Sentences with phrase «blatant political»

I was particularly appalled at the blatant political gamesmanship represented by the «RiotTV» notion.

«This morning, in an act of blatant political partisanship, a rogue district attorney in Travis County, Texas, named Ronnie Earle charged me with one count of criminal conspiracy: a reckless charge wholly unsupported by the facts.

The others are blatant political games, attempts to cast blame, pure hostile drama, and to grab some goodies if you can, far removed from the concerns of the people.

Sounds like a very noble thing until you start reading and discover it contains blatant political opinions, and quite extreme ones at that.

They're blatant political attacks,» White said.

There is no blatant political statement being made.

Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall says the government's trade union reforms are «a blatant political attack from the Tories in an attempt to try and destroy our movement».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed the proposal as a «blatant political ploy» and indicated his administration would do everything in their power to stonewall the bill.

«Now, in a blatant political ploy, Chris Collins is turning his back on New Yorkers and putting millions of people at profound risk.

He called the legislation a disturbing, blatant political ploy that will make New Yorkers less safe, and one that's being proposed without a legal leg to stand on.

DeBlasio is right to take that dirty politics on — I can live with anything he does to challenge this long standing and blatant political pay off!

Congressman Chris Collins's attempt to thwart New York's tough gun control measures drew fire from Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday, who called it a «blatant political ploy» that would «put millions at risk» On Monday, Collins unveiled a federal plan to ensure that states can not restrict the size...

The impact of this shift of burden back onto localities is that Andy kept more taxpayer money in Albany to fund Medicaid and his highest priority — crony capitalism and blatant political corruption.

Marc Herman, the Democratic candidate for supervisor, said Monday the document was a «blatant political mailer,» paid for by taxpayers.

Netsch said later that the advisory panel was created to prevent blatant political appointments to the board.

Then he could have answered with a straightforward answer and moved on, rather than some of the most blatant political doublespeak I've seen in recent memory.

Last year, the Ethics Commissioner found that Jim Prentice's hand - picked and unelected Minister of Education used his office for «blatant political opportunism,» awarding modular classrooms to help his election campaign - and Jim Prentice remained silent.

It is rare, not to say unprecedented, for the host of a mainstream network show to push such a blatant political viewpoint, yet Meyers says NBC is fully on board: «Not only have they gotten out of the way, but they've pushed the show to be what it is now.»

Not exact matches

Genuinely qualified journalists who would have done this hugely important job seriously are seeing it snatched away in a blatant, cynical political move.

«It's outrageous, and a blatant attempt to confuse the public, that they are claiming they are joining a grassroots online protest that's explicitly intended to defend the Title II based net neutrality protections that people from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support,» Greer said.

In the New York primary, the level of political discussion never rose above the issue of relocating the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — a blatant, shallow appeal for Jewish votes.

I am happy to add that such blatant tendentiousness is relatively rare in the ICEL translation, perhaps because the translators, whatever the earnestness of their political ideals, respect the poetry of Psalms too much, lavishing imaginative energy, despite the lapses, on conveying its vividness in English verse.

If I spoke on abortion, I was applauded as courageous, as a ferocious man of God, and yet when I would tackle race I was being too political... If I quoted the great reformer Martin Luther... never did I get an email about his blatant anti-Semitism.

I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO care restrictions), argues disingenuously for the agenda through the time - tested tactic of blatant misdirection.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

However, the increasing «religiosity» being played out in the political arena is, IMO, a blatant breach of the Const.itution!

This political expression has appeared in its most blatant form in Western civilization in a country known to its people as «Mother Russia.»

This political point of view appeared in its most blatant form in Western civilization in a country known to its people as the «Fatherland.»

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

Alexis Jay, whose report covered the period from 1997 to 2013, concluded that until 2009 «the collective failures of political and officer leadership were blatant».

It says a lot about a political party when they have pigs like Broidy and Steve Wynn — and blatant criminals like Cohen in key leadership roles as fundraisers.

At the same time, while there tends to be little ostensible evidence in the UK of the blatant buying off of politicians and officials, the murky networks that connect political parties with private funders, and see the frequent movement of officials across the private and public sector, raise serious questions about the integrity of the public service ethos at the highest levels of power (as even Conservative commentators recognise — e.g. Ferdinand Mount, The New Few).

In a «post-truth era» of politics, weakness of current leaderships or a situation in which «blatant lies» are «routine across society,» such that «politicians can lie without condemnation,» the resurgence of populism as a political strategy presents grave challenges for democracy.

Flanagan is not as blatant as Skelos — and only wanted to use state funds to take care of certain Senators for clearly political reasons — but he is only slightly less corrupt than his mentor Dirty Deano.

Professor Alexis Jay's report found the «collective failures of political and officer leadership» had been «blatant» over 16 years in which at least 1,400 children were victims of sexual exploitation.

Its most blatant is that the public has mastered the political system.

«We've all heard of politicians playing fast and loose with the facts for political gain, but when those politicians show blatant disregard for the health and well - being of thousands of NYC children, they've gone too far,» Pledge 2 Protect President Kelly Nimmo - Guenter wrote.

Still, when it comes to walking a political tightrope, no one is more skillful — blatant, actually — than Kirsten Gillibrand.

We are also concerned about this blatant subversion of the public budget process, apparently in response to political pressures.»

Tyner said the treasurer, Misha Frederick, was involved in a «blatant attempt at political sabotage» and accused her of sending him a semi-nude photo of her earlier this month.

With midterm elections approaching faster than most of us would like, we'll soon be inundated by political commercials peppered with bold claims, blatant lies, ominous voiceovers and bizarre graphics.

Steven Spielberg's «War of the Worlds» had a political bent, but Cameron's is blatant.

So, yes, though I'm none too excited about Immortals (looks like the most blatant rip - off of 300 to date), it wins out easily over Eastwood's latest offering of boring - as - hell, pathetically paced, hyped - up political preachiness.

«It feels like everyone is almost catching up with what I've cared about for a while because they see how blatant it is,» comedian Hari Kondabolu says about the recent wave of political comedy that has emerged since the election of Donal...

«It feels like everyone is almost catching up with what I've cared about for a while because they see how blatant it is,» comedian Hari Kondabolu says about the recent wave of political comedy that has emerged since the election of Donal... more

As I've gotten older, I'm become more and more cynical about movies that seem like blatant crowd pleasers — I can see right through those middlebrow films taking on fairly obvious and safe political stances, playing them off as something progressive.

Moving away to the US, however, motivated me to claim a Canadian identity (as opposed to re-claiming an already well sutured Canadian identity) inasmuch as I grew to loathe the US political scene, its American exceptionalism, its imperialist wars, its phony democracy, it's incipient and then blatant fascism — and I wanted to claim something outside of that, which at times I would label Canadian.

While the commission's obtuseness or naiveté are open to debate, it is true that the commission did not view the political structures of American education as the most blatant problem.

Although most schools reject sponsors with political, religious, alcohol, tobacco, and violent or blatant sexual overtones; many are investigating contracts with shoe companies, restaurants, hotel chains, and telecommunication companies as well as the contracts with the cola giants.

In the context of Pakistan, one can say that, the story of it's politics since inception is one of a blatant pursuit of political self - interests by Pakistani ruling elites disguised in terms of religious discourse.