing it safe by pandering to social justice warriors with absurd initiatives like disclosing gender pay gap data, which benefits absolutely no one.
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Ideologically, he was flexible: moderate sometimes (indeed, in one Texas race, left of the Democrat), while at others he would traipse round pandering to conservatives, as George Will cruelly put it, with a thin tinny "arf", like a lap-dog.
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Atlanta, whether purposeful or not (though likely intentional, given Donald Glover's unorthodox nature) dissociates itself from its most surface-level audience (black folks) by neither pandering to white audiences nor to people of color, but by landing somewhere in the middle.
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Some ARMY also asserts that the band received criticism, particularly around their first BBMA nomination for social in 2017, from those who said they were pandering to the U.S. and were only popular because of their digital footprint, not their talent.
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And he's pandering to concerns that undocumented immigrants are taking native-born (read: white) Americans' jobs — by pardoning a sheriff who was found in contempt of court for profiling Latinos as unauthorized immigrants after a court told him not to.
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Frances McDormand suggested inclusion riders in her Oscar speech — and while positive discrimination can feel like pandering to some, the data seems to suggest that waiting for the industry to catch up with the times is too complacent to work.
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Editorial Just when President Obama was attempting a reasoned debate on gun control this week, Donald Trump was engaged in his latest pandering to the gun rights crowd — vowing as president to strike down laws that bar firearms from schools.
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On the other hand, if Trump's so-called flexibility on his core issue, immigration, is received as pandering to a gullible voter base without any real intent to follow through, his campaign might find it difficult to keep its footing.
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Gamergate's tactics included "brigading" — the act of a group targeting specific subjects and strategizing ways to collectively harass or threaten them — and sustained negative focus on any media product deemed to be pandering to feminism or progressive calls for diverse representation.
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In Februrary of 2012, Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio publicly stated that his new strategy was based on "trafficwhoring," which is the practice of pandering to the lowest common denominator of content and audience to attract the largest number of pageviews.
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In a Twitter post, the teachers union seemed pleased by the finding: While the poll showed sympathy for the Chicago Teachers Union, some respondents said the city's troubles were caused by pandering to municipal unions and an entrenched work force.
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And while Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has generally resisted, his poll numbers are weak and his government is now being accused of pandering to the anti-immigration mood of his party's fringes in a populist appeal to his conservative base.
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It's been about four years since the last Macklemore and Ryan Lewis album, too, and the unlikely pop sensations' new album This Unruly Mess I've Made carries all of the pandering to jibing demographics of a campaign for political office.
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American life is increasingly polarized by age, with our politics tilted rightward by aging baby boomers voting Trump to hold off a millennial-ruled future and our cultural and commercial spheres devoted to pandering to the fashions of the adolescent.
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Miners across the country — like Forsman and his colleague John Daby — reacted much like Bill Rom's opponents did in the 1970s: They took it as a personal slight, evidence of a Democratic Party pandering to a radical, politically correct environmental fringe.
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President Trump criticized the NBA on Wednesday for "pandering to China" after the league issued an apology to Chinese fans over a controversial tweet from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, CNBC reports.
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"Once again the Trump administration has shown its affinity for pandering to fossil fuel interests and that it cares very little for the protection of our environment or for Indigenous Peoples," wrote the Indigenous Environmental Network in a statement. 6900.
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But those who want to come back will find a way, and policies pandering to fear and prejudice ignore the benefits of an early intervention in the lives of radicalized children, and simply force them into ever more dangerous situations.
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"The BC government is pandering to industrial interests, endangering the few remaining mountain caribou, and sacrificing the wolves in the process," Gabriel Wildgen, the group's campaign manager at Humane Society International, a group supporting Pacific Wild's claim, said in a statement.
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But it's quite another to be actively pro-Trump: Welcoming a would-be strongman because he's pandering to you on a single issue rarely turns out well, and a vote for the rhinoceros is usually just a good way to end up gored.
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"Surely, we can rise above pandering to party and Putin to act on behalf of our freedom and our security," Hoyer said to applause from Democrats, over the bangs of the gavel as the House was called to order by the speaker.
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Twitter users said Fiorina was pandering to Iowa voters after the GOP presidential hopeful announced in a tweet that she was rooting for the Iowa Hawkeyes to win the Rose Bowl, even though they were playing against her own alma mater, Stanford.
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After all, Tony Hawk's skating games had seen a run of weakness: American Wasteland, Project 8, and Proving Ground had all become diffuse and watered down with additional mechanics, clear pandering to the Jackass crowd, and the malaise of the yearly sequel.
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Widodo, who is a popular moderate, has chosen a 75-year-old Islamic cleric, Ma'ruf Amin, as his running mate in next year's election, sparking concern among some that he is pandering to conservative Muslims in a pluralist country with significant minority communities.
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The point is, if the GOP put half as much time and energy pandering to embattled retailers and retail workers as they did coal miners and manufacturers, we could go a long way toward shoring up this crucial segment of the American economy.
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Leave your identity politics at the door and start evaluating people by the content of their character and their record and not by some BS woke signaling that no one believes anymore, including, I might add, the demographic groups you are pandering to.
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She was a brilliant political operative who successfully modified her case for women's suffrage based on her audience, even if it meant pandering to racist politicians in the south who feared having their votes outnumbered if black women were to become enfranchised.
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And while Trump's outright pandering to right-wing extremists during his stump speeches and throughout his presidency made clear that he would pursue policies that favor those in power, all candidates during this cycle should unequivocally commit to dismantling this system of oppression.
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Throughout Trump's campaign, as he was signing anti-porn pledges and representing a party with a national platform declaring porn to be a "public health crisis," commentators suggested he was probably just pandering to his base rather than expressing a deeply-held belief.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018 He defected to the Democratic Party after Richard M. Nixon won the presidency in 1968, in part by employing what critics later described as a "Southern strategy" of pandering to white voters.
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Earlier this week, the company released video clips widely seen as racist, pandering to old stereotypes (they featured a Chinese model being taught to eat spaghetti, pizza and a cannoli with chopsticks) in advance of a planned extravaganza of a show in Shanghai.
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In speeches, statements and interviews over the past 72 hours, the Democrats running to replace Trump have -- in the most direct terms yet -- sought to confront the racial animus fueling his politics, while attacking the President over his pandering to white supremacists.
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As touching as each story was, there was an inescapable sense of pandering to certain voting blocs -- Pennsylvania and Florida on issues of school choice and criminal justice reform for minorities, Latinos on both Cuba and Venezuela policy -- that couldn't be ignored.
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" Before accusing her of pandering to the analytics of the best-seller list, note that this book's epigraph is from Elizabeth Bishop's indelible poem "Casabianca," which begins: Love's the boy stood on the burning decktrying to recite "The boy stood onthe burning deck.
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In December, Congress passed a budget that contained a half trillion dollars in tax breaks (some retroactive, some blatant political pandering to special interests and powerful constituencies, and some that will increase the costs of healthcare further) and $2.2 trillion in spending increases.
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The government of Prime Minister Theresa May has acknowledged in recent days that it is withholding a study on the Saudi role in fostering extremism in Britain, and opponents have accused her of pandering to the Saudi royals to protect British trade deals.
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These dark times have the potential to enclose us in despair: a daily onslaught of ecological destruction, white supremacy and racism, the dismantling of safety nets and public education, a pandering to the wealthiest among us, and lies, lies, and more lies.
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She became a voracious reader, and in her teens began to discover music on her own terms—Lauryn Hill, riot grrrl, Nirvana, and notably Fiona Apple, whose unfiltered honesty gave Adia the confidence to be herself, to stop pandering to other's expectations.
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" In October, when the Wall Street Journal published an article saying Tesla was facing a "deepening criminal investigation," Musk's army came in hot with tweets like "Fu** SEC... corrupted b***" and "...the WSJ is corrupt and pandering to Big Oil/Auto advertisers.
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We know, not only from the Trump campaign, but also from the successes of Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and others, that pandering to the anxieties of lower-income, less-educated or older white voters is where we find the most energy today in American politics.
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But it also underscores the superficial, almost shameless way the campaign approaches minority voter outreach, pandering to the different identity groups under the Democratic Party umbrella, as if they are demographic boxes to be checked off on a spreadsheet (which, of course, they likely are).
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Authoritarian rulers in many other countries (Pakistan leaps to mind) have tried to bolster their legitimacy by pandering to religious sentiment only to find themselves in a vicious cycle, in which moderates are cowed, giving rise to ever more extreme demands from the religious fringe.
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I think it leaves you -- or at least leaves me with only the issue of it being political, of it being of a pandering to what was going on in the world at that point in time; that we're going to show these guys.
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The substance of that first half, however, was so full of blatant pandering to Latino voters and wild promises to wield executive power on their behalf that it could come back to haunt the eventual Democratic nominee (likely Hillary Clinton) in a general election.
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Mr Cruz, who has spent a career pandering to the conservative fringe on issues such as gun rights or Obamacare while denouncing the establishment, found that he was dismissed as yet another member of the elite; as a populist, he had been literally Trumped.
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So far, Britain's decision to leave the European Union has been the anti-globalists' biggest prize: the vote in June to abandon the world's most successful free-trade club was won by cynically pandering to voters' insular instincts, splitting mainstream parties down the middle.
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It was a magical moment in which the fearless O'Rourke spoke great truths about American values without taking a poll, mouthing a talking point, pandering to prejudice or appealing to the lesser instincts of our nature as certain politicians do in our troubled times.
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Richard and Judy campaigned to have the music video banned for "pandering to paedophiles" (despite the fact the whole 80s and 90s had already happened, and nobody complained when Britney was dry humping the air by a school locker in "…Baby One More Time").
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And this was where his lack of pandering to Timesian sensibilities was striking: He refused to yield much ground when faced with questions about the ethics of being a businessman-president whose beloved family plays both sides of the Trump Organization-Trump administration line.
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But the 3-2 partisan vote at the FCC is only the beginning of the real fight, and ISPs (and the FCC that's now blatantly pandering to them) have a steep uphill climb in the coming months if they want the repeal to stick.
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"Instead of pandering to billionaires we have a government here which has chosen to listen to the needs of working families," said Mr. Sanders, who in 2016 made a bid from the left to become the Democratic Party presidential nominee, losing out to Mrs. Clinton.
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Manchin is high on the list of endangered red-state Democrats, and many of his supporters were rooting for Blankenship, figuring it would be easy to beat a crazy guy with terrible business ethics and a gift for pandering to the lowest possible denominator.
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In December, the New York Civil Liberties Union accused Mr. de Blasio of pandering to religious advocates by supporting a bill, which he later signed, that allows private and parochial schools to hire security guards, at a cost to the city of $20 million annually.
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When Benioff and Weiss finally decide to give a post-finale interview about Game of Thrones, I do hope whoever speaks with them asks what it was like to see Avengers: Endgame, and watch scene after scene of unabashed pandering to every possible audience desire: Smart Hulk!
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Anyway, this being Rick and Morty, the people behind this clip of course find a way to be elitist about Logic's music too, pandering to those who felt that Everybody presented a neutered version of the rapper he proved himself to be on his mixtapes. Sure.
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And while I understand that it will take a lot more time for popular culture to get beyond a fascination with young, dead white women, there is something bizarre and fetishistic about pandering to that fear at the outset of a story with wider social ambitions.
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Remainer and pro-Scottish independence politician Nicola Sturgeon, the head of the Scottish National Party, tweeted that the deal's defeat was "entirely predictable" and that the government had been "pandering to Brexit extremists" and had spent too much time "trying to appease" the ERG and DUP.
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" Charlamagne said that "Donkey of the Day" does not discriminate when he also awarded Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton the label for "pandering to black people in the worst possible way," mispronouncing Beyoncé's name, and for doing the "dab" and dancing to "Trap Queen" on "Ellen.
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"This tax plan was never about bringing relief to the working families and small businesses who need it most — it was about pandering to Republican primary voters and sucking up to billionaire mega-donors," Nevada Democratic Party chair William McCurdy II said after the bill passed.
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Is Armstrong doing this to deliberately cause controversy, or is he pandering to a particular audience—fans of the old times, when a rider could run and gun, shoot whatever he liked, and leave every ounce of effort out on the road unencumbered by unfashionable headwear?
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I fear that like all the other school shootings and mass killings this country has faced in the last year, this one will roil in social media for a couple of days and then disappear in a morass of political idiocy pandering to the National Rifle Association.
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But critics say South Korean President Moon Jae-In's recent actions — allowing athletes from both sides of the border to march under the Korean Unification Flag and the approval of a joint women's ice hockey team — reveal a leader who is pandering to the rogue state.
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I sincerely hope that President Trump will demonstrate his concern for clean water and that the members of Congress will prove that they were not simply pandering to America's 45 million sportsmen and sportswomen during the election, only to ignore our concerns in the new term.
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That's because she isn't initially interested in pandering to the eternal American optimism of her youth, although she'll get there later; instead, Schreck first wants her audiences to understand how difficult it is for women to live in a country whose framework typically favors rich white men.
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We've seen the era of push-up bras pandering to men on the hunt for a Christmas gift, the era of photoshopping out nipples because marketers thought realism wouldn't sell, and the era of keeping thin women in sexy lingerie and plus-size women in full-coverage slings.
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They accuse Sanchez and the Socialists of pandering to forces that seek to break up Spain, and have urged a return to Madrid's direct rule over the Catalonia region under the terms of the Spanish constitution's controversial Article 155 that was triggered following the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
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While there are many reasons besides immigration for why more than half the country opted to leave the EU, there's no question that many Leave campaigners relied on nativist impulses as an emotional trigger, pandering to the tendency to scapegoat immigrants for economic woes in poor, rural areas.
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A generous interpretation of Shelton's simultaneously holding contradictory monetary policy views is not that she is intellectually confused but rather that, in order to win the president's nomination, she is simply pandering to Trump's desire for low interest rates in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
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Both its cover line — "Occupy Hillary" — and leading image were insulting to the Roosevelt Institute's actual seriousness and strategic savvy, and they were completely unnecessary pandering to a form of attention-getting "journalism," which is completely inconsistent with the contents of the article (and, dare I say, your readership).
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On the Convention's final night, Hillary Clinton accepted her party's historic nomination with a long, less than transporting speech that featured the sorts of checklists that campaign tacticians favor: a nod to Sanders, pandering to diverse television viewers, and anodyne slogans ("America is great because America is good").
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Macron has a similar PR problem to Sarkozy in a country where ostentatious displays of wealth are frowned upon: opinion polls show many voters feel the former investment banker is overly pandering to the rich, pointing to his scrapping of a wealth tax and lowering of subsidies for public housing.
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Some games that attempt to impart the experience of another person succeed, and make us more complex and open in the process — like The Grizzled, a cooperative game about surviving the trenches of World War I. Others fail by pandering to their audience, inspiring smug satisfaction at engaging with "valuable" culture.
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The bimbo, with her supposed pandering to men, would seem an unlikely candidate for a feminist heroine then, but that's exactly what French director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat has given us in her debut feature film, Revenge (stylized as REVENGE), which opens in the United States this Friday, May 11.
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Prime Minister Sanchez has been accused of pandering to Catalan separatists by promising talks on independence if they backed his budget bill (they didn't) but said this weekend that he would act with "strength and proportion" against any attempt by Catalan separatists to repeat their 23 push for independence, Reuters reported.
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Keeping the embassy in Tel Aviv, by contrast, solidifies a series of Trump's moves toward the traditional center on the Israel-Palestine conflict — showing that his administration is more interested in negotiating a two-state solution to the conflict than in pandering to the Israeli and evangelical pro-Israel right.
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And just as with the Republicans' previous kamikaze missions—the government shutdown, the campaign to defund Planned Parenthood—this instance of pandering to reactionaries will also fail spectacularly, when Trump loses the general election in a landslide, and Hillary Clinton fills the open Supreme Court seat with whomever she wants.
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It is disappointing that some of my Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee appear willing to use pandering to the left as a stepping stone for their own political ambitions without any regard given to the reputational harm their posturing will cause to an exceptional attorney and an honorable person.
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As Sprint and T-Mobile try to sell their looming merger to the public and skeptical regulators, they too have taken to heavily pandering to this concept, proclaiming in press releases that the United States can only "win" the "race to 43G" if the two companies are allowed to merge.
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But while Imgur users may be of great interest to advertisers, the sentiment doesn't necessarily cut both ways; quirky, homegrown web cultures are not always the most hospitable places for raw capitalism, and any promotion perceived as pandering to or out of touch with Imgurians risks bombing in an exceptionally painful way.
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And like Jepsen, XCX's lack of pandering to radio and trendy Spotify playlists made her a beloved niche sensation without ever charting again in the US. The same could be said for Lizzo, who rose from unknown internet rapper to body-positive Instagram hero before ever placing a single on the Hot 100.
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It says everything about our political discourse that Trump and his advisers are often held to be tactically ingenious in pandering to a base of support that's roughly equivalent to the proportion of Americans supporting an essential constitutional oversight function that could also alter the existing electoral landscape in the Democrats' own favor.
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From its annual "NFL Women's Summit" that has been criticized as pandering, to tutorials on the fundamentals of the game nobody seemed to ask for, to its often erratic handling of players accused of partner violence, the league's approach can come across as ham-handed as a "Take my wife, please" joke setup.
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They're pandering to a very specific mindset, one that believes that China, Japan, and other nations are out to defeat the US when it comes to 5G networking, harkening back to the Trump administration's completely nonsensical proposal for a nationwide 5G network that leaked earlier this year which largely focused on a fear of China.
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While that type of economic populism might alienate some (though certainly not all) of the upscale whites that centrist Democrats have spent decades courting, the Clinton-Trump contest proved conclusively that "Romney Democrats" don't exist—and even if they do, pandering to them on economics will only further alienate working-class Americans of all colors.
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They have a tremendous opportunity to cultivate a "blue wave" nationwide, but run the risk of squandering it if they cannot unite behind a moderate platform that is inclusive and will bring voters of all backgrounders back into the party, rather than simply pandering to the loudest voices and most mobilized factions in 2018.
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Swift has always had an ear for a hook and "Big reputation / Big reputation / Yeah, you and me, we got a big reputation" is up there with her most catchy, but the track itself is pretty lifeless, pandering to chart trends rather than embracing Swift's clear songwriting proclivity for bright, chorus-y country-pop singles.
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" (As if pandering to interest groups were not what politicians do at all times and places.) The appeal of today's National Front, he writes, "sprang not from logic, rather from the emotions of those who felt betrayed by the political establishment and sought a new champion whom they could imagine understood their everyday concerns.
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It's impossible for me to separate my affection for The Show 17 from my experience watching the Cubs win the World Series last fall, and from its opening cinematic The Show 17 is openly pandering to me by presenting Kris Bryant's play on the final out of the Cubs-Indians series as the apotheosis of baseball history.
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In what is likely to be his last major speech before the process of electing his successor begins in Iowa on February 1st, he talked more of the historic change globalisation is making, to the workplace, pay packets and complexion of American society, in turn creating much of the anxiety and resentment his would-be successors are pandering to.
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Yoest has a long record of seeking to undermine women's access to health care and safe, legal abortion by distorting the facts, and her selection shows yet again that this Administration is pandering to extreme conservatives and ignoring the millions of men and women nationwide who support women's constitutionally protected health care rights and don't want to go backward.
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Mr. Tellis said Mr. Modi had two advantages: His Bharatiya Janata Party controls the lower house of Parliament, so he has the legitimacy to make a bold move; and his party's strong Hindu nationalist roots allow him to take more risks without being accused of pandering to Muslims, who make up the majority in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Lahren's ban from The Blaze — which came after she came out publicly as pro-choice despite a recent history of pandering to her fanbase with pro-life messages and tweets — should be a wake up call for those who are in, or aspire to be in, the same position to better develop their own ideas about life and politics.
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It's a sports movie about the economic malaise and widening rich-poor gap of the 70s, the resulting cultural frustration that leads to a blood thirst for violent entertainment, and makes a fairly bold statement with the Ned Braden striptease scene by criticizing the pandering to fans by the sport through the commodification of athletes and their bodies.
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The fact that the show spent so much time on it in this season felt a lot like pandering to that weird cultural moment, and compared to the rest of the fallout from last season — like the far more compelling threads of Will dealing with his trauma from being trapped in The Upside Down — the Barb stuff just felt like too much.
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" It turns out nobody of any stature in liberal politics called Romney racist, but liberals like Lawrence O'Donnell did quite rightly allege that Romney was pandering to racists by seeking boos from the NAACP national convention, so he could turn around and boast, "if they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy—more free stuff.
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The controversy led to the resignation of an SFWA editor, and was quickly followed in early 2014 by complaints from men in the community who weren't happy with the changing cultural standards — in essence, less pandering to the straight male gaze, and more politically oriented fiction — due to the sudden rise to prominence of women and marginalized writers around them.
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Here was the paradox of Donald Trump, the unfiltered tycoon who seemed as far away as Fifth Avenue and as close up as the living room TV. Even as a legion of critics warned he was pandering to his fans on the way to betraying them, the alliance he had made with the families felt, to many of them, like an unshakable bond.
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"This was a plan crafted by the states and it didn't need the heavy hand of the federal government — so let's call it what it is: pandering to a few large energy interests and anti-public lands advocates that didn't get what they wanted when this plan was sealed in 2015," said David Yarnold, the president and CEO of the Audubon Society.
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"All of this sounds great, raising the minimum wage, when you're spending someone else's money," Christie said when announcing his veto at an event at a market in Pennington, N.J. Christie also called the proposal a "radical increase" and slammed the state's Democratic legislature, saying it is pandering "to folks who are uninformed because they neither receive the minimum wage nor pay it," according to philly.com.
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But what hurt the most is watching our family and fellow church members not just vote for Trump, but continue to support him through his racist, xenophobic rhetoric, his ramped-up policy of separating children along the border, his tax cuts for the wealthy and proposed cuts to Medicaid, and, most recently, his pandering to a Russian regime that jails gay people and actually persecutes Christians.
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Schumer and other liberal Democrats should practice what they preach when critiquing some appointments by President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE as being out of the Republican Party mainstream and pandering to right-wing extremists.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE on Wednesday ripped a pair of NBA coaches for "pandering to China" as the league faces backlash for its initial response to a league general manager backing pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE on Sunday renewed his criticism of Fox News, claiming that the network was pandering to the Democratic Party by repeatedly hosting liberal lawmakers to discuss the impeachment inquiry.
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Of course, none of that might matter in the end to Mr. Trump, whose crackdown against this minority group — there are only about 2,450 transgender troops among 1.3 million active-duty members of the military — has so far reflected obvious pandering to regressive generals and right-wing zealots, as well as knee-jerk opposition to many of the enlightened policies that his predecessor put in place.
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In class-conscious Britain, the tweet from one who lives in an upscale town house in the upper middle-class London borough of Islington and is married to a High Court judge with a "Sir" before his name was taken as the contemptuous action of a snob pandering to British stereotypes about white van owners and the fact that the St. George's Cross flag is associated with far-right groups.
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That is, it manages to present a cross-section of the chosen region's artistic output without reliance on stereotypical images; without pandering to preconceptions (which, for Finland in particular, tend to circle around the suomi-kuva or national image of the "strong-willed, taciturn, hard-drinking individual who has the cool head to cut through undue fuss, theatrical behavior, and exaggeration," as Richard Lewis put it in Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf).
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"Despite her shameless pandering to get to the left of Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE, it wasn't that long ago that Hillary Clinton sounded just like Donald Trump on the subject of illegal immigrants," said American Crossroads spokesman Ian Prior.
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Despite his occasional nod toward moderation, like his comment on Tuesday that he is open to a bill to grant legal status to some undocumented immigrants, voters in El Paso remain skeptical — not just because of his frequent pandering to anti-immigrant xenophobia, or his nonsensical wall, but because we know, close up, the impact that the Trump agenda could have on our economy, in El Paso and nationwide.
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And we are not just talking about President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's impolite rant upon Castro's death, true to form and pandering to the waning but still influential Republican base of right-wing Florida Cuban-Americans.
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The aesthetic isn't so much James Bond–esque cool as it is markedly sexy; these guys are eye candy, and at the screening of The Golden Circle I attended, I was startled by how much giggling I heard each time one of the Kingsman or Statesman agents started doing a little showboating, as well as how the film—apart from that one scene—doesn't really offer any similar pandering to the male gaze.
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Dr. Mary Dale Peterson, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said in an interview that the approach from Pallone and Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar AlexanderAndrew (Lamar) Lamar AlexanderWhat the impeachment vote looked like from inside the chamber Romney shocks GOP with vote to convict Senate acquits Trump, ending impeachment saga MORE (R-Tenn.) is "essentially pandering to the big insurance companies" by giving them too much leverage to lower doctors' payment rates.
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Airbnb, of course, calls it a pack of lies and takes the opportunity to pontificate a bit (which, to be fair, Comptroller Stringer did too): Unfortunately, this report is wrong on the facts, falsely asserting that middle class New Yorkers who share their space are responsible for the rising cost of housing in New York… Pandering to the powerful by attacking middle class families won't do a thing to make New York more affordable.
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And thus a very modern form of children's 'entertainment' that can clearly only exist on a vast, quality-uncontrolled, essentially unregulated, algorithmically incentivized advertising platform with a very low barrier to entry for content creators, which judges the resulting UGC purely on whether it can lift itself out of the infinite supply of visual soup by getting views — and do so by being expert at pandering to populist childish cravings, the keyword search criteria that best express them and the algorithms that automatically rank the content.
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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 won the election, in part, because people were sick of the constant pandering to identity politics and knew he would not succumb to the Pavlovian-like outrage activated anytime a politician dared propose common-sense solutions to our nation's failed immigration policies.
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KS: I get that, and I don't think he's ... He's not a particularly PR-savvy person as you can see by some of his videos where he should have lighting or something like that, like he's not ... I don't think that's the case with him, but I do think it is a ... To me, it's more pandering to people, like we'll come and visit you and look at you, like you're ... Do you know what I mean, like nobody comes out to ... BW: I don't think so.
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Latino Republicans are split on whether Donald 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 latest entreaties toward Latino community leaders are a good political strategy and an olive branch to a community that bore the brunt of his rhetoric, or a cynical case of pandering to a key group of voters with Election Day less than three months away.
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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said the choice "does nothing to unify a fractured Democrat base which is repelled by her dishonesty and cronyism" "After spending last week pandering to grassroots Democrats with Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE has chosen someone who holds positions that she's spent the entire primary trying to get to the left of," Priebus said in the statement.
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Watching Senate Democrats spitefully delay Trump's cabinet appointments as long as possible, watching Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE smear a nominee like his long-time colleague Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, watching Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE and her ilk grandstanding and pandering to the teachers unions—you end up cheering even louder for Trump.
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